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★ Angelo Young ★@angeloy.bsky.social |
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“You can learn a lot by having a bicycle.” - Richard Feynman
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That time in 2012 when the NY News Guild union staged an incredibly brave 15-minute strike in response to those layoffs. 😆 www.theatlantic.com/business/arc...
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How may laid-off NYT copyeditors equals the salaries of David Brooks and Thomas Friedman? www.cjr.org/business_of_...
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The investor class. The top caste of US society. The people who read the Wall Street Journal.
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A clear and breezy Sunday in New York City.
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You're probably right. BTW I took this photo of a Jeep with a covered Louisiana plate in my Queens neighborhood just last week. I wonder if NOLA has a ghost plate problem, too, or if this driver applied the plate cover after he drove up to NYC. bsky.app/profile/ange...
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Here's what a commanding officer for the NYPD's Highway Patrol Unit 5 in Staten Island thinks about ghost plate scofflaws. Many are "law abiding people." You mean except the crime they're committing that cheated the city out of an estimated $100 million in lost revenue in 2023?
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A recent video purporting to show NYPD officers watching a driver reinstall his easy-remove plate after he struck a cyclist. The driver was ticketed only for failure to yield ($150) but not for the missing or obstructed license plate, a $300 fine.
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Maybe the NYPD will start to take this more seriously. City law enforcement doesn't seem to acknowledge that plate covers is a misdemeanor that makes city streets less safe.
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Reminds me of the cheap Chinese Flying Pigeons that are often ridden by Pakistani building superintendents in Saudi Arabia.
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A $600 "vintage" Dutch bicycle with original parts at my neighborhood bike shop.
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Yeah, and unfortunately the remedy isn't simply swapping the positions of the bike lane and parked cars. You also need a door buffer zone. To make this side street safer would require removing parking on one side, an unpopular move to car owners who have come to depend on free public car storage.
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One of my least favorite "bike lane" is the one where a human body protects a parked car instead of a parked car protecting a human body.
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Spotted today in Astoria, Queens: A Louisiana tag covered with a tinted plate lens -- a device openly sold to allow vehicle owners to commit misdemeanors. (Because freedumb!) 🇺🇸
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Bike lane into Greenpoint, Brooklyn, close to the Pulaski Bridge protected/segregated bike lane connected to Hunter's Point, Queens. What a convenient and free place to temporarily park your unoccupied vehicles!
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Update: That vehicle has racked up nearly $7,000 in fines since May 2023, mostly for parking violations, which don't count against your record. The NYPD barely enforces moving violations, which are the ones that can lead to license suspensions. howsmydrivingny.nyc/vgw4gvgo
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I witnessed these two fellows in Queens roll up to my neighborhood slice shop in a car that looks like it was just involved an altercation. It's like a moment in that Grand Theft Auto video game. 😄
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Beautiful Sunday for a pic of my favorite NYC bridge: the cantilevered Ed Koch Queensboro, completed in 1909. I like how it seems to plow through the high rises at the border with Midtown East and Lenox Hill all the way to Second Ave, above the FDR Drive and First Avenue.
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Foggy NYC skyline on a mild, soggy February day.
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Long Island City's first legal cannabis store opened recently.
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Lots of "left behind" white MAGA people are affluent enough to drive $60,000 pickup trucks with $3,000 custom vinyl wraps depicting Trump, flags, and bald eagles.
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The day after. Quickest NYC snowstorm in history.
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Astoria, Feb 6, 2024.
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I watched one of the partners, Peter Kotarowski, mentioned in this news article, talking to a woman who appeared to be north of 80 or 90. She appeared to be whispering her condolences. Peter replied by saying he remembers serving her when he was a child. qns.com/2024/01/ridg...
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Another casualty of NYC commercial real estate, possibly caused by an inter-partner dispute: historical small business Morscher’s Pork Store in a historically German-Polish part of Ridgewood, Queens. They're closing Feb. 2 after nearly 70 years. I visited to witness the mood.
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NYPD overtime pay is up nearly 4,000% since 2022 ($4m to $155m) and yet there's an imperceptible change in the endemic crime of car owners messing with their license plates. Most of the time I don't even bother to take photos like this one I bothered to capture today. Content!
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Modest overnight rainfall + high tide + strong winds from an incoming cold front = showing NYC flood vulnerability. Hurricane Ian (September 2022) sent three feet of water into those public housing buildings in "Westoria" Queens. Today, the water only slightly breached the bank.
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Astoria Queens. February 2022.
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The new 11th St protected bike lane in Long Island City, Queens, is a great improvement that fills a big gap. I love it! Unfortunately, those selfish pro-car folks in Greenpoint, north Brooklyn, blocked an effort to connect this to Williamsburg and downtown Brooklyn.
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