The hostility in all the recent designs is palpable

"Those people" tend to be the types of people that choose to live in Philadelphia. They are the reason the need to grease their lamposts.

The only thing that surprises me is that the building is practically vacant and needs 100 million dollars in upgrades. So it's essentially just a huge Instagram background right now? For lack of a better analogy.

Damn what legends, I had no idea they existed ... but wow after learning about them, what legends

I came here to say "Well technically...🧐"

>What happens if they just don't renew the lease?

It's not a lease that the city can decide whether to renew or not. It's an operating permit so even if not renewed the city needs to eminent domain the arena to tear it down.

>But MSG is hardly down for the count. That’s because uprooting the Garden isn’t as simple as yanking the permit. For starters, say real estate lawyers, the arena’s owners — a company controlled by the Dolan family, which also owns the Knicks and Rangers teams — would be due a financial payout.

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>If the permit expires, the games and shows could go on — but without much of an audience. The special permit, which expires July 24, allows the Garden to hold more than 2,500 spectators. However, the city would likely allow the Garden to continue operations without interruption while the venue goes through the review process.

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>Michael Rikon, an attorney whose law firm focuses on eminent domain — cases in which government takes or restricts private property — says said he agreed with MSG’s claim that it’s being singled out, given that MSG owns the property and has successfully operated it.

>If the city denied the MSG permit, Rikon said, “Just compensation would be required. Because if they do not grant the special permit, the property becomes worthless. It can’t be used for its highest and best use.”

>In 2021, the Empire State Development authority estimated that moving the Garden would cost the public $8.6 billion, including $5 billion to build a new arena.

$5 billion to build a new arena seems high since Barclays was built for $1 billion, but whatever the exact amount it would be expensive.

So, here's my interpretation.

"White" as a concept and as a group didn't really exist until the 19th century. You would be Irish or German or Greek or Albanian or whatever. But as legal systems begin to deny rights to say, black or Chinese people, we needed a word to effectively refer to people who maintained their full enfanchisement.

As such, the "harm" of whiteness is because it was created relatively recently with the express purpose of denying others rights. You're not bad for being pale skinned, but if you self identify as "white" that's because you do so because of a history of racism.

You may have heard someone say "there's no such thing as white culture" which kind of ties into this. Because "white" as a group was basically invented as a catch all for "the pale skinned people we don't enslave", there really is no culture that binds these disparate groups; there may be French or Italian culture or even a pan European culture, but those are not "whiteness".

Good example of the older waiting area style is Hoboken Terminal.

They leave them as fun little tire poppers

Hello neighbor!

I think 'Penn south' is considered part of the gateway project, whereas this is just an overhaul of the existing station above the tracks

Yeah, they’ve opened the gate for me several times when I had a stroller, I’ve had some travel questions answered, and I’ve bought some metro cards from them.

Still fine if they go away, but just answering your question honestly.

The gift that keeps on giving!

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/waiting-room-grand-central-terminal-new-york-city-new-york-news-photo/929234384

GCT is so big that it had adjoining rooms for benches that were nearly as big as the main hall.

The old Penn Station was the same. It had numerous large rooms; one of them was a waiting hall that was not photographed as much as the entrance and concourse rooms.

In other stations and terminals, such as 30th Street Philadelphia and Hoboken, there are many benches in the main halls.

Oculus Interior 2, revenge of the floor tiles

The same reason we're told to use "enslaved person" instead of "slave" or "homeless person" instead of "bum": it's a concept called "people first language" that popped up in the last fifteen years or so

Hmmmm. City land already, isn't it? What happens if they just don't renew the lease?

In the area surrounding Penn they were going to use eminent domain on a bunch of properties for the disgusting Vornado scheme.

A big question is whether this smaller redevelopment plan also creates new dead end platforms for NJ transit that would make future through running more expensive to implement?

Now that Vornado no longer wants to redevelop the area everyone might be ready to admit that NJ transit doesn't need 6 new platforms south of the existing station. That was just an excuse to demolish the block south of the station and give it to Vornado.

Good question. Not too sure about that.

Sort of, yes.

See, "Latinx" was created in the US by English speakers. It is practically unpronounceable in Spanish or Portuguese. But it was created because there are nonbinary Latin people who do feel they are not represented by the grammar and gender inherent to their languages.

So while "Latinx" was made outside of Latin America, within it, the term "Latine" has been taking precedence. It's a word actually made by Latin people in Latin America to reflect their experiences, and it fits much more easily into the languages than "Latinx" does.

In my opinion, in English, we can just use "Latin" to describe a nonbinary or nongendered person or concept (in the same way we refer to "Latin America"), but in Spanish or Portuguese "Latine" would be more appropriate.

Thanks..I just get a little touchy sometimes - I've always been aware that ageism is one of the generally acceptable prejudices, and hated it even when I was in my 20s. ✌️

>tour

r/boneappletea

So glad to hear☺️ you guys are definitely out there and making your presence known.

Redeveloping any thing above the platforms is basically Oculus part 2.

It will be called a transit project but have nothing to do with operating trains. Instead the funding will go towards creating a fancy mall above the platforms.

This plan might actual be better than the $7 billion one the Governor and Mayor were pushing for because this would create a smaller fancy mall so it should be cheaper. Cost hasn't been announced yet though

Completely agreed. I am fine debating the solution, but firstly we have to agree that eviction or even the threat of eviction is soul crashing. We have to have empathy for our neighbors