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Dashiell Bennett retweeted
What a downgrade for Beija-Flor, the excellent Brazilian restaurant in Dutch Kills. Their pretty outdoor dining structure is now gone, just so two people can park their cars in front. No more live music outside, I guess, either.
Conservative NIMBYs just hate this city.
Dashiell Bennett retweeted
.@TheNY_Groove just turned one and we celebrated with a @timdonnelly scoop: Live Nation quietly bought The Bell House and is pushing out every event that isn’t comedy or a live podcast episode nygroove.nyc/bell-house-sold…
Dashiell Bennett retweeted
New Yorkers are now far more likely to be killed in a car crash than a shooting.
City data shows 127 people were killed in traffic crashes during the first six months of the year, compared to 82 who were fatally shot.
w/ @s_nessen
gothamist.com/news/cars-prov…
Dashiell Bennett retweeted
Traffic in Midtown in June moved at a rate of 4.6 mph - these speeds are bad for our health, bad for the planet, bad for business and bad for New York. nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/07/…
Clever
Brad Pitt movie about Formula 1 will simply be called 'F1' apnews.com/article/formula-1…
Dashiell Bennett retweeted
July 4th is a busy travel weekend and with traffic moving at the slowest rates recorded in decades - if you are taking a trip - avoid leaving on Wednesday at 2 p.m., when traffic is expected to peak.
If England ever wants to win a soccer tournament again they need to go back to shirts with real collars
Just like with Christie and the Gateway cancellation, this will cost everyone (yes, "working class drivers" too) SO MUCH more in the long run then if they just let it happen
Dashiell Bennett retweeted
MTA saying that a Verrazzano Bridge "cable dehumidification project" which helps maintain the bridge cables will be postponed. Shoutout to all the Staten Island elected officials opposing congestion pricing!
Dashiell Bennett retweeted
At maybe the biggest MTA board meeting in recent memory, while officials are talking about how the congestion pricing pause will hurt the agency, the camera suddenly pans to boardmember and congestion pricing foe David Mack, who appears to be...sleeping?
Dashiell Bennett retweeted
Congrats to all the Panthers fans who paid for their season ticket packages for next season by selling their Game 7 tickets to Oilers fans.
10 years after Jackie Robinson had already retired and black ballplayers were still being threatened just for existing.
Also: still within the living memory of a lot of our parents and grandparents. Not so long ago.
Reggie Jackson played in Birmingham when he was in the minor leagues back in 1967.
In his return to Rickwood Field, he shared his experience with racism and discrimination.
"Coming back here is not easy."
🎥 @MLBONFOX
So convincing that I wrote a Very Serious "research" paper in high school that cited JFK almost exclusively!
(I did not go to a very good high school.)
Dashiell Bennett retweeted
Gridlock Gov. Hochul has joined the history books as the next governor to stop work on the Second Avenue subway nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/06/…
Doesn't seem possible, but the spike actually happened *after* 2020, when the sound of choppers was basically inescapable for a whole summer
NEW: under eric adams, the nypd helicopter budget tripled in one year. they spent $12.4M last year on a record number of flights. we analyzed 15k flights, here’s what we found🧵
free to read: bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…
two years later, another collab from me @FolaAk + @nahmias
ALT chart showing new york city police department aviation unit operational budgeted amount (patterned fill) versus total spending (red line).