Sure, fine. I'm all for the evolution of both language and sensibilities. But...

>In an internal memo, parks department officials announced that any reference to “comfort station” will be replaced with “public restroom” or “public restroom building,” effective immediately, as part of a “conscious effort to champion and support human dignity.”

That made me laugh, because I swear, this is what we do best: performative actions that merit a press release but don't concretely address anything. You want to "champion and support human dignity," reopen all park and subway restrooms, build many, many more public restrooms, and staff them properly. Then the delivery driver that I saw pissing onto the curb a while ago would have other, more dignified options.

So I assume we'll have exhibits about:

• failure to execute major subway expansions since 1967
• failure to containerize trash collection
• failure to have social services better than rattletrap
• failure to have a police department that isn't an unaccountable rogue gang
• failure to build affordable housing without relying on the willingness of private developers
• failure to properly fund the NYPL

... oh.

> I’ve never seen a Trader Joe’s in nyc with a normal wait time.

Depends on when you go. I go to the one on Spring St all the time in the middle of weekdays and often there's not even a line

> to ask all tax payers to subsidize

So let's just have the mega-rich do it.

Taco Bell brought back the Bacon Club Chalupa and it's over $6 for just one of them lol

Or, you know, spread out over the richest taxpayers. Just sayin

I work in healthcare IT and regularly attend calls for system maintenance where (1) there are often a lot more participants than one might expect, (2) every single one of them is necessary for reasons that anyone who isn't in the field wouldn't understand, and (3) a lot of them are "idle" until it's time for them to perform their specific task.

To an uninformed observer it would look like waste, but these are tightly coordinated events that need to go like clockwork and, like this, need to be completed before the Monday rush. Lots of people doing specialized tasks that the public knows nothing about. When we do our jobs right, we're invisible.

Not saying the MTA is innocent of being corrupt/wasteful/etc, far from it, but I encourage anyone that sees this picture to first consider what they don't know before making snap judgments

I struck out at several 7-11s and CVSes but I finally found one at a gaming parlor in Chinatown (the one on Grand St close to Shu Jiao Fu Zhou)

Yeah is it "I enjoy pineapple on pizza" different or "I collect hollowed-out cat heads and organize them neatly onto shelves" different

Oh, shit! I ran into Enzo at a bakery a few years ago and he told me they were opening up there, but then the pandemic hit. This is great news, will have to check them out

So I've tried the chicken parm and meatball parm at Claudia's and was underwhelmed both times (compared to some of the other places mentioned here). Do they have something specific that's just fantastic?

It was such a gem and I always made sure to try their non-grinder stuff. Amazing chicken soup, broccoli and cavatelli, pasta fazool, lamb stew, you name it.. and that special pizza of theirs with the spinach, potatoes, and sausage.

I gave them one chance after ownership changed. The new owners both trash-talked the old family and put out inferior food. It was sad but a relief when they finally closed for good

Their Yelp page says they've closed down but I hope that's inaccurate.

I keep meaning to try Provenzano's. Usually if I'm in West Haven it's for Zuppardi's but I need to change it up

>Corner Deli in Hartford

This made me think of Corner Grinder in Hartford, which had great sandwiches as well as old school Italian dishes for decades until the family sold it, after which it promptly went downhill until closure. Still miss their pizzaiola. RIP

Their bread is from Arthur Ave in the Bronx and I wish more places in CT used it. I've had so many grinders that would have been put over the top if they used decent bread instead of those cheap white loaves.

Gonna chime in here for Franklin. There are a lot of great chicken cutlets in this state, but Franklin does something to their breading - I don't know if it's the oil they use or what - that makes it stand out. It's good enough that I can even excuse their garbage bread (which a number of other places, including Wethersfield Pizza House, are guilty of using). Unless I'm far enough away that it's just dumb to drive there, if I want a chicken parm, I'm going to Franklin.

So the answer is “it’s always been this way, fuck ever making things better”? That’s the same shortsighted idiocy people use to justify being against student loan forgiveness

... yes? Why should the burden be on the individual? Why shouldn't the city be providing more services for its residents?

What kind of response is this? In "the greatest city in the world" you should be able to recycle electronics easily. Like, say, a secure and dedicated bin right in front of your house/building.

Ridiculing someone for not wanting to take a trip to recycle shit is a prime example of better-things-aren't-possible-brain and it's just tragic that so many people's vision has been narrowed like this

It's partly relief, I think, it's like holy shit a stranger that isn't trying to scam me in some way, glad to make your (brief) acquaintance lol

Absolutely! There was an elderly lady at W 4th who was confused about how to get to the Social Security office downtown, and I had time, so I took her aside on the mezzanine and made sure she understood how to get to Fulton St and then to the office from there. She was so happy and grateful and that's all I needed.

But when someone else stopped at the top of the stairs a little while later, in front of me, you better believe I was an asshole

I was on the uptown 6th Ave platform at W 4th, on my way to Rockefeller. A young Russian couple approached me and asked if the trains on this platform would take them to Herald Square, pointing to that station on their map. Yes, I said, any train on this platform would get you there.

Some sixth sense I had was tingling, so I made to sure to get on the same car as them when the D pulled in. Sure enough, when we hit 34th and the doors opened, they just sat there. I whipped my head around and pointed at them: "This is you." "This is Herald Square?" "Yes! Get off!" They hurried off and then gave me a thumbs-up through the window, and I laughed for a bit.

Going the extra mile if it seems like the poor bastard just isn't going to get where they want without a little more help... well, it's just fun!

> West New York, NJ

I... truthfully didn't know that existed

Yeah I'm leaving the city so gotta do my farewell food tour