Patrick Scalise

I have a question, and the answer may be very simple or very complicated. This is about the Fourth Amendment.

There are things it is difficult if not impossible to do for road safety, because the law treats your vehicle as protected private space. Setting aside the pros & cons of that, I wondered

A cover story for City and State NY called "The Power Broken: New York and the Fall of Andrew Cuomo"

This cover is making me happy

Extremely A train moment:
+ cool views at Howard Beach
- the south channel bridge is open

Turnstiles were installed there this year.

By not going to real Planning school, I’m only just learning that Lewis Mumford was colossally annoying.

@egoldwyn.bsky.social

In New York, Free Street Parking Comes at a Cost

“You should have to earn your cars,” Mr. Simon said, adding that the city owes him and other drivers nothing. “I’m able to store a 5,000-pound hunk of metal on public property.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/n...

Gas explosion causes partial collapse of Mott Haven Bronx NYCHA building The explosion occurred at about 8:15 a.m. on Alexander Ave. near E. 138th St., which is part of NYCHA’s Mitchel Houses in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx.

“Gas explosion causes partial collapse of Bronx NYCHA building”
— www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/01/m...

Book cover of Transportation for Cities by Wilfred Owen. Illustration features an arrow branching into three directions; inside the arrow is a densely packed crowd of people in black & white.

When I lived in Santiago, they were building a line 6 station near my host family’s apartment. When my host mom told me it would be finished next year I said “well sure, but these things never finish in time, right?” She proudly told me that in Chile, they actually do.

He says "sorry" to New Yorkers for having to talk about something other than his accomplishments.

This would be extremely VEEP-coded.

The Trump administration has taken its anti-diversity agenda to such extremes that it's killing good infrastructure projects - including roadway safety improvements that I worked on with congressional Republicans - just because they went to disadvantaged areas.

I’m perpetually mad that NYC land values are too high that it’s not viable to put a 20k-30k soccer stadium anywhere appealing.

I am not a lawyer, but someone should do a CEQR case over this.

I guess it reveals they were using the historical definition of “South Brooklyn” all along.

And he wasn’t done yet!

The Plus Pool Is Delayed to 2027, Also Is Now Shaped Like a Minus Sign Plus Pool adds 2 years to opening date, subtracts 3 Pools.

This is my burden. My raison d'etre.

I must write about the fake pool in the East River. I will do it today, tomorrow, and until I myself am just particles floating through the tidal strait itself, between the narrows, and into the great endless deep beyond.

hellgatenyc.com/the-plus-poo...

Automatic Train Operation (ATO) is making trips up to 3 min 45 sec FASTER. This safer, more reliable technology is now running on all rail lines. Metro operators are still in the cab of every train to respond to emergencies and monitor conditions.

Main Square in the morning shadow of an apartment tower. Being outside in the shade is bearable, the heat is not.

Nobody is sad about building shadow on a day like today

Surely the only point of an editorial board is to imbue takes with an air of stoic credibility. Does nobody at @nytopinion.nytimes.com worry this unexplained waffling makes the whole project look unserious?

Oldest traffic sign in the world:

“Anno 1686. His Majesty orders that coaches, carriages, and sedan chairs that come from the entrance of Salvador to retreat to the same part”

Also, don’t design your cities to fit fire hoses either.

Paul Rudolph could never.

Art Deco Parking Garage!

Three bridges over the Douro at Régua

Just asked a California transit manager if the state's Zero Emission Bus mandate is causing them to run less service than they otherwise would.

He said: "Yes, definitely."

A diesel bus only has to get 4 ppl out of cars to be better for the planet than an electric bus.

Hmm.

It's funny how NYC has a zoning code of a couple thousand pages describing in meticulous detail what buildings can and can't look like, and how they can and cannot be used...but also an unwritten rule that certain businesses can just store cars on the sidewalk.

Crazy to require this huge sidewalk shed when the building is so far from the sidewalk. The only part of the facade that anybody will come close to is already protected by a canopy!

West 14th St. is criminally underzoned. There’s huge demand for housing and office space and basically unlimited subway capacity, and yet you’re not even allowed to match the height of the century-old buildings already there. newyorkyimby.com/2025/04/le-g...