@nicolegelinas I love the efficiency of the mixed gender stalls. Essentially automatic load balancing for demand.
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Nick Ober
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Lincoln Center (free ground-floor bathrooms, although they did the mixed-gender stalls that now date you to 2020 and that absolutely everyone hates).
Nicole@nicolegelinas
Trump Tower, Time Warner Center (now Deutsche Bank Center), WTC, Eataly (both), Rock Center all have public and consistently open and clean bathrooms ...
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@itispawel @iupdate The glossy display definitely makes colors pop a bit and look more vibrant. But the lack of glare certainly outweighs that IMO.
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@nick_benson I don’t understand this logic, either. So delivery cyclists don’t deserve to be safe? So much of NYC’s deliveries are made via bike. That’s objectively good geometrically, results in faster deliveries, and helps decrease traffic for folks driving.
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Would those deliveries be safer and more sustainable in cars? Would they take up less space? Of course not.
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@nick_benson — every single bike in the video is app based. This is why billion dollar app corporations hired @TransAlt @openplans — to privatize public space. There is no safety here. The delivery guys literally terrorize pedestrians, and drivers daily with impunity!
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@dmtrubman The whole fare free obsession is just so tiring. If you’re going to burn millions of dollars on this BS during the World Cup, why not simply use the money to run more buses more often? Ugh.
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Suspending transit fares during the World Cup for five weeks in NYC would convince even more riders that they don't need to pay to ride, and permanently elevate evasion rates.
I half suspect Mamani knows that, and his proposal is intended to force the MTA's hand on free transit.
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@PolicyEngineer Is this the cost of transmission/buying Canadian hydro?
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The gas prices made the red bar bigger. Can we please discuss what made the blue bar bigger?
blair horner@blairhorner
Climate law has virtually nothing to due with today’s utility rates. Rising gas prices are the culprit.
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@jmp_nyc @neoavatara Likely a lot of truth to this. Plus, it’s hard to separate this from the Venezuela operation which preceded it and likely made the admin overconfident at the prospect of fast regime change.
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@neoavatara Over the coming years, someone will expose what the estimates really were. It would not surprise me if the Israeli prediction did not have the regime falling by now, but Trump insisted they were being conservative, and the admin worked from that.
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Vance is probably right.
But why was Trump dumb enough to believe them?
I love Israel, but they are flawed, and over confidence is one of their weaknesses sometimes.
OSINTdefender@sentdefender
According to Barak Ravid, U.S. Vice President JD Vance had a difficult call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday where he said that Israeli assessments for toppling the Iranian regime were not realistic enough, saying "You were too optimistic in your assessments regarding the overthrow of the regime in Iran."
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@Colin_d_m Unpopular option: 145th street should have been closed when 148th was added. The stops are way too close, plus you lose time with conductors having to remind passengers constantly which cars they need to be in to get out.
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@AFineBlogger I loved the book and enjoyed seeing it come to life, but the movie felt somehow too long but also underdeveloped at the same time. Tighter editing could have helped a lot.
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Movie Review.
"Project Hail Mary"
One word really wraps it up, tedious! Near walk out. 2/10
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@rmusimg @TransAlt I agree to some extent. DOT projects should be paired with paid parking/loading zones to create turnover. But without NYPD enforcement, it falls apart. Third Ave is full of loading zones that Amazon and others ignore, double parking anyway as @AFineBlogger often documents.
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@TransAlt Removing parking should address where displaced vehicles are expected to go and how the impact on residents, commuters, local businesses will be mitigated.
Without a comparable plan,these changes create new congestion, friction rather than improving street safety/functionality.
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At any given point in time, nearly one fifth of Manhattan’s bus stops are obstructed by cars or trucks.
Illegal parking is slowing down your bus and delaying your commute.
Patrick Cleary@PatrickDCleary
How many bus stops are blocked by parked cars and deliveries at any given moment? I looked at every bus stop in Manhattan on street view to produce an estimate. It turns out it's 19% – practically 1 in 5. open.substack.com/pub/patrickcle…
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“…by June.” 🥵🥵
Streetsblog New York City@StreetsblogNYC
NEW: Mayor Mamdani’s Department of Transportation will finally follow through on a mothballed 2024 plan to build a new and improved Manhattan-side bike lane and pedestrian entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/27/mam…
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@RossBarkan I just didn’t understand the political calculus for this at the time when it was pretty obvious the budget gap numbers weren’t fully baked at all. Seemed like a lot of political downside for no obvious upside.
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Floating a property tax hike - even as a last-ditch effort - was a political mistake. A lot of people got mad, and the Times reported that. The framing of the story is fine.
Anna Bahr@anna_bahr
Framing here utterly bizarre. From the jump, Mayor identified property tax not as a strategy but as the ONLY tool avail to him to balance budget if state didn’t act by: 1) taxing the rich & 2) balancing fiscal relationship w Albany He’s building support for his preferred paths
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@jmp_nyc @sam_d_1995 @LinkofSunshine Yeah, you’d need to basically remove all of the lower level’s traffic lanes to do this now. The C’s bumper blocks are right up against the Trans-Manhattan Expressway. It would be a mammoth project and probably not practical at this point.
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@sam_d_1995 @LinkofSunshine Didn’t the lower level use the structural capacity that had originally been intended for trains?
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Fort Lee genuinely needs to be connected by rail to NYC
fully fund transit@crosstown_line
If we had a single, coherent regional transit and infrastructure authority, the westward extension of the 2nd Ave subway would go to NJ
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@StreetsblogNYC For what it’s worth, I’ve found cycling in SF and LA alongside autonomous cars to be way safer than alongside human driven ones. Waymos always give me the legally mandated passing distance, they don’t try to intimidate me on narrower roads, and they never run reds or stop signs.
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Is NYC ready for the driverless future? It’s coming either way. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/26/are…
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@StreetsblogNYC @NYC_DOT just posted the presentation deck for anyone interested: nyc.gov/html/dot/downl…
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The city will turn an existing northbound protected bike lane between Union Square and Prince Street into a two-way cycle track, finally creating a protected north-south bike network between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Flatiron District. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/24/dot…
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@nicolegelinas The MTA desperately needs to run more trains late night.
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@LinkofSunshine Something that bugs me though is the fact that the sidewalk widening is only on one side of the street. I guess it’s a cost issue? Or concern about geometry around the existing concrete islands? Feels like a missed opportunity.
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God this 9th Avenue change is beautiful. One of the ugliest parts of Manhattan rn
Ben Furnas@bfurnas
Love this graphic from @NYC_DOT on the 9th Avenue transformation. Right now 51% of the people who use the street are on foot and 10% are on bikes, but only 30% of the space is dedicated to pedestrians and only 6% for cyclists. nyc.gov/html/dot/html/…
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@nicolegelinas Was Touchless ID an option? I feel like they hide it but there’s usually very few folks in that line.
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I have missed many flights due to my own fault but today was not one of them. Got to JFK T5 priority line 74 minutes before 6:59am domestic flight. Probably the earliest I’ve ever got to the airport because people said “there’s a line” and I said “ok I’ll get there early.” Priority line was two hours wait. So now I am … early … for the next flight … at 10.
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@jmp_nyc @ShabazzStuart And also the frequency of London’s bus service which is light years better than NYC’s.
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@ShabazzStuart The real key is that we need to match the pace at which London has opened new subway lines in the last 50 years.
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Avg commute time:
London: 38 mins ✅
NYC: 41 mins ❌
NY Post Opinion@NYPostOpinion
Mamdani’s 15 mph speed limit plan threatens to turn NYC into city that never moves — just like London trib.al/hIZYHmT
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Model train: More new subway cars are on the tracks & the next generation car for the 2030s is on the horizon as MTA issues request for largest ever order of cars to replace entire fleet eventually
on 1 2 3 4 5 6 lines
Reporting today @PIX11News
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