lol imagine designing an enormous public destination so that it’s illegal and dangerous to walk to
Rich Mintz
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Rich Mintz
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Street safety, housing, and democracy advocate. Fmr Housing committee chair, Manh CB6. Opinions mine. He/him. (richmintz bsky social)
Rose Hill, Manhattan
Joined November 2007
- Actual lol at the idea that a high school teacher is a leechTim Walz has been a leech his entire life: - Public school teacher - Politician - Veteran
- Real New Yorkers shop at whatever grocery store is the fewest number of feet from the front door of their apartment buildingReal New Yorkers food shop at Key food, C town, and food bazaar. Wegmans and Whole Foods is gentrifier territory. Trader Joes is neutral grounds.
- “Can I walk 3 blocks in the busiest part of Manhattan at 10pm with a teenage boy, with 500 police officers in the immediate vicinity, without being murdered” — woman from Michigan
- Injured by sharks in New York State in the past 180 years: 20 Injured by drivers in the congestion zone in the past 180 DAYS: 1,402 Congestion pricing now, you absolute fraud
00:41With new shark drones and pilots to monitor our state beaches on Long Island, we’re going to take the bite out of shark attacks this summer 🦈 - This is literally a fascist intimidation rallyDon’t ever cross us.
- I'm pretty far left, but every time someone makes the argument that substance users in the subway have no impact on the people around them (except an "aesthetic" one, sorry) I get nudged a tiny bit toward the right
- HOLY SHIT an actual ADA COMPLIANCE DEMAND LETTER from the U.S. Attorney’s Office I have been wondering who would have standing to sue the cops for parking on the sidewalk but the SDNY definitely does lolllllJust in: The feds are threatening to sue NYC if city vehicles do not stop parking on sidewalks and crosswalks in ways that "impede the access of people with disabilities to pedestrian pathways," if you want to talk about an actual ADA lawsuit. PDF letter: justice.gov/d9/2024-04/let…
- This is just …crime. This person is a criminal! They installed a product that conceals one character of their license plate and blocks photography from above and both sides.
- Here’s Curtis Sliwa confessing to a hate crime (orchestrating a gang assault on a man because he was speaking Spanish) to the Associated Press
On top of everything else, police have now confirmed the man roughed up by Guardian Angeles here is not, as Curtis Sliwa claimed, a “migrant.” apnews.com/article/guardi… - Am I understanding this correctly? - company proposes tidy 12-story contextualized project they can build as of right - NIMBYs revolt - company: ok, guess we'll build this space shard* instead, since we can build that as of right too * I like it fine sfyimby.com/2023/04/exclus…
- This is the home of Betsy DeVos, one of the Michigan women leading the vandals who are destroying American public education. Can we acknowledge that maybe economic circumstances play a role in radicalizing people?
- This is insane. This NYPD officer could easily have killed him. I’m a motorcycle rider who rides in the city every week and I’m pretty nimble and even I’m not sure I have the skills to stay alive if a cop tries to mash me into a jersey barrier at speed. What are we doing?
