Mazel tov!

I read it the same way.

I feel like the players would trip over that

GIBBY HAYNES We used to go into the Banshees’ dressing room and take the Gouda off their deli tray so that we could say we stole Siouxsie and the band’s cheese. It’s a pun—the highest form of humor.

The Butthole Surfers are culture

Probably made sense when it was a streetcar and Meeker Avenue wasn’t an interstate. (Tho - maybe two streetcar lines? Hence the U.)

Yeah, but he was really only ever successful at the game show thing.

A view of the east river and Williamsburg Bridge with a new building going up in front of it

They are taking the bridge away from me. I think I have about a week left

Call me a Luddite, but I’d like better than 50/50 odds of living.

Dad… 🙄

A sculptural installation on a ceiling which is lighted to cast shadows and imply a lunar landscape.

A large column leading up to a sculptural relief in the ceiling, standing over a U-Haul customer service desk.

A sculptural installation on a ceiling which is lighted to cast shadows and imply a lunar landscape.

A historic photo of the same ceiling installation, crowning a midcentury modern office space.

The former headquarters of Magic Chef in St. Louis, now operating as a U-Haul, featuring a recently restored ceiling installation by Isamu Noguchi which had been, for years, concealed by a drop ceiling.

I mean try to explain mint scented bags to someone in 2035.

When I worked in graduate school admin (40 years ago!!), pretty much no one in the A&S faculty wanted to be Chair.

“Even saying that out loud, I can hear you yawning through the phone”

❤️ this

And single-family brownstones aren’t really a corollary to Parisian apartments. For that, look at the 6-story new-law/MDL apartment bldgs, which have similar density. If we could build those again it would be a great growth model (stair/elevator requirements make density at that scale impossible)

Brownstones weren’t hated when they were built - it was spec housing, if people hated them they wouldn’t have been built! Brownstones WERE hated in the mid-20th century - the brownstone era was referred to as the brown decades by Mumford (1931). 1/2

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

A small price for US airlines to pay to be rid of this pesky consumer protections. Bet that Delta guy is glad to be rid of the Biden administration’s “overreach”.

This Day in Labor History: April 6, 1712. A group of slaves gathered in Manhattan, setting fire to a building on Maiden Lane, near Broadway. When whites gathered to put out the fire, the slaves attacked with hatchets, guns, and swords. Let's talk about this early slave revolt!

No Tang? We used to make things in this country. Now it’s quiche and “Canadian products”. SMDH

I thought you were talking about the noun. I was all ready to endorse your position.

It was really f’in cold in January and February, so there were a lot more potholes created than in past years. Clearly Mamdani did a very good job responding to an immediate crisis. It’s not clear from the data that Adams didn’t.

A picture of the Manhattan skyline silhouetted against the sunset, viewed from Brooklyn

Brooklyn golden hour still undefeated

One of many bad planning ideas to be foisted on NL! I didn’t realize that it lasted until 1990 - when I worked there (1979/80?) it was clearly a failed enterprise.

My first summer job was in NL - Captain’s Walk (when it was still a ped mall 🤣) and then on Bank Street.

I was at #3, and saw #2 many times but not that early and never at CBs.

Open Met Pool! @ny4p.bsky.social was proud to help organize a rally to support neighbors who are advocating for the reopening of Met Pool, which closed abruptly over a year ago, and is an invaluable resource that makes NYC more affordable and livable for thousands. Open Met Pool and Fund Rec

The whole airport is shut down until 8am according to the pilot of our flight heading to LGA.

The “Pointe” in this case being the prow of the building that overlooks the BQE? Or perhaps that this property once stood on the shores of Bushwick Creek (ie, marshland)?