Justin Clark was an endearingly strange and uncommonly brilliant human being who immersed himself in the study of psychedelic drugs. How did he develop an addiction to obscure dissociatives?
My story for New York Magazine:
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If you've seen the 1997 classic FACE/OFF you know that there's only one solution to James Dolan's facial recognition ban dilemma: get plastic surgery to look like James Dolan.
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it's sad that people like just don't seem to understand savvy business practices like "daring the state to take your liquor license on live TV" and "comparing MSG to a bakery"
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You really must watch this interview
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This is happening tonight. Do not let this miserable rain/snow deter you. Come have a conversation about design and public space and NYC with all these smart people! (and me)
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For this week's $20 Dinner, has a very good time at Hainan Chicken House in Sunset Park.
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A survey of NY law enforcement officers from 2020 showed that 80% believed "briefly touching fentanyl could be deadly."
Instead of amplifying these claims, "the administration should be providing training interventions to correct these false beliefs."
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So what's happening here? There's a political reason for NYC Jails and the union to promote this myth.
But what about the CO?
One of the doctors compared it to a powerful placebo effect.
"This is a normal human response to a stressful situation."
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I spoke with two physician experts for this story, who said that a scenario where a CO would be poisoned by fentanyl from touching it, *while wearing gloves* was not possible.
"This is a myth. This is a misconception"
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ICYMI: the head of NYC jails is promoting a debunked myth about fentanyl exposure as a cudgel to ban incarcerated New Yorkers from receiving any physical mail, and and are silent
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"I would venture to say that if you if you took that fentanyl and rubbed it on a part of your body, you would not be able to get enough into your body to get you sick."
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NYC jails have retreated on trans housing, with awful, predictable consequences. This investigation documents a profound culture shift between the de Blasio and Adams administrations.
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Devastating end to 's dispatch from 9th Street in Gowanus, where New Yorkers keep getting killed by drivers.
#bikenyc
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Was it a mistake to spend most of Hell Gate's subscription revenue on a 53-foot shipping container of Hostess Snoballs?
In two days, we'll find out
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“…simply just a place to be, somewhere that's air conditioned in the summer, heated in the winter, with free restrooms and water fountains. How many spaces like that are left anywhere?"
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Look at all these people supporting worker-owned NYC journalism! (who also want hats!) 🥲
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I KNEW the corn dog nuggets should have been more than $7
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This week's $20 Dinner also features a downright sensual photo of a cheeseburger taken by
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"I'm glad they're sticking it to CityMD, and I'm glad I didn't pay the bill. It's one of those frustrating events where corporations just take control and it seems like there's nothing you can do as an individual."
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FWIW the state comptroller's office says they'd have to review any contract over $50K that Hochul makes with an outside attorney who fights for a floor vote. But they haven't received one yet.
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"This was her moment to solidify her standing and begin rebuilding relationships. Not to declare war."
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"DePAWTment"
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Let's all agree on this: Hector LaSalle has a tremendous Long Island accent.
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"We heard a really funny story in December about a very high-level editor, trying to email somebody, an agent, and do something that normally their assistant would do that involved a PDF attachment, and it took like 3 or 4 tries to simply email a PDF."
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"How could this man of God who taught us about nonviolence and social justice and change, and not judging people by the color of their skin, or one or two cases out of 5,000 cases decided."
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Read on the tenants living in buildings owned by a landlord that the called the most "egregiously negligent" in NYC
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"Rat infestations are also common throughout the buildings, according to tenants and HPD records—and, at 104 West 83rd Street, a nest of bees inside one tenant’s wall."
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"Meanwhile, she found mushrooms growing on her bathroom floor, watered by a leak upstairs. When the heat and hot water went out recently, she added, the new maintenance man didn’t know the code for the padlock to the boiler room."
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"If being a landlord is a job, operating an Airbnb represents a significant promotion, one that hosts are reluctant to give up."
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> sat through 7 hours of a pubic meeting about Airbnb regulations and all she got was a bunch of unfiltered opinions from NYC landlords
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We need to talk about the lack of snow.
And we need to talk about it now.
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Though avoided rating the nearly 500 slices of NYC pizza he ate to "avoid controversy and bribes,” he's finished his 8-year project with some thoughts.
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Last night someone pulled the YouTube video of the Kia ad where the guy drives his SUV all over the sea turtle nesting beds.
But I replaced it with a working embed.
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> recently said that "Being placed in Rikers means that you are a bad person."
But Erick Tavira wound up there after his arrest at a hospital, seeking help for his mental illness.
Tavira would later die on Rikers.
has his story:
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"It was extremely bold that she said 'housing is a human right' without a single policy mentioned that would really prioritize tenants right now."
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NYC nurses at two hospitals are still on strike.
took some portraits on the picket lines.
"We all became nurses because we are compassionate about our patients, and right now we cannot give compassionate care."
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Assuming Cohen can build a private casino on public parkland (stranger things have happened!) participants at Saturday's visioning session had concerns.
Namely: where are all these people going to park?
hellgatenyc.com/let-the-great-
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"This leaves the Mets honcho with 2 options: Throw enough lawyers at the inevitable lawsuits to convince state judges that a casino is more recreational than a mall, or throw enough high-priced lobbyists at Albany"
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>: "There is a co-conspirator of the far-far left and the far-far right. The far-far left supports, 'no one should be arrested for carrying a gun.' The far-far right supports, 'everyone should be given a gun.'"
what?
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