Steven Lucy
@slucy.bsky.social
I run a produce store, a florist, a wine shop, and mostly post about bike lanes.
📍Hyde Park, Chicago
📍Hyde Park, Chicago
I believe this is the 4th incarnation of a Paris-Berlin night train in my adult life.
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I believe this is the 4th incarnation of a Paris-Berlin night train in my adult life.
I don't know if this take is going to get me cancelled from the left or the right but $80m is insane.
MTA has started to pay the price for procrastinating on the three-station pilot for platform screen doors, first announced in 2022. ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn...
MTA ordered to pay $81.7 million to woman struck by subway in Brooklyn
The jury determined that the MTA had failed to install safety barriers or other protective devices.
ny1.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I don't know if this take is going to get me cancelled from the left or the right but $80m is insane.
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What time do you get in?
Officially moving to Chicago tomorrow. I assume JB Pritzker will be waiting for me at the airport
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
What time do you get in?
So he's perjuring himself to be cute or he has a brain injury.
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
So he's perjuring himself to be cute or he has a brain injury.
Hey CDOT can we get some concrete protection on this curve of 55th near Kenwood?
Studies show: up to 80% drivers believe that are above average drivers. Our database shows that is not the case.
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hey CDOT can we get some concrete protection on this curve of 55th near Kenwood?
Horrible.
South Chicago family taken by ICE and their daughter liquidating their store. See details posted by @pilsenfreestore on IG.
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Horrible.
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Number of days where the temperature reached -5 F / -20 C since the end of World War II:
New York City: 0
Chicago: 184
New York City: 0
Chicago: 184
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Number of days where the temperature reached -5 F / -20 C since the end of World War II:
New York City: 0
Chicago: 184
New York City: 0
Chicago: 184
My version of this checklist is as follows:
35 F - 50 F: gloves and jacket
15 F - 35 F: gloves and hat and scarf and coat
-5 F - 15 F: swap coat for big parka, add ski pants and pogies
< -5 F: don't bike
35 F - 50 F: gloves and jacket
15 F - 35 F: gloves and hat and scarf and coat
-5 F - 15 F: swap coat for big parka, add ski pants and pogies
< -5 F: don't bike
Hey winter cyclists: the smartest thing I've done after threatening to do it for too many years was actually write down what to wear based on temperature. This helped immensely last year, and winter is coming 🥶
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
My version of this checklist is as follows:
35 F - 50 F: gloves and jacket
15 F - 35 F: gloves and hat and scarf and coat
-5 F - 15 F: swap coat for big parka, add ski pants and pogies
< -5 F: don't bike
35 F - 50 F: gloves and jacket
15 F - 35 F: gloves and hat and scarf and coat
-5 F - 15 F: swap coat for big parka, add ski pants and pogies
< -5 F: don't bike
Today a Gen Z coworker told me I had "mastered the Millennial Fall look".
"It's really giving 2012."
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"It's really giving 2012."
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November 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Today a Gen Z coworker told me I had "mastered the Millennial Fall look".
"It's really giving 2012."
⚰️
"It's really giving 2012."
⚰️
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Premeditated road violence.
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Premeditated road violence.
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"We are all fools to have left Chicago. It was a town to play in; a town where you could stay yourself, and where the hoots of the critics couldn't frighten your style or drain your soul." — Ben Hecht, writing about his friendship and writing collaborations with Charles MacArthur
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"We are all fools to have left Chicago. It was a town to play in; a town where you could stay yourself, and where the hoots of the critics couldn't frighten your style or drain your soul." — Ben Hecht, writing about his friendship and writing collaborations with Charles MacArthur
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At Superdawg watching some girls try to take a selfie with the roof statues but couldn’t get an angle without the sun behind them. I wanted to tell them “the hot dogs have faces on both sides” but that felt like a pretty insane thing to say to a stranger
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
At Superdawg watching some girls try to take a selfie with the roof statues but couldn’t get an angle without the sun behind them. I wanted to tell them “the hot dogs have faces on both sides” but that felt like a pretty insane thing to say to a stranger
I know this is real insider baseball but discharge petitions (when a majority of the House forces a vote on something the Speaker doesn't want a vote on) is a sign that the party (Republicans in this case) is flailing.
Five discharge petitions have succeeded since Johnson became speaker.
That’s more than the prior three decades, says Politico: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
That’s more than the prior three decades, says Politico: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I know this is real insider baseball but discharge petitions (when a majority of the House forces a vote on something the Speaker doesn't want a vote on) is a sign that the party (Republicans in this case) is flailing.
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Seems like reasonable demands.
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Seems like reasonable demands.
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Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
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Breathless coverage of one person injured, not killed, on a CTA train, vs. a brief on Page 9 when two people are killed on the road. That’s because road death happens ALL THE TIME - 3 1/2 road fatalities per day in Illinois.
It looks like the number of transit riders killed this year is one …
It looks like the number of transit riders killed this year is one …
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Breathless coverage of one person injured, not killed, on a CTA train, vs. a brief on Page 9 when two people are killed on the road. That’s because road death happens ALL THE TIME - 3 1/2 road fatalities per day in Illinois.
It looks like the number of transit riders killed this year is one …
It looks like the number of transit riders killed this year is one …
“Wear reflective bright clothing and stay up on the curb”
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
“Wear reflective bright clothing and stay up on the curb”
Is she banging the Conde Nast leadership, do we think?
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Is she banging the Conde Nast leadership, do we think?
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The biggest rail expansion project in the Chicago area for 30 years is in Indiana
Went to see some of the completed (but not open) Monon Corridor stations. Big video coming right after these finally open sometime in Q1 of 2026!
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The biggest rail expansion project in the Chicago area for 30 years is in Indiana
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Aluminum with an extraneous i? Read the Treaty of Paris.
All those unnecessary u’s in color and flavor etc? We won the war.
A spelling of fetus so heinous it implies the baby is a monster? Should’ve prevailed at the Siege of Yorktown if you want to behave like that.
All those unnecessary u’s in color and flavor etc? We won the war.
A spelling of fetus so heinous it implies the baby is a monster? Should’ve prevailed at the Siege of Yorktown if you want to behave like that.
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Aluminum with an extraneous i? Read the Treaty of Paris.
All those unnecessary u’s in color and flavor etc? We won the war.
A spelling of fetus so heinous it implies the baby is a monster? Should’ve prevailed at the Siege of Yorktown if you want to behave like that.
All those unnecessary u’s in color and flavor etc? We won the war.
A spelling of fetus so heinous it implies the baby is a monster? Should’ve prevailed at the Siege of Yorktown if you want to behave like that.
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Don't be weird about it!
Also, always have at least one fun NA beverage available if you're hosting.
Don't be weird about it!
Also, always have at least one fun NA beverage available if you're hosting.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This wine vendor (me) approves this message.
Don't be weird about it!
Also, always have at least one fun NA beverage available if you're hosting.
Don't be weird about it!
Also, always have at least one fun NA beverage available if you're hosting.
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Fun fact: November 28, 2001:
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Fun fact: November 28, 2001:
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."