I used to work a night job in Williamsburg. I had to commute from bay ridge. It’d take me over 2 hours every single night to go one way. One night I missed a g train, the next one was 50 minutes away. It’s ridiculous. And that was after I waited 36 minutes for the r.

That’s an hour and 26 minutes, out of a total commute time of two hours and 20 minutes. Driving it takes under 20 minutes at that hour. It’s insane. Admittedly, taking the l from union square was slightly less horrific, but the long slog on the r (cause the b always runs local at night anyway) to union square almost made it even.

And the worst part was I wasn’t even going that late, I had to pick up a truck between midnight and 3 am. The wide discrepancy, ofc, was because I lost access to a motor vehicle a week into the gig.

The saving grace was that the ridiculously long commute there meant that by the time I clocked out and dropped the truck off, I’d be coming home at the opening of the morning rush & it’d take me 45 minutes to an hour.

Every other night job I’ve worked was in such a location that it just didn’t even make sense to take the train at that hour, I’d just walk miles or drive if I could. I used to love working an ambulance at night, totally different vibe than during the day..

The issue is all the unknown unknowns under ground. Nyc is a maze of underground infrastructure, much of it ancient, orphaned tunnels and wire and pipe, and whose builders aren’t even around anymore. There isn’t even a unified map, they’re just starting to collate and digitize what fragments they have, but, this being ny, it’s a slow, tedious process full of red tape, inter factional dick measuring, government incompetence and refusal to talk to anyone in another office of the same department, let alone outside agencies or industry.

I’ve been saying for years that we need a single, central, searchable database for everything under our feet here. Something we can collate into a 3d cad map.

There’s a huge stretch of empty “sound proofing” mounds in that stupid privatized park along furman, the city allowed to go to a private developer with a public easement. It’s crying out for eminent domain.

Unless we can do a pontoon bridge bypass.

This man has no shame.

“Aaaaannnddd it’s gone!”

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I have an established protocol for these types of situations. Rookies go upstairs to quarantine.

I’m on my 5th &6th. First was twenty odd years ago. These ones are littermates, little michio pa here just got down from ontop of my head…

She’s obsessed with my hoodies cause they have drawstrings and they’re thick enough that she can use her claws to balance without killing me… And once she started going up on the tops of doors and whatnot, the only way I’d get her down is if I just stood there with my hood up and my arms bent for her to hop down onto.

My third just wandered in off the street when I was out on the stoop, kept coming back even in the winter. Fourth was a friends’, had her retirement here.

I’m 8 blocks from the ops cat’s last known location so it’s possible there’s two separate tuxedo cats?

I have two of my own so I have treats, if I see her I’ll attempt to approach and call?

I’m not 100% this is the same cat tbh, I’m looking at a flyer rn” b&w DSH female ear tipped classic tuxedo car with white front toes on paws, a white triangle on neck and upper belly, more white high hind legs…3 white dots/marks, nose forehead and upper lip… Smaller face larger body, skittish…”

Last seen in dyker

I saw the flyer. I live on that block. I’ll keep my eyes open. I hope we find her.

There’s a big tuxedo Tomcat that comes through my backyard that roams all the way down to the highway, but I did notice a smaller tuxedo on tenth a few times.

No, all the poor black & brown neighborhoods to the south & east whose inhabitants have to pass through GAP on their way to work have poor public transportation options.

North Brooklyn is built around parkways. It doesn’t have highways. In order to get around, you have to use parkways or designated truck route avenues. EP is full of people from bedstuy, crown heights, Brownsville, east Flatbush, Canarsie. Poor & working class NY’ers are most likely to work jobs that can’t be done from home & aren’t in Manhattan, meaning they need to drive to work. They’re also least likely to be able to afford to live near decent transit, again, meaning they have to drive to work.

Have you ever gotten up & walked to the train in Flatbush at 7am? It’s all teachers, nurses, home health aides, cops, emts, construction workers. During COVID it was still busy, cause they can’t afford to not work and the entire city depends on their labor to functionZ