Jeremy Lechtzin

Try a root canal next time

(The correct answer for “best” is the original “The Taking of Pelham 123” OBVIOUSLY)

Not reading that junk, why torture yourself?

Yep. You can can add-on screens for T&T at all the big box stores like Leroy Merlin etc. It did baffle me as American in Spain that the screens weren’t default install (at least at low end). B/c bugs do fly inside at night regardless of geography :)

Not even sure what problem he thinks is 15 yrs out. For plot in his pix, already a popular bus 10 min walk away that gets you to Moncloa interchange in 10 min. Or suburban drivers can do commuter rail @ 5 min away w/ big parking lot, 1 stop to Príncipe Pío transit hub. Sewers can be upgraded. 🤷‍♂️

The 1 line is the oldest so has some gorgeous original station design unfortunately covered up by that aluminum siding. You can see some bits remaining in the entrance down into Tirso de Molina & a few other spots

Northern lights visible over Madison Wisconsin

Northern Lights aurora reflected in Madison’s Lake Mendota just now

Aerial photo of Chelsea Piers sports and fitness center situated on old Piers 59-61 along Hudson River in New York City

NYC’s Chelsea Piers has entered the chat

The NYC Municipal Archive Book Sale Was a Banger Unfortunately, the sale was too popular—day two is cancelled.

The Christmas shopping event of the season is over, just like that—but if you missed out, don't worry: The Municipal Archives and Library are rocking all year long.

lol, didn’t see it. All the hardcovers are $3 (5 for $10!) or $2 paperback. A few rare books on a special shelf cost more. I have that one, pretty easy to find a cheap copy online (like most everything else at this sale)

NYC Municipal Archives book sale inside the Surrogate’s Court atrium

If it’s NYC, there must be a line…people waiting on the street to get into the Municipal Archives book sale at the Surrogate’s Court building

Cover of the book Madrid & New York: Hasta Siempre, bought at NYC Municipal Archives book sale

Scenes from this morning’s NYC Municipal Archives book sale inside the gorgeous Surrogate’s Court atrium. Building is a gem, go just for the architecture. (Yes there’s a line to get in!)

Yep I did this exercise in pluto a few yrs ago and came to same conclusion—data isn’t good enough for clear winner. Main takeaway: Bedford is the outlier b/c it *is* rectangular. Most others are the odd triangles, trapezoids: that’s what caused someone optimistically to build even w/ short frontage

Yes I tend to agree. It’d be nice if the next admin takes the oppty to rationalize NYC’s peculiar disconnects across agencies in land and street data. Some historical and legal reasons why the land maps were digitized long before the street maps but this is the time to fix it all.

lol, a digital map ballot proposal is like Halley’s Comet for urban data nerds!

Congrats to NYC on starting down the road to a unified streets map. Took only 125+ yrs after consolidation 😉

Scanning each borough’s paper maps will be (mostly) easy, actually digitizing all the metadata would be really really hard. Here’s a close-up of what one of these paper maps looks like.

Google stock images of highway workers doing weed trimming etc in US vs Europe. Euros have shielded helmets with respirators, Americans lucky to get safety goggles. (License plates and road signs in the background are the confirm.)

🎂 Happy birthday, #NYCSubway! 121 years ago #OnThisDay in 1904, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) subway opened with 28 stations along a 9.1-mile line extending from City Hall to 145th Street. This #NYTMCollection silent film, shot just months after the subway opened, shows its early days.

Luckily this crime could never happen in USA because our elevators are so big we don’t need these furniture hoisters common everywhere else in the world 🙄

“Spatial misallocation” in Spain suggests some sort of technocratic problem. But massive corruption btwn construction industry & govt is big part of what that crisis generation saw. Very difficult to erase images of cranes looming over half-done neighborhoods. Maybe in 5 yrs will be ancient history.

That whole NW quadrant is land connected to / protected by royal family (and Franco during his time). Then mountains beyond. Today has stringent environmental protections, controversial even to improve the 1 rail line that goes thru. NE quadrant has more sprawl but does bleed into mountains also

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs. 

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

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Screenshot of instagram post from Center for Brooklyn History showing photos of the Long Island Tercentenary parade in 1936 held on Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. Highlighted photo shows float from the Bohack grocery store chain, looking like an aerodynamic plane or rocket.

Lol, the Brooklyn spaceship car has an ancestor

(via Long Island Tercentenary parade down Eastern Parkway in 1936)

Over an image of the Hagley Library's website, the following text is written: "When AI Data Scraping Causes Problems for Digitized Archives. This summer one of my favorite archival websites was hit by so much AI bot traffic it amounted to a denial of service. Which is bad, because the Hagley Digital Archives are awesome."

AI data scraping is causing major problems for digital archives.

Many publishers of cool historical material (free for the public), like @hagleycenter.bsky.social, are being hit w/ bot swarms akin to denial of service attacks.

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All the other comments, plus: at night, street is often better lit than sidewalk

Don’t see many small churches with buttresses like that. Esp. unusual if it was built in 1860s new for church and not earlier. So maybe conversion from 1840s building is more likely.

Oh yes on townhouses. I was talking about overbuilds on commercial-to-resi conversion (orig post). LPC can’t wrap its head around adding onto those 20s/30s taxpayers (esp. well-done Art Deco ones) bc of scale & contrast issues. Adding a few stories onto a 10-story building would be a lot easier.

No I meant 2-4 story addition on a taller building (not adding onto a 2-4 story building). Actually LPC would be less likely to approve the overbuild on a shorter building bc much harder to pull off integrating the new onto the old without overwhelming it.

LOL. In any case I think there are other examples in the 2-4 story case where ppl did think it was worth pursuing

True…but seems like ever-increasing demand for massive, low-occupancy units is a wealth distribution issue & trying to solve through land regulation is Sisyphean

Setbacks, almost always yes. But often from LPC viewpoint, more a question of distinguishing the new structure from the original, not minimizing visibility per se. Doubling height I’ve seen (google Remsen Manor though that project is dead) but agreed, not doubling floor area. Very site specific tho