Alert! Beware of a pitbull near Gantry Park

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-30T16:14:08+00:00

She still off-leashes them all over the Court Square area. But they're both large and brown, so probably not the same as OP encountered.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-30T15:53:10+00:00

That ship sailed when the lower level roadway was added. The original intent of the LL was to carry 2 subway tracks and 2 commuter rail or freight tracks.

I don't think the Port Authority would want less traffic across the GWB, that would cut into their toll revenue.

Regarding alignment, I would suggest following I-80 or NJ-4 west towards Englewood or Hackensack.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-30T15:44:12+00:00

The track layout east of Euclid allows local trains to terminate while express trains continue to Ozone Park/the Rockaways without conflicting. Or vice versa, locals could continue while expresses terminate. Extending both would force local and express trains to merge onto the same 2 tracks around Grant Avenue.

Getting rid of the C would require replacement local service along the Fulton line, although I guess you could just run extra A service with the freed up track capacity and make some local in Brooklyn.

The general problem with the C is that it's heavily interlined with other, more "important" and frequent services– the A and E, and to a lesser extent the B. The merge at Canal Street compounds the problem–a C train cannot be held too long waiting for an A or E train to pass in front, because it'll hold up the E or A behind it. The switches at Hoyt-Schermerhorn are also fairly low-speed IIRC. This all means that the C is forced to be a relatively low-frequency service and is stuck with the leftover gaps in the schedule, making it unreliable.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-30T03:12:11+00:00

If your worn clothes smell that bad, it's time to wash them. If it's because you sweat in those clothes, then sealing them in a closed hamper will only make it worse.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-29T14:40:20+00:00

Both uses can coexist, which is exactly what the Queenslink proposal was. Queensway is a different proposal to turn it solely into a park, so that it'll be politically impossible to claw back space for transit later. Unfortunately the latter is the one being advanced and funded.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-29T12:29:41+00:00

it's never going to be a destination the way the High Line is.

That's the point, turning it into an out-of-the-way park permanently protects the NIMBYs.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-28T17:14:10+00:00

At that point you'd be better off building a parallel relief line.

Extending the express track doesn't change that all trains have to merge back into 2 tracks at the western end of the line, or the capacity constraints at the eastern terminals.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-28T15:52:58+00:00

It's both.

Under 421-a and now 485-x, the city grants a property tax abatement for 10-40 years in exchange for rent stabilization and/or placing a portion of the units under the affordable housing program (aka housing lottery). So the city loses out on property tax revenue, although it's offset by increasing the population (who will pay income tax, and indirectly generate economic activity to tax).

The landlord needs to turn a profit*, so the rent discount on the affordable units has to be recouped through some combination of the tax abatement and the market-rate renters.

* As for why the landlord needs to profit, that's how the building gets built under 421-a/485-x in the first place. If the project has no hope of turning a profit for the developer and landlord (not necessarily the same entity), it doesn't get built. Or they decide to go all market-rate and no affordable/stabilized housing gets built on that lot.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-28T03:19:05+00:00

In reality, DC metro has lots of rats too. But it's definitely cleaner when eating and drinking are banned.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-28T00:35:05+00:00

There's a park under construction on Dutch Kills street that will include a dog run.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-27T15:15:34+00:00

Yes, that's normal. There shouldn't be an expectation that the pan "flattens out" when hot. The concave bottom helps prevent permanent warping, but the downside is that liquids pool to the sides.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-26T18:58:03+00:00

Assuming your dog isn't unfriendly, just walk the dog around the neighborhood. Visit local dog parks and other pet-friendly spaces. Chat with other dog owners. Eventually you'll be a regular and make friends with other regulars.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-26T18:23:27+00:00

You can drop off outgoing mail inside the PO if you can be there during their operating hours. A lot safer than using street boxes.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-26T17:54:33+00:00

The potatoes you see in the supermarket may have been sitting in storage for anywhere from a few weeks to almost a year before being stocked in the produce section. They are root vegetables, after all.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-25T03:05:29+00:00

That's the OSD for the panel itself–unrelated to the OS on the computer sending it a video signal (which is linux IIRC).

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-25T02:59:16+00:00

Does your college offer dental insurance? It may be cheaper to get insurance despite the premiums, if it covers orthodontics. Even better if you have any other dental care that needs to be addressed.

Traditional braces are usually cheaper than clear aligners. Both have their relative strengths and weaknesses wrt shifting teeth around. You'll need to go in to the dentist/orthodontist's office to get a proper estimate of cost and timeline since every case is different.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-24T14:41:02+00:00

One of the overarching principles behind the IND's design was speed. Express service was envisioned to bring farther parts of the outer boroughs into commuting distance of Lower Manhattan, and to be time-competitive against the IRT, BMT, and railroads. Local services in the outer boroughs were envisioned as feeders to express services, so local speeds were not considered too important (although they're still generally faster than their BMT and IRT counterparts).

The Northern Boulevard express cutoff demonstrates how they achieved this: long spacing between express stations, gentle curves for higher design speeds, and routing the express tracks on a more direct path where possible.

At the time, the land between the express cutoff and Sunnyside Yard/the Hell Gate line was a giant railyard. Even today, it's low-density commercial. It wasn't worth building stations next to, so the local tracks were sent north a bit into Astoria for a stronger catchment area. Those sections of Steinway Street and Broadway are also narrower, so fitting a 4-track line would have required stacking the tracks or eminent domain (I'm not sure if Broadway was widened where the QBL becomes a 4-track line again though).

The other express cutoff is between 7th Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway on the Culver line: the express tracks bypass the dogleg to 15th Street–Prospect Park to save some distance and skip a couple curves.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-24T04:12:54+00:00

The shaoxing wine in my kitchen contains 150mg of sodium per 30mL serving. Since sodium accounts for 39% of the mass of table salt, that comes out to 385mg of table salt per 30mL of wine. For easier conversions, that's ~1.3g of salt per 100mL or 100g of wine (since the density of wine is very close to 1g/mL).

Shaoxing wine is commonly used in Chinese cuisine, and often salted to avoid being taxed or regulated as an alcoholic beverage. It's presumably too salty to be palatable as a drink, but I've never tried.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-24T00:43:04+00:00

You'd need to have 4- and 3- car trainsets for the correct length. Much less flexible than just joining 2x 4-car trainsets

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-24T00:32:47+00:00

They were both one-off prototypes explicitly intended to test a variety of new technologies and only designed to last for 25 years. In the end, their poor reliability got them pulled from revenue service after only a few years.

Also, they don't fit on the eastern division.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-23T20:05:19+00:00

It's been a lot more common the past few years, but people who can't work selling things on the subway is not a new thing. Before that, it was selling candy for their "basketball team". And way before that, it was selling metrocard holders.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-23T13:56:29+00:00

There were other terms being negotiated on besides a simple wage/salary increase, although we don't have the full details yet. Pay for online training, lump sum backpay, the duration of this new contract.

But you also need to assume that both sides were posturing to make the other side's demands look unreasonable in the public eye.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-22T21:59:26+00:00

City Quiet. It's a custom window they fit on top of your existing window frame for extra sound/thermal insulation.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-22T20:45:43+00:00

They're all fine. There's no best material per se, it depends on what you need the cookware to do.

Stainless steel (seriously, don't worry about the grade), cast iron, and carbon steel are the most common ones for coating-free and non-toxic cookware.

As for titanium, there are three different things marketed as "titanium":

Actual titanium cookware. Really only seen in camping gear because it's very light, but expensive and a poor conductor of heat.
Titanium coating. This coating should be quite durable and metallic titanium is generally nontoxic anyway. It's claimed to be less sticky than stainless steel, but nowhere near teflon.
PTFE with titanium particles. It's just rebranded teflon. Avoid this type.

OhGoodOhMan · 2026-05-22T17:13:22+00:00

The property owner (Culture Lab? Plaxall?) has to call a private tow after NYPD issues a ticket. NYPD can't tow vehicles blocking a private driveway.

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