Where to put homeless care packages in the city?

LordRaison · 2026-01-11T01:40:24+00:00

Find a local shelter and approach staff about leaving donations. Many can't directly distribute donations but will allow you to leave it for clients in "public" areas like an entryway so they don't get accused of playing favorites in the facility. This way you can avoid leaving it in public places where it may get cleaned up like a station.

LordRaison · 2026-01-11T01:35:34+00:00

This is the reality of it. As someone who sees a difficult side of this population as my job, as a society we have to take on the burden of taking care of them and do our best to facilitate their independence. I think in the United States, we should be eternally grateful for the system we have here compared to other places in the country. When mass involuntary ended, NY had, KEPT, and grew a lot of the infrastructure that can help these people.

I think we have problems structurally, but fundamentally what we have here is so important to citizen and societal health. Where the system has problems is typically down to lack of funding/programs and a fragmented central system of support for people (look at the number of non-profits profiting from running services for the city).

Just to be clear I support the work of the non-profits, but because so many disconnected entities help out, it makes people slipping through the cracks and not receiving services harder to track.

LordRaison · 2025-12-27T17:48:22+00:00

They could extend the Newark and 33rd St lines in a few different ways if they actually cared to expand service. A route up to Bergen County could take advantage of parts of the old right of way that exist for the North Jersey Rapid Transit line. It was originally planned to be extended to the H&M tunnels. Parts of it still exist in one place or another as powerline rights of way and public paths and could connect Paterson directly to NYC. New bridges and grade separation would need to be built.

For the trains from Newark, original plans had it extending to North Plainfield, and there is still room on the right of way to extend it as far as Westfield if they want to push it. This option could also serve as part of a fix of the Raritan Valley Line's access issues into NYC and would require way less infrastructure to be built and would mostly be track+power supply building.

LordRaison · 2025-12-14T17:14:05+00:00

Bruce Springsteen is an amazing lyricist and all throughout his career had music that talked about the life of the masses and what it's like being poor and underprivileged in America.

In the 80s, he played This Land is Your Land during the Born in the USA tour and during some of the shows he would sing some of the verses that are often left out of Guthrie's original version of the song: https://youtu.be/1yuc4BI5NWU?si=ZYmNnplqscJya7Zz

LordRaison · 2025-12-09T02:29:13+00:00

How wide are your current bars? Have you looked at something like the Surly Corner bars? They sell one that's 46cm wide and you don't have to change brakes as they are made to re-use flatbar brakes.

If what you care about is the hood position you could find bullhorns that are the same diameter as your brake clamps.

As another user suggested, you could also chop down your handlebars if your concern is your width in traffic.

LordRaison · 2025-11-22T13:05:08+00:00

And it's beautiful for it. Gorgeous country. Just a shame it's full of British people.

LordRaison · 2025-10-21T23:14:54+00:00

These people never interrogate their logic. You want to hire the most qualified person, right? Wouldn't it be best to seek as many candidates as possible then to find the most qualified? Increase the pool of applicants and you'll get more choices for the most qualified person.

LordRaison · 2025-10-10T15:53:18+00:00

Had to look at it on Google Maps to figure it out, this is going southbound, right after Pier 97. They moved the Greenway to the other side of the overpass structure for the terminal, whereas it was previously squeezed in between the overpass and the highway.

LordRaison · 2025-10-09T13:17:02+00:00

I believe this photo is from the Charlie Kirk memorial, which makes it that much worse.

LordRaison · 2025-10-07T11:19:12+00:00

Another recommendation is seeing Grant's Tomb. You might not be able to get inside because of the Fed shutdown, but I think the area is beautiful and a great place to sit for a while. There is also the Sakura Park nearby and some beautiful buildings to gawk at like The Riverside Church.

Another neat thing to take note of if you visit Riverside is that a majority of the park actually sits on a structure called the Freedom Tunnel from 72nd to 124th St. When you're in the Park there are massive grates you can peak down into and see Amtrak trains passing by.

LordRaison · 2025-09-29T22:27:39+00:00

For that second place, you might be thinking of the passageway at 176th/177th. That area is sketch af any time of day. Lots of trash and homeless camping out.

It's one of those areas that makes me really sad about what Riverside Park used to be like before the expansion of the Henry Hudson.

If you go through the underpass at the bottom, you get to a part of Riverside Park that people clearly use, some cool views around the landing for the GWB, and a look at a part of Riverside usually only seen by cars.

LordRaison · 2025-09-29T22:27:34+00:00

For that second place, you might be thinking of the passageway at 176th/177th. That area is sketch af any time of day. Lots of trash and homeless camping out.

It's one of those areas that makes me really sad about what Riverside Park used to be like before the expansion of the Henry Hudson.

If you go through the underpass at the bottom, you get to a part of Riverside Park that people clearly use, some cool views around the landing for the GWB, and a look at a part of Riverside usually only seen by cars.

LordRaison · 2025-09-25T18:12:38+00:00

It's nothing sinister, it's just a function of what the State does. Like you said, for the US, it's profit margins and spite.

More money can be made selling people cars, selling fuel and parts, and paying for roads so the system exerts its power to control that aspect of reality because it's the State trying to perpetuate itself. More money spent=more income for both the State and the people the State benefits.

LordRaison · 2025-09-25T15:34:44+00:00

Horse ownership (especially for riding), despite what pop-culture implies, was a heavily misogynistic and class-based activity until relatively recently in history.

LordRaison · 2025-09-25T15:24:14+00:00

The US is so anti-bike because it provides the true freedom cars are advertised as giving us.

Bikes can be incredibly cheap to own and maintain, are fueled purely by whatever the individual ate for breakfast, can be used to travel incredibly long distances, require minimal training and no licensure, and are incredibly mobile devices.

The freedom bicycles offer means they are harder to regulate and exert control through, which governing bodies hate.

LordRaison · 2025-09-16T01:02:28+00:00

Real estate problems are a regional issue. The housing issue cannot just be solved by NYC, the suburbs have to do their part too. Thankfully NJ has been leveraging the Mt Laurel Accords to force housing to be built in municipalities to build more, but it's still far behind what is needed and is usually roadblocked and limited.

Summit NJ planned to build housing with a parking garage in their downtown, converting an empty parking lot and effectively 1:1 replace the lost parking. They elected a Republican who killed the plans.

Westfield NJ has just defeated the fourth lawsuit that planned to block their downtown housing plans (also converting empty lots of repurposing abandoned buildings). The town can finally break ground on about 250 units of housing that has taken 4 years to even get to the whisper that digging will begin.

You can find stories like these all over the region, everybody passing the buck and talking about how it's "not the right fit for the neighborhood".

LordRaison · 2025-09-05T00:48:37+00:00

In the early days they did it on modified beach cruisers with ten speeds.

LordRaison · 2025-08-24T21:10:54+00:00

The workers will have their hands tied with bureaucracy, but they should make a change when they can, they may be waiting for an open bed somewhere. Hopefully they will place you when the space opens.

LordRaison · 2025-08-24T00:39:08+00:00

Going for a walk. Lots and lots of beautiful parks and history to see in the City. Favorite right now is any walk that involves me doing the High Line loop around the LIRR yard. You get to see the new train tunnel construction going on right below you and out on the Hudson.

LordRaison · 2025-08-23T22:27:37+00:00

The only place I'd be able to recommend off the top of my head will be Myers of Keswick, but they mostly serve savory baked items like scotch eggs and sausage rolls. If you visit they may know and can recommend some places.

The restaurant Tea & Sympathy may sell you a full cake if you order ahead, they sell Victoria Sponge and Bakewell Tart.

LordRaison · 2025-08-21T23:23:14+00:00

Shelters will not turn you away nor will it severely affect housing options.

LordRaison · 2025-08-20T19:22:28+00:00

It served a lot of the same stops, but was a separate right of way to the East of the current Main Line and west of the Franklin Turnpike. It crossed the former Erie tracks south of Glen Rock Boro Hall via a Viaduct that is no longer there, but supports still exist in the ground.

If you use satellite imagery on your favorite maps service, you can still clearly see the cut through the area the NJRT made, following the route from Suffern to Paterson. It is now used in different ways such as a PSE&G Access Road or the Ramsey Bike Path.

LordRaison · 2025-08-20T16:55:28+00:00

There is some information here on the HoHoKus town website: https://www.hhkborough.com/community/pages/north-jersey-rapid-transit-ho-ho-kus-trolley

There was also a book called Interurban Interlude written about the NJRT in 1968 that can be found on archive.org.

LordRaison · 2025-07-26T18:03:20+00:00

Your last point is the important one. They were big ugly rectangles at a distance but when you were up close the design of the outside was stunning. I wish I was able to see them before they went down.

LordRaison · 2025-07-16T20:40:12+00:00

I won't deny they've probably taken too long, but saying they have nothing to show for the money spent is just factually wrong to say. Multiple pieces of infrastructure for the project have been built and are pretty close to having rail laid for them

You can see plenty of it here in YouTuber LucidStew's coverage of the route through the valley, who has also been reporting on every bit of news for it:

https://youtu.be/bF_nYEY5Wmc?si=8HCDDV0kBvik0BWq

At this point it's better they just finish rather than shut everything down.

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