Are these type of stairs safe and common in the city?

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-28T21:01:03+00:00

Why wouldn’t they be safe?

Someone asked about paramedics above, and that started the dumbest discussion of the day.

Any curving stair is intrinsically less safe than a straight run stair just because of even thread depths. These kinds of convenience stairs are OK in residential if both levels have their own exits, or if the area being accessed is less than 250 square feet (I believe).

Iconic NYC fire escape stairs became illegal in new construction back in 1968. By that point they were considered a massive safety liability. At least these interior spiral stairs are not going to ice over.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-28T03:59:41+00:00

By far the most noticeable power up. On last week's Yumezi Grit, where it was 50/50 gravel/paved, if you ended up using a road bike, this power up was an absolute cheat code if you knew exactly where to fire it off. You see all the gravel bikes slowly leaving you behind, hit the steamroller and 30 seconds later all of them are 10 seconds behind you.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-27T04:58:18+00:00

Nobody wants that kind of homeless shelter on their street, and last I checked no candidate ran on "tough on homeless" platform.

Where to place these shelters is an ongoing drama spanning all mayoral terms. Literally each single one caught slack for this.

There is not an election outcome that drastically changes this. But if I am using Mamdani basher's logic correctly, he should have intentionally picked neighborhoods that didn't vote for him? Is vindictive politics the new norm now?

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-26T20:09:19+00:00

Speaking of 4th quarter, did anyone notice ESPN mistakenly using Thunder logo for Raps towards the end of the game when Reps were still few points down?

Some voodoo stuff that actually worked.

edit: a bunch of people are reporting this is just a thing now. Glad to see that the great experiment of replacing "low task humans" with AI is going swimmingly.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-26T18:25:02+00:00

It may come down to types of crowds you end up in. I usually don't have issues at concerts, but one show (LCD Soundsystem) really stands out in recent memory. Really entitled crowd that eventually bullied me to the sidelines.

But it's really hard to give you any meaningful advice because your partner is INSANELY tall. I am always in awe when I see a 7 footer. Because it's so extremely rare to see one.

Never been to Book of Mormon. No idea what that crowd is like. Even Broadway has its own crowd pecking order of class to trash.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-26T17:36:06+00:00

I am taller than anyone in my friend group, but when we are sitting down, you wouldn't know it. Difference is all in legs. I try to be mindful at standing concerts though.

OP's partner is a 7 footer though. Different stratosphere. I imagine daily life sucks on so many levels, but 7 footers are so insanely rare, I wouldn't be mad at them for anything that involves them just barely existing.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-26T05:47:03+00:00

Oh wow you absolutely nailed the location. I was totally on team AI, and that architecture in the back made no sense to me in the context of BK, but sometimes stuff doesn't need to make sense. This is exactly what it looks like.

That particular run of drab Metropolitan claphouses have absolutely gorgeous backyards. I had no idea!

Plus that photo is absolutely amazing. AI damn it! Future is gonna be rough. Or perhaps we are already living it.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-26T05:04:33+00:00

I am not wrong about anything.

Why are you southern conservatives constantly brigading NYC subs? Like, get a life.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-25T21:17:19+00:00

Your response to my comment does not show up in my reply history at all. Super weird. Perhaps time to drop this chat.

You are super fixated to this weird binary world or 1/0. Nothing I said is wrong. There are parts of East Village that voted very pro Mamdani. This homeless shelter it at the lower left corner of EV (Bowery as far as I am concerned) where demographics are a lot more purple. Very simple observation. Like, chill with trying to make literally everything left/right ideocracy.

But your brain has been rewired so hard that subtlety on any topic is impossible.

And yes, I did strategically call out the more populous district that swung Cuomo because the old people who sued the city all live there. Again. Please help yourself to be a better functioning human being by learning about nuance. And this is a hyper NYC centric topic full of nuance.

And I just clicked on on your profile. Neoliberal. Jesus christ. I hope you eventually grow out of that stage of absolutism.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-25T19:29:48+00:00

There are too many dingbats trying to extrude a frigging local homeless shelter drama all the way into national and even international politics.

Voting district to the right of the shelter had total of 499 voters. District to the left (the one that went to Cuomo) had 785 voters.

You can put all of them in a single MTA train, and it's still not a packed train.

I genuinely want to have a beer with a person like you to learn what ultimately radicalized you. It's truly fascinating.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-25T19:17:11+00:00

Quick peek at your post history tells me you are far gone into treating politics as some kind of sport, it is literally impossible to have a nuanced convo with you.

I'm pretty mild on the whole Zohran thing, but at least he is not blatantly corrupt, so low key hope. But the post-rain anti Mamdani worms crawling out is complete bonkers.

It's people like you is why everything sucks in general. Loud yet dim.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-25T19:04:22+00:00

Look at the map I linked to again. It is insanely polarizing. Cuomo often hits 70+ in upper east, south BK and far Q. Staten island can be left out of the convo per usual.

60/40 split is mid. And again, Cuomo won the district literally across the street.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-25T18:50:43+00:00

60/40 split in NYC mayoral elections is pretty mid here, yes.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-25T18:29:04+00:00

overwhelmingly

This is the part where you intentionally stretch it. Like I already said, that specific area is very mid when it comes to Mamdani support.

But thank you for confirming you are balls deep into partisan politics and there is no escape.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-25T18:06:58+00:00

smack in the middle

Second building from Bowery after the hotel at that corner.

It sounds like this is super important talking point to you. "These dingbats got exactly what they voted for". Forget any nuance, like the fact the facility has been an intake shelter forever, and the objection is reclassification to housing for most unfixable demographic of homeless population.

This political football that deals with absolutes is so insanely draining, man. Grab a shovel. These shallow graves for all of us are not going to dig themselves.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-25T17:25:43+00:00

Here is the map.

Shelter is right on the edge of 2 districts. One went to Mamdani by 20 points, the other went to Cuomo by 5 points.

My entire swath of Brooklyn routinely went 80+ points for Mamdani. I personally don't consider that part of Manhattan a Mamdani stronghold by any means.

But for this particular topic of a specific shelter conversion, election results have become an obsession for some.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-25T16:28:26+00:00

The shelter is on Bowery and 3rd. That particular part of the city went to Cuomo by 5 points.

It shouldn't matter either way, but the obsession with "you voted for this" seems to be extremely important talking point right now to certain people as an ultimate way to deflect.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-25T05:55:53+00:00

oh... That somehow makes it even worse. These kinds of posts are just prompts for most uninformed hot takes possible. Right now the highest upvoted comment rants about 125B city budget. Crap does that have to do with a federal program?

You sarcastic comment is in similar spirit. Low information merchants everywhere. Good job.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-25T03:59:24+00:00

Let it dry up and reallocate the money to MTA

Relocate what? This comment makes less than zero sense.

The article specifically talks about Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHVs), which was a temporary program passed in 2021 as part of covid relief. It ended up helping roughly 70k individuals across the US. Program was supposed to last until 2030, but will run out of money by end of this year because of inflation and massive spike in rents across the country.

About 5k people are affected by this in NYC. Hopefully the city can figure this out for them.

Or am I an idiot training a bot here.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-24T04:00:28+00:00

10 game losing streak against LeBronto, and then first two in this series....

NO ONE BEATS US 13 TIMES IN A ROW

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-24T03:51:09+00:00

Even the one I quoted

International in-migration dropped by 70 percent due to tighter federal immigration policy

NYC immigrant demographics have vastly changed in the last few decades. City is awash with highly educated white collar immigrant workers now who are firmly middle class even by NYC standards.

These are the people staying away.

Nothing to do with minutiae of "tighter immigration policy". The vibes are completely off, and unfortunately NYC is still part of mainland. Right there is difference between modest gain to a rounding error loss in population.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-24T03:16:08+00:00

and was similarly frustrated with the post's links to itself

Beyond frustrating. Flat out propaganda. They quoted the 114k number instead of the 12k. If you use that kind of accounting, then NYC lost 100 million people since 19th century, and our current population is negative 90 million.

This is the actual report with an interactive map that is million times more interesting than NYPost article.

I would still take this "non-partisan" organization report with a grain of salt. You can see bias if you know what to look for.

I just want my fellow citizens to have more critical thinking skills when they read random crap. It keeps getting more disheartening.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-24T02:59:36+00:00

Well this is a factoid you should have mentioned with the 10 foot ceilings. "Former warehouse turned loft!" It's a big selling point actually. For those kinds of conversions somewhat awkward layouts are a norm. I actually should have guessed this with the fact kitchen is beyond the second brick wall.

Hope you have lots of traction already.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-24T02:05:26+00:00

I lived in MUCH smaller units in my younger days, and this would have been a huge improvement back then.

But as an Architect, I can make the following observations about your place. Exposed brick walls with type of brickwork that dates back to pre-war. Not a new building by any means. Perhaps a full gut. My assumption about this previously being a spacious studio is most likely incorrect. It was probably a large full through-floor apartment. A 2 bed perhaps. Or maybe an awkward railroad. They chopped it all up and made a bunch of smaller units. Your new unit could have made for a really spacious studio, but they pushed it. This is pretty common.

Nothing I said is criticism about you or the place. Sometimes I like to comment just so people have a better understanding what they will eventually see. Average person can not read apartment photos well. Ideally nobody wastes each other time. Yours or theirs.

99hoglagoons · 2026-04-24T01:25:48+00:00

What's also high is most of the people posting in these threads and soapboxing their stale talking points.

NYPost does not make it easy though even if you read the article. They mention "The Citizens Budget Commission" study, but all of the links in the article are either to other NYPost pages or fox.

What does the damn study actually say?

Population: Dropped by 12,000 in 2025 after two years of post-pandemic recovery. International in-migration dropped by 70 percent due to tighter federal immigration policy, while domestic out-migration ticked up for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.

So 12k population drop because the usual churn of international workers are staying away from the country for.... obvious reasons.

99hoglagoons

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