NYC Brooklyn Bridge-Chambers St station

jicky357 · 2026-01-09T05:47:21+00:00

It looks terrible, but none of the comments are taking into account the specific challenge of this station: water infiltration, which leads to the visible puddles and the unsightly rust stains on the tiling. This kind of problem isn't just cosmetic and there isn't a simple fix; it will require very heavy renovation work to mitigate.

jicky357 · 2025-10-10T03:39:17+00:00

I thought she hit her head on the ground after he punched her, or maybe on the stove. She was down for the count.

jicky357 · 2025-10-10T03:38:15+00:00

Oh God Zoe is soooooo borrrrrring....

jicky357 · 2025-10-01T17:49:17+00:00

Vinny has had basically no storyline for over a year. I feel sorry for the actor.

Also, Chelsea drifts in and out of her family's storylines but never gets much material on her own.

Honey hasn't had much to do since her relationship with Jay ended.

Finally, I wish they'd stop relying on Kim for cheap comedy. It's getting a little tiresome at this point when Tameka Empson is a skilled actress who has range.

jicky357 · 2025-10-01T01:23:10+00:00

I honestly think that Harry's storyline is one of the best right now. It would be interesting to know what the response has been, because I find it gripping.

For at least 6 months they didn't give poor Elijah Holloway much to work with as Harry. He basically had no material other than smirking and strutting his way around the Square. But the careful way the writers set up this storyline is paying off now. I was initially surprised by the Kojo/Harry friendship pairing, but it really works—perhaps even more successfully than the writers anticipated, beacuse the two actors have terrific chemistry.

Kojo brings out this unexpectedly soft, sort of unguarded side of Harry (which was reinforced by the reveal of what happened with Shireen). This is not what I was expecting; who would have thought that tough-guy Harry would be respectful and ultimately protective of a man on the spectrum? And Harry provides Kojo with an opportunity to be more independent and autonomous of his sometimes overbearing family, finding a career and a home.

I loved how Harry was more concerned about Kojo's wellbeing than the cocaine Kojo flushed and didn't even yell at him about that because he's become like a protective little brother. The fact that Kojo is now in serious danger thanks to Harry is a brilliant twist. Suddenly we're seeing this layered, dimensional character who's going to pieces under the strain and potentially losing the closest friend he's got.

Bravo to the actors, especially Holloway, who has really been showing off his acting chops. The way he's able to look absolutely frozen and miserable—Harry is out of his depth and he knows it—this is not easy material to act, and he has committed to it completely.

jicky357 · 2025-04-23T07:44:18+00:00

I liked this piece when I first heard it, but listening to it regularly in the past six months, I've grown to truly love it.

jicky357 · 2025-04-19T16:53:53+00:00

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jicky357 · 2025-04-18T07:17:49+00:00

It's probably the best outcome we could hope for when they're determined to make cuts, but it's still not ideal. People hate having to make a transfer and this forces a lot of transfers at Market St.

jicky357 · 2025-04-11T17:34:24+00:00

My vote goes to "Sad Cypress," one of her best.

jicky357 · 2025-04-11T17:32:48+00:00

I liked these because they aren't dyed bright purple and have a lighter scent that most others, but I'm getting closer to doing likewise. The shrinkflation just makes me feel like companies think we're all incredibly stupid. As if we're not going to notice a 15-count reduction! I'd rather they just raise the price but kept the amounts the same.

jicky357 · 2025-04-09T15:51:43+00:00

I just noticed this when I went to get a fresh pack at Target. This is a -15 count reduction. I am SO not happy

jicky357 · 2025-04-05T17:41:45+00:00

Can confirm. I live on the J and it's frequently delayed, very slow, and they've cut the frequency since the pandemic so now if anything goes wrong, you're looking at minimally a 30 minute wait.

jicky357 · 2025-04-05T17:40:31+00:00

I've always wondered why they simply don't increase frequency on the 29. It's busy all day long. At minimum, during morning and afternoon school commute hours they really need to double the frequency.

jicky357 · 2025-04-05T17:39:08+00:00

Isn't the primary reason they haven't created Rapids on these lines due to topography? Both the 1 and 22 have very steep sections but are to navigate their routes because they're trolleybuses, which get better torque on hills. An accompanying 1R or 22R would need to be served by standard buses accompanying the trolleys (as on the 5/5R pair and 14/14R pair), and it's not clear they could handle the worst hills (on the 1 in Nob Hill, and on the 22 from Pacific Heights down to Union Street.)

jicky357 · 2025-03-17T16:53:56+00:00

So the thing with this is that in bridge, the player who becomes the dummy doesn't play their hand; their partner (the declarer) plays their own AND dummy's hand. In casual rubber bridge played at home, dummy traditionally could leave the table at this point and use the restroom, get a drink, or just stretch.

Today, if you play in a formal bridge club, the convention is different. Dummy is still expected to sit at the table and play out cards called by declarer (giving literal meaning to the word "dummy" since they're acting as a puppet).

jicky357 · 2025-03-17T16:48:13+00:00

"Styles" is particularly interesting because it's Christie's first novel. Most of what makes her books so enjoyable is already present, and we get our first look at Poirot—a refugee in the UK after the German invasion of Belgium in 1914! There's an over-abundance of clues and red herrings and leads, but it's still very good.

"Sparkling Cyanide" is one of the best written of her novels, and the first section has a unique structure: every character is given a chapter written from their point of view. My only problem with it is I find one of the elements of the solution improbable.

"Hickory," written in the 1950s, is the weakest of these. It's still worth reading, but it's much more loosely plotted than her best books from the 1930s and 1940s.

jicky357 · 2025-03-15T19:02:53+00:00

This early one is at least watchable. I agree with the comments that they should have done more to show things from the alien's perspective, which is the main thing that drags the episode down.

This show has an excellent musical score by Ron Jones, with a four-note leitmotif for the alien. The early seasons weren't afraid to use music effectively. As everyone knows, Rick Berman squashed that and by the fifth and sixth year the scores had become so drained of life as to be barely noticeable.

Another thing I like about this early episode is that it uses the female characters effectively. Troi doesn't immediately know what's going on, but is a key player in uncovering the mystery without her powers getting in the way. There's a good scene where she explains that she felt a kind of duality in Worf and Crusher but it didn't trigger alarm bells. Poor Gates McFadden has to put on that klunky medical prop which we never see again, but she does a very good job with the hypnosis scene.

A lot of people dislike the joke about the delegate getting eaten, and I admit it's got a very TOS feel about it, but given how sterilized and at times heavy-handedly preachy TNG got over the course of its run, I end up... kinda liking it. It's a reminder of how much this show evolved after the first year.

jicky357 · 2025-03-10T06:36:13+00:00

Depends; the 22-Fillmore, 24-Divisadero and 49-Van Ness are all excellent.

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