Jersey City Surprise Implosion
It seems that the same idiots behind the botched implosion of a power plant in Chicago (that I’ve reported on extensively), pulled the same trick in Jersey City, blowing up part of the old Hudson Generating Station last Friday.
NYC, being downwind from this demolition, probably saw some highly increased particulates in the air Friday morning. Powerplants are filled with Asbestos and other chemicals. Sure would be nice if NYC had a Mayor that wasn’t too busy smoking weed to actually notice this happened. Same for our largely lame-duck city council members.
Massive Graffito Outbreak!
Losers across the spectrum are still big mad about how completely covered in graffiti NYC is, and they’re crying about the city cutting its real estate owner welfare free graffiti removal program. With next year’s budget projected to be even worse, a few tags are the least of NYC’s problems.
That hasn’t stopped Cuomo from weighing in though. Love how this ‘leader’ is all talk about cleaning up the city while absolutely knowing there is no money to do it. Just look at the smirk on this face when he’s talking about it: it’s clear that this shady mommaluke is trolling DeBlasio, and honestly fuck them both.
LOL even Long Island is getting in on the graffiti action. Someone went on an anti-cop graffiti spree in Bellmore. Bravo, suburban scrawler! This of course prompted local boot lickers to hold a news conference where they vowed to get tough on taggers. Yeah, good luck their buddy!
To the surprise of no one, right wing fascists like Tom Cotton have absolutely no clue what graffiti actually is.
Despite 5pointz owner and massive dickhead Jerry Wolkoff’s recent death, his company is still trying to get out of the judgement it owes to artists, this time asking the US Supreme Court to review the case.
Death of a Tunnel
Seattle is nearly finished filling in the former Battery street tunnel. It is just plain surreal to think they couldn’t come up with a far better use of such a unique underground space.
POP UP SHOP IS UP!
Late last week I popped up my new online store at LTVPress.com. My intent is to only offer very limited edition items, and close it when I’m too damn busy to deal with it. I’ll be creating and selling a ton of mock products on there in order to a) help cover the costs of this tiny operation and b) generate cash to donate to various social justice and environmental causes. I’m not in this for the money.
The Boring Tunnels
Elon Musk’s latest tunnel renderings are roundly being dismissed as underwhelming at best. Curbed goes so far as to call it “a valet stand in a parking garage.” We were promised steak by this snake oil salesmen, and instead he’s opening a hot dog stand.
If you can’t tell I really love dunking on Elon. I mean what kind of self absorbed idiot ends up in photos with Jeff Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. This fake ass rich boy ego maniac represents pretty much everything I despise. I’m glad I’ve found him as a foil to mock.
Midtown is a Ghost Town
Get a load of this guy: “They’ve almost made the unpatriotic decision for Midtown Manhattan,” he said. “We need them back.” That’s right, the executive director of the Bryant Park Business Improvement District believes anyone who works in midtown should risk their lives to come back to these ugly ass overstuffed, unsanitary office towers.
Rents are trending downward as the new reality has set in: most employees who can work remote will never go back to the office full time. NYC is facing some brutal years ahead, with budget projections next year that will be far worse than this year. Some developers, who over-leveraged, are going to be in serious trouble. Office and retail spaces are going to empty out due to unrealistic rents and few customers. NYC has been severely wounded. If and how it recovers will be a story written over the next five to ten years.
Meanwhile, the Mayor continues to live on his own planet.
ASS: Assorted Subway Shenanigans
The MTA is stepping into the death spiral once again. Severe service cuts are looming.
The MTA is looking to cut its small fleet of cars used by employees after hours. It is frankly amazing that these cars have ever existed. My old apartment was right next to an MTA MOW office and the two cars assigned to this location were rarely used.
The MTA is moving forward with plans to repair the F line tunnel in the same slipshot, patchwork fashion as they used on the L train. The results will surely come back and bite NYC in the ass in 20-50 years, but hey maybe we’ll actually give a fuck about infrastructure by then?
NY Times Phoning it in again.
The NY Times put out an article about Urban Exploring and I gotta say, I’ve seen better clickbait articles from the UK than this.
The article literally features no one who was there in “UE”‘s early days. How do you not mention Cave Clan, Cataphiles, etc? Instead of documenting the ‘big tent’ of what explorers do, they focus the article solely on decaying buildings. And even if you’re only going to focus on abandoned buildings, why not track down myself (I’m pretty easy to find), Max Action, Julia Solis, Steve Duncan, or literally anyone who was exploring and hosting parties in abandoned buildings a solid decade or more before any of the people they interviewed?
I have nothing against those featured in this article, but they literally cover no new ground or perspective that we all haven’t read a billion times before. It’s lazy reporting at best, clickbait at worst.
A swarm of shorties.
A former tall bando in Clearwater, Florida is now a well polished fancypants apartment building.
A large abandoned school in Minnesota is no more. Apparently two brothers from Iceland bought the joint, and couldn’t get it fixed up.
Dirtbag mayor Duggan of Detroit is trying to sell some bonds so he can funnel cash to his shady supporters via demolishing more abandoned properties around the city.
An explorer came across a suicide victim in a remote ‘bando. No word on if the explorer was hit with a trespass charge, though good on them to report the find nonetheless.
An old dude with dementia went missing and was later found living that squatter life in a bando next door.
Birds in a Virginia abandoned tunnel were given a new place to chill when their old spot was reopened.
ACAB
The Staten Island DA’s office has decided they will proudly fly their racism flag high, allowing cops to kill more civilians using choke holds that the NYPD itself bars in it’s Patrol Guide.
Thanks to ProPublica, you can now search some of the limited NYPD officer secret disciplinary records.
Bando BBQ
A homeless man died in an abandoned house fire in Canada because even our northern neighbors are bad at properly caring for those in need of support.
International Update
Construction of a new ten mile long HS2 rail tunnel in the UK is finally underway. They’re taking care to make sure that any overground structures blend in with the neighborhood.
Luxembourg has a Bat Tunnel that looks like a guano filled fun ride.
And that’s a Wrap:
The hotter the better. Anything to distract from this endless ass grind we’re living in.
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