When I was that age, my days mostly consisted of getting friends together, looking for places that are hard to get to, and going there. We pretty much took over all the abandoned train tracks in Queens.

I no longer feel comfortable commenting on any "first woman" posts. Enjoy!

Perhaps we rethink next time we tell everyone to stay home for 2 years

It’s like how some people will scream at corporations for being cheap and then cancel Netflix when it goes up a dollar

Can I implement an internet tax to pay me for overtime too?

Seriously. I started taking the subway from Queens to Manhattan for high school in '89 and those were some crazy days. Friends got stabbed one day, i got robbed what seems like every other day. People still laugh at my skittles story - 14 year old me just wanted to eat some skittles on my ride home and some kids even tried taking THOSE from me.

Pretty sure my crime was eating candy while white.

I remember while commuting to high school years ago on the M and L trains, I got surrounded and robbed by 3 guys on the M platform right in full view of everyone. The only thing anyone did was yell "assholes!" as they ran off. It was years ago and I still remember the person saying that because I couldn't believe that's all anyone did.

Probably hurricanes and expensive insurance

Everyone loves using the seatbelt analogy with covid, so how about here? Do you think it's acceptable to have seatbelts in cars that "work better than they used to" or seatbelts that actually work?

When it comes to, oh, I dunno, RAPE, there should be no "there's rape, but not as much rape as there used to be."

When murders can drop 26% and make news, that usually means there was a problem before.

It really is. My wife worked there and left practically traumatized. Fuck that place.

I honestly forgot it was called the Ed Koch. I still use 59th street.

What, you don't feel safe with an enclosed 2-lane area with curves and drivers doing 50?

>“It is actually not OK to erase black leaders who are not pleasing to white people,”

Yikes. That's very specific language right there, doing its best to dismiss any criticism anyone has. Basically "I know this is wrong, but I can say it in a way that makes it okay."

After what he did, no one has ever been named Tappan again

Reads like it’s written by a child. Not relevant.

That Key Food is horrendous

>The amount of people here that have come to believe that Covid was never a threat is comical

You seem to forget how many people were saying that we didn't need to overreact carelessly. There were an awful lot of places that didn't overspend like this.

To act like "no one knew!" is also revisionist history.

>Wrap-around porches shaded the ground floor.

I can't believe that never occurred to me. I moved into a new house last year that has a wraparound porch for half the house (right next to the living room) and I was struck by how comfortable it was in there during the summer. I was used to sweltering any time the temp hit 80F.

For some reason people tend to just get stuck on the "space heaters are expensive" thing even though most of us use them to temporarily supplement the heat and not use them to heat the whole house. I've never seen any significant increase in electric bill from occasionally using a space heater.

So happy that the house we bought last year has a pellet stove. When it's been at its coldest here in NY, we've been able to run that thing all day without stressing much.

Wait till this guy discovers how good OTA is

The real white privilege

Well hospitals are still overwhelmingly full of people who ignore this, so it doesn’t seem like it.

“Tech nerd.” Tech is running all aspects of your life. Us nerds probably deserve some of our perks.