Liam O'Connell

This country has a problem with building new transit lines that don’t get as much ridership as they could. I wrote about one of the reasons why: we tend not to treat those lines as constituent parts of larger networks homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2024/07/12/the…

sunnyside

Third Avenue Charles L. Goeller 1934

elsewhere in maspeth (feat. kosciuszko bridge)

we seem to be inching closer to the long-discussed replacement of this bridge, but in the meantime it remains the bridge that time forgot

grand street bridge, maspeth

Attention Map Nerds: Here's an incredibly detailed 1935 map showing the residential age of buildings in NYC.

@alvingunnion rishi does (but only the post-government move to california part)

@beepboopsloane getting a GS645, extremely excited

GS645 E100 with color shifts bc i messed up the development a bit

lost styles of advertising and propaganda: pollutioncore

@A320Lga oh yeah. this ratchet is going one direction only

@liameoconnell and this is now where the right's bar is going to be for other unis

“lost the plot” does not even begin to adequately describe the depravity of sending militarized police units after your own students. you have to be trying to make a show of hurting people.

genuinely what is the point of a university if anytime donors or trustees or congressional randos tell the administration to jump, the university responds with “how high?” and then jumps higher, only to be told by donors/trustees/politicians/the media that it wasn’t high enough

the wild thing to me (setting aside the completely absurd thing above) is that all the university administrators involved in this are still going to lose their jobs because of pressure from the right. none of this will be enough. universities are heading for such a dark place

@daisiesnsunsets it’s horrifying to watch. hope you’re safe & ok

this is my roman empire or whatever

does anyone else occasionally think about the cover of the 1968 port authority of allegheny county annual report. it’s effectively just a bus map. but depicted as a wheel! (if you didn’t know, pittsburgh buses are numbered counterclockwise radiating from downtown)

(that of course made it new jersey’s *second* light rail subway—the other, below, in newark is the first. it has been a subway for much longer and has its own fascinating history).

this was once one of the many railroad gateways to the hudson waterfront, carrying trains to & from a sprawling intermodal terminal in weehawken, where pax & freight crossed the river by boat. nearly 50 years after that terminal closed, the tunnel was converted for light rail.

favorite buildings & signs on bergenline avenue, which is without a doubt one of the best streets our metropolitan area has ever built.