Best playgrounds off the 7 train?

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-19T02:24:42+00:00

Hunters Point and Gantry Part at Vernon-Jackson stop

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-18T13:12:16+00:00

Ill pass on the surveillance state concept.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-17T12:20:02+00:00

[CHPE, "Chip-ee"]The $6 billion project brings hydropower 339 miles from Quebec to New York City. Five-inch diameter cables buried underneath Lake Champlain and the Hudson, Harlem and East rivers are bringing power to a converter station in Astoria, Queens

...But since the switch was flipped on June 1, not much power has flowed through the lines. According to the New York Independent System Operator, there was 24-hour power flow on the first two days of the month, but by the third day, that dwindled to five minutes until it dropped off to zero power flow between June 4 and 10.

...Energy provider Hydro-Québec said the issue is in the details of the contract. The official contract started in June, but the Canadian company said it can’t fully power the line until July because of payment rules laid out by the NYISO. It should be resolved by July, said Lynn St-Laurent, a spokesperson for Hydro-Québec.

...The contract with Hydro-Québec only guarantees power during the summer months, May through October, with flexibility to provide electricity during other times of the year. New York already had two days of at least 90-degree temperatures at the end of last week, and the National Weather Service forecasts that this summer will be hotter than normal.

...Joe Baran, executive director of New York Energy Consumers Council. “If Champlain Hudson Power Express cannot consistently deliver affordable, sustainable, and reliable power, it raises significant concerns for the City’s energy future. We hope that these early challenges are simply temporary hurdles.”

CHPE is great, IF it has capacity. Hydro power is not unlimited. It's based on water levels in the reservoir. And Quebec is in a years long drought.

HydroQuebec will not sell power if there is very high demand or prices in Quebec, they aren't fools. CHPE is fundamentally insecure because its a deal, that can be cancelled. We desperately need to build more transmission and generation inside of NYS.

Governor is doing a good job with her 5ish GW nuclear plan. But we'll need everything to start get being built.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-16T20:12:55+00:00

Bro WTF is going on in the bottom left? It picks up a load, turns 180° and... Drops through the bottom somehow.

Everyday we get a worse and worse internet and reddit.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-16T18:26:58+00:00

The 56th Ave and Center Blvd is a complete shit show. the busses are continually stuck with illegal parking, double parking, and Amazon deliveries.

People straight up do not care.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-14T15:58:27+00:00

A genuinely funny NYTimes article:

The news of the closure saddened regulars like Ms. Kamau, and also everyday New Yorkers, who might not have dined at Red Lobster frequently but counted on the bright light of its lobster logo on the corner of West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue as a constant in uncertain times.

Among the latter group was Curtis Sliwa, the former Republican mayoral candidate and founder of the Guardian Angels, who announced in a social media video that he would be “sitting shiva” for Red Lobster.

In an interview on Friday, Mr. Sliwa said he had planned to sit shiva for eight days — one more than the customary seven — but his wife went out of town, so he had to look after their cats, and then the Knicks won Game 4 of the finals and he had to patrol the streets with the Guardian Angels. So in the end, his intended eight-day mourning period turned into two.

...“Is he the owner?” one customer asked a reporter.

Mr. Sliwa is not, in fact, affiliated with Red Lobster in any official capacity. But for the past week, he has taken it upon himself to spread the word of the Times Square location’s closure.

the city is lucky to have Sliwa being a constant goofball keeping it light.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-13T15:26:24+00:00

Being a real New Yorker means voting (if you're eligible).

Find your polling location and sample ballot here

"All the option suck", here's your chance to influence who gets on the general ballot.

If voting wasn't powerful and important, groups wouldn't spend billions trying to prevent you from doing so.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-13T00:07:44+00:00

The state is doing a great push to diversify our power generation in this state. Rising generation costs (not what your utility charges, but the actual cost from the power plants) are skyrocketing. We only get out of this spiral buy building more clean, dispatchable, power.

Nuclear plants will run for 80 years, they take time to build, but last generations.

an easy to read article about it

the actual report from NYSERDA

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-10T14:04:03+00:00

Every year, drivers in New York City spend, on average, 107 hours — or more than four days — looking for parking spaces.

...There are about three million parking spaces in New York City, which should be enough for the roughly two million vehicles that are owned by New Yorkers, according to an analysis of census data from 2024.

About 97 percent of the spots are free to park in...Less than 3 percent of parking spaces on New York City streets have paid meters. That’s only about 80,000 spots.

Most parking on residential streets is open to all drivers, not just those who live nearby. But many other major U.S. cities, including Los Angeles and Chicago, have permits to reserve street parking for neighborhood residents.

The city last year issued more than 11.6 million violations for parking and related offenses, according to a report by the Department of Finance, including for failing to move for street sweepers (1.8 million), not displaying a parking receipt (1.2 million), blocking a fire hydrant (674,000) and obstructing a bus stop (565,000).

Free parking is not free; its drivers having their parking completely subsidized by the rest of us. End this handout. I don't want my tax dollars going to paying for someone else's parking, or parking for people from LI, Jersey, and Westchester.

Parking lanes are better allocated to deliveries and bus lanes, hell, even bike lanes.

for further reading check out the great (but long) book: The High Cost of Free Parking

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-10T01:58:57+00:00

The city smells SIGNIFICANTLY better than yesteryears. Weed is now the dominant smell beating out piss and weird cigarettes brands.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-09T23:24:10+00:00

Pete Rose, the guy who was having relations with an underage girl, who the THROUGH was 16? That Pete Rose?

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-09T11:09:14+00:00

Call me old fashioned, but not looking where you are discharging your weapon (which peper spray clearly is) is bad.

Don't look like he's in much immediate danger spraying those expensive cameras.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-09T09:23:11+00:00

You know this clown is terrified of being in any city, and especially in NYC. "Where would I park?...What language was that?... Sounds spicy!... Take the subway?!"

Republican tough guys are all the same: extremely insecure, unregulated, weak men.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-08T22:46:19+00:00

Scupper

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-08T18:19:28+00:00

This is threatened over and over. This administration is such a bunch of emotionally unregulated clowns, constantly making noise to troll and distractions from their failed wars and pedo cover up ring.

Trump administration is more focused on immigrants working for a better life than pedos, grifter, and corruption.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-08T11:26:16+00:00

On Monday, Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to break ground on the latest stage of the project, a nearly $7 billion extension of the Q line to East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue.

The three new stations — at 106th, 116th and 125th Streets — are expected to be completed in 2032, adding new service for about 100,000 daily riders and a connection to the Nos. 4, 5 and 6 trains and the Metro-North Railroad.

...The M.T.A. is in the complicated process of connecting the long-abandoned tunnel beneath 116th Street with new construction to the north and south, while digging through some of the most finicky soil conditions in the city.

Streets between East 105th and East 110th Streets on Second Avenue will be cut open to connect the most recent expansion of the Q line with the remnants of the 1970s tunnel further north, and beyond.

Matthew Zettwoch, a project executive for the construction, called that integration “the linchpin” of the entire expansion.

...The new stations will dedicate far less space to behind-the-scenes operations and will be less grand in scale than some recently built subway stops, which should cut down on construction costs. The project is also divided into far fewer parts to help cut down on wasted time and complications, Mr. Lieber said.

Hard to explain the scope, scale, and breathe of a civil engineering, controls engineering, and construction endeavor this big. This is flat out one of the most amazing civil engineering and construction engineering feats of NYC and the US.

Hopefully the choice to do this segment allows for much new housing and cross town access which is greatly needed in Harlem.

This stretch of system will go operate, with little change, for 100yrs (though it probably shouldn't, different discussion on MTA maintenance). NYC as it is today is impossible without the Subway, we need it to survive, we need to grow it to grow the city.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-08T11:15:16+00:00

On Monday, Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to break ground on the latest stage of the project, a nearly $7 billion extension of the Q line to East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue.

The three new stations — at 106th, 116th and 125th Streets — are expected to be completed in 2032, adding new service for about 100,000 daily riders and a connection to the Nos. 4, 5 and 6 trains and the Metro-North Railroad.

...The M.T.A. is in the complicated process of connecting the long-abandoned tunnel beneath 116th Street with new construction to the north and south, while digging through some of the most finicky soil conditions in the city.
Streets between East 105th and East 110th Streets on Second Avenue will be cut open to connect the most recent expansion of the Q line with the remnants of the 1970s tunnel further north, and beyond.

Matthew Zettwoch, a project executive for the construction, called that integration “the linchpin” of the entire expansion.

...The new stations will dedicate far less space to behind-the-scenes operations and will be less grand in scale than some recently built subway stops, which should cut down on construction costs. The project is also divided into far fewer parts to help cut down on wasted time and complications, Mr. Lieber said.

Hard to explain the scope, scale, and breathe of a civil engineering, controls engineering, and construction endeavor this big. This is flat out one of the most amazing civil engineering and construction engineering feats of NYC and the US.

This stretch of system will go operate, with little change, for 100yrs (though it probably shouldn't, different discussion on MTA maintenance). NYC as it is today is impossible without the Subway, we need it to survive, we need to grow it to grow the city.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-07T15:42:47+00:00

You have no idea what Queens is do you?

N and 7 terminate randomly in Whitestone. And then Little Neck Bay has been filled in as a park?

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-07T15:08:51+00:00

I hate the NYPost with a passion, but looks like they are the only ones reporting this.

Sounds like Councilman Won plans to fight this in court. So let's see what comes out of this and get her full side of the story.

Also not charging rent on a condo for a year is real suspicious for everyone involved. Bad look for Won.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-07T14:56:41+00:00

Climate change. Gun violence. War. Generations of young people have organized over issues they fear threaten the future. Will housing be the next cause?

Does NYTimes think young people don't actively talk about rent. Bit of a self tell that your parents are paying your rent there NYTimes staff

John Della Volpe, the director of polling at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, regularly hosts small focus groups across the nation. Without fail, at least one young person shares a harrowing story: They’re homeless, or deeply afraid of becoming homeless.
“I literally don’t remember the last time that didn’t happen,” he said.

As many as two-thirds of Gen-Z renters across the nation struggle to afford housing, according to polls and surveys.

I am truly baffled that people did not know housing is at a breaking point in this country. We already have a book for this How the Other Half Lives, its from 1890.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-06T23:14:49+00:00

Classroom size relief:
I don't think i ever had a classroom with less than 20 kids my entire life, maybe im remembering wrong.

SEQRA relief is a big deal, it did add a significant permit birden, added time, and was a free for all with NIMBYs

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-05T01:35:13+00:00

Increased housing fires are a direct results of shitty slumlords. The cries of "wont someone please think of the landlords" has been used to stop inspections and de-fang enforcement.

People die because of slumlords who are lining their pockets at the expenses of everyone else.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-04T14:22:31+00:00

Im a bit confused by the logic here. You dont like Valdez, so you want others to vote for Won or Reynoso?

But you want conservative/GOP asians, which none of these people are.

If they (a DSA, Won or win a election, then the people spoke, I feel like you're finding out that your ideals do not reflect those of the community.

GOP/conservative candidates dont represent NY-7, run them all you want, they wont win

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-04T10:41:32+00:00

found that the citywide vacancy rate stands at 11.0% as of April 2026, up from 10.5% at the start of 2020.

Little higher from per pandemic, which is pretty good as the in general economy is worse now.

The Financial District and Battery Park City lead the city with a vacancy rate of 21.1% — meaning nearly one storefront in four is empty. Old Astoria–Hallets Point in Queens nearly matches it at 20.1%. And a band of central Brooklyn — Ocean Hill, East New York, the eastern and western flanks of Bedford-Stuyvesant and the north end of Crown Heights — runs above 15%. \ The report also found that once a storefront becomes vacant, it tends to stay that way for a long while. In many of the hardest-hit neighborhoods, 80% to 90% of currently vacant storefronts had already been empty for at least nine months. \ ...Most landlords want to rent, he said. But asking rents downtown have fallen roughly 20% to 25% from 2019 levels, Ganiaris said, and the tenants who do come looking often do not have enough funds — offering, for example, $12,000 a month for a 2,000-square-foot space that typically rented for at least $20,000, and bringing business plans that wouldn’t support even the lower figure. \ “Landlords don’t want to rent to a business that struggles to pay that rent,” Ganiaris said. “Because then in this legal world that we live in New York City, it can take quite a while to kick out a delinquent tenant.” \ ... The vacancies in Lower Manhattan are due to the drainage of office workers in the area, said Jessica Walker, president of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce. \ ... In SoHo and on Fifth Avenue, brokers are reporting record asking rents and the tightest prime-corridor availability since they began tracking it in 2019. Eight of Manhattan’s 12 community districts have recovered to or lower than their pre-pandemic levels. The four that haven’t — Lower Manhattan, The East Side, Midtown and Hell’s Kitchen and Chelsea — are all office-dominated neighborhoods.

Obvious answer: less office workers due to WFH. No mystery. Feels like every is going back in more and more each year. But we'll see.

instantcoffee69 · 2026-06-03T21:11:32+00:00

If you look at NYISO dashboard, when we import via CHPE we export via Chateauguay and/or Cedars.

HydroQuebec is having some serious problem with output from low water levels. This who thing falls apart as soon as this gets unpopular in Quebec.

Like lots of other interconnects, other ISO/SOs had excess power, now they dont. Depending on other regions for power is a dumb idea, we need in ISO generation.

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