Now imagine if he properly assessed the situation, used proper restraining technique, and had waited for adequate backup instead of getting embarrassed by a drunk kid.

Bless em all you want its no excuse for incompetence and poor training.

Gonna go ahead and blame cocaine on this one.

I remember some stat from a while ago that was something like over half of criminal justice degrees have jail time.

Its like they sit in prison and are like "ya know, I could do this"

Not quite. The Google maps measure distance shows that, if you include the sidewalks, from the edge of Trinity Church to the edge of the buildings across Broadway, it's about 87 ft.

Morris Street is just the beginning of Bowling Green just where it begins to widen. The widest point of Bowling Green (corner of State Street/Battery Pace across the pedestrian plaza to the eastern edge of Broadway) is at just shy of 300 ft.

Glad the subreddit finally has 700K subscribers as of today (13 March 2023)! 🎉

Onto 750000 subscribers, which shouldn’t be too far off.

If you pull up Wall Street and Broadway on Google Maps Streetview, it does not look this wide today.

NYC ZOLA website shows the width today as being 74.7' - 75.7' wide in that stretch, going only as wide as 81.8' at Morris Street, two blocks down.

Quite a broad one here

I’m visiting NYC in October for the third time and want some good stuff to do. Obviously food is a priority so give me the local gems for tacos, fried chicken etc. (flavourful food). I love vintage clothing stores and also good museums like the Natural History. Finally and gems for music lovers. I’m a sucker for the NYC 70s Punk Scene so if anyone’s got any locations for that it’s be great xx

Fun fact, Dutch surnames are written with spaces in between. His name in Dutch would be “van der Donck”.

“van der” (sometimes also “van de” or just “van”) means something like “of the”. It is always written in lowercase.

Source: am Dutch with a similar last name.

I think further down the street where the wagons are is Bowling Green, which widens and is more of a town square. So you might be right that there it’s closer to 200ft. and maybe more.

ok, ok, i took the wagon at the center and compared it to the with of the road on a pixel basis and it comes out to about 100ft which is about the width of broadway now. makes sense who ever did the illustration did reasearch ahead of time to make it right. I stand corrected.

No way. Looking at the woman in the bottom right, let’s assume she’s 5 ft. tall. You think you get 40 of her laid across the street? I think it’s closer to 20 than it is 40.

lmao, be careful the guy who was saying the Newark light rail is better than the subway might find you

For a minute there I thought my boy Mahomes was breaking bad.

I wish there was a RTS game that recreates NYC from its beginnings to now

Kinda racist on your end.

This is so cool. Thank you for sharing

It was shot with a drone

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You mean outdoor dining shed space

Thank you for this post! I teach and am starting a New Amsterdam unit today… this is super useful.

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Troll

yea

Nah not in Manhattan at least.

Imagine worrying about karma instead of trying to present an actual solid argument from your political views