Some people won’t care but others might find it horrifying. Instagram has a post about the exact location and videos: https://www.instagram.com/p/C588_RHueJK/?igsh=aThrOWZ1NnBmd2ph

Posting bc my friends and I saw what looks to be a lost husky running around Christie Street in Chinatown. No collar, couldn’t tell if it was male or female, I’m pretty sure both eyes were brown. It wouldn’t respond to calls or whistles and seemed to be dodgy around people, but was running in and out of busy traffic. My friend and I called animal control, who said they had already received a report and were on the way. I’ll post the one picture I was able to get.

Not sure why I’m posting this other than out of concern. My friends and I want to make sure this pup gets home safe, assuming it has a home. Anyone have any updates?

This week as part of my every neighborhood in NYC project, I visited Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, a thin two-mile-long strip of land in the middle of the East River.

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It’s where Nellie Bly pioneered the art of investigative journalism, pretending to be crazy so she could get into the Blackwell Island Asylum. Once in, she stopped pretending but that only convinced people she was even crazier than they initially thought

Across the island, at the prison where Billie Holiday and Boss Tweed both served time, Italian gang leader Joie Rao used to dine on prime rib cooked over pages from books taken from the prison library. With all the books burnt, the library shut down.

Rao and Bly

Once the asylum and jails were gone, several plans were proposed including relocating bodies from overcrowded cemeteries in Brooklyn and Queens to the island, building an underground nuclear power plant, and siting the Temple of Dendur there.

Victor Gruen, inventor of the indoor shopping mall, came up with a plan for “the first 20th-century city,” with room for 70,000 inhabitants built on top of a 22’ high concrete platform running the length of the island.

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Ultimately, the city granted a 99 year lease to the New York State Urban Development Corporation (UDC). The master plan, The Island Nobody Knows, was devised by Philip Johnson and John Burge and unveiled to the public at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It divided the island into two medium-density residential clusters, a series of brutalist towers that promised a utopian future.

And what’s more utopian or futuristic than pneumatic garbage vacuums? Roosevelt island is one of the only places in the country with its own Automated Vacuum Collection Systems (AVAC) - the other is in Disney World. Trash from over two dozen buildings is sucked through tubes at speeds up to 60 miles an hour before being compacted, sealed into containers, and trucked off the island.

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The Cornell Tech campus is the newest addition to the Roosevelt Island landscape.

And just beyond that, past a cat colony and the ruins of the Renwick Smallpox Hospital sits Louis Kahn’s Four Freedoms Park, a meticulously designed tribute in white granite to the island’s namesake, FDR.

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Hello! I’m not sure if I’m in the right place but I just wanted to post here to get some more exposure

I am fostering a dog from the group miracles for Satos — they rescue street dogs from PR

This is TRINITY. She is approx 3yo. 40lb. Photos make her look larger than she is. She is truly a medium size.

She is super gentle, albeit a bit nervous (she arrived in NYC on Monday about 5 days ago)

Has not barked once! Best part is she is HOUSEBROKEN!!! She hasn’t had an accident since arrival. I live in a studio apt in Manhattan.

She is slowly getting accustomed to the city life, though understandably, everything is new to her.

Please feel free to DM any and all questions, or even apply to adopt through miracles for Satos. Her profile can be found on petfinder too!

Thank you everyone and have a lovely day/weekend.

Handsome 3 year old Cruz needs a temporary foster ❤️ This handsome boy is dog and cat friendly, however, he needs a slow introduction because he is nervous at first. His long term foster can take him on 4/30, but we need a foster for him until then! If you can foster, please apply here: linusandfriends.org/foster

Use code CARFREE24 on the citibike app and get unlimited 30-minute rides all day! Happy 4/20 😅

There was a 7-hour council hearing on the economic opportunity piece of Eric Adams' City of Yes initiative last Monday.

I wanted to share two things I published today:

1. The hearing, with skimmable chapters and chapter summaries on citymeetings.nyc: https://citymeetings.nyc/city-council/2024-04-08-1030-am-subcommittee-on-zoning-and-franchises/chapters

2. A newsletter issue about it, which has a short overview and links back to specific segments of the meeting on citymeetings.nyc: https://buttondown.email/citymeetingsnyc/archive/citymeetingsnyc-4/

Full disclosure -- I'm behind citymeetings.nyc, but I think it's a valuable resource and it's free. I hope y'all enjoy it.

It's very much a work in progress. If you have feedback, email me at vikram@citymeetings.nyc. There's more info under the About and FAQ pages.

Hello, everyone. I have lost my bag with some money in it on a bus. Is there a way to find out the number of the bus, if I know time I got of it and the bus stop? I have already made a “lost item claim” and went to the bus depot, just want to make it easier for them to find my bag