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simcitymayor t1_jdo72cb wrote

Reply to comment by bigdickmassinf in 16 stories beneath midtown Manhattan, NYC by PonyEnglish

I don't have a clear memory how I first-first heard about it. I had a friend to worked for Skanska in legal, and they mentioned it, but I might have also heard about it through the 2nd Avenue Sagas blog. The criteria was that you had to live within 1 avenue block of 2nd Avenue to qualify. I did, but much further south of the construction zone. They didn't care.

Either way, I emailed somebody, they added me to a list, and they were really good about updating people about when tours were available (all options were early morning Saturdays, if I recall), and what would be expected of them (wear clothes that can get dirty, shoes you really don't care about, you'll end up walking a couple miles before the tour is over, but not a lot of stairs because it's a mine-shaft-ish elevator sto get in and out. You'll meet at this location near 71st st for the introduction, safety lesson, and to issue gear, the tour will walk you over from this station to the next one, expect to get "rained" on, and we'll come back up there instead of the way we went in...

The second tour I think was available only to people who'd been on the earlier tours. By this point it was almost a complete station. They were still putting up tiles and doing wiring, but things were dry, painted, and clean. The Bronx Borough president was on our tour, so there was a gaggle of photographers along with, but they basically ignored us normies.

Both tours were awesome in their own way, but I liked the first one better, and I had a lot of fun remembering all this stuff for this comment. If you ever are near an MTA contstruction zone, ask around to see if they're doing a tour.

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paruresis_guy t1_jdo576o wrote

Reply to Reason #3,412 on why I love living in NYC. Walking down the street you've passed hundreds of times and seeing some random shit like this for the first time. by AnotherNYCPhotog

My contribution: Thursday, riding to work on the Hudson River Greenway, I saw some Riverside Park volunteers unloading a steaming pile of compost. I stopped to film it, and to smell it--I explained to the volunteers, so they didn't think I was videoing them, "This is stopping to smell the flowers for me--my favorite smell is compost."

One of the volunteers looked at me and said; "I like the smell of horse piss."

My eyes widened and I responded, (honestly) "Yes! Horse piss! On straw! In the summer heat, in a barn!" We exchanged happy knowing glances, then I continued on my way.

NYC. A pure moment of connection is seemingly always available.

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langenoirx t1_jdo2txl wrote

Reply to comment by mowotlarx in House GOP chairmen ask Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg to testify on Trump probe by newzee1

>Bragg: (Goes after a well documented unapologetic criminal)

Bragg had the opportunity to "Go after a well-documented unapologetic criminal" last year and passed on it. If he moves forward first with an indictment of Trump now, before Georiga than Bragg needs to be removed from office. Moving forward with the Stormy Daniels case is only going to help Trump politically.

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Griffin808 t1_jdnvc35 wrote

Reply to If you build more public transit, they will come back by psychothumbs

I'm sorry but expanding this shit show is not the answer. There is a signal failure on the F/E line ever other day that fucks the whole system up. I don't understand how signals work or why this seems to be a never ending problem that can't be fixed. But keep the shiny new trains and actually have a system that can run trains on a timely basis. It is ridiculous to tell the public that the system is worth it when every day there are countless things going wrong with it.

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