@mspringut @navjotpk @nyclandmarks And Eric Adams made a show of destroying the outdoor dining in front of that lot on 32nd St so now cars can park there.
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Ted Leimbach
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Still can’t believe @nyclandmarks decided not to protect the beaux-arts Kaskel and Kaskel Building back in 2017 and what we got was a gaping hole with a tchotchke-mart.
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@nazzobetweeting @ratdaddddy Eh, Kips Bay was pretty low income back in the day. Some of the first philanthropic “low income housing” was built on East 31st in 1906 by Henry Phipps (the original “Phipps Houses.”) Lots of East Side tenements demolished in slum clearance for Kips Bay Towers Bellevue South, etc
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stop that right now. that is not what gentrification is, first of all. watering down that word is stupid as fuck. kips bay was never a low income neighborhood, definitionally there is no gentrification taking place. on top of that, rose hill is an OLD NAME that never really caught on. so it would have nothing to do with gentrification in the first place. yall just be saying things.
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let’s start some more nyc neighborhood discourse. there’s a new-ish coffee shop in my neighborhood, which i would describe as “kips bay”. but if you ever look at google maps it shows my area as “rose hill” which to me is not real. no one ever says that or probably knows what that is. the other day i walk past this coffee shop again and they’ve crossed out kips bay and written “rose hill”. what do yall think. is this a “stop trying to make fetch happen” situation or should we start balkanizing kips bay ?
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@tedleimbach @nazzobetweeting The awning is still there but Gramercy Grill Cafe has been closed for years now
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@Baileymoon15 Is it a “NextGen”? Some people report that they avoid them.
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@dmsimon @queens_parents NYC EITC was expanded in 2022 to represent 10%–30% of the federal amount, significantly increasing from the previous 5%. The state-level FY 2026 budget includes a tax cut starting January 1, 2026, for residents earning up to $323,000.
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@queens_parents Anyone here have any idea the last time NYC had a tax cut?
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I’ve lived in NYC for over 3 decades. I’ve never heard anyone move away because there aren’t enough bike lanes and/or food deliveries. Top complaints in my circles are concerns about personal safety, unaddressed rampant homelessness, lack of rigor in public schools and high taxes
FOX Business@FoxBusiness
NYC lost more residents across all income levels in 2025 as Americans flee high-cost blue cities foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/nyc-…
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@constans Consumers do not “prefer to pay $19 for an item and then 20% on top of that” — they don’t realize the service fee is there and they don’t imagine that the “service fee” is not an automatic gratuity and that they’re supposed to tip even more! Consumers do not prefer any of this.
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This sounds stupid (and it is) but raising the headline prices on the menu by 20%— like from $19 to $23 but cause drastic falls in orders because customers prefer to pay $19 for an item and then 20% on top of that rather than $23 for that item
Kevin Root | Denver@Kevin_Root
Wait, what?
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@nazzobetweeting @Elmo_da_emo Murray Hill was the more prestigious neighborhood when Kips Bay was working class, so real estate in the 20s has long been often advertised as Murray Hill. Here’s an ad from 1931:
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@Elmo_da_emo murray hill is a completely different neighborhood though and it actually irks me when people erroneously call kips may murray hill. nothing in the 20s is ever murray hill. it’s not possible
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@nazzobetweeting E.g. the former “Kips Bay Boys Club” clubhouse was located at 52nd and 2nd. There is also creeping “Gramercy” to the south. There’s a Gramercy Grill Cafe on 24th and Lex? I think people have been confused about the neighborhood names in this area for centuries.
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@nazzobetweeting If people want to call that area Rose Hill, more power to them? The Kips Bay neighborhood name was originally used to describe the working class tenement neighborhoods on the East Side that expanded all the way up into the 40s and 50s. The actual “Bay” was mostly above 34th St.
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Filing this video under further evidence for my theory that the true literacy rate has been capped at 50% since the invention of the printing press and a sizable fraction of the "literate" population just has a few hundred "sight words" memorized and guesses everything else
I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸@ImMeme0
This is scary. High school students can’t even read a simple sentence, let alone understand what it means. America, what the hell are we doing?!
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@coldhealing Birth control was legalized in the U.S. for married couples in 1965 (Griswold v. Connecticut) and for unmarried individuals in 1972 (Eisenstadt v. Baird), so… yeah.
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They can't do anything without our cooperation. NYC has literally banned new hotels since 2021.
Nick Reisman@NickReisman
In an impromptu gaggle with reporters this afternoon, Hochul said, "We had a very productive meeting today to launch our exploratory committee for the Olympics." No other details offered, but still that's some news...
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@tomas_s242 People who live in small apartments in the city who don’t have any outdoor space often put houseplants in the sink when they water them. That’s a common practice you may not have considered if you live in a house with a backyard, balcony, or other kind of personal outdoor space.
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people made fun of her for this but why the fuck do you have a garden in your sink and a portrait of patton oswalt
Interesting AF@interesting_aIl
Hillary Clinton visiting a working class home during her 2016 presidential campaign
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@arpitrage Pre-K is a “benefit program” that should be “targeted” to the “truly poor”? How about kindergarten? 1st grade? What is this nonsense? Wealthy suburban school districts now offer pre-k for all. Is that okay for them, but not for city kids who have slightly too many resources?
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You can build a universal welfare state on a broad tax base.
Or you could apply progressive tax rates on a narrow base to fund targeted benefits.
NYC is trying something else: a broad welfare state reliant on billionaire taxation.
Manhattan Institute@ManhattanInst
New York is building an expensive welfare state without the tools that make it possible at the national level. One reason: NYC isn't targeting programs to the truly poor. Targeting is crucial to make benefit programs sustainable. NYC has been moving in the opposite direction: launching targeted programs, then broadening eligibility. Benefit programs like Pre-K, Fair Fares, and CityFHEPS have all followed this pattern. Today, everyone feels poor, or at least economically anxious—so the ranks of those who believe they deserve government assistance keeps growing. Something has to give. @stephendeide writes more on the limits of New York's welfare state for The Bigger Apple: thebiggerapple.manhattan.institute/p/new-yorks-af…
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@ComicBookBookie @AM_Pines @PhillyGov Mexican avocados were banned in the US until 1997 and it took a little while after that for Eastern states to even allow their import. They were only available year-round in all 50 states as of 2007 and little known to the average person outside of California.
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@AM_Pines @PhillyGov I’m a hillbilly and I had avocados on my sandwiches all the time. I didn’t have shoes until kindergarten.
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It is crazy how bad food used to be. You would stop in a town on a road trip and PRAY they had an Applebee's otherwise you were probably stuck a greasy spoon diner burger or some takeout Chinese. Now even dive bars have sweet potato fries.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler
The millennial craft movement vastly improved American gastronomy and I refuse to let zoomers with no cultural memory of the bland garbage we ate and drank 20 years ago meme me into thinking it is cringe.
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@dmtrubman For most of its history the station mostly existed to connect to the ferry to NJ. I’d assume other rail-boat transfers were as close to the shore but it’s a good question how many still exist.
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I was kind of surprised when I stepped off the Staten Island Railway at Tottenville how much it smells like a beach town. The tracks really dead-end at the water's edge.
Are there other subway or heavy rail stations anywhere in the world that get this close to the shoreline?
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Ted Leimbach retweetledi
.@AOC responds to this trend: "BOOOOO"
"This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together. And I think that the discourse around 'Everyone, let's all be like billionaires and opt out of our taxes,' I don't find it an inspiring message."
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur
New: Tax cuts are the HOTTEST new idea for Democrats Booker & Van Hollen (both 2028 prospects) unveil big tax-cut plans. Katie Porter says exempt $100K in income from California taxes. Keisha Lance Bottoms says exempt teachers from Georgia taxes. Pitched as answer to cost-of-living struggles. BUT: It has spurred a “wonk revolt” from liberal and moderate policy experts. The latter say the math won’t add up. The former say treating taxes as a punishment undermines the pursuit of a safety net. nbcnews.com/politics/elect…
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@BoRidgewood @IamShainaJaye It’s more expensive. 52 weeks of capped OMNY fares ($35/week) amounts to $1,820/year, which is significantly higher than the discontinued 30-day MetroCard (approx. $132/month or $1,584/year).
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@IamShainaJaye ??? They have fare capping now, you literally wouldn’t spend any more money
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Taking away unlimited metro cards is really when niggas shoulda rioted
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@Colin_d_m @silv3rmorning I wouldn’t be surprised if they try battery trains instead of electrifying the track. They’re supposedly planning for battery trains for Penn Station Access from the New Haven Line despite the fact that Amtrak obviously already pulls electricity from the track they’re using!
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@silv3rmorning Only amtrak to albany but there are plans to run metro trains there soonish. When that happens it’ll probably be electrified
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