The more I walk around NYC the more I think the absence of anti-Israel stickers is a reliable sign a working class neighborhood hasn't started gentrifying yet.

Ten-year-old me who used to collect sea glass down the Jersey Shore would've LOVED how many cool pieces you can find in a few minutes on Staten Island.

People will tell you New York City is "built out."

This Bay Ridge block of semi-detached houses with driveways and rear parking has a subway station at the end of it that gets you to the Financial District in 30 minutes.

One reason why it hasn't exactly been at the top of my list of parks to check out.

You can just see it must be a problem from the google maps.

I hate how in order to visit one of NYC's great waterfront parks you almost inevitably have to deal with crossing a highway, like the Belt Parkway here in Brooklyn.

And the tranquility of the views are definitely undermined by the constant roar of the cars!

Just walked by an Outback Steakhouse with a big surface parking lot out front in Brooklyn.

Easy to forget how much of NYC is pretty suburban when you live in Manhattan.

I know they would never get rid of the on-street parking here (even if there's a subway station literally on the corner...) but this block of Bay Ridge would go from charming to absolutely spectacular if all the cars weren't creating so much visual clutter.

Were there always this many apparently homeless men smoking and drinking on subway platforms on rainy days in NYC, or has it just been more tolerated post-COVID?

To be honest though as someone who's interested in cycling around NYC I'm not sure how much the particulars of bike lane design really matters if straight-up motorcycles are going to use those lanes.

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That makes sense even without the bike lane, because you don't want drivers turning into pedestrians either

Someone tried to hit their vape on the subway car and it didn't work. Thank God for small miracles 🙌

Does it? This one seemed pretty clear, and I see people stopping/ double parking in the alternative all the time.

Yeah, was specifically thinking about how difficult it's been to get them permanently legal in Philadelphia after a couple of years of successful "pilots".

Parking protected bike lanes seem so vastly superior to the alternative (a strip of paint between parked cars and moving traffic) that I struggle to understand why they haven't been implemented wherever possible.

Doesn't seem to reduce the number of available parking spots, so is it just inertia?

The ability to build AND KEEP OPEN public bathrooms in parks is such an underrated state capacity issue at the municipal level.

One thing NYC seems to be better at than a lot of other American cities.

Right up the park police (or whatever the official term is) drove up, but they ignored this cart. I don't know if it's cause they have a permit, but they seemed pretty focused on kicking out the young folks drinking beer in the park.

Cool to see dense housing, the subway, and a nice playground all next to each other here in Woodside.

Unfortunately the air kind of stinks from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) across the street 🫢

I fully support this entrepreneur using this parking space in Jackson Heights to sell boots.

If the government is going to give away this land right next to the subway station for cheap why shouldn't someone use it for a small business??

American city parks are seriously under commercialized:

It shouldn't be so rare to see a vendor selling ice cream in the park on a beautiful spring Saturday.

Sure, NYC is expensive in some ways, but since moving here I've found no shortage of cheap, tasty treats like this $2 concha in Corona, Queens.

Smaller cities like Philadelphia just don't have anywhere near the number of transit-accessible immigrant neighborhoods.

Very weird to only show some of the buses that use that stop then.

Took an express bus from 125th Street in Harlem to LaGuardia Airport this morning.

Only $3 for the 30 minute trip. Northern Manhattan is so underrated.

Definitely a chicken or the egg problem, but you can sort of understand why delivery drivers and others don't really respect the bus lane here on 125th Street in Harlem when there's routinely a 35 minute gap in service like I saw this afternoon.

The El Barrio Community Garden on 117th Street is supposed to be open all day on Fridays (no visible signage near the community garden tho) but as this local resident is noticing this @nycparks.bsky.social owned site was locked up this afternoon.

Doesn't seem like a great use of a public asset?

Peaceful Valley on 117th St is only open 10 hours a week (half the legal minimum) and never after 1 PM, so of course it was locked up this afternoon.

Going to need the Parks Department to directly manage their properties like this one if we want them to actually be accessible to local residents.

West 124th Street Community Garden has no posted open hours (either online or at site) so of course I wasn't surprised to see it locked up, despite how nice of a day it is.

If @nycparks.bsky.social can't find a group to properly operate this nominal community garden they need to directly run it.

West 132nd Street Garden is supposed to be open on Friday afternoons, but unfortunately it's still locked.

Being accessible to the public for 20 hours a week during the open season really doesn't seem like much of a burden, but many @greenthumbnyc.bsky.social routinely ignore the rules.

An autonomous bus that comes more frequently IS a better bus!

In NYC @ridersalliance.org supports the subway overstaffing bill.

Historisk: Kolumbus kjører uten sjåfør på bussen i Stavanger Etter ti år med prøving, feiling og venting er dagen her. For første gang i norgeshistorien skal en buss frakte passasjerer i vanlig trafikk, uten et eneste menneske bak rattet.

He's not active here, but this is the link @joakial.bsky.social posted:

www.nrk.no/rogaland/his...