We have a guy in my building and I worry about it every day.

You missed the part where I said my transit benefit card (pre-tax commuting funds) does not have a chip.

1. What if my phone dies? What if I keep it in airplane mode? What if I don't bring it with me? What if I don't trust the apps to charge the right card?
2. What if I want to lend the card to my college-aged kids, home for break? Can't give them my phone.

There are loads of reasons.

It's a non-issue. The workaround took three minutes to fix.

No, I like the discounted rides.

I keep it in a specific pocket of my bag so I always know where it is.

Frankly I’m not comfortable using my phone as a train pass. I want it to be a separate card.

Because I get a transit card from work with pretax funds on it, and the card vendor doesn’t offer chipped cards.

I want this. The new cards are soulless.

BINGO. Path of least resistance, for them. They'll come around in time.

That's pretty rich considering the real estate lobby is able to buy decisions that favor them all the time. The problem is these conversions will cost money and hurt their profits in the short term and they don't like that. They'd rather sit with easy excuses and write the temporarily money-losing properties off against their profitable ones.

Then they shouldn't be whining about it.

I read the entire article, because i have a background in commercial real estate, construction, and architecture and the topic interests me.

They are business owners. If you have a business and your market disappears, too bad. That was a risk you ran. Your investment is no longer profitable, so convert the business into something that is profitable, or lose your money.

When jobs go obsolete they tell workers to retrain, find a new career. When buildings go obsolete, the owners whine about how “retraining” the building is too hard and expensive.

No sympathy, not sorry.

Album title, 1990.

Or listened to the Lightning Seeds in the late 80s.

There's nothing like rounding a corner in a museum and coming face-to-face with a painting you've always loved and weren't expecting.

I had a revelatory hour with the Delaunays in the Pompidou once.

Yes, I am a massive museum nerd.

Same! I’m going at the end of March while Girl with a Pearl Earring is still up.

I’m still hoping the Met will change their mind and send their better two (Maid Asleep and Woman with a Water Pitcher). I’m immensely grateful I can go see them whenever I want but I’d love to see them alongside their sisters.

You mean the emergency exit door?

He did this to the doors between cars, or where? You need to call the MTA police. Good luck getting them to listen.

Next time you're on the train, take note of the car number. They need to know exactly which train(s) are affected.

He’s not a “blank slate.” He shit all over the slate and tried to tell you it was a diploma from Yale or wherever. That’s not blank.

Because we need more high rise office towers. /s

My company is closed between Christmas and New Years. This year we closed at 1 pm on the 23rd and we don’t go back until the 3rd. That way we have full use of our PTO days when we want them.

I don't know, haven't been paying attention that closely.

Making a special permit a requirement doesn't mean it's impossible. But perhaps it's an effort to protect the existing hotels since they've had such a hard time during COVID.

My neighborhood (Astoria) is completely underserved, so that might have something to do with it. Obviously we don't need more hotels in Midtown.

One is under construction in my neighborhood.