Have a read about why NYC has failed to rise to the challenges of growth. It’s because we are stuck in a mindset - and with regulations based on this mindset - of the mid-20th century, when the city wasn’t growing. Shut up already about Robert Moses vs. Jane Jacobs: citylimits.org/2024/09/25/o...
Cool project keeping my neighborhood safer from flooding. Thanks to Green-Wood Cemetery, DEP, and everyone who figured out how to make this happen. More, please!
HE’S SAYING THIS FROM LITERALLY THE SAFEST COUNTY IN AMERICA
If someone says to you that this is a historic building that should be preserved, I’ve got news for you - it’s not historic preservation they’re advocating for
Just a couple of short steps from Minecraft to this.
Nice short video on how Wienerberger’s bricks (also known as Poroton, Porotherm, and monomur bricks, depending by on the language) work, which have become one of the most popular building systems in Europe and I think maybe India now too. Never seen them in the US.
YouTube video by Eurl Ecohabitat
Most think of proposed mass deportation as the removal of foreigners. No: The plan explicitly includes the mass deportation of *US citizens*. It is not about who should get US citizenship. It is about some US citizens illegitimizing other US citizens.
Crazy to saddle an affordable housing project in Park Slope with the cost of erecting a sidewalk shed so far from the actual building, on top of the actual work that needs to be done. Just pure waste, budgeted for affordable housing.
1) hooray for great bus drivers 2) the note “there were no signs of criminality” is a sad commentary on how childhood and parenthood “adventures” are criminalized for POC 3) if Target PR knows what it’s doing, they’ll treat these kids to a shopping adventure www.thecity.nyc/2023/11/22/m...
This is beautiful.
"Sometimes I wonder whether my interrupter saw my suffering rise from my body like steam. But even if the interruption was a coincidence, she saved me that night and gave me a tool that continues to save me to this day," Billy Lezra writes.
Today, I am alive because a pink-haired stranger stopped me for a picture.
I hope people read all of this. Not scan it for the bits they want to cheerlead or attack, but read and digest it all. I hope a lot of things. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...