Fat Al NYC
@fatalnyc.bsky.social
Hell's Kitchen, NYC. Yankees. Horse Racing. Law. Backgammon. Jew (Brooklyn/Aleppo).
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I mean at scale, don't robotaxis just turn the roads into railroads, with each person/group in their own private Pullman car?
Of course, we could just build rail and skip this whole thing.
Of course, we could just build rail and skip this whole thing.
Really can't overstate how problematic robotaxis become at scale:
"Urban traffic is constrained by the fact that getting around by car either requires (expensively) paying someone else to drive or (inconveniently) driving oneself. Without such constraints the result could be brutal gridlock."
"Urban traffic is constrained by the fact that getting around by car either requires (expensively) paying someone else to drive or (inconveniently) driving oneself. Without such constraints the result could be brutal gridlock."
Self-driving cars will transform urban economies
A robotaxi boom is coming. The impacts might be broader than you expect
www.economist.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I mean at scale, don't robotaxis just turn the roads into railroads, with each person/group in their own private Pullman car?
Of course, we could just build rail and skip this whole thing.
Of course, we could just build rail and skip this whole thing.
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To begin with today, happy 117th anniversary to this entirely reasonable cat
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
To begin with today, happy 117th anniversary to this entirely reasonable cat
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
Prince
Janelle Monáe
Luther Vandross
Garbage
Fishbone
Prince
Janelle Monáe
Luther Vandross
Garbage
Fishbone
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
Parliament Funkadelic
Nas
GWAR
Outkast
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Parliament Funkadelic
Nas
GWAR
Outkast
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
BB King
Thundercat
Dave Brubeck
Van Halen
Cher
BB King
Thundercat
Dave Brubeck
Van Halen
Cher
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
Prince
Janelle Monáe
Luther Vandross
Garbage
Fishbone
Prince
Janelle Monáe
Luther Vandross
Garbage
Fishbone
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The 11-year-old has very little R&B and soul context. So I told her that the oldies R&B station is just the radio. She doesn’t know the difference and its great. She thinks this Patti Labelle cut is new and viral.
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The 11-year-old has very little R&B and soul context. So I told her that the oldies R&B station is just the radio. She doesn’t know the difference and its great. She thinks this Patti Labelle cut is new and viral.
Hell’s Kitchen stories are always fun, and this has some good ones.
At some point a @daytonian.bsky.social write-up on the Whitby at 325 W 45th would be fantastic. I can only imagine the litany of stories there.
At some point a @daytonian.bsky.social write-up on the Whitby at 325 W 45th would be fantastic. I can only imagine the litany of stories there.
This Depression Era, Art Deco apt building In Hell's Kitchen had a formidable super in the 1930s in Anna Gunther, described by a newspaper as "rough-and-tumble."
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2025/11/geor...
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2025/11/geor...
George G. Miller's 1931 461 West 44th Street
photograph by Anthony Bellov On August 14, 1931, The New York Times reported that the New York Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church ...
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Hell’s Kitchen stories are always fun, and this has some good ones.
At some point a @daytonian.bsky.social write-up on the Whitby at 325 W 45th would be fantastic. I can only imagine the litany of stories there.
At some point a @daytonian.bsky.social write-up on the Whitby at 325 W 45th would be fantastic. I can only imagine the litany of stories there.
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Grim out there, but on this Thanksgiving Day, grateful to all who care, who try to make things better, who persist in being decent in the face of ugliness.
November 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Grim out there, but on this Thanksgiving Day, grateful to all who care, who try to make things better, who persist in being decent in the face of ugliness.
Wow. There's a lot going on here.
Among the residents of 875 5th Av over the decades have been character actor Victor Moore, artist and sculptor Edith Magonigle, and "Vogue" editor Eleanor Montgomery.
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2025/11/emer...
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2025/11/emer...
Emery Roth & Sons' 1940 875 Fifth Avenue
In 1939, a syndicate called the 877 Fifth Avenue Corporation was formed for the purpose of erecting a modern apartment house at the southe...
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Wow. There's a lot going on here.
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120 days until Opening Day
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
120 days until Opening Day
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May your memory be a blessing Mother Viola Fletcher. RIP 🙏🏾🕊️♥️
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
May your memory be a blessing Mother Viola Fletcher. RIP 🙏🏾🕊️♥️
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the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
The worst typo.
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The worst typo.
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I did mine. It worked. Now my job is to listen to records and talk about them. It's brilliant.
What's your absolutely unworkable plan to drop out of your current life (or at least work life) and do something completely different?
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I did mine. It worked. Now my job is to listen to records and talk about them. It's brilliant.
We’re doing this again?
NJ drone hysteria 1 year later — dozens of sightings remain unresolved, as shocking new details emerge
NJ drone hysteria 1 year later — dozens of sightings remain unresolved, as shocking new details emerge
The earliest confirmed sighting of an unauthorized drone in the Picatinny Arsenal airspace occurred on Nov. 13, 2024 followed by 10 more sightings through Dec. 6, according to the military.
nypost.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We’re doing this again?
Love this.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Love this.
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I made jokes about RFK Junior bringing back leeches. I have to stop making jokes.
The head of health services in the United States, letting parasitic lampreys bite his arms for some godforsaken reason.
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I made jokes about RFK Junior bringing back leeches. I have to stop making jokes.
The Chin!
Remodeled by Blum & Blum from a 19th c brownstone in 1922, this neo-Colonial rowhouse was home to the mistress of gangster Vincent Gigante. He used it as his romantic getaway and for dealings.
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Chin!
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Which reminds me of one of my favorite New Yorker corrections
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Which reminds me of one of my favorite New Yorker corrections
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November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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zohran officially cancelled for flying to DC instead of taking amtrak
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
zohran officially cancelled for flying to DC instead of taking amtrak
I’m totally there for this.
Next State of the Union, I want to see the entire Democratic Caucus interrupting Trum with shouts of "SIX - SEVVVVVEN!" while doing the weird juggling hand gesture!
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I’m totally there for this.
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Poster for THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK (1950)
Starring Evelyn Keyes - BOTD in 1916
Starring Evelyn Keyes - BOTD in 1916
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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lol
Tesla +5.6% on a Grok report Elon has a top 10 mind in <all of history> and is more fit and athletic than Lebron
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
lol
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And that's just it -- Jeffries WON'T just be minority leader if/when he's re-elected. Barring unforeseen catastrophe he'll be SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, and that's a huge deal. How many people hate their own rep enough to NOT want them to be Speaker? (The first Black Speaker ever!)
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
And that's just it -- Jeffries WON'T just be minority leader if/when he's re-elected. Barring unforeseen catastrophe he'll be SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, and that's a huge deal. How many people hate their own rep enough to NOT want them to be Speaker? (The first Black Speaker ever!)
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“Does Trump’s newest strategy finally include sharing what ‘wonderful secret’ he kept with Jeffrey Epstein?”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
‘Democrats are going to come to regret this’: After Epstein vote, Trump ready to attack
The White House is frustrated about being backed into a corner on the Epstein vote. They plan to punish Democrats for it.
www.politico.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
“Does Trump’s newest strategy finally include sharing what ‘wonderful secret’ he kept with Jeffrey Epstein?”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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