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Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop
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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. 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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    9. 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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    10. 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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      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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        2. 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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        3. 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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        4. 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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        5. 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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        6. 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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        7. 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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        8. 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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        9. 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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        10. 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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