Tag: nyc

FDNY / NYPD plus donuts

just now, outside my building: 4 firetrucks, a jeep, and a donut cart (whenever you have FDNY or NYPD, you have donuts). turns out the boiler blew and it smells like exhaust everywhere. nothing to worry about, but in typical nyc fashion, i finally met the neighbors and we introduced ourselves.

2014-02-12: 10s of NYPD doing what they do best, standing around

Destroy transit unions

how about this instead of raising the fares all the time?

New York’s subway, on the other hand, hasn’t even advanced to the 20th century in terms of labor-saving efficiencies, never mind the 21st. Almost all of the subway’s trains have 2 paid employees on board at all times, long after other rapid transit systems around the country folded driving and door operation into one job. The city has slowly been winning concessions from its drivers’ union toward so-called “1-person train operation” and other efficiency measures, but it’s starting from a low base.

Keep the junk in the suburbs

sentiment expressed near my place due to 7-11 construction. a new generation of arrivals in nyc is indeed trying to bring their suburban ways to the city, instead of escaping from them like previous generations, and some neighborhoods like murray hill have already completely surrendered to bros, while the east village is under attack by WOO girls and stretch limos.

NYC Built on Dredge

fascinating piece about how the army corps of engineers continues to do massive scale landscaping around ny harbor.

On the periphery of the city, at the littoral edge between water and land, a type of landscape architecture is reshaping New York at a monumental scale. It is difficult to see. It happens away from most people, far from the eyes of architects. Most of it happens underwater. It’s the landscaping that occurs when we mechanically lift and remove sand and sediment from one place and dump it somewhere else, an act best known as dredging.