@hbolton @AlexYablon grew up in morningside heights and we’d do our laundry on city island as an excursion when the machines in the building were broken
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Transplant: “I love taking little day trips to different neighborhoods in the outer boroughs, let’s go to City Island”
Lifelong UWS resident: “I have never been to the east side of Manhattan”
Ayesha@gothichijabi
native new yorkers simply aren’t a monolith. i was talking to my born and raised in harlem last year and she didn’t know there was a J or a Z train
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@floor_per_area I counted once and there are 13 restaurants on the block I live on, which surprised even me. I eat almost none of them as there are tons of better options just a few minutes away. Density is wildly underrated even by a lot of urbanists
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A reason to live in cities that I haven’t seen discussed sufficiently in literature: Density enables diversity, weirdness, and choice.
I might not like restaurants around me on average. But if there’s lots of weird places around me, I’ll find the one place I like.
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NYC
Density = Building Area / Block Area
The other four boroughs
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@CXCarroll @Nowooski ERVs are great but are almost never scaled to handle CO2, they ventilate at levels designed to prevent mold and rot, but rarely provide enough ventilation to keep CO2 at outdoor levels
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The thing buying a co2 monitor taught me is that the obsession with insulating and sealing houses is psycho. You actually want a window cracked 24:7.
The solution to climate change isn’t hotboxing in 2000ppm co2: it’s window open + AC / Heat On powered by abundant electricity.
Chris Lakin@chrislakin
>wake up with a mild sense of doom >check CO2 meter — 1400ppm >ah
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@lindaa718 @NYC_DOT Cars should go to the suburbs where they belong. This communist parking bullshit needs to end
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@NYC_DOT So where should cars go. Neighborhoods don't have driveways. Rats infestation will get worse. Restaurants did fine before the pandemic. They only did outdoor dining because of covid. The only place they get packed is Manhattan. All the young idiots don't like to cook.
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It’s time for us to save outdoor dining—make it year-round and cut the red tape.
“Streets once dominated by parked cars became lively public spaces filled with conversation, energy, and community.”
Commissioner Mike Flynn’s op-ed: nydailynews.com/2026/03/15/its…
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@gerstenzang Even more relevant is that they probably get better prices from the OEM because it’s tied to iPhone related volumes. When they were buying Beats Music they took headphone side too but only after realizing it would pay for itself due to Apple’s already negotiated oem markups
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A lot of great stuff written about the Macbook Neo.
But no one seems to mention that Apple can also afford to make a lot less contribution per Macbook Neo than a rival PC manufacturer.
Apple can monetize downstream through increased purchase rate of the entire device ecosystem and services. No PC OEM has that.
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@francemothers The bigger brands definitely have the budgets, but for smaller brands I think there is a lot less sponsorship than their was back then
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I often wonder if fashion will ever see the level of storytelling from a singular designer that we got during the peak eras of McQueen and Galliano. Are those days over? Do designers no longer have the budgets? or are their brains just not wired to think that way anymore?
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@BOTTEGAHOENETA only if it's cheap, if it's expensive it's really just trust plus how it feels. Better mills will also often provide test results and you can always pay for your own testing. Wool, cotton and nylon have better standards, linen is maybe worse than poly, they tell you nothing
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@BOTTEGAHOENETA country of origin does help, Japan makes the best polys and Europe is good at regulating the chemicals for toxicity, but even then there are still places that will cut corners
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@BOTTEGAHOENETA this problem exists even at the textile buying level, for the most part the only way to tell a good poly from a cheap one is trusting the mill that's making the fabric
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And THIS was the point Demna was making.
HARDEST FIT PICS@HardestFitPics
Lil Uzi vert in full Gucci (2026)
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it took almost 7 years but it has finally happened
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I’m saving the funktion one for the call to prayer. Don’t tell Dax J
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@abe1x @kirstentheodos @Colin_d_m @GVSHP there is no “petition,” you have to take action when you lobby
and more than enough units have been built; we’re all waiting with baited breath for the city to publish more current vacancy data, we’ve been waiting for years for it
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That thing is hideous. Can we all agree that luxury towers should not be erected on city owned land?
The city wants to build a "600-ft.-tall apartment tower on city-owned land on Little West 12th Street in the Meatpacking District — which they call “Gansevoort Square” via @GVSHP
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@fuelgrannie @kirstentheodos @Colin_d_m @GVSHP send me the petition, I’m happy to sign it
still want to know how many empty units there are because there are 300,000+ people on the NYCHA & section 8 waitlists and applications aren’t even open right now. Until we have enough units built it’s still a lottery situation at best
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@abe1x @kirstentheodos @Colin_d_m @GVSHP why don’t you want to demand and lobby for high rents to be lowered in chronically vacant luxury housing?
fuelgrannie@fuelgrannie
@abe1x @kirstentheodos @Colin_d_m @GVSHP no demand lower rents at hudson yards there is a surplus of empty luxury housing: demand for rents of those units to be reduced
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@abe1x @kirstentheodos @Colin_d_m @GVSHP no
demand lower rents at hudson yards
there is a surplus of empty luxury housing: demand for rents of those units to be reduced
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@fuelgrannie @kirstentheodos @Colin_d_m @GVSHP hudson yards is built and contracted out already, the best way to lower rents there is to build enough units to meet and surpass the demand citywide and that means a lot of building
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@abe1x @kirstentheodos @Colin_d_m @GVSHP as if that will happen
why aren’t you lobbying to lower rents at hudson yards?
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@fuelgrannie @kirstentheodos @Colin_d_m @GVSHP yes, it's a great example to look at, learn from and do better
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@fuelgrannie @kirstentheodos @Colin_d_m @GVSHP there is no evidence that the unit mix is locked in place. Why are you lobbying for it not to be built instead of lobbying for the unit mix to be adjusted to 100% affordable?
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@abe1x @kirstentheodos @Colin_d_m @GVSHP no, it’s not going to be affordable so no one will be living in it (see: hudson yards)
nyc has already built so much empty luxury housing; shouldn’t we try to fill some of those homes before we build even more expensive, chronically vacant residential real estate?
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@fuelgrannie @kirstentheodos @Colin_d_m @GVSHP Yes let’s build this tower, maybe even make it bigger. No one can live in a home until it gets built so we need to build a lot
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@abe1x @kirstentheodos @Colin_d_m @GVSHP the point of residential development is to create housing in which people can actually live; 100% low income (as the vast majority of new yorkers are low earners) is the most “agreeable mix” because it would be affordable
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