I was amused by all the trash on the streets in NYC. They have those regular solar trash compactor cans that you see in other cities, but the door where you remove the can is open and trash has spilled out to cover a 10’ wide area of the sidewalk around the cans. It seems crazy to me! Idk why they didn’t build the city with alleys like every other major city I’ve been to.
Old cities with alleys had streets or walkways made into alleys. Newer cities were designed to have alleys.
New York(Manhattan) had their city planning designed to maximize realestate starting in 1811. Lower Manhattan does have alleys and there are some here and there.
The trash on the street is because there are no bins. There are no bins because the cars pack the streets and prevent access and there are no alleys. There are other reasons there are no bins like terrorism, vandalism, and cost. So they instead just toss bags on the street and that is collected twice a week.
There was a vacuum trash removal system tried out on Roosevelt Island since '75. All the trash gets sucked to a central collection from holding areas in the buildings. It goes get clogged, as you would imagine, but it is a better system than the truck emissions and sidewalk trash. They don’t implement it widely because the underground of Manhattan is a noodle bowl of infrastructure that pretty much can’t accommodate the 24"+ diameter pipes.
I’m not a big city person but if I were would want a vacuum trash disposal service, it just makes so much more sense that individual collections.
There were bins when I visited, but they were all busted open and overflowing like I described. That was a few blocks from Times Square, by Joe’s Pizza. I didn’t see any bins or trash down in the financial district though. NYC is a fun place to visit, but I definitely wouldn’t want to live there.
The GOP rigs general elections and the Dem leadership rigs primaries.
Anything to avoid the people with the most popular policy positions, AKA progressives, taking office and threatening the corrupt establishment that works for rich donors against the majority of the population.
The biggest thing Kim has going for him is that every single person I have seen say anything about this race is mad at the idea of Murphy trying to hand his wife the Senate seat.
Anyone who has been following this guy have a link for me on how the fuck this dude got elected when everyone seems to hate everything he does, especially given his employment history?
The other major candidates all wanted to reform NYC’s hideous police force. Obviously Adams ran on ‘but the crimes’ and as usual in our idiocracy the people of NYC fell for it again.
He won the Democratic primary at a time when there was a slight increase in crime and visible homelessness people due to Covid as the law and order candidate. It turned out “defund the police” was a bad slogan.
Having left NYC for California several years ago, I’d really like to know as well. We were in times square this new years that just passed, soooo many cops in their cars just blaring the horn and effectively driving in circular routes, besides the idiots holding coffee and chatting.
It’s obvious all these pigs are milking the city for some OT. Fuck the NYPD and fuck Eric Adams.
You know what REALLY bugs me about the NYPD? Whenever there’s any big event like the NYE you just mentioned, they always put those fucking metal barriers up EVERYWHERE. Some places I get, you have to separate say a parade route from the stands, fine. But they close off random bits of sidewalk, or funnel everyone through a tiny opening, so there’s always huge clumps of humanity. Last year in Brooklyn, for July 4th, they made a fucking maze of barriers and they let too many people in so it was jam packed, you couldn’t move in any direction. People were getting crushed against the barriers and couldn’t get out, we were all screaming at them to move the fucking barriers and they just stood there, hands on their guns, like the cowardly assholes they are.
So fucking dangerous, it’s by sheer dumb luck that no one died there (afaik).
And all of it is completely pointless. I was just in Toronto for the NYE fireworks. No cops, no barriers, tons of people, and it was completely fine.
Guess they need to spend all that extra budget they got from defunding the library on something. Might as well be barriers and big SUVs, ey? Fuckers.
He’s very Trumpian and like Trump he exists beyond the realm of normal political constraints. Read the New Yorker story on him and you’ll realize that he lives closer to the realms of dieties and prophets.
He isn’t tethered to reality like a normal person, he’s untethered and therefore free, at least unless the DOJ locks him up. Time will tell.
IMO your loss, it’s one of their more apolitical segments. That clip is exclusively about and around the Eric Adams piece. It won’t push against your unwavering support for Israel.
I think they’re bad people who have damaged the country by taking advantage of the depressed and outcast the same way Trump did, and thus I don’t give them any clicks.
You should check out the article, it’s actually almost the exact opposite of that - libraries are singled out for cuts because mayors know that people really care about them and will freak out, distracting from other issues:
But according to experts, libraries are often singled out for cuts because mayors know slashing library services will draw public outcry and spur a battle with the City Council — which chips in for library spending from its own discretionary pot of money.
“Mayors know that the councilmembers will try to restore the cuts because that is something that constituents feel and will complain about,” Moss said.
They’ve been dodging the open airwaves for years. During more than one mass response incident I’ve heard radio traffic something along the lines of
Sgt Copguy, Other Copperson. Third Copson has info you requested. Copperson, Copguy. Have Copson call my cell. Copguy, Copperson. Roger, expect a call in minutes.
If we know the call might have happened, we can still ask for those records even if we can’t get full records of what took place on the call. Without the base evidence, we’re on the fucked-foot.
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