@savage_acro Four groups including there’s the 98% who stay in NYC.
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Elliot Schechter
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Elliot Schechter
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NYC has three distinct social groups based on long weekend vacation destinations:
- those who go to the East (Hamptons),
- those who go South (Miami, Caribbean), and
- those who go North (Upstate, Vermont, Quebec).
Entirely different status hierarchies.
StripMallGuy@realEstateTrent
One of the most beautiful areas in the US. A true getaway - just a couple hours drive from NYC.
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@levine2001 @DanFriedman81 A food pastrami sandwich has no need for cheese, real or otherwise.
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@DanFriedman81 Although they made a huge strides in developing non-meat meat (some of which is kosher). Food scientists are still lagging behind in developing non-dairy fake cheese that has the same texture & taste as the real thing. We need real kosher pastrami, with a non-dairy Swiss slice.
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Almost none of the famous Jewish restaurants in NYC are kosher today. Kosher certification is expensive to maintain, being Kosher means you can't serve both meat and dairy, which restricts menus, and Kosher meat is more expensive than meat from other sources.
None of the famous bagel places like Ess a Bagel or Utopia are kosher. They'll all sell you a bacon egg and cheese bagel. Katz's puts cheese on its sandwiches. The only Russ and Daughters location with a kosher certification was the one in the Jewish Museum, which did not reopen after Covid.
The only major kosher deli left is the Second Avenue Deli, which is why Palestine protesters regularly picket that restaurant.
Israel Heritage Foundation@IHF_Heritage
Katz’s Delicatessen in NYC is not a kosher establishment. While “Katz” is a Jewish name & Katz’s is a historic Jewish-style deli that does not serve pork or shellfish, the food is not certified kosher & does not meet kosher standards. Sharing to prevent confusion for kosher consumers.
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@LibraryLady1984 @DanFriedman81 You’re right that very few strictly Kosher restaurants are delis but many of them are meat. Today’s Kosher customer wants what everybody else wants: steak, burgers, sushi, pizza, etc.
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@DanFriedman81 There are Kosher restaurants in Brooklyn and Queens, but they're all (or mainly all) dairy restaurants and they don't serve old style "Jewish" deli foods like pastrami.
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@txsportsball @foster_type So you’re arguing for affirmative action for electricians? What happened to meritocracy?
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@foster_type It is the same dozen or so professions: attorney, professor/teacher, writer, software engineer, student, trivia show host, etc. God forbid you put an electrician on the show.
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Everything about Jeopardy sucks now, the questions are half logic gimmicks and word games, the contestants--which used to include housewives and shop foremen and a wide range of normie American--are now increasingly from the same narrow band of midwit masters degree dorks who all seem like they have substacks.
Mark Hemingway@Heminator
If @Jeopardy wonders why I stopped watching the show after being a lifelong fan, here's a big clue: The current host is a deranged political extremist who won't shut up.
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@kemicalkid19 @foster_type @MZHemingway Ken Jennings has never made a political statement on the show, but you can’t watch? Who’s the snowflake?
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@foster_type @MZHemingway I quit watching when Jennings said he wanted to see Trump in prison and had been a hard core fan since 1983, he ruined the show.
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@DeepcrapChacra @hrhjmm @foster_type @karol It’s a lot easier when you see all of the questions. My bet is Trebek would lose to two regular contestants.
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@jmp_nyc @NickZararis For most it was a home they didn’t want to return to.
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@ElliotSchechter @NickZararis But in the 1950s it was the generation that had moved to Long Island and still thought of Brooklyn as home. By the time the Isles went to Barclays that was a distant memory.
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I'd like to introduce you to Robert Moses and how the location for Shea Stadium was originally picked
AmusedToDeath@AmusedToDeath1
People will be like, "I support the Mets because supporting the Yankees is basically supporting fascism". Well then call me a fascist because wtf is this, you're literally in NYC
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@jmp_nyc @steveplotnicki @NickZararis The reason I asked is that growing up in Brooklyn during the Mets era I never met any of these long suffering Dodgers fans who cursed O’Malley. They probably left Brooklyn too.
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@ElliotSchechter @steveplotnicki @NickZararis My grandmother never forgave her parents for moving from Crown Heights to the UWS in the 1920s, where she later met my grandfather. On the other side they moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan in the 1950s.
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@jmp_nyc @NickZararis The thinking makes some sense but that’s not what suburbanites wanted. Remember the Islanders at Barclays?
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@ElliotSchechter @NickZararis Read The Last Good Season by Michael Shapiro.
O’Malley’s thesis was that his fans, who overwhelmingly worked in Manhattan and increasingly lived on the Island would take the subway to games, then catch the LIRR at the Atlantic Terminal, which has better service than Shea did.
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@steveplotnicki @NickZararis My parents both grew up in Brooklyn Dodgers families. I can very much imagine the alternate timeline.
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@jmp_nyc @NickZararis That location would have failed. The revitalization of Brooklyn was decades away. Flushing Meadows with subway, LIRR and highways was ideal location.
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@NickZararis And had Moses not insisted on that location, the Dodgers were going to try to build a stadium where the Barclays Center now stands. They even had Buckminster Fuller draw up plans for a domed stadium on the site, a decade before the Astrodome.
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@EytanSR @cowboy_postbop Owens isn’t so much a tough situation it’s a career in the arts. Playing a supporting character on a popular sitcom didn’t pay that well 40 years ago, the show can’t even be aired now and recognition isn’t income.
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@cowboy_postbop Even if they aren't in a tough situation like Geoffrey Owens was, sometimes these gigs can pay for a year of their kid's college. Why not knock it out over two days?
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not about Keegan-Michael Key in particular, but I think a lot of people would be surprised how hard it is to sustain a living as an even moderately-known actor; there was that whole thing in 2018 about Geoffrey Owens (Elvin on The Cosby Show) working at a Trader Joe's in NJ
Eli@rats7
i will never know if celebrities do ads like this because they are completely broke or if they just really really love money
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@nytimes @TheAthletic The Doubleday/Wilpon group hired Frank Cashen right after they bought the team in 1980 and they won the World Series six years later. Cohen’s churn in the GM position shows that he has no clue.
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From @TheAthletic: When Steve Cohen bought the Mets in 2020, he was greeted as a deep-pocketed liberator. But now, they have baseball’s worst offense despite a payroll north of $500 million.
nyti.ms/4t0Eiwk
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@NYCerInExile @MattZeitlin A lot of them were Socialists (not communists or leftists) who voted for Eugene V. Debs and switched over to FDR for the New Deal. It wasn’t that out of the mainstream for the time. Can’t compare it to today.
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@MattZeitlin Many American Jews would be very disappointed by how their actual Lower East Side ancestors weren't mythic ur-Socialist Jews but ordinary schmoes with gambling problems and normie politics who worked crap jobs for 70 hours a week or housewives in the worst tenements ever.
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the lower east side has taken on this mythic quality in american jewish life, everyone thinks they have some genetic memory as meyer london voters who worked in the triangle shirtwaist factory
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@KeithOlbermann She left Larry David for Ted Danson and now this?
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Wait. Who's that woman with Kennedy?
Acyn@Acyn
RFK JR on President Trump: He has set every record for transparency ever in our history. You should appreciate him.
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@mattyglesias It’s used as an insult but theater kids work on complicated projects that require talent, skill and teamwork. The experience is valuable for whatever careers they pursue.
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@sweatystartup Translation of this question: People who attend an event I wouldn’t go to are stupid.
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What do you think the average IQ is of people who travel to the NFL draft?
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@OwenShroyer1776 Howard Cosell said this 45 years ago tiktok.com/t/ZTkQEn9DC/
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A mosh pit of men standing around waiting to hear names listed that they can access immediately after online.
The NFL Draft is the worst and most overhyped event in sports.
Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
Pittsburgh broke the all-time round one attendance record with 320,000 fans tonight, topping the 275,000+ who attended in Detroit in 2024, per the NFL.
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@kylecorwintakes SNY on MLB shows a blue screen for most of the break and then an ad for Car Shield. Never realized how good commercials were a big part of the experience. Plus on streaming it’s much harder to flip to another channel.
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The thing about MLB.TV is you're gonna see the same three commercials all game every game for the entire season and you're gonna like it
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