Immanuel Gilen

Are they going to renumber the terminals once all the construction work is done? Bc there won't be a 2, 3 or 7 long-term, right?

The mayor of a $1.3 trillion economy going on a full-week trade mission with a nation with a GDP of 27 billion dollars should be ridiculed, not to make fun of Albania's relative economic insignificance, but for the ease with which the mission's pretense can be invalidated.

I only ever take local buses if it's raining or too humid/hot out to want to walk. Speed is not a consideration.

It's such an MTA failure that they exist in the first place, though. If they ran proper, reliable frequencies on Flatbush bus lines, I don't think these things would have existed. Just randomly checking right now, the bunching of the B41 is ridiculous.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

This is the type of building code to linguistic quirks mashup content I love to sign on for. Especially in a week with as much nonsense as this one. Well done.

I'm sorry for being a bit slow but I don't understand what you're saying here. Your Q train was so fast that you were able to transfer to a local two trains ahead of the one you were hoping to transfer to?

can we name and shame the Brooklyn machine members, too?

It's maddening how little we care about noise enforcement. In the same category, how hard can it be to fine/ban exhaust modifications, loud motorcycles, etc etc.

Please, for the love of god, stop non-emergency helicopter flights to Manhattan! They completely ruin the experience of the Hudson River waterfront around West 30th St…just insane noise externalities for the benefit of so, so few people.

The level of adulation he has for de Blasio is not making me optimistic.

I have a distinct memory of my shirt being completely soaked before I even started what ended up being a very short hike in El Yunque in PR. Unreliable narrator indeed...

Don't they do all-door boarding on SBS routes with random enforcement checks? It's been a few years since I've ridden the M60 regularly but I used to get checked by enforcement officers often enough to where it wouldn't make sense to evade the fare. That was in the "paper proof of payment" days tho

In spring, I have a few weeks of "New York state reminds me so much of nature in Belgium" before everything goes up another gear and I feel like everything around me is the jungle.

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: More than two dozen YIMBY elected officials are signing onto an amicus brief supporting Adams’ City of Yes for Housing Opportunity plan after a Staten Island civic association sued to block it. “New York’s history has always been defined by progress rather than paralysis, and it is about time that the right amendments are made to the zoning legislation,” the brief reads. The effort is led by Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and City Council Member Erik Bottcher, and 26 more politicians signed on, including Rep. Jerry Nadler and City Comptroller Brad Lander. Oral arguments in Old Town Civic Association v. City of New York are scheduled for Wednesday, Reynoso’s office said. — Jeff Coltin

Signatures of more than two dozen elected officials.

Thank you to more than two dozen pro-housing leaders—incl. @nadler.house.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
@bkbpreynoso.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social, @bradhoylmansigal.bsky.social and @marklevinenyc.bsky.social—who signed an amicus brief opposing the frivolous lawsuit to overturn City of Yes.

What's particularly disheartening is the USA's safety relative to peer nations on even a VMT basis (given that the USA drives so much more than other nations!)

Yep, makes sense. Anything I would add would be the narcissism of small differences (if it wasn't already). Thanks for the research and advocacy, very interesting and important.

Put differently, those roads are disproportionally sites of accidents relative to other places, but not necessarily disproportionally to use. Again, no pushback on the idea that wherever the accidents/deaths occur in absolute numbers is where a lot of our policy focus should lie.

No real disagreement on your analysis/conclusion and policy focus. My point is simply that what "disproportionate" means is context-dependent. To get to one of our offices, I can take an NHS route or take city streets. Making a call on the relative safety of either route requires normalizing for VMT

NHS

Very interesting. Thanks for looking that up. That's still a really significant discrepancy. I think overall safety is hard to assess given the (presumably?) significantly reduced risk to pedestrians and cyclists on such roads? Or are those included in the urban deaths denominator?

I agree 100% with this criticism. But don't think it really applies to this comparison if we're trying to argue that pound-for-pound, one road is safer than the other. If that's the argument, I think you have to normalize for the amount of vehicles using that road.

How does it compare relative to actual vehicle miles driven, though? Most roads are extremely low-traffic relative to highways.

People in casual summer attire walk, cycle, lounge, drink and dine on the “Paris Plages”, an artificial beach installed along the River Seine each summer.

People in casual summer attire walk, cycle, lounge, drink and dine on the “Paris Plages”, an artificial beach installed along the River Seine each summer.

People in casual summer attire walk, cycle, lounge, drink and dine on the “Paris Plages”, an artificial beach installed along the River Seine each summer.

People in casual summer attire walk, cycle, lounge, drink and dine on the “Paris Plages”, an artificial beach installed along the River Seine each summer.

When Hidalgo steps down next year, she'll have left an inspiring legacy: 350 km of protected bike lanes, 130,000 bike parking spaces, 300 school streets, 145,000 trees, 45 km of parks, and 140,000 fewer car parking spaces. Largely thanks to a light, quick, cheap experiment started 20 years earlier.🔚

It's on a rail and subway line! Really easy to get to.

I've stopped short of sighing a breath of relief for exactly this reason. I fear he simply won't go away.

It feels like there was some sort of shift on the acceptability of this within the past 1-2 years. I used to ask people to use headphones or lower the volume, but the battle's been lost. it's ubiquitous now. And the worst part is that it's usually the breathless, chaotic cadence of TikTok videos.

3. Should the Elizabeth Street Garden in Manhattan be closed to build affordable housing? In general, I think it's a mistake to close gardens and green spaces. You know, quality of life. Find a vacant site that is not a green space. A city-owned site that really is suitable for affordable housing.

Andrew Cuomo is continuing his record of reckless disregard for seniors by siding with the Elizabeth Street Garden NIMBYs www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/n...

Two of Mamdani’s concrete real estate proposals – requiring all-union labor for city-subsidized housing and freezing rent-stabilized rents – truly would be disastrous though if you don’t believe he’s going to back down from them (I think there’s a good chance he would).

Is one a subject of the Canadian Crown, or is that nomenclature not used? It's a semantic thing to get hung up on, but that's where I'm at. 😆