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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City
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(I've done Paris, but that was as a kid... I should probably do that again, too).
Just failed by Metro-North's passenger info systems in the most anger-inducing way.
Catching the 6:30 at 125th, and a 6:29 is due in ahead of it on the same track.
A train arrives without having any destination signed, the signs still have the 6:29 ahead of the 6:30. But somehow they had switched.
Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City
Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City
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One of the last things I did in 2020 was a, get this, Valentine's Day tour of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant's digester eggs... at night!
That was fun!
Mmm this use of granite blocks is making me feel things.
Street stones are magic.
Thought-provoking from Jarrett Walker, as always, but I think this might be a bit over determined.
I look at the Canadian map for instance and don't see any clear split.
I think this might just be a path dependence thing—which of course, makes it easy to get caught up eventually in culture war BS.
Also, I can't help but see this and be reminded of my trip into the Old Croton Aqueduct.
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Sometimes, it takes the view of someone outside the city.
For instance, I was walking with my partner in the Upper East Side last weekend, made a joke about an open parking spot on a side street, and she was shocked that street parking in such a dense neighborhood was free.
