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Not until Friday then gone by Sunday
A little bit this morning
I don’t want to downplay some of our problems but I can’t help but laugh when I see Miami ads about people fleeing NY because of crime and when I check Miami has almost twice the crime rate of nyc
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I know I’m finally old because I just walk around the grocery store muttering about the prices
I think there's a large dragon living in the 86th Street 1 station.
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Now this is what one can call, Winter 😎👍
Still no, we got a light amount of snow this week but that was it
So cold , winter is back on the menu boys
So fucking delicious 🤤
Keep to the lower RPMs and accelerate slowly past the cameras. You’ll be fine.
No snow forecasted :(
Has anyone been to the new 2nd Avenue 110th Q station? It's pretty cool.
I loved this missed connection. She had a boyfriend at the time. But things have changed.
Hey all, I'm moving and trying to get my mattress in the hands of someone who can use it, as it won't fit in my new place. It's about 1.5 y/o, high quality queen size mattress, including a box spring and mattress cover; it's essentially in like-new condition, considering its 8-10 lifespan w/ no issues. Does anyone know who, where, etc. I can donate this mattress? I'm also willing to sell it, but a tax deductible donation w/ pickup works better for me... however, so many places don't accept mattresses! Thank you.
Damn, the correct answer is to always take theirs unless you are married.
milk prices seem to have just spiked higher.
hopefully it's temporary maybe having to
do with the deep freeze we had northeast.
How'd they decide which one would be the Brooklyn Bridge and which one would be the Manhattan Bridge?
If Manhattan gets 1 of the 3 casino licenses, what proposal do you think is the favorite? Hudson Yards, Times Square, or another one?
Now I want to find a reason to go and stop on that station
Hopefully the 0.4 inches of last week won’t be the last snow we see this winter
>Hopefully the 0.4 inches of last week will be the last snow we see this winter.
Agreed 👍
Where can I take a zoom interview? I have to take it on my lunch break and I'll be on UES around 89th and 1st. Any recommendations?
What do you mean?
fun fact The span was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge or the East River Bridge but was officially renamed the Brooklyn Bridge in 1915.
Hello, very last minute but Valentine days suggestion for activities and restaurants?
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If it's federally mandated like for anything requiring a CDL, yes. Otherwise, no.
Y'all think papi really drove his whip from Kansas to park it in East NY? 🤔
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Past by the LES recently, what’s up with all the weed shops popping up?
Another scorcher out there today, keep the sunscreen on deck and stay hydrated.
I'm not a nyc resident but I was there around christmas and visited the library and gave them my contact info. I got a visitor library card while I was there that was good for like 2 weeks or a month or something.
Anyways, I got an email from the library asking me to donate/join the Friends of NYPL thing, and one benefit of donating is that I get a membership card. is this a library card, or is it just a card that says i'm a friend of the NYPL?
I'd be willing to pay for a permament library card if that's an option, so if this friends of nypl thing is not going to give me a library card, is there a way I could pay to get one permanently?
It's too warm. I hate this. I want my childhood winters back.
looking at the forecast for the next week or so, I'm afraid that it will be :( But there's always March?
Consider asking or searching on r/AskNYC helpful megathread / r/FoodNYC!
Going to be damn near 60 by Friday, disgusting.
I knowwwww :(
I'm looking for a tax attorney!
Hello everybody. I have a messy tax situation because I was young and dumb. Now I'm trying to get my shit together, pay what I owe to the government, and turn a new leaf.
Does anyone have experience working with a tax attorney in New York City area? I'll pay what it costs. I don't need a budget option that will leave me in bad hands. That being said, I would like to know how much I should expect to spend, and if there is anything I can do to minimize the cost/billable hours. Any advice or recommendation is appreciated. Thank you.
What was the name of that club in Williamsburg that shut down a few years ago, pre-covid? It had a big rooftop and one of the rooms was called the viper room I believe. Not Verboten but something else, it was the main club at that point. Was just thinking about it today randomly and missing it.
How can I find a job QQ
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Are you thinking of Output?
Yeah I think that was it
WeWork has “wellness rooms” you can book for $10 an hour. It’s private. Just need a phone to take the call.
If y'all wanna get involved in avoiding climate change check out Sunrise Movement or Climate Reality Project <3. It helps with the anxiety.
I think you mean "exotic snack bodegas"
Why do y’all allow neo nazis to roam free? Seems like a real bitch move for a city full of ppl who think they’re hard af.
Not sure if February 16th or April 16th 😰🥵
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Why is the food here so much better than anywhere else
Anyone else’s eyes burning / nose running / have a headache after going outside today? The heavy haze today sure seems like it could be from Ohio
There's no heavy haze in Ohio itself and the air quality in East Palestine was only a concern on February 8th, the day of the controlled burn of the spilled chemicals.
Since then the air in East Palestine has been tested frequently doesn't appear to be a concern.
So no, it's probably not related to any air quality concerns in NYC. We have high AQI days pretty often, mostly from high levels of vehicle traffic. Also I went on a walk earlier and the air seemed fine anyways.
What are some of the reasons you have used 311 or 211? As an upcoming social worker I am genuinely curious/intrigued
311 noise complaints (helicopters)
Ayo, bus time disrespectful af. This is the 2nd time I've seen that pos classify me as 2 passengers.
sell to anyone yet?
Looking to move back to NYC from Chicago. My lease here ends in august. I'm looking at spots on zillow, craigslist, and streeteasy and I do see apartments that allow pets in my price range of ~$2300.
I wonder if there still will be apartments in that price range around summer?
Does anyone know why Gen KBBQ House in Union Square is shut down?
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Is there any moderation in this sub any more or did we collectively give up here? This place is embarrassing.
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To report my neighbor’s backyard breeding :(
I saw Flaco in Central Park today! I'm actually in this video of him coughing up a pellet lol
You can also see the bird paparazzi who're staking him out.
https://twitter.com/OlivertGruber/status/1627795463624617985
if theres someone who's homeless in your neighborhood in need of assistance that's the proper channel to get them help. my buddy used to work for homeless outreach for the city and said thats really the only thing you can do to help.
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Many of the most active mods were removed….
At the risk of comment removal or banning, why?
EDIT: While a mod might try to sweep stuff under the rug, removed comments still appear on user pages.
One person didn’t want to take a training over the holidays and asked if they could do it later and they were removed immediately. Another person pushed back on the rules being too strict and got into an argument with the person in charge and was removed. Myself I was removed for bringing those first two mods back, and likely for pushing the top mod to work collaboratively with the rest of the team - I sent messages for weeks on modmail and didn’t hear from them until I was removed as a mod. Oh and for the record I waited for a vote before reinstating those mods and every single mod (aside from the one who demodded me) who weighed in agreed we should bring back the previously removed mods.
So maybe confusing maybe too many details but long story short? We wanted the top mod to share some of the control of the sub (redo rules, be less strict at times especially on popular content and let users have more of a say vs one user) and that was apparently worth being removed from the team over.
This is an unfortunate, but solid example of how reddit's mod hierarchy is fundamentally broken since it relies upon one person being able to listen to reason and not abuse their unilateral power. Modding should always be a group effort.
Thank you for sharing!
Agreed, one thing I learned is the collective mod Team absolutely should have more power than one user. That’s just silly to not have figured it out by Reddit. But it doesn’t effect their bottom line for now, so they don’t care.
Haha anyone else remember dissecting owl pellets in science class?
Nope, mods are still active here. Feel free to shoot us a message in things about the subreddit you are unhappy about.
Edit: haha never mind. 🙃
I can corroborate what he said. I was the mod who got removed for getting into an argument about the rules. The mod removed for not doing the mod trainings was one of the most active and long-standing mods in the community. "Lack of activity" was not a valid reason to unmod them.
Also for the record, I wanted to have an earnest discussion about changing the rules. My intent was not to cause some kind of "mutiny" or to not follow the rules. I always enforced the rules as written even if I didn't totally agree with them.
Unfortunately the way Reddit works is that the moderator with the highest seniority (i.e., been mod the longest) has supreme power. This was the entire issue we had last time with the previous head mod who was taking action without consulting anyone else.
I'm kind of over it and have no ill will towards the guy who unmodded me (which is why I've refrained from commenting on this until now) but I'm ashamed to say a comment in the volunteer thread this morning kind of triggered me and I had to reply to it. I don't like people who make judgements (and pretentious ones at that) without knowing all the details.
>I'm ashamed to say a comment in the volunteer thread this morning kind of triggered me and I had to reply to it.
Funny how "reply to it" means reply to this thread instead of to the commenter, i.e., me. I hope you realize how pedantic it is to tell someone "not to make assumptions," while also at the same time, keeping your knowledge on the matter yourself.
Anyway, now that I've seen a partial explanation, I both agree and disagree with the facts presented above. It seems petty to remove an active mod for no attending a "training" over the holidays - honestly, requiring trainings in the first place seems like a bit much.
But as a frequent and active user of this sub, I find it annoying that the moderators are trying to "relax the rules" - r/newyorkcity exists for people who don't mind the clutter that comes with a more relaxed set of rules. You say you wanted to "have a discussion" but also admit it became an "argument." Well, did any of the other mods side with your position or were you a lone wolf trying to change rules that exist for a reason? How did it change from a discussion to an argument?
At the end of the day, if you don't "like people who make judgements (and pretentious ones at that) without knowing all the details," then share the details baby.
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I'm not sure if you noticed, but the mod(s) were removing posts that were too off topic, so yes, I posted it here. I shouldn't have replied to your comment in that thread at all but I couldn't help myself. I let my emotions get the best of me and I'm sorry for that.
As for my position, yes, a lot of people expressed agreement. You can see above and via the removed messages in the other thread that a few other people expressed that their concerns weren't being heard.
I wasn't necessarily looking for changes to go through immediately but I wanted to have a discussion about it. Something like "hey, I appreciate your input but this wouldn't work for reasons X, Y, and Z" would have been good enough for me. What I got instead was "don't challenge my authority, I know better."
At the end of the day, it's all small beans, it's just being a mod. I'll admit that I was pretty salty at first but I've gotten over it. I don't agree with the head mod but I do believe he is doing what he thinks is best for the community, the intentions are good. I just don't like when people make assumptions like you did.
FYI, another mod was just removed. Seemingly for describing the situation on the current modteam. Pretty wild we have lost at least 5 active mods in the last 2 or so months.
Sorry for your hatred of assumptions, but us common folk only know what moderators choose to make known, directly or indirectly, including responses to modmail and post moderating choices.
I was told via modmail in summer of 2021 that the rule against photos, which were relaxed during the pandemic, would be tightened back up. That never happened. Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm on Reddit or Instagram.
Whether a news story makes it to the feed seems to depend on viewpoint more than subject matter. Posts about Alvin Bragg are not permitted, but posts about a stadium in Buffalo are.
In all due respect, my assumptions are not made in a vacuum. They are, IMO, reasonable inferences. If you want to correct a misunderstanding, by all means, but if I see a colorful bird quacking on a lake, I'm going to guess it's a duck.
Mods had been asking to talk about the rules for some time to no avail FYI. I can backup what "MajorFogTime" was saying. Although I mistakenly called him Frogman for the last few months we modded together, so apparently I'm an idiot.
I mean, you could have done your own research and look at the removed posts in that thread. You didn't. You could have asked what the situation was (before making assumptions, not after), you didn't.
You chose to spend zero time looking into it and made assumptions. Weird that you're painting me out to be the unreasonable one for being agrieved by your assumptions.
I'm done with this conversation. You can ask the other mods for further input if you want, I don't intend to waste any more of my time on this. Have a good one!
Just to make sure, the temporary relaxation of rule 3 during the pandemic was reinstated in August 2021, about a year and a half ago. Once upon a time r/NYCPics was founded as a subreddit for people to share photos on, and it’s working as intended. If not, there’s a litany of other subs to share photos: 5 individual borough subreddits (r/Manhattan, r/Brooklyn, r/Queens, r/StatenIsland, r/Bronx), individual neighborhood subreddits (r/LongIslandCity, r/Astoria, r/Harlem, etc), even r/NewYorkCity (which I also help moderate) on weekends! Same applies if people want a different choice on content to consume or share, so there’s always a choice if someone wants to go to another community, or just create a new subreddit - a lot more niche/specific interests to New York City has a subreddit by now, from asking questions, to hip hop, to food, to biking/Micromobility, making friends/hanging out/events/meeting w/ people, the list goes on.
I’ll keep my opinions to myself for the time being, but to be neutral, everyone could agree the subreddit rules could use some clarification for people to understand, and more moderators as we gradually grow into a larger community.
Oh it’s so much worse than that. Just got removed from the discord :(
I'm sorry, that's a bummer. That sounds DEEPLY unfair to you.
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Well since the time of this posting another mods been removed for seemingly no reason…..
That seems plausible.
IPO and section 230 could be forcing functions causing the push for "mod training".
It's really not that complicated. The person who mandated the training wanted people out who didn't listen to them and so the training became a sort of litmus test.
I'm unsurprised to see some of the sub's biggest problem children apply to be moderator under the guise of correcting "unfair" treatment. Someone's always got to be a victim, eh.
Please ELI5: What exactly is a co-op?
Considering a move from the Midwest and looking for the most affordable option. I’d like to buy an affordable apartment (even a studio is fine) rather than rent simply to keep my monthly costs down, but everyone keeps telling me there’s only co-ops/to do a co-op.
I simply can’t wrap my head around the concept, no matter how much I Google. Please help and thank you in advance!
Please don’t appoint the user who (1) compared progressive Democrats to Nazis, (2) said that AOC was more of a danger to New York than sexism and racism, (3) describes calls for police reform as “bigotry” against police, (4) and constantly pumps the sub full of misinformation a moderator.
This sub does not need to be managed by bigots. I’m begging for some sense all around.
They’re weird! Simple version: If you own a co op you own a share in a building, and you have to follow the rules set up by your neighbors who are trying to maintain the highest value of the building for all shareholders (owners) by not allowing riskier sublettors and conditions that would require more maintenance. Negatives: have to be able to pay more cash down than condos might require and let board see your finances, may take longer to sell.
Oooo that edit hahaha
Seems pretty easy to manipulate your way into being a mod if the largest requirement is subservience
If you're familiar with HOAs, a co-op is basically an HOA for an apartment building.
Technically you don't own the unit you live in, you buy shares in the co-op which entitle you to live in the unit you live in, but there's not much of a practical difference.
The practical issues come in with respect to how you use the apartment. Co-op rules usually prohibit subletting and require getting approval before doing renovations (and also time restrictions on renovations) and approval to eventually sell your unit down the road.
Generally speaking, they aren't terrible. Unlike HOA horror stories, co-ops usually don't care about superficial stuff like how you decorate your unit. The rules are primarily there to prevent you from negatively affecting the units around you (i.e., you can't hire some fly-by-night plumber to smash a hole in the wall and install a jacuzzi that ends up flooding the unit below you).
But maybe this is stockholm syndrome talking because there's almost no alternative to co-ops in NYC.
Some units are condos where you do actually own the unit. And that generally comes with a higher purchase price, fewer restrictions, but still some use restrictions because, again, you can't do stuff that would damage the units around you.
The last alternative is buying a house but it sounds like that's not a good fit for you given that you're considering studios.
Hi! I’m another recently removed mod.
Any other mod can confirm that I have been spending the past year repeatedly asking for clarification on the rules and for the sidebar rules to be updated. As mods we were told to do things that weren’t even mentioned in the mod ruleslist.
I mentioned this in a removed comment but for a long time ticktock videos straight up were not allowed (not in the rules list) and then we were given a set of guidelines where ticktock videos would be allowed- but again those guidelines are still not in the rules.
Another recent issue was one was rule 1. There’s been a shift overtime in the headmod’s stance on what constitutes a bannable insult, but these changes again were never discussed with the mods nor were they put into the rules. Common sense would dictate that rule one means not to be unacceptably rude, however the head mod now intends for rule 1 to mean no insults at all.
I got in trouble on the discord for calling someone a “dingbat”. You calling someone a “baby” is a bannable offense now.
Hi all, I’m a 30M who will be visiting NYC in April or May. Do you have any recommendations for neighborhood I could stay at? I would like something with a ton of unpretentious bars and restaurants. Oh and mom and pop coffee shops to work from during the day. I don’t like the glassy, fancy restaurants or bars, I’m more of an arcade bar, boardgames bar, brewery kind of guy. It’ll be my first time in NYC btw and I’d also like to stay somewhere close to young single people if possible. Thanks in advance
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Any Dental Hygienists here?
What's the tiniest amount of power to get to someone's head? It appears to be becoming head mod of the NYC subreddit. All the fucking normie mods who were reasonable got removed at the same time.
If you buy a co-op, you would actually become a shareholder in a company that owns the building, but that shareholder ownership also gives you a permanent lease of the unit.
Co-ops require board approval for transactions, so a co-op board could just deny your purchase without giving any reason. And that opens a lot of doors for potential discrimination. The application package you submit to the board can be invasive, like resume, copies of your tax returns, letters of recommendations and such (some describe as more invasive than going to a dentist). They may even require an interview... for what's practically the right to rent a unit after paying a huge deposit.
Despite the difficulties, that may still be a financially sound strategy compared to the alternatives. If you don't plan on living there for many years, it's probably not worth it.
Can you just start a different sub reddit? With the mods you need?
While everyone else's explanations are pretty adequate at explaining what a co-op is one thing that everyone left out is the crazy maintenance fees, these tend to go up every year. I've got friends who have paid off their units but their monthly maintenance fees are more than what some people pay in rent. Every co-op board is different but they're also a lot harder to sell should you choose to move out. Some co-op boards can also make your life difficult. YMMV.
After the NYC bed bug nightmares of the past few decades I'd assume offloading a used mattress on anyone in NYC is an impossible feat.
Probably could but we’d be starting from scratch and that’s not really my thing. I actually never even asked to be a mod. I also think it’s possible to get things sorted out here still hopefully
The friends of nypl is just a donation, you can renew your card by scanning a copy of your ID and emailing it to patronaccounts@nypl.org
It sounds like it's for new york state residents, which I'm not one of those, also lol. thanks anyways
FYI maintenance fees for a coop cover the property tax, so at the end of the year you don’t owe money on that.
Wonder what’s going to take longer, finishing the mod hunt, or publishing the crime thread vote that was supposed to be published months ago and the person putting on the poll messed up and doesn’t want to put that out there.
Hey guys! Can you please keep a lookout for a silver honda civic with jersey plates. My cousin forgot where he parked his car after partying at Quantum last night. Still couldn’t locate it 🥲
Thanks very much.
Why didn't they try reviving the prospect park alligator with Gatorade?
Where do I find good edibles in the city???
Wow this lirr schedule change really f me over..
Either 30 too early to work or 30 minute late...
You and everyone else.
yeah shoulda said that...
i only knew because the app sent me a notification at like ~8pm last night... and it gave me the wrong times; initially i saw only ~5 minute different, then this morning 30 minutes.
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Please snow tonight
Edit: this snow has saved me from a mental breakdown :)
Looks like the snow is really picking up!
Damn this fuckin wind!
And it looks like it will save nyc from having the least snowiest winter season .
Winter reminding us that still not over
Finally had to shovel. You fuckers happy now? Couldn't even be the light fluffy shit.
I have a friend who wants to do karaoke with a big group but doesn't want to deal with the hassle of a shared check for all of the food and drinks (which is the only way ive ever done it welp) does anyone have any recommendations? ive heard some places let you bring your own food/deliveries but not sure if there's also a way to have separate bar tabs without ppl having to leave the room every 5 seconds. If there's nothing, then does anyone have a good public karaoke place to recommend ? I'm thinking boho karaoke but not sure if there's better options (TYIA!)
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Is it a real winter yet?