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As a reminder, please be nice to each other.
You have to be smart to survive
No big trucks
The crime thread is good.
FUCK LASERSHIP
I don't know how that company is still in business. They lose or fail to deliver at least half of the packages of mine that they carry
Only half? Lucky.
Watching the NYPOST over the past few days turn on Trump for being the same exact person he's been along is hilarious.
Or fearmongering about the city , I’ve been going back and forth on the subway and I have yet to see one of their horror stories . I’m not saying it doesn’t happen , but people make it seem like that is the norm 🙄
Lee Zeldin is the man! He gonna make inflation -6% and lower crime so low that criminals are putting stuff back on store shelves and anti-murdering people! Zombies yo!
I'm being sarcastic.
> I'm being sarcastic.
ugh..
almost started foaming at the mouth; such promises
I’ve noticed that not only does New York have high property tax ( like Texas high ) but also a state income tax? Is there a budget sheet that explains where the money goes.
I figured it would mostly go to NYC but each time I visit for work or seeing relatives in upstate New York, it seem like things are just deteriorating.
NYC itself have fairly low property taxes. The suburbs have high property taxes. Of course, you pay for it with an additional income tax in the city.
Health dept and education dept mostly, then mta. I will say nyc health + hospitals is a great program with many free high quality medical services
Is Zeldin winning ?
No
We can only hope
Is it usually this hot in November?
Often, we might have an "Indian summer" week in the middle of November but that is usually sandwiched in-between cold spells. So the short answer is no, it is not usually this warm in November.
Grab your sunglasses and enjoy your front seat to climate change! 🕶
Is it legal to hunt the turkeys in Staten Island to get a Thanksgiving turkey?
What happened to the debate thread?
man dresses as North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un for Halloween. female finds him attractive. a meet cute for the ages.
Love this post so much
Lol
Asking on behalf of a family member:
She signed marriage papers with a man who she was in loved with in April 2020. She recently found out he only married her for a green card. Under the instruction of his immigration lawyer, she was forced to sign a series of paperwork by his lawyers that allowed him to receive his conditional green card. He has been avoiding her for the past 4 months after he received his green card.
They never lived together at all. They do not share any joint accounts (bank, phone, etc.) She married him out of love and has always lived at home with her parents.
What type of lawyers should she be involved with to:
This is not a situation I’d trust to the advice of strangers on Reddit.
Fork over the consultation fee and ask a lawyer. Perhaps call the bar association for a referral.
The new Penn station looks amazing
Needs more seating
Any place to casually meet, lounge, and work around other web developers in NYC?
There are a bunch of engineer meetups. I’ve never been but I know people who say they’re great.
r/nycmeetups
Did something change with /r/asknyc?
My posts there never go through any more. In fact traffic on the sub has slowed down a lot in general.
Why is it so hard to find a washroom in this city??
Why is this sub suddenly been overtaken by right wing news, this is exhausting
What's the weather like over there at the moment? Tomorrow I'm flying from the UK where it's currently 13°C (55.4°F), kinda chilly, very windy. Definitely coat weather. Still clueless as to what to pack. Hoodie? Light jacket? Wool coat?
Kyrie don't have to respect Jews to keep his job.
Well I do, so bless them, and bless you, too.
Brooklyn mirage/ Avant Gardner -- anybody know what's up with this or if I can file a complaint? The only way to get water in this venue is to buy a $6 bottle. Security makes you throw away your empty water bottle and tells you there are no longer any water fountains in the venue. If you go up to the bar and ask for tap they say they only sell bottled water. I believe water should be a basic human right. Seems insane to me that a venue is allowed to do this.
Election Day’s today (8 November 2022) & polls are open (6AM-9PM, ~6:45AM as of this comment), go out and vote if you already haven’t done so. Your candidate(s) could use the vote, and you may never know the impact it can have if you stop by to vote in person! Hopefully the state/city/your neighborhood could prosper under good leadership for years to come.
This might be the wrong place to ask this, and excuse my ignorance, but I moved to the city a couple months ago and have to take the 2:40am Amtrak out of Penn Station every once in awhile. I live in Hell’s Kitchen and usually try to walk everywhere.
Long story short, is there a… safest avenue to walk down to get to 34th around that time of night? 10th is a bit too no-man’s-land, 9th is decent then dead after port authority, 8th is the straightest shot and usually more active - but usually active with questionable stuff.
I’m a dude in his late 20s but look pretty young and have gotten heckled at a few times. Not trying to be alarmist and it seems mostly fine - just keep walking and ignore everyone. I suppose I could take the subway down but it’s slightly out of the way and walking is about the same.
I make that trip all the time. Its fine. I just walk down 9th or 8th. Lots of homeless people, but they mostly keep to themselves.
Any suggestions for nice spas besides sojo spa, aire ancient baths and spa castle with good reviews and not too expensive please. In Brooklyn or manhattan is fine
Great Jones Spa - you can get a Water Pass that gives you access to just their sauna, steam room, hot tub, cold plunge pool and whirlpool. Confirm before you go! I haven't been since the pandemic.
Thank you
hi guys, so i booked a dentist from zocdoc last month and made sure that they were in-network with my dental insurrance. I then received a text / call telling me to book with them directly and they cancelled my appointment via zocdoc. same address and all so I figured it's fine.
I rocked up and signed my forms, I asked them if my insurance covered everything, they verbally told me there was nothing to worry about. I got my cleaning and 1 cavity done, they told me everything will be covered so I walked out without paying any cost.
now a month later i see that they've made a claim via Aetna and they turned out to be out of network and want me to pay 50% of the total cost. which is half a thousand dollars. what do I do now?
Anybody else getting really tired of every NY post comment on anything bad that happens that reads like this “I wonder how they voted “. “They voted for this so they deserve it” fucking ghouls
Never get tired of NYC, always something to do
Do y’all use water filters? I know the tap water here is very clean, though I still worry about micro plastics as well as whatever is in my buildings pipes
Thanks fellow New Yorker for releasing the demon!
I walked around the corner in my building, keeping right and apparently walked too close to a gentleman (but made no contact) who I actually did not see because I was focused on getting to my job site. He remarked, "You really going to walk there when you have all that space," as I walked by. I didn't even realize he was addressing me until I was halfway out of the lobby.
Anyway! He followed me out apparently and bravely and valiantly shoved me from behind while rhetorically asking me, "you really needed to walk there when you had all that space?"
I was surprised and shocked so didn't really respond other than to also say, "really?" to him shoving me.
Anyway, now I'm very angry.
Im surprised there’s no thread here regarding the NY post throwing shade at Trump for his bizarre announcement 🤣
Because the people who constantly post the NYP are largely trump supporters lol
Could never blame anyone in east ny for not paying their fare.
B13 🚮
B14 🚮
Only freaking bus in Brooklyn that goes to JFK, B15, and even despite reducing the length of the route to just the air train station 🚮 🚮🚮🚮
B20 🚮🚮
B6 even if it starts at Ulmer Park 🚮🚮🚮🚮
Have little faith this brooklyn redesign will fix shit.
And before anyone comes with some bus bunching bs, there's no traffic on a Thursday morning at midnight when it's 30ish degrees outside.
Hi guys, just recently moved to NYC, and I am not entirely sure how the broker fee in NYC works, looking for some help here!
Found an apartment on StreetEasy, during showing Landlord's broker asked for a broker fee amounting to 15% of the rent
We agreed to this over the email
After my application is approved, the broker made a mistake and only asked for an amount that is equivalent to the first month's rent
He also asked for this over the email, so the latest email shows him asking for the broker fee equivalent to the first month's rent only. I paid and moved in
3 weeks after moving in, he realised the mistake he asked for the balance (equivalent of 15% of annual rent - first month's rent equivalent)
Am I obligated to pay or is he SOL?
Send him a picture of a cat's butt with the caption "LMAO."
Goku again? When will it be Vegeta's turn to shine. Switch it up already, jeez.
I love this city
So I’m a Singaporean on a semester exchange in Toronto. I recently visited New York and I must say that I’m in love with your city.
It has always been my dream to visit NYC ever since I was a kid because of the movies, spider-man, Casey Neistat, and my mom who used to work there. The city is so beautiful and it’s the most sophisticated-looking city I’ve ever seen. My visit to the city was everything I expected and more. Also, NYC was much cleaner than I expected. Dare I say even cleaner than Toronto.
Only minor complaint I have is the difficulty in finding public restrooms. However, there definitely are workarounds 😂.
All in all, I will definitely be back!
Just seen the prettiest girl in the world at thanksgiving lunch in Sylvia's. She was classy, beautiful and the most stunning girl I've ever seen. Pink dress and white boots. She'll never read this and no one will care but she's so amazing I had to let it out somehow.
Did you masturbate about her in the shower?
…. There’s always one weirdo
Is it morally wrong to give a homeless a $20 bill and ask them to return $5 back as I needed some change ?
Should program some cameras to pick up these license plates. And put together a task force to stop them.
Is it looking eerily yellow out to anyone else?
yup it was
Anyone know where I can find chwee kueh?
For reference:
It's like a teochew thing.
If I was going to visit for 3 days 2 nights in February. Where would be the safest places outside to sleep?
February is usually too chilly to sleep outside properly.
If you have proper equipment (sleeping bag) then you can go to one of the well known tourist parks (even Union Square) and tuck yourself into a corner by the trees. Cops usually don't give a shit about enforcing vagrancy laws, but they do check the popular parks just barely enough to prevent the permanent unhoused people from staking their claim to a spot. 2 nights is low enough risk that you won't have any problems. Avoid the big parks like Riverside or Central. They have their own enforcement and/or the good sleeping spots are definitely claimed.
If you don't have cold weather gear, you can try to find a subway grate that vents the hot air up. Usually these are already claimed. You may be able to sneak two nights in if you go to the richer parts of the city (UES, UWS) where outreach organizations are more active and might have convinced some of the usual campers to spend time in a shelter.
I don't know enough about BK or Queens to give advice for them. BX and SI just seem like bad places to sleep in in general.
But I'd encourage you to first try to be a hobosexual. This city is great for that because we're idiots and we bring a lot of people home for one night stands. There's also a lot of tourists who're looking for an exciting NYC experience. First night in NY I spent in a stranger's hotel room, and that was just as late night drinking buddies.
I'm a tourist looking for an exciting NY experience, actually. I might buy a hotel for 1 night.
There'll be late night hotel rooms open almost anywhere. Prices are usually best at night too because they're trying to fill empty rooms.
So I recommend trying your best to go home with someone first, then hotel as a backup. Or make friends with young tourists and sleep on their hotel room floor.
I swear I saw a fireball last night (Nov1) over Manhattan while on the Pulaski bridge but I can’t see any evidence of it. I feel like I’m going crazy
anyone looking to buy a PS5 and /or Xbox series x
I am selling both PS5 is brand new and never used the Xbox will come with 2 rechargeable batteries and I a controller charging pad as well as everything it came with.
Planning a mini getaway for two.. and need some events to do in/around the city next week.. anyone have any ideas? All suggestions welcome!
Hey guys, i am in a bind and basically need to find a quiet place in jfk airport for 1-2 hours to take an exam before my flight. know of any good quiet spots? the internet says there are sleep pods in terminal 5 but are those open yet?
Has anyone else noticed of thehochulrecord sponsored ad on google?
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Good luck to those running the TCS NYC marathon tomorrow (Sunday, 6 November), give it your best! 👍🏼
The way the powerball gave me a glimmer of hope and then snatched it away with these fuckery ass numbers is criminal.
Anyone know a quiz I can take to determine who to vote for in the elections?
here you can at least see what your ballot will be like;
https://www.ballotready.org/ec/
then google the names if you don't vote a party line.
no candidate will ever seem perfect for anyone,
so think - lessor or two evils...
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/11/03/key-facts-about-u-s-voter-priorities-ahead-of-the-2022-midterm-elections/
Thank you
Where is the best downtown area where there’s many bars to jump from?
Search r/asknyc
west village, east village.
We can complain all we want about the MTA but atleast we are not hiring ex cons to patrol the subways like in Chi town
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no, that's what absentee ballots are for,
you should have applied for weeks ago
if you knew you would not be "home".
I'm originally from New York, been living in Berlin for the last few years, getting ready to move home now. I'll be looking for a job when I return, but there will likely be an unemployment gap of a few months in between. Was wondering, does anybody know of any good, affordable health insurance options I can temporarily use during that time?
Okay I just finished voting it went well but I didn’t see the ballot measures on the ballot. Did I miss it?
They were on the back
Thanks, I guess I missed it
I never realized how much I hated the rain till I moved to NYC. Ruins the day. Soaks the shoes. Need to carry an umbrella everywhere.
Forreal , Im dating with my gf today and walking around in the rain has been annoying lol
My mother died from cancer twelve years ago. I wish she were still here to walk in the rain with.
I'd like to do outdoor qi gong with elderly people in Manhattan's Chinatown. Can I join them, and if so, how do I find sessions?
Hello,
Tourists coming to NYC this January. Our lodging will be close to Central Park. Using Central Park as a starting point, what are some fun places we can walk to explore and enjoy?
Times Square, The new Penn station, Hudson yards and the high line
Thank you
No problem, hope you enjoy your stay
Also worth going to the Whitney Museum if art museums are your dig, it’s literally right next to the High Line.
Natural History Museum and the MoMA are both also right next to Central Park, albeit on opposite sides—the short way, not the long way. Natural History Museum is an absolute must imo.
Upper West Side is lovely for a walk, some nice cafes and restaurants there too. Lovely architecture. Follow Broadway or Amsterdam Ave from Colombus Circle onwards. Try a cookie and a coffee from Levain Bakery on 74th St along the way!
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r/asknyc has a lot of info for tourists. Read the sidebar and run a search as there is lots of recent info available. :)
I’m planning on commuting from nyc to Long Island, and want a clean car pass to use the HOV lane. Anybody know if I can by a used hybrid for this or does it have to be new?? Thanks!
Anyone know of any standard x ray locations with the wall mounted light screen for display?
i am soooo broke and in need of cheap food places while im commuting for school help a girl out
What areas
mainly by lower east side
Chinatown has a ton of cheap eats
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Is there any sort of hub or website where I can find and filter volunteer opportunities? I'll be moving to the city soon and I'd love to find an opportunity where I can do any of the following for underprivileged students: teach coding, college application help/advice, soccer coaching, general mentoring.
Thanks in advance!
New York Cares. Take a 10 min online video orientation and then search through tons of opportunities. It’s a great way to volunteer
Also check out Futures and Options which helps lower income kids interested in finance and tech discover opportunities and get mentoring.
Idealist.org might have some, though they might be more organizational in nature
Is the city really as dangerous as everyone says? Going on a trip to Times Square next week and everyone sounds shocked and says it’s too dangerous
Nope, just don’t act like a tourist/a easy target and you’ll be fine, times sq is so packed that the easiest danger there is pickpocketing so just be careful with your things
Times Square in 2022, dangerous? Maybe if you're afraid of men in superhero costumes.
Times Square is filled with people who don't watch Fox News, i.e. tourists.
Hi — coming for thanksgiving. Best Parade viewing spots? Do they charge?
For God's sake, there's children at the parade!
If you can watch from a high place not street level you’ll have a better time, same thing goes for the fireworks.
What’s the best way to find summer housing? It’s for an internship in Manhattan but unsure of the best way to go about searching for a safe sublease
Check out r/asknyc and also there is a site called leasebreak that often has sublets (and you can filter for those with landlord approval to avoid issues)
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Legal to have, not legal to sell (except like one shop in the city that opened yesterday).
The stores selling California shit are doing so illegally but there's no enforcement.
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So many stores. Like every smoke shop in the city has decided to put weed behind the counter.
The only concern you should have is price for amount and if your weed smells of chemicals, is super dry hard to smell or “damp” and also hard to smell. If none of that any shop is fine. Google Thc to Cbd so your also not scammed. Gorilla glue is your friend👌🏾✨
Does anyone have a clue what was happening in midtown last night? Woke up at 3am to some really loud band music and cheering, not sure what was happening.
any1 live in NY and store their car in PA? Do you get a PA or NY license plate?
I'm storing my car with parents in PA so won't drive it much. Is it easier to just xfer the car to their name? From an insurance standpoint.
You register and insure the car in PA even if you only visit your parents once a year, to save that insurance $$$.
Best spots in NYC to watch USA vs England?
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Hey all, I’ll be traveling to nyc with a friend for 5 days. We’ll be staying at a hotel close to times square. What do you guys think is the best way to get around? Should we just get a 7day metrocard?
Thanks!
Florida man who who randomly killed couple avoids going to jail on insanity plead. So what would the people who said they escaped from NY because of bad justice reforms and crime have to say about this ?
If it happened in a city they'll blame democrats. Or they'll blame democrats regardless.
Can I withhold rent from my landlord?
My roommates and I have been getting screwed by our landlord. We paid extra to have a dishwasher and a nice bedframe left behind, and we’ve had neither for the 4 months we’ve lived here.
Our “house leader” straight up lied to us and told us that our dishwasher would be here in a week. This was said in August. I talked to the technician in the building and he said he gave them an expensive quote 2 weeks prior bcuz it needed a new motherboard. Building clearly didnt want to pay it and has yet to get us a functioning dishwasher (its been 4 months).
They promised to leave behind a nice bedframe as part of the deal and ended up taking it. They said theyd bring it back in “3 days”. Its yet again been 4 months (and we contact them every other week).
Heres the kicker: 2 weeks ago we needed a new mail key, and we have yet to receive one. We need to get into our mailbox and just like the dishwasher and bedrame, they are ghosting us. Everytime we reach out they either say its on the way or “weve put out the request to the ____”.
So can we withhold rent until everything is fixed? Or atleast the urgent stuff like mailbox
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psychologists/psychiatrists that offer adhd testing that are covered by BCBS?
Anyone else just hear that guy on Lehrer talking about Jan 6th?
just a rant, no need to respond.
https://northbrooklynnews.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/curbside-composting-002.jpg
so last month all the queens coops i live around got those
brown compost bins for people to deposit their kitchen scraps.
so i bought my own 1gal bin and special 1gal green cornmeal bags
as my cooking generates about 1gal of produce scraps each week.
today my bin is full, i tie up the baggie and then go for the city bin.
they are all gone, not a single building has them out anymore.
my guess is private coops don't want to have to deal with them.
i finally found one in front of a laundromat 6 long blocks away
and it was half full of paper waste.
i'm so depressed nobody bothers to participate in this program.
it's typical greenwashing how the city wastes money on poorly
executed programs to score political points and nothing improves.
i filed a complaint with 311 parks department to suggest they put
these brown bins in the parks somewhere people in surrounding
buildings can then bring their scraps to. parks already deal with
leaf litter waste separately, so compost should not be a stretch.
this anecdote only goes to show you that people will not save the
planet unless they are paid(savings) or legally compelled to do so.
Anyone has idea why this thread was locked ?
https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/yoaytg/covid_is_still_out_there_get_vaccinated_get/
just like questions should be /r/AskNYC
covid psa's and rants should be /r/nycCoronavirus/
covid threads in general subs attract too much disinformation.
Here's a sneak peek of /r/AskNYC using the top posts of the year!
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There’s this amazing Japanese bbq near Main Street in Flushing
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Really loving hanging around Chelsea
Janis Joplin gave Leonard Cohen a blowjob in Chelsea.
Does anybody know the sales tax on PlayStation 5 ? After the price of the original console how much tax is added on ?
I’m looking to have a professional photo shoot for my dating profile in the financial district of NYC? Best locations?
Natural areas of your own choosing. Don’t try to hard, but don’t look like you didn’t try at all. Do what you like and just look comfortable doing it.
This thread is so utterly ridiculous, the article doesn't give a single racial voting statistic yet all the commenters believed the article without question. I don't understand how you can be so gullible.
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It's the narrative that the resident conservatrolls desperately want to be true.
Where are the lonely sugar mamas at this thanksgiving? Already got a little to purchase happy and need a way to pay for this stuff.
Sweet Mother of God, what is the hold up?! Let the boy sleep in your damn bed! He said he’d wash your sheets!
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Vote Hochul.
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
If Miami dade county where hillary won overwhelmingly got deep red , then NY might have a shot at Zeldin winning
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This didn't age well.
Nope , that’s okay . Republicans should have chosen a more winnable candidate . But they were a clusterfuck nationally outside of Florida . I do hope Hochul gets the message that she has to do better because even with a Zeldin loss, this is the closest a Republican has ever been from reaching office in NY in a while
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Why are conservative men so scared of big cities ?