Lol
Worth a watch.
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The humor falls flat for anyone who actually know the history. The writing reads as written by someone who didnât actually grow up in New York.
That was bad.
I think even people that donât know NYâs history KNOW it didnât happen remotely like in the sketch.
Itâs just supposed to be funny way to reflect on NYâs quirks, me thinks. I enjoyed it 
The writer grew up in Connecticut and moved to NYC for college.
Obviously the Dutch founders of Nieuw Amsterdam did not envision the Commissionersâ Plan of 1811 or the layout of the NYC subway system. Treating it as a well-thought plan is the joke. Itâs like George Washington talking about weights and measures. It makes no sense, and thatâs whatâs funny about it.
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Maybe Iâm being too serious. Just fell flat to me.
If anyone is looking for more history mixed with humor i recommend tomdnyc.
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One thing that really irks me, which was not mentioned in the SNL cartoon and is rarely if ever mentioned anywhere, is that the wide numbered streets (14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, 57th, etc.) are not sequenced in any regular predictable pattern. For example, 42nd is much closer to the next wide street to the south than to the next wide street to the north. Some think it may have something to do with where Broadway intersects the north-south avenues, but the commissioners did not appear to anticipate a diagonal Broadway in their 1811 plan, and in any case the wide street is at times a few blocks south of the Broadway/avenue junction (as with 42nd and 57th) but in other cases is right at the Broadway/avenue junction (as with 34th). We just take this for granted now - these are the big two-way numbered streets, they roughly but not always align with bowtie / rectangular / circular Broadway intersections and they are on top of subway stations. But why? Why were they chosen so irregularly? The commissioners did not explain why.
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Absolutely awful.
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I saw this on the news live. It was absolutely awful seeing video of the helicopter breaking apart and crashing into the Hudson.
Although there are many direct flights between JFK and Santo Domingo, the mayor apparently flew via Istanbul. Anyone know whatâs going on?
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Let your haters become your waiters when you fly Turkish Air
Modern garbage bins uptown mark latest step towards containerizing NYCâs trash
*he departmentâs new âEmpire Binsâ are now set up outside eight uptown schools, where theyâre used to collect compost, recycling and garbage. By the start of June, officials plan to install them in parking spots in areas of Harlem and Morningside Heights â replacing an old set of streetside bins that were put in place in the neighborhoods in 2023 as part of a pilot program.
*Unlike the old bins, the new bins are locked and can only be opened by building staff or sanitation workers with special electronic keycards issued by the city. The new models are also designed to be emptied by a new fleet of garbage trucks that can lift containers from the side rather than the rear. Officials said those trucks will begin to service city streets by June.
The sanitation department last year ordered 1,500 Empire Bins from the Spanish company Contenur. Sanitation officials said more than two-thirds have already arrived, a sign the delivery would not be affected by President Trumpâs ongoing threats to raise tariffs on foreign imports.
City officials hope to install the bins in front of residential buildings across the five boroughs in the coming years as part of Mayor Eric Adamsâ âtrash revolutionâ that aims to containerize New Yorkâs notorious mountains of garbage.
Businesses and smaller residential buildings with nine or fewer units are already required to put out trash in containers. The sanitation department is still conducting an environmental review before installing bins outside larger buildings for trash collection.
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My building has 100 units. Between the tree pits and a fire hydrant Iâm not sure there would be enough room for adequate containers.
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Andrew Cuomo would spare low-density neighborhoods from new housing | Crainâs New York Business
Andrew Cuomoâs housing plan calls for building apartments near houses of worship, transit stations and in industrial areas. The former governor singled out one type of neighborhood, however, where he would not pursue any ambitious development agenda: low-density areas.
What a joke. Please donât rank this loser.
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I mean if youâre going to do it, you have to do it all the way. These half measures like the stuff about ADUs seem absurd. So is any candidate actually saying they going to raze Malba and Todt Hill and put up skyscrapers?
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Can somebody post the more relevant parts of the article (like what neighborhoods he considered low density, if the article mentions it) since itâs behind a paywall?
I donât think his plan mentions specific neighborhoods, but speaking of ambitious developments in low-density neighborhoods-
The project calls for the construction of a roughly 280,000-square-foot residential building with 310 units spread over 12 stories, according to the filing.
This project is located on the edge of the city, but right next to the Queens Village LIRR stop. This is exactly the kind of project that these âlow-density neighborhoodsâ need.
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