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Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop
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    Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

    this is a thread about New York City

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      2. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        NYC as Moloch https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/howl-parts-i-ii … "What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?"

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      3. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        NYC as Manifestation of Avolokiteshvarahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wStmXZTTfBw&t=2712s&index=3&list=PLdGRI8vFare_mXVUtKGbP_Piw2kmLhFrH …

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      4. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        NYC as the home of the New Colossus https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossus … "Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

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      5. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        What New York Used To Behttps://open.spotify.com/track/11m1MrusRBoVGH2U43KLx4 …

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      6. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        New York has never been the city of the future. It was only ever the city of YOUR future. It was a place where you could become a rat in the maze like everyone else, which is remarkably better than being grist for the mill in the old world.

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      7. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        New York was never a well planned city but it does have some highlights, and some lowlights. Robert Moses butchered the place though and it's been hard to recover from that.

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      8. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        Moses wasn't solely responsible of course. The city planners have always been a bit corrupt and more than a bit shortsighted. They demolished this architectural treasure (old Penn Station) and replaced it with a basketball arena and an underground warren.pic.twitter.com/umBs6e0SbK

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      9. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        There have been some interesting radical proposals to transform NYC into a more humane place. I'm fond of this one myself. http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/goodman-cars.htm …

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      10. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        I type this as I'm watching the usual afternoon traffic jam on Centre Street. If you have somewhere to go downtown DO NOT drive on Centre Street if you know what's good for you.

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      11. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        NYC has both a high culture and a low culture. The low culture is almost uniformly better than the high culture. World class low culture. Truly second rate, poseur asshole high culture.

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      12. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are both from NYC. Trump is the kind of jerk who aspired to NYC high culture but was too much of a classless pig to get accepted by the snobs. Sanders seems to have remained true to his low culture roots.

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      13. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        Our pizza is really exceptional. There's a case to be made that some other east coast spots are equally good, but it's a close call. If you're from the west coast and don't know what you're missing, well, sorry, you just lost the pizza lottery.

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      14. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        This is one of the few cities in the world where the burning hot conflicts that divide groups of people are really only at a low simmer here. Orthodox Jews and devout Muslims living side by side with no conflict, for example.

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      15. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        the economic stratification of the city is grotesque though and it's a miracle that there haven't been class riots in the streets. That might be because there's about 50000(!!!) officers in the NYPD. It's basically a municipal army.

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      16. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        the taxes are sky high too, and very regressive. excise taxes and alcohol and cigarettes, as well as enforcement of parking tickets and other petty fines make up a lot of the city's revenue base. they largely give away huge tax breaks to landlords.

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      17. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        the transportation network the city relies upon to make it livable for working class people is controlled by a bureaucracy appointed by the elected representatives of the suburbs. this is due to financial mismanagement from decades ago.

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      18. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        the mayor and the governor are currently feuding. I'm told by older generations that this is typical and the current feud is comparable (if a little bit pissier) to past ones.

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      19. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        the quality of a neighborhood is almost directly connected to the number of trees in it. this is mapped out in a few places. here's one.https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/ 

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      20. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        here's a "green" map https://www.addressreport.com/blog/nyc-green-map/ …

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      21. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        that closely matches median income by neighborhood as well

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      22. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        working in NYC and living in NYC are very detached experiences. there are a huge number of long distance commuters that work here and the reach of the suburbs goes out at least 50 miles or so, due to big highways and commuter rail lines.

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      23. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        My poor father commutes about 100 minutes (each way) from his home upstate into Manhattan. On any given day there are about 1.5 million commuters that come into the city for their $dayjobs. That temporarily doubles the population of Manhattan between 8am and 6pm.

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      24. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        The city spirit is well aware of what kind of town it is. Their are statues of Mercury all over the place. Here's one at Grand Central Terminal.pic.twitter.com/pke3BcP7CD

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      25. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        In fact the city is, in general, very neo-classical and very pagan. Not that anyone is explicitly doing devotional worship, just that you are far more likely to find Greek, Roman, Egyptian, or even Persian and Babylonian symbols around then you are to find Christian symbols.

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      26. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        There are plenty of churches of course. I wonder sometimes what the attendance is like inside. This isn't like a Southern city with evangelical mega-churches. Truly, I don't know.

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      27. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto 21 Dec 2017

        alright, that was a fun excursion. hope you enjoyed my ramblings :)

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