Ballongate.... LMAO

if you're trying to penny-pinch on balloons at a dollar store, valentine's day is not the day to do it

It's only a security risk because JSQ is the headquarters of PATH

Def need more pressure on Path regarding service cuts... but I do want to point out that this past Saturday, the Journal Square to 33rd Street was running with 20 minutes headway until around 3:40 am while the Newark to WTC was running with 40 minute headways.... seemed weird to me to have one line running more frequently while the other was a longer wait.

Anyone know why, tried looking it up and got nothing

Balllongate

Wait until you hear about the $30 balloons at Party City

That’s because they’re LUXURY BALLOONS

Are you comparing price gouging of necessities due to a pandemic/ medical emergency/ natural disaster to that of balloons in a made up “holiday”.

Why didn't you just buy them last week?

It's a dollar store, not an upscale late-V-day supplier

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Hoboken and JC are close to Manhattan(PATH, bus, ferry) and as convenient as other NYC parts. Parking is difficult and traffic unpredictable often terrible.

Remote conferencing existed before Covid but now its just normal. Companies save money by having smaller flexible office spaces. Remote and flexible office hours means less demand for office space.

JC is not as expensive as smaller Hoboken but JC needs better amenities and safety.

JSQ area now visible from far and more buildings going up. With influx of people, JC can change rapidly or face an exodous after a year or two. Nowhere to walk unless JC develops some great urban spaces like Paris has.

No idea, just what I’ve noticed riding on weekends recently

I made that point to the judge as well and she said we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. In the hour I was at the impound there were around 17 people there who were all parked along the route of the marathon because the signs were not hung.

Ditto!

I'm interested in reading more about that, but couldn't find anything about the pilot failing. Can you point me in the right direction?

Many of those workers moved to this side of the river. Impact is mostly felt in office heavy locations.

You know that tunnel was closed on weekends for like 2 years in 2017 right? Whats the excuse this time?

> Anyhow, the MTA figured out there's less trash in the stations if you don't have trash cans, because (most) people will just hold on to their trash rather than throw it near/on an overfull trash can. Also, then the MTA doesn't have to empty any trash cans. A real win/win if you're the MTA and a real lose if you're a customer who wants basic services. See also: bathrooms. > >

This is false. They ran a pilot on this assumption (based on Japan) and found people were happy to throw their garbage on the tracks. Many trash cans were restored.

I have provided plenty of comment in the quarterly service they send out.

Them ignoring all that in favor of this garbage is why they need to be abolished

In my experience, the Parking Authority will do you the courtesy of printing a letter stating your permits on record if you need to go to court to fight a ticket. But, asking the Parking Authority to print out a letter stating "yeah, we fucked up, and you were incorrectly towed because of our mistake" is probably as likely as watching pigs fly.

Not sure if 100% serious, but this is definitely a fact. The NYT featured them prominently in an article discussing the impact of the remote, wfh setup and its effect in San Francisco, and Sweetgreen and other similar places basically have left the downtown areas and opened up outposts in suburbia or more outlying areas as crowds simply disappeared. My partner works in midtown Manhattan, and was back just a few months after the initial lockdown, and by her accounts, a ton of lunch places have closed down, which leads to more and more employees choosing to brown bag it, which compounds the problem for all these places catering to lunchtime crowds. For her, if she doesnt feel like bringing food from home, her options are quite limited and she will often just power through and not even bother trying to choose from slim pickings with much higher menu prices, which is yet another thing pushing people away from the what limited options remain.

People who doubt the narrative of a doom loop fail to see the real BIG picture. It's not just about workers, plunging commercial real estate value, and crime. So many aspects of city downtowns are being affected. Of course NYC will never cease to be, but people seem to conveniently forget that the city had some SERIOUS fiscal issues in the 70s and it took a lot of effort and work to get above from that.

Sweetgreen hardest hit

I watched 45 seconds and vomited 6 times.

Impact on JC rental market when?

Thanks for the suggestion. I will do that along with the email I sent.