Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Councilmember Laurie Cumbo and Assemblywoman Diana Richardson rallying with tenants outside of 285 Schenectady on Wednesday night (UHAB) Dozens of Crown Heights tenants and allies gathered for a candlelight vigil near the corner of Schenectady Avenue and Union Street last night, in solidarity with 55 families at 285 Schenectady and 1646 Union who will…
When Jody Avirgan heard this story about what might just be the city’s longest subway trip you could possibly take without riding the same segment twice, he knew it was his calling. The route was discovered by someone’s browser using the Subwaytron5000 (see below). This is the route we gave him. Hello from Far Rockaway, where I begin my trek…
Photo At East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue. The sheer number of K2 users has left officers on this block on edge. Credit Josh Haner/The New York Times What happens when you blend into the field better than you imagined you might? This was never an issue for me. I spent most of my career…
So you finally noticed that terrifying, windowless skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan? It’s fine, really. Now, move along. Officially known as the “Long Lines Building,” New York’s doom-iest tower was designed in 1974 by architect John Carl Warneke. Though its most noteworthy feature is its utter lack of windows, the building is also noteworthy for its unusually high…
Against all odds, the Nissan NV-200 will rule the streets of New York. As of today, the vast majority of cab drivers must buy the so-called Taxi of Tomorrow when they retire their old yellow cabs. Anybody who’s ever taken a cab in the city will agree that new cars are a good thing. This…
Three DJs will bring a party straight to dancers’ ears on Thursday, for the return of Lincoln Center’s Silent Disco. Silent Disco is a free, outdoor dance party at Hunters Point South Park. Music will not be blasted through speakers; instead, dancers wear headphones that they can tune to one of three DJ performances. “The…
Nell Casey/Gothamist By now, you’d think straphangers would be prepared for anything whenever they willingly entered the platform for the L train, the city’s most punctually punitive subway line. Mechanical problems, heat waves, and love-ins have all plagued the beleaguered line this summer. And it was no different today, as straphangers embarked on an…
All summer, we’ve been witness to the completely ridiculous & sexist Times Square desnudas hysteria, wondering when the hell Mayor de Blasio started studying the Giuliani guide to governance. But while we’ve been busy focusing on the faux-moral outrage and hypocrisy of the crackdown—and the stories of the women who actually stand out there for…
Somehow this is supposed to turn people *against* a higher minimum wage? http://t.co/KTRsXlMp4n pic.twitter.com/ff8qddakYc — Jody Avirgan (@jodyavirgan) August 26, 2015 On Monday, a billboard went up over Times Square ridiculing the call for a $15-an-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers. The billboard depicts a doofy good-for-nothing millenial shrugging his way toward a…
Last night, as we took the train back from a friend’s birthday outing, a young man got on the train who instantly put me on alert. For a while, I tried to figure out what it was – his oddly clenched jaw, the sly look of his narrowed eyes (or were those just his eyes?),…