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@stephenjacobsmith.com how much unsubsidized new construction is there in the bronx? if the bronx were upzoned would a lot of new building happen?
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
@stephenjacobsmith.com how much unsubsidized new construction is there in the bronx? if the bronx were upzoned would a lot of new building happen?
anyone have london numbers for comparison ?
amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
anyone have london numbers for comparison ?
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I have a Grand Unified Theory of Recent Polling Errors
-there is a crucial population of people who occasionally vote, usually only in presidential elections, but don't pay attention to politics and never answer their phones
-they are the dark matter of polling, visible only by their absence
-there is a crucial population of people who occasionally vote, usually only in presidential elections, but don't pay attention to politics and never answer their phones
-they are the dark matter of polling, visible only by their absence
Good summary of why pollsters whiffed in VA and NJ. TLDR: electorate looked like 2017 when pollsters assumed it would look like 2024, plus Latino turnout exploded.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Pollsters Didn’t See the Blue Wave Coming in New Jersey and Virginia
Pollsters say they miscalculated who would show up to vote and a leftward shift by Latino voters.
www.wsj.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I have a Grand Unified Theory of Recent Polling Errors
-there is a crucial population of people who occasionally vote, usually only in presidential elections, but don't pay attention to politics and never answer their phones
-they are the dark matter of polling, visible only by their absence
-there is a crucial population of people who occasionally vote, usually only in presidential elections, but don't pay attention to politics and never answer their phones
-they are the dark matter of polling, visible only by their absence
the lirr is closing huntington
-mineola this weekend mangling both the ronkonkoma and port jefferson branches. how many riders will ride the substitute buses vs drive / get driven to other stations vs drive to the city vs stay home? any way to get numbers afterwards @thelirrtoday.com
-mineola this weekend mangling both the ronkonkoma and port jefferson branches. how many riders will ride the substitute buses vs drive / get driven to other stations vs drive to the city vs stay home? any way to get numbers afterwards @thelirrtoday.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
the lirr is closing huntington
-mineola this weekend mangling both the ronkonkoma and port jefferson branches. how many riders will ride the substitute buses vs drive / get driven to other stations vs drive to the city vs stay home? any way to get numbers afterwards @thelirrtoday.com
-mineola this weekend mangling both the ronkonkoma and port jefferson branches. how many riders will ride the substitute buses vs drive / get driven to other stations vs drive to the city vs stay home? any way to get numbers afterwards @thelirrtoday.com
guesses on Mamdani’s best neighborhoods? Cuomo’s ? Sliwa’s? harder in a 3 way race. Sliwa probably southern staten island. Mamdani greenpoint / north williamsburg? Cuomo Riverdale or Forest Hills?
October 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
guesses on Mamdani’s best neighborhoods? Cuomo’s ? Sliwa’s? harder in a 3 way race. Sliwa probably southern staten island. Mamdani greenpoint / north williamsburg? Cuomo Riverdale or Forest Hills?
eglington lrt sighting
October 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
eglington lrt sighting
getting on a westbound / manhattan bound E train at jamaica and a guy asked me if it went to far rockaway. i said no, couldn’t think of how to get there from jamaica. figured out later J-> A was what he wanted. he got off and hopefully someone gave him better help
October 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
getting on a westbound / manhattan bound E train at jamaica and a guy asked me if it went to far rockaway. i said no, couldn’t think of how to get there from jamaica. figured out later J-> A was what he wanted. he got off and hopefully someone gave him better help
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The fact that the US has a bimodal density distribution where one of the modes is just New York urban center is crazy
September 2, 2024 at 1:08 AM
The fact that the US has a bimodal density distribution where one of the modes is just New York urban center is crazy
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it fundamentally fucks our sense of things that the robot is good at language and bad at math and fact
One of the disclaimers on Copilot is like "don't ask it to do math".
Imagine inventing a conglomeration of 0s and 1s that cannot do 0s and 1s
Imagine inventing a conglomeration of 0s and 1s that cannot do 0s and 1s
October 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
it fundamentally fucks our sense of things that the robot is good at language and bad at math and fact
@alonlevy.bsky.social made a post on deinterlining nyc subways that i remember quite well. The MTA has partly done #5: keeping the E/F together until manhattan rather than doing a M/F switch in LIC. rest of #5 is much more involved pedestrianobservations.com/2018/06/12/h...
How Deinterlining Can Improve New York City Transit
New York is unique among the major subways of the world in the extent of interlining its network has. All routes share tracks with other routes for part of the way, except the 1, 6, 7, and L. The a…
pedestrianobservations.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
@alonlevy.bsky.social made a post on deinterlining nyc subways that i remember quite well. The MTA has partly done #5: keeping the E/F together until manhattan rather than doing a M/F switch in LIC. rest of #5 is much more involved pedestrianobservations.com/2018/06/12/h...
the old 10 lirr trip tickets don’t expire with the fare change. so best would be to buy several 10 trips end of december @thelirrtoday.com @2avesag.as ( say, if i do 3x round trips / month, buy 3 10 trips)
September 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
the old 10 lirr trip tickets don’t expire with the fare change. so best would be to buy several 10 trips end of december @thelirrtoday.com @2avesag.as ( say, if i do 3x round trips / month, buy 3 10 trips)
the eglinton light rail, maryland purple line and ibx ( nyc) are roughly the same length. ibx is the only completely grade separated of the three
September 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
the eglinton light rail, maryland purple line and ibx ( nyc) are roughly the same length. ibx is the only completely grade separated of the three
guy on the lirr train on a phone conversation talking about the new jfk terminal 6 and the demolition of terminal 7. demolition date to be determined @wandrme.paxex.aero @ryanhassett.bsky.social @airlineflyer.net
September 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
guy on the lirr train on a phone conversation talking about the new jfk terminal 6 and the demolition of terminal 7. demolition date to be determined @wandrme.paxex.aero @ryanhassett.bsky.social @airlineflyer.net
over on the other site, a european called a A320 a tiny plane. the smaller A220 is one of the bigger planes used for short haul routes like nyc to toronto. does europe use bigger planes than north america?
September 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
over on the other site, a european called a A320 a tiny plane. the smaller A220 is one of the bigger planes used for short haul routes like nyc to toronto. does europe use bigger planes than north america?
9/11 memorial lights from brooklyn tonight; can’t decide which photo i like best. they’re coming from the old wtc site but don’t see a hint of a skyscraper, too far away?
September 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
9/11 memorial lights from brooklyn tonight; can’t decide which photo i like best. they’re coming from the old wtc site but don’t see a hint of a skyscraper, too far away?
lol even signs by the east NY LIRR ( nearly all black area) has “messiah is here” stickers
September 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
lol even signs by the east NY LIRR ( nearly all black area) has “messiah is here” stickers
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Love to fix a bug that I introduced.
Love even more that I only had to use "print DEBUG" about 10 times to do it.
Love even more that I only had to use "print DEBUG" about 10 times to do it.
September 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Love to fix a bug that I introduced.
Love even more that I only had to use "print DEBUG" about 10 times to do it.
Love even more that I only had to use "print DEBUG" about 10 times to do it.
strangely, it’s cheaper to fly Chicago-Honolulu via Calgary then any of the domestic options an airline could sell a ticket for the entire route ( an airline cannot sell a domestic route with a non us stopover, it would have to be separate tickets )
September 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
strangely, it’s cheaper to fly Chicago-Honolulu via Calgary then any of the domestic options an airline could sell a ticket for the entire route ( an airline cannot sell a domestic route with a non us stopover, it would have to be separate tickets )
after spending time in toronto where nearly every apartment/ condo has a balcony why don’t american ones have them? just cost?
The little island should be covered with these from tip to tip. sfyimby.com/2025/08/ceqa...
September 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
after spending time in toronto where nearly every apartment/ condo has a balcony why don’t american ones have them? just cost?
pre clearance border control line is too long. open borders now!
August 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
pre clearance border control line is too long. open borders now!
eglinton lrt sighting
August 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
eglinton lrt sighting
got to the airport 8:15 for a 8:45 and many are boarding after me
August 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
got to the airport 8:15 for a 8:45 and many are boarding after me
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August 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
less halal food signs in london than nyc despite a far larger muslim population
August 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
less halal food signs in london than nyc despite a far larger muslim population
surprised how many freight trains are on the elizabeth line ( not the line itself but parallel tracks) feels more than the well used nyc commuter rail lines
August 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
surprised how many freight trains are on the elizabeth line ( not the line itself but parallel tracks) feels more than the well used nyc commuter rail lines