Hearted for the final line, a favorite aphorism of my mom as well. When I was a youngster contemplating something particularly dumb, she was also fond of, if everyone else jumped off the Brooklyn bridge, would you? Why the Brooklyn bridge, I don’t know, since she never traveled east of Ohio in her life I don’t know, but that was her thing. New York travels, it seems.
Fantastic writeup. I'm a former New Yorker too distant now to know exactly what's going on. For sure the NYT never told anybody, we always had to talk to people to hear it -- so thanks for being my people, here.
Thanks for this. Like some others, I am seemingly incapable of divining (or is it de-vining – too overgrown for me to see the structure) NYC. So yours is a valuable report.
If Zohran or Cuomo win the primary, I too am voting for Adams. My mother was in one of those nursing homes. I will not vote for an anti-Semite who spouts bullshit DSA talking points about Gaza. That goes for Jews as well as gentiles. There are plenty of shitty kapo Jews who were screaming genocide on October 8, before Hamas' victims were even buried.
I am voting for Zellnor because he isn't a fucking tool of the hamas loving nazis.
So sorry for what your mother went through. I advised Israel not to give in to an understandable desire for total revenge on October 10, some weeks before Biden did, but I was glad he agreed with me. I reject all right-wing religious parties, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, Republicans and Putinists. But godless cynics like Netanyahu, killing Jews by the dozens and Arabs by the tens of thousands in order to evade punishment for their corruption, are the worst.
Hearted for the final line, a favorite aphorism of my mom as well. When I was a youngster contemplating something particularly dumb, she was also fond of, if everyone else jumped off the Brooklyn bridge, would you? Why the Brooklyn bridge, I don’t know, since she never traveled east of Ohio in her life I don’t know, but that was her thing. New York travels, it seems.
Fantastic writeup. I'm a former New Yorker too distant now to know exactly what's going on. For sure the NYT never told anybody, we always had to talk to people to hear it -- so thanks for being my people, here.
Thanks!
Thanks for this. Like some others, I am seemingly incapable of divining (or is it de-vining – too overgrown for me to see the structure) NYC. So yours is a valuable report.
Cheers.
If Zohran or Cuomo win the primary, I too am voting for Adams. My mother was in one of those nursing homes. I will not vote for an anti-Semite who spouts bullshit DSA talking points about Gaza. That goes for Jews as well as gentiles. There are plenty of shitty kapo Jews who were screaming genocide on October 8, before Hamas' victims were even buried.
I am voting for Zellnor because he isn't a fucking tool of the hamas loving nazis.
So sorry for what your mother went through. I advised Israel not to give in to an understandable desire for total revenge on October 10, some weeks before Biden did, but I was glad he agreed with me. I reject all right-wing religious parties, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, Republicans and Putinists. But godless cynics like Netanyahu, killing Jews by the dozens and Arabs by the tens of thousands in order to evade punishment for their corruption, are the worst.