Brian Howald

– A Typical New York Morning – People who walk: “Good morning, business owner!” People who ride bikes: “Good morning, business owner!” People who ride transit: “Good morning, business owner!” People who drive: “Parking here sucks. Fix it.”

Last month we sent a letter to the @NYCMayor and @NYC_DOT urging them to prioritize a people first redesign of Dekalb and Lafayette, providing faster buses, safe east/west bike routes, and safer intersections. Our local elected officials joined in signing.

@Jmratcliffe3 @HowsMyDrivingNY I’m sorry for the slow reply; I’m not here much these days. On the website, you can use the type “State Court Justice” and for an API request you can use the type “JCA”

@bdhowald @HowsMyDrivingNY Any way to look up a Court of Appeals license plate?

@dahvnyc “TikTok” because there’s only enough attention span for which actors and actions are currently in front of us. Organizing around, in advance of, and after elections to advocate your interests has been collapsed into just an election. I guess “Insta politics” works, too.

@dahvnyc I call it TikTok politics. In lieu of a complex system of numerous interlocking individual and group interests that overlap in various ways over time, there’s only the self (or the self-group) and the head of power. It’s an “audience of one” but in the other direction.

there's people who see any criticism of the mayor as a betrayal of their political project & people who treat any time the mayor disappoints them as a betrayal of their political project, and IMO both groups misunderstand the role/purpose of electoral politics

@KhyberSen @UrbaneUrban I was just being facetious about how bad service is on weekends on QBL due to CBTC work.

@bdhowald @UrbaneUrban They haven't lost the ability to run three routes on the same track. The 60th St tunnel does this every day for example. Rogers junction, too, which runs 35 tph at the bottleneck.

i support Queenslink in principle but in no way does it allow the MTA to extend the G train. Opening the Rockaway Beach Branch would add no capacity to QBL.

@krula @jonkentcomrade The account you’re replying to: - is six months old - has only memes and screenshots for photos - suddenly has a hit tweet at only ~250 followers - is trying to wedge apart Dem. voters - has a practiced sass for every reply Seems like an astroturfed account of some kind.

@jonkentcomrade Problem with the leftists is they care more about themselves than protecting reproductive rights, democracy, immigrants, basic constitutional rights, etc. You gave us Trump in 2016. Your petulance is noted, just not appreciated. Where do you draw the line?

Leftists are telling you 2 years before the primary that we will not vote for Gavin Newsom if he's the nominee. You have 2 years to find someone else.

@WorldFullofJunk @NYC_DOT @TransAltBK Congrats, you get a ⭐️ sticker!

@bdhowald @NYC_DOT @TransAltBK There is nothing here that would inconvenience me while bicycling except that there is a bike lane. A bike lane with rare exception renders a street useless to me for bicycling.

A discarded, contraflow bike sign lying in the slush and grime in a line of cars whose drivers have stolen the bike lane (for 15 days) because the parking lane has snow. A perfect metaphor for a city whose snow response will inconvenience anyone but drivers.

@Nyc12Ed @NYC_DOT @TransAltBK I rode bikes last week, the week before, and to the site of this picture. Now that I’ve met your arbitrary condition, do I get to hear you tell me that I’m right?

@bdhowald @NYC_DOT @TransAltBK Cyclists if you didn't ride your bike last week, you don't deserve a bike lane

@KathyParkPrice @NYC_DOT @TransAltBK It was too serendipitous a scene to alter it.

@bdhowald @NYC_DOT @TransAltBK hope you took the sign

@WillABarclay I apologize, @WillABarclay, for my confident and off-the-cuff accusation, when I got the timing totally wrong.

@WillABarclay @JustinBrannan You’re right. I was wrong. I completely brainfarted on the 2024 redrawing.

Remember, NY Democrats drew the current election map after they rejected the voter-approved Independent Redistricting Commission proposal Upset by the results and blinded by political distress, their attack on fair and open elections continues newsday.com/news/nation/ne…

@JustinBrannan @WillABarclay Source (for others who might unfamiliar): thecity.nyc/2022/05/16/spe…

@JustinBrannan @WillABarclay He’s mistaken or lying, please don’t skip over that. NY’s current election maps were drawn in 2022 by a special master appointed by the courts to create competitive state districts.

@dahvnyc Wrong trend line. He’s trying to get named to CB6M in April.

cuomo's not conceding, he's setting the table for his next run. governor? president?

Deeply saddened by the passing of the brilliant Dr. Arline Bronzaft: researcher, problem-solver, mentor, noise activist, friend, podcast guest ("Ask Arline"), and so much more. grownyc.org/blog/grownyc-r…

R.I.Q. (Rest in Quiet) Arline Bronzaft, PhD & iconic antinoise scholar-campaigner. Her 1975 journal article finding learning deficits among schoolkids on the IRT side of PS 98 in Inwood led @NYCTSubway to cushion its rails with rubber pads, first nearby, later system-wide. 1/2

@JamesSurowiecki Accounts younger than March 2022 reply guy’ing troll opinions are suspect in my opinion. fake account signals: - young account age (Apr 2025) - nearly all posted photos are political not personal - vaguely patriotic words in bio - Amazon author, but no link to books???

Trump supporters have convinced themselves of very weird ideas about how tariffs supposedly work. This guy thinks that tariffs are pegged to the prices American companies charge consumers, so if they raise prices, the amount they pay in tariffs goes up. This is not how it works.

@CartoonsHateHer B/c the Dem. Party brand is in the toilet, some in Dem. politics or adjacent to it score internet points by distancing themselves from “the party” through non-stories like this. They don’t have to disavow them, but they *choose* to, thus creating the illusion they must respond.

Less optimistic theory: the “fringe” Republicans who got disavowed were Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney. cartoonshateher.com/p/do-democrats…

Today, I wrote about the Syndey Sweeney controversy. More specifically, the fact that the Democratic party is apparently responsible for every oversensitive lady on TikTok, but the Republican party isn't responsible for their own fringe. Link in replies.