all the folks complaining about this being a "patronage job" must never actually take the train because anyone with a stroller, wheelchair, bike, luggage, etc use them regularly to get on the train. they're also the ones who get you through when the turnstiles break or cant collect payment, let first responders into the station quickly, give tourists directions, and are essentially New York's defacto Lost and Found service.

sure, replace them with an automated service kiosk that would be contracted to some Albany crony who would go massively over budget and take a decade to roll out across the city only for them to constantly malfunction or break.

lol per The City's Instagram post that brought me to the article, they are focusing their retirement on community organizing in their neighborhood and trying to get a youth rec center built

the exposure to fresh air and natural light really kills the vibe

as long as they design a sad, dark corner next to NJTransit and put Tracks back I'll be happy

the parks department has one too. im guessing that Ford is practically giving them away to establish the brand in people's minds.

august 2018 i believe

reminds me of when they tried to do a second Unite the Right rally and it was like a dozen proud boys being protected by two hundred cops from one hundred counter protestors as a ton of press watched on.

wait till you find out that it's not just the tail pipes that are fucking up our air

honestly at this point i'm surprised that the NYPD hasn't tried to spin this into a bragging right

thats a big ask for reddit

don't worry, they'll still come it'll just take a minute for them to bake up something fresh

it was a ballerina-model joyously dancing through what looked like a particularly drab looking convenience store to grab some prepackaged "fresh" food and tap her card at the kiosk to checkout without any cashier.

like the selling point was that these stores had all the fun of a bus station Quick Check but without any people around.

god the commercials for those were so strange

i was hoping this was because of a pending investigation but legit staying out all night every night with the mayor sounds absolutely exhausting

then again, still could be a yet to be public investigation.

the shit people do with their lives instead of going to therapy

because this is america and we love using tax money to build billionaires stadiums ¯_(ツ)_/¯

if we could do this, it would be absolutely the best case scenario. something about tunnels make new yorkers actually drive kinda of sanely vs the bqe today which people treat like a pot holed rainbow road

honestly reddit needs more posts from app workers like this and less posts from customers being like "TiPpInG Is oUt oF CoNtRoL "

and yet their stans will still describe them all as "working class"

"working people's" mayor my ass

as long as this means fixing those stupidly narrow and yet also stupidly steep entrances to the bikeway they cut into the concrete barricades at the foot of the bridge.

Obligatory I Think You Should Leave reference

lol imagine if it was a totally unaware Nigerian 🇳🇬 who was just feeling a little patriotic

this is what happens when so much of this city is run by people chasing money rather than actually giving a fuck about the city itself.

fun fact: there's an invite-only app for some finance folks that allows them to control the lights on top of some skyscrapers just for funsies

much smarter than all the astroturf the city has been throwing on park projects for the past decade. the parade grounds in BK have a fenced-off area full of all the ripped, worn turf and literal garbage cans full of the microplastics they left off.