AJ
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I don't really understand how you can just get 547 tickets and not instantly end up in jail
J.K. Trotter@jktrotter
NEW: One of the most dangerous drivers in New York City is an NYPD cop on Staten Island. He’s gotten 547 school-zone speeding and red-light tickets in the past four years. The NYPD is refusing to intervene: nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/to-…
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@Snake_With_Feet @_fat_ugly_rat_ Interestingly, he actually does seem to pay them (albeit late) -- problems do arise if they go unpaid
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@_fat_ugly_rat_ these aren’t real tickets. you just get them in the mail. they dont even have a hearing date, a private company sends them out
he’s a cop and he knows this, so he doesn’t pay them
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Everyone should read what the Israeli military did to journalist Amal Khalil today in this minute-by-minute account as the international community watched in horror. First the text messages threatening her then trapping her and a photographer in a house then bombing them then firing on international rescue crews, all with the world watching in real time. There are no words left for the horrors that U.S. political leaders are enabling.
Hala Jaber@HalaJaber
🚨BREAKING🚨Israeli forces are now issuing direct death threats to Lebanese journalists on WhatsApp as well as besieging them. Al-Akhbar correspondent @AmalKhalil83, who has been documenting the devastation across southern Lebanon, received these messages from an Israeli number (+972 54-869-5113): “We know where you are… we will reach you… leave if you want to keep your head on your shoulders.” First message: “Alright, my lady, you are moving from one village to another, but you still haven’t gone to enough funerals or hospitals. There is a lot of grief & sorrow behind that smile you try to show on Twitter. Let’s see what your answer will be… Is your house still standing, Anisa (Miss)? I hope so?” Second message: “We know where you are & we will reach you when the time comes. Even though you are not important to us, in the end we will take everything into account. I suggest you flee to Qatar or somewhere else if you want to keep your head connected to your shoulders :)” This is not intimidation. This is the IDF issuing an explicit death threat to a journalist for covering their crimes. At the same time, Israeli forces besieged Amal al-Khalil & journalist Zeinab Faraj in al-Tayri, blocking the Red Cross & Lebanese Army from reaching them. They were in a delegate vehicle when a drone strike hit a vehicle behind them, killing two people. Both journalists were trapped at the scene. Amal contacted the Red Cross before her phone died. Her last message confirmed she was still safe. Rescue teams still cannot reach the two besieged journalists, Amal al-Khalil & Zeinab Faraj. They are just 500 meters away, but the road has been cut off by an Israeli strike, according to Red Cross paramedics. This is targeting journalists in real time. This is a crime. Pure state terrorism against the press.
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On the topic of ferries, I had this amazing chance to party at the Battery Maritime Building last night, an awesome transit landmark.
Transit folks talk about the railroads killed by highways/taxes, but this was built by a ferry company that got killed by the Brooklyn Bridge.
Joe Colangelo@Itsjoeco
Funny to see ferry service being brought up vis-a-vis world cup. I had to dig through my emails but I submitted the below idea in August 2024. If they had refit the meadowlands pier you could also run ferry service directly from Manhattan, of course.
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@PhilSustainable @BlueBoxDave Same price to take the train from Secaucus. $80 bus from Hackensack. There’s no difference
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@BlueBoxDave NJ just wants all the local hotels and Airbnbs booked.
That is all.
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I’m completely confused about the Met Life stadium transit crisis for the World Cup. This place hosts 17 NFL games a year and massive concerts, how many people are they expecting for Ghana vs Bosnia-Herztagovina match, or whatever?
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@MattZeitlin @Kangaskhan6 Why does it cost them $150 to transport a single passenger for 30 minutes round trip?
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@Kangaskhan6 New Jersey transit is pretty great, they’re charging the unsubsidized rate for the World Cup
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ahahahaha, fifa learning an important lesson about not being to bullshit a bullshitter
The New York Times@nytimes
From @TheAthleticFC: New Jersey Transit confirmed on Friday that World Cup match goers will be charged $150 for a return rail trip from New York's Penn Station to MetLife Stadium in New Jersey this summer. Tickets are ordinarily priced at $12.90. nyti.ms/4sHcLzR
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A 25-year old married couple earning $150k will pay over $3k more in federal income tax for 2025 than a 65-year old married couple with the same income (note: assumes no social security - 65-year old couple is waiting to age 70 to get max benefit).
This is a fair tax policy?
Charlie Bilello@charliebilello
American households age 65–74 have over 10x the net worth of those under 35. The "Big, Beautiful Bill" gave a $6,000 bonus standard deduction - exclusively for taxpayers 65 and older. Is that really where the help is most needed?
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it’s even cooler 🥲
“come with me, space cowboy”
beanhowitzer@beanhowitzer
I hope the Artemis II recovery team has insignia like Apollo did
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@ajwsiny @LinkofSunshine Underrated part of NYC, I'll never listen to the haters.
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@NukeBushwick @LinkofSunshine Yes! I live on the North shore so it’s good to see other people also expect/want this
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@LinkofSunshine Adjusting my answer to just say it's 100% gonna be St George, Staten Island.
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$36/week is a pretty good price for unlimited transit in a very large, very expensive city. compare to the total cost of owning a car (a necessity in almost every other city in the US): at least $100/week, likely more
jeanne ne sais quoi@MetaReflexive
really funny how everyone is saying “it’s only ever $36/week” like that isn’t a lot of money to be spending on something week in, week out
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@sanosreptla @timerube That includes everything though. New York is $36x4+ and doesn’t even include commuter rail or express buses in the way that National Rail is included in London, etc. . But that’s a good point on the fare zones.
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@ajwsiny @timerube London charges 44.70 gbp to travel within the inner 2 zones and zones 1-6 is 81.60. Paris is 32.40 eur. Two 72 hour subway passes in Tokyo is 4,000 yen (~$25).
NYC is right in line with peer cities globally for transit tbh. And you don't have to ever worry about fare zones
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@ciissrl3 @WadingPatiently @girlcloudnine They run 8,000+ train trips and 50,000 bus trips to transport 6 million people per day. That costs money
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@WadingPatiently @girlcloudnine right because they’ve done sooooo much with the money they already have…
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Less people are opening the emergency exit to let people into the subway now and I hate it. Do your fucking duty as a new yorker!!!!
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@LinkofSunshine NYC has this in most cases through the good cause eviction law - CPI + 5%
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Maybe not a popular position here but I do actually support a rent control law like Oregon that’s a CPI + 7% increase
The cost of moving and looking for apartments are v high, and if rent is raised like 25% it should be done through 2-3 years instead of immediately
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Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air
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Today’s Artemis II: Integrity on its way to the Moon. Crossing the field of view from the bottom left to the top right. Time-lapse covering the period from 03:34:53 to 06:12:07 UTC on 2026-04-06.
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Not only is Jonathan alive and well on St Helena, but during his time on the planet he has now seen off 76 US Attorney Generals, from the 11th Attorney General, Roger Brooke Taney, in 1832, to outgoing 87th Attorney General, Pam Bondi, in 2026. Jonathan is the great survivor.
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@floor_per_area A lot of those mapped roads through parks on SI are Moses-era projects that were never built but also never demapped! Richmond Parkway, Willowbrook Parkway, etc.
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Thanks for this question, NYTimes!
Let's find out!
Number of parks: 2,058
Total Streets length in city: 6,258 miles
Street length inside parks: 105.1 miles
Parks with roads in them: 266
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