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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 29 17:03:38 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Fri Dec 29 15:16:11 2023. The "#stopasianhate" disappeared once the left discovered that it was impossible to pin it on "MAGA" aka the majority of Americans. |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Dec 29 17:11:31 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Dec 29 15:38:54 2023. Your friends at Sailers will probably know. |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Dec 29 17:20:14 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Lou from Brooklyn on Fri Dec 29 15:07:51 2023. You know what's really weird? At almost every supermarket on Long Island, or at least in Nassau but probably Suffolk too, there is an extreme shortage of those small shopping baskets. Every one gets stolen. Stop 'n Shop and Stewpid Leonards say that as soon as they get a supply of them they're all stolen within a day or too. According to an employee at Stop 'n Shop they use them for clamming. I don't know if it's true or not but it makes sense if you see the crates the clammers have at the piers. It's really a pain to use a whole shopping cart (which also occasionally gets stolen by the homeless) for 2 or 3 items!! |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 17:54:50 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 16:42:37 2023. Your making the assumption that all low income people have a roach problem. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 17:56:32 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 15:48:18 2023. How is Amazon going to get around that congestion pricing toll?? |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 17:59:05 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 17:54:50 2023. Low income people are more likely to have a roach problem. |
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Posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 18:03:45 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 16:58:30 2023. Amazon Locker can be full, at least in my neighborhood. |
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Posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 18:04:42 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Dec 29 16:56:29 2023. I'm very glad to hear that. |
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Posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 18:07:30 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Dec 29 17:20:14 2023. Weird. My local market has lots of them and they never have a shortage. On the other hand, when I went to Wegman's soon after they opened they looked at me like I had two heads for even suggesting they might have such a thing. |
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Posted by WayneJay on Fri Dec 29 18:08:52 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Dec 29 15:32:51 2023. That sort of desk sharing was once called "hoteling," though I haven't heard that term in a while. Of course I can remember when WFH was "telecommuting."The "hoteling" term is still used. One of the systems that I administer offers a hoteling module. |
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Posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 18:09:16 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 17:54:50 2023. Huh? Where did I say all? I just said important.Obviously some low income people don't need toothpaste either. And obviously not all stolen products end up in the hands of low income people. |
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Posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 18:10:34 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 17:56:32 2023. $15 divided by a hundred or more delivered packages per vehicle only adds a small amount to their prices. |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Dec 29 18:13:00 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 18:07:30 2023. I could be wrong but I doubt there's many clammers in Manhattan. Usually when I need a basket instead of a cart I have to look under every checkout line and occasionally I find one. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 18:19:31 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 18:10:34 2023. $15 times X amount of delivery vans out there will add up real quick. They already get hit with parking tickets. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 18:23:30 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 18:09:16 2023. Its the implication I caught. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 18:27:49 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 17:56:32 2023. They’re not. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 18:29:04 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 18:03:45 2023. Interesting. Good point. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 18:31:18 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Dec 29 18:13:00 2023. There’s a Manhattan Clam Chowder. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 18:32:04 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 18:09:16 2023. Obviously some low income people don't need toothpaste either.WTF? |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Dec 29 18:34:21 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 17:56:32 2023. Stolen plates maybe? |
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Posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 18:38:11 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 18:32:04 2023. If they don't have teeth. :)Just saying that I didn't make any absolute statements. |
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Posted by ntrainride on Fri Dec 29 18:42:45 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Dec 29 16:56:29 2023. really, most of the country doesn't understand new york city. completely different in many ways to any other place. to me, the amazing thing is, millions of people crowded on the sunway literally always...and almost 100 % of the time, everyone gets where they're headed to no problems. the vibrancy of our town (and yes, it's always gonna be my town even if i'm currently in florida.) felt like home soon as i got off the peter pan was up there 3 weeks ago. rode subways, buses, trains, was in times square, astoria, bay shore, mastic)also, practically every person who bitches about the "dangers" of riding mass transit, in ny and around the country don't actually seem to ride mass transit. |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Dec 29 19:05:31 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by ntrainride on Fri Dec 29 18:42:45 2023. I agree, the risks of riding the subway are very low, despite a (very) few highly publicized incident. |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Dec 29 19:12:11 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 18:10:34 2023. $15 divided by a hundred or more delivered packages per vehicle only adds a small amount to their prices.It's more likely anywhere from 200 to 300 packages per vehicle. The number of stops is almost always substantially lower, as many stops are multi-package. This is especially true in Manhattan, with apartment building deliveries. Divided among that many packages the $15 is basically irrelevant. |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Dec 29 19:24:52 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by ntrainride on Fri Dec 29 18:42:45 2023. When I was a rookie in 1982 before I got exiled to the 73 in Brownsville I was walking a footpost on 8th Avenue in NSU-3 when a tourist comes over to me and says he's a cop somewhere upstate on vacation in NYC and asks directions to Yankee Stadium. So I tell him to take the "A" or the "CC" to 59th Street and change for the "D" to the stadium. He gives a look and says "I can't take my wife on the subway, it's too dangerous". I tell him "no it's not, but if you want to sit in traffic, pay an absorbitant amount to park, then take an hour just to get out of the lot, go ahead and drive, and anyway you're a cop". He looked at me like I had 2 heads!! |
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Posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 19:32:47 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Dec 29 19:12:11 2023. Ah, OK. Many of the Amazon vehicles in my neighborhood are vans and not trucks, but I agree I'm not in a position to really judge how many packages they average. |
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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Fri Dec 29 19:32:59 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Dec 29 17:11:31 2023. LOL!! Nice!! |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 19:36:43 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Dec 29 19:24:52 2023. When I worked in the info booth in GCT (1994). I used to get tourists that wanted to go to Harlem and asked is it safe up there (to see the Apollo theater etc). My standard line would be many people have gone to Harlem and lived to tell about it. The odds are well in your favor. You are safer up there than in midtown.The other side of the token was when I was the MN Ticket agent in 125 (1997), I'd sell about a dozen monthly comm tickets from 125 to GCT. Those who bought them absolutely positively refused to go anywhere near the subway. |
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Posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 19:46:42 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 19:36:43 2023. Those who bought them absolutely positively refused to go anywhere near the subway.And yet they were obviously comfortable with the part of Harlem near 125th and Park. Either living or working there. Weird. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 19:53:25 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 19:46:42 2023. "And yet they were obviously comfortable with the part of Harlem near 125th and Park. Either living or working there."They didnt live or work near the 125 sta. They would get a yellow cab or car service (no Uber in those days) from either the upper west or east side to 125 for their trip downtown. |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Dec 29 20:23:06 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 19:32:47 2023. The larger step vans don't carry any more packages that the smaller RAM vans, as there's a limit on how many a driver can be expected to deliver, but they offer more room for organizing and sorting packages. Eventually the plan is to phase them all out in favor of the Rivian electrics. |
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Posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 20:29:11 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 19:53:25 2023. Ah, I see.But then why not a cab all the way to their destination? If you're taking a cab from (say) 96th and 5th to 125th/Park, might as well take it to GCT. |
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Posted by ntrainride on Fri Dec 29 20:29:40 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Dec 29 19:24:52 2023. yep!in a brownsville aside...once, on a long long linden blvd hike (from cross island parkway to flatbush avenue), and i was carrying a boom box. i don't know, some wild hare got into me...so, as i was walking past louis pink houses (this was in the early 80's), i started jamming some country music (which i actually don't like), loudly. some chick yelled out of a window "turn that shit off, man!". but ah didn't, just kept in a strollin'. |
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Posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 20:31:14 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Dec 29 20:23:06 2023. Ah, OK, if a driver can't deliver more than the contents of a densely packed RAM van on a shift, that explains that. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 29 20:46:12 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 20:29:11 2023. With traffic? Big roll of the dice there. With the train its a straight shot. |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Dec 29 21:09:10 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by ntrainride on Fri Dec 29 18:42:45 2023. All you have to do is to be completely aware of your surroundings at all times and you'll be egood.Don't wear expensive jewelery and don't flash money. Don't keep your wallet in your back pocket. That's all! |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Fri Dec 29 21:14:07 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by BILLBKLYN on Fri Dec 29 19:32:59 2023. IAWTP |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Dec 29 21:27:51 2023, in response to Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Mitch45 on Fri Dec 29 11:31:51 2023. I'm pessimistic about the 2024 Mets. It has not been a good off season for free agent signings. Lots of stars don't want to play here. The press (internet, papers and radio) is brutal. The players and fans freeze their asses off in April and May playing night baseball because the stadiums have no roofs.The migrant crisis is destroying this city. Why can't Adams write a letter to the same places as deBlasio did now affirm8ng that NYC is no longer a sanctuary city? Obviously he won't. The budget cuts will affect city services. Fewer cops will be hired while others will retire or move away and work for other departments. Unsolved quality of life issues will skyrocket. People will continue to park their cars at fire hydrants overnight with no consequences. More speed cameras will be put up on main roads while residential streets will still have speeders with no consequences. I can go on. I am completely disgusted with NYC. I can see it going way downhill due to the budget implications from this migrant situation. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 21:49:26 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Dec 29 21:27:51 2023. The migrant crisis is destroying this city. Why can't Adams write a letter to the same places as deBlasio did now affirm8ng that NYC is no longer a sanctuary city? Obviously he won't.What would that achieve? They’d still come here and the right to shelter would still be a thing. Maybe if our city council weren’t so unbearably woke. Hell, even the state legislature. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 21:52:00 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 21:49:26 2023. And to add, what they do with side streets instead of the speed cameras, they put in pavement tumors, I mean speed bumps. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Dec 29 23:27:31 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 16:42:37 2023. What a pretentious post, Al. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Dec 29 23:33:48 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by AlM on Fri Dec 29 18:07:30 2023. Too bad you can’t walk into Wegman’s from the subway stop. |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Dec 29 23:35:03 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 21:52:00 2023. I don't like speed bumps.When a vehicle goes over one too fast, the car will make a lot of noise disturbing the neighbors.....that's if the car doesn't go out of control colliding with parked cars on the block. The only reason for no speed cameras on narrow residential streets is because the city feels they won't get enough hits. Speeding motorists need to be fined for excessive speed on residential streets because of public safety. Children and seniors live there 24/7. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 23:55:08 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Dec 29 23:35:03 2023. Exactly on all counts. They don’t install those things where they want people to go slow, they install them where they know they will go fast. This explains the speed camera on North Conduit Avenue between 130th and Lefferts.When I’m done getting past that one, I slam on the gas.* *Yes, I still call it the gas. |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Sat Dec 30 00:17:44 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Dec 29 23:55:08 2023. Why do people in SUVs slow down at speed bumps. Isn't that the whole idea of SUVs? |
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Posted by 3-9 on Sat Dec 30 01:48:21 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Lou from Brooklyn on Fri Dec 29 15:07:51 2023. I'd have to check my local Target again, but the only I remember under glass is the stuff in the pharmacy dept., same as with the drugstores I've visited. |
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Posted by 3-9 on Sat Dec 30 02:05:33 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Dec 29 15:32:51 2023. I think telecommuting started falling out of favor when WFH became a more appropriate term, esp. since that was the message sent to everybody by the person(s) actually doing it. |
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Posted by 3-9 on Sat Dec 30 02:14:14 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Dec 29 21:27:51 2023. It has not been a good off season for free agent signings. Lots of stars don't want to play here. The press (internet, papers and radio) is brutal. The players and fans freeze their asses off in April and May playing night baseball because the stadiums have no roofs.If the weather is the problem, then those players are sissies. Maybe it has more to with the fact that the NY teams (esp. the Mets) just suck. The migrant crisis is destroying this city. Really? The city seems the same as always, just a few more immigrants, and another budget crisis. There even changing Jackson Heights (again!). |
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Posted by 3-9 on Sat Dec 30 02:22:16 2023, in response to Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by Mitch45 on Fri Dec 29 11:31:51 2023. crime goes unpunishedWhich crimes? Do you mean robberies, assaults, and homicides? the streets and subways are becoming filthy once again Streets don't seem any different, same old trash and (literal) crap. Maybe the subways are looking filthy because they stop washing the cars during the winter? and fear has returned to the streets of the city. Somebody keeps forgetting to tell all the people going out partying in the evenings. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Dec 30 02:45:41 2023, in response to Re: Very Pessimistic About 2024, posted by 3-9 on Sat Dec 30 02:14:14 2023. I don’t know if the stars don’t want to play here because of the internet papers and radio anymore. It’s probably equally bad in any city because of social media type coverage. The Mets are like a jinx slightly less than the Jets are. |
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