Why would they want to be that far out of the way anyway? Like what is driving them to that location? I know a food truck just moved to a restaurant around there, is it simply the cheapest rentable space in the area (by virtue of being kindof a hike from everything)?

Why not in any of the very vacant places near the grove and exchange place paths? Are the landlords refusing their business or just charging too much? And how the fuck do landlords charge too much when they have empty units.

Like as much as I hate nimby's and would rather they have lost here... why is this at the edge of the neighborhood in the first place?

There's a remarkably broad "ground floor retail" extinction going on everywhere right now. Restaurants are obviously a big part of it, but in exchange place for example even the nail salon and the washington-mutual bank branch noped out (on top of the potbelly and au bon pain).

I don't really know whats up, but my guess is places that were just barely limping through covid waiting/hoping/praying for things to "get back to normal" are finally hitting their breaking point. As much as every clickbait headline is about some company forcing workers to return to their office, you can still see most floors of most buildings down here are empty.

ellis island, both as the entrypoint to the immigration stuff you already mentioned and an excuse to go through liberty state park

riverview park in the heights

just tracking middle-of-the-road IPCC estimates, the nyc metro area in ~2050 will have the climate of the washington DC area today. our winters will increasingly look like virginia for the rest of our lives.

wow first time i've ever seen this guy/show and the first 7 minutes of it, before amy is even brought in, are astoundingly bad.

edit: ahahaha I randomly skipped around and at one point she said "I am a private person, i get anxiety, I wanted to handle this privately". just absolutely breathtaking audacity.

I wish we could put an air pollution toll-tax on every car in and out of the holland tunnel.

I mean, I understand gothamist is a failed website business being run as a mercy-nonprofit by npr now... but how in the flying fuck do you have an article about a city thats a 20 minute PATH train ride from you building shipping container homes AND NOT HAVE A SINGLE PICTURE?

it is part of the canonical american (racist) lore that crime happens in cities and suburbs are safe

so what kinda vote count does that take, and how is she gonna not wind up in the same situation as bing did?

well I seem to spend twice as much and it can't be me!

the 'no forks given' food truck's fries (often found in exchange place)

its bougie popeyes. 20% better for 2x the price. but when you think about how good popeyes is you realize bobwhite is dangerous.

ads are a tax on the poor and old-fashioned* now

*people who watch network tv

We should start a kickstarter to replace them with electric versions. Much less noise for us, much more torque to throw them into traffic.