Jacob Garchik

@jacobgarchik

Trombone player, Kronos Quartet arranger, Flatbush house person

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How it started/how it's going. Boy I wish Rita Joseph and other city electeds/agencies were on here instead of X so we could have them address stuff like this. #illegal53NYC

article about trucks on Caton ave from 2007

pic of illegal 53 foot truck on Caton ave, this morning

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· 2d

DOT claims church Ave b35 bus improvements could be done by next summer. The most vital thing is eliminating parking between bedford and e18th where congestion is atrocious and double parking rampant. No way they are gonna get businesses to agree to that in a few months. www.nyc.gov/html/brt/htm...

Dot diagram of proposed central brooklyn bus work showing implementation by 2027

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· 4d

For you nyc building buffs: restaurant row, w46th between 8th and 9th is a row of converted brownstones. nearly all of the businesses here, including jazz cultural, are carved out of someone’s old 20x50 brownstone basement aka ground floor dining room and kitchen in a single family house.

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· 9d

health care costs are the driver of high labor costs on broadway.

At “Hadestown,” a midweek ticket cost $277 in New York and $187 in London. Why? Wages are lower for actors in London, but so are some of their costs. “One reason prices are lower in London is artists are not worried about where they will get their health care from, because of the national health care system,” said Rachel Chavkin, the “Hadestown” director

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· 28d

anyway this is Utica...How many people actually live on Utica, south of Kings Highway?

Utica ave showing 1 story commercial buildings.

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Jul 10

I got second place in the downbeat critics poll!

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Jul 4

Monday at Close Up I’m presenting new music for this group of legends. Music inspired by Sonny Rollins, Leon Parker, and Phillip Glass. Jacob Garchik – trombone, Adam O’Farrill – trumpet, Hannah Marks – bass, Tomas Fujiwara – drums 154 Orchard St.

July 6, 2026
Jacob Garchik Quartet
Jacob Garchik – trombone
Adam O’Farrill – trumpet
Hannah Marks – bass
Tomas Fujiwara – drums
Close Up, 154 Orchard

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Jun 24

did you see this?

screenshot from x: Mark Cummins says: "In Ireland there's a grant for air-source heat pumps (which can double as AC) but the grants are conditional on the cooling mode being disabled. So we're currently installing the physical kit but crippling it so no one can use it.

“SEAI grant-funded heat pump systems must not be used as an air-conditioning unit for cooling purposes. Reverse valves should be locked and the cooling function disabled from the user controls.”
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Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Jun 24

What's all this about a celebrity wedding at Madison Square Garden?

Al Foster (l) and Miles Davis (r) at Sly Stone's wedding at Madison Square Garden.

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Jun 20

This project on Linden and Nostrand has been underway since 2014, and sort of crept along until 2018, then abandoned, resold a year ago, now is finally finished. Not surprisingly, it looks terrible. Tiny windows, PTACs, panels instead of bricks. hey, beats rats and squirrels.

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Jun 19

@dieworkwear.bsky.social can you write about Clyde Frazier?

Clyde Frazier from a recent Jimmy Fallon show with a loud jacket and tie combo

Clyde Frazier in black turtleneck with black cape and black hat with a medallion from the 1970s

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Jun 13

I knew that band looked familiar

Frame from Moebius’s Edena with people in polka dot costumes with long noses

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Jun 8

Hmmm they removed a citibike dock at 7th Ave and 10th st in park slope and it’s bit of a bike share desert right there. Maybe deblasio wanted the parking back.

Map of park slope with big gap in citibike docks

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Jun 2

Me trying to sell my old bass trombone

Cara Delevingne’s Gramercy Triplex

The actress and model Cara Delevingne has re-listed her Manhattan penthouse for $9.45 million, which was less than she paid for it about four years ago.

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· May 27

Here's an area south of Prospect Park that Mamdani can rezone.

the R2X zoning for 989 east 9th st which allows one or two family buildings

a sales listing with 989 East 9th st, Brooklyn which sold for $11.5m

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· May 20

Can they use 135 Ocean Parkway as a model for the rezoning? FAR of 7, 1965. What zoning would that be?

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· May 20

meanwhile, this is what was built on Coney Island Ave in the past 10 years...boy they fucked that up. Can this be torn down?

big ass new storage building next to a high rise apt building

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· May 20

If they are going to try to fix McDonald, the situation with the blocks just east of it are even more insane...there is no historic preservation in place, but block after block of this type of stuff.

detached fugly looking houses in Kensington

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· May 20

This is the kind of stuff that is preserved in "Victorian Flatbush", either by landmarks or zoning or both. These are right off the subway and cannot be replaced by apartment buildings. Is this rezoning going to touch those?

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· May 19

This one has kind of got a 70s synagogue vibe.

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· May 19

Borough Park got the "replace your old double hung with energy efficient windows even if it doesn't look historic" memo.

borough park rowhouse with energy efficient windows

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· May 13

Look, installing mini splits while preserving neighborhood character.

Fence company built an enclosure for mini splits in forest hills queens

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· May 13

from the simpsons planet of the apes musical: from chimpan a to chimpan z

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· May 2

This building at 17th and 6th Ave in Manhattan is making me think Flatbush new construction doesn’t look half bad.

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Apr 26

Thrilling to hear Kronos Quartet do their new amazing multimedia suite Three Bones at Carnegie Hall featuring lots of goodies I worked on. Highlights were Laura Ortman on her magnificent “Waves Carve The Sound” and Quentin Baxter making my arrangement of Trinidadian gospel music come to life.

program from Kronos Concert at Carnegie Hall

cover of program from Kronos Concert at Carnegie Hall

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Apr 25

Gives you no sense of how many of these 60k units are above $5m and would be impacted by tax. And trots out the ken Griffey tax figure with nothing about how it is relatively low compared to the value. Or anything about how f’ed the property tax system is as a whole.

The actual value of each of those tax rates remains to be seen, but the governor hopes the new tax will bring in $500 million a year, funds New York City could desperately use at it struggles to pay its estimated $5.4 billion deficit. In 2023, about 59,000 units in the city were “held for seasonal, recreational, or occasional use,” according to The New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey.

Detractors say that the proposal fails to take into account the significant amount of property tax dollars those second homes already bring to New York City. For example, Ken Griffin, the billionaire founder of the hedge fund Citadel, paid more than $840,000 in property taxes last year on his penthouse that overlooks Central Park. In 2019, his purchase of the penthouse for $238 million was the most expensive residential sale in U.S. history at the time.

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Apr 25

Another fear mongering pied a tierre tax story. They claim in London, sales dipping, less investors, prices are lower, and then supply is constricted? How does that work? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/n...

The once-sizzling housing market in central London is now chilled. Sales prices of properties in London have dropped more than 20 percent since 2015. As taxes mounted and prices dipped, smaller landlords threw in the towel, taking tens of thousands of apartments off the market and constricting supply. Average monthly rents, as a result, are now at record highs.

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Apr 19

this is the future liberals want (in the borough park / Kensington border) c c @stephenjacobsmith.com

Brooklyn row house with mini split condensers on the front facade

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Apr 8

two excerpts:

The prominence of Zimmer’s epic style—and the larger trends in film scor-
ing that it represents—has meant that the composer’s ouput has been subject
to a substantial amount of critique among those who pay attention to movie
music. This includes both academic and internet-enthusiast subcultures. A full
survey of the critical reception to Zimmer’s music is beyond the scope of this
chapter, but it would be irresponsible to launch into discussion of Zimmer’s
stylistic traits without mentioning at least some of the problems that have
been raised with his approach. For as much as huge influence (not to mention
intense fandom) implies a broad acceptance of Zimmer’s style, the composer’s
music has also spawned some remarkably passionate opposition. Some can be
attributed to the simple perils of success. For example, there are the inevita-
ble accusations—many justified—of derivativeness (especially from classical
music) that hound every prominent film composer.13 Allegations of unorigi-
nality are made easier by the fact that Zimmer’s musical vocabulary is limited
and mostly quite conventional; he seemingly has little interest in harmony
outside the tonal Common Practice, and certainly not with genuine avant-
garde or modernist idioms. His cues are often thickly scored, but without being
finely wrought contrapuntally. Countermelodies are fleeting, genuine inde-
pendence of lines is rare (but not nonexistent), and often the middle range of
the orchestra is treated purely as a vehicle for static sustained chord tones (if
it is filled at all).

My own position differs from Buhler and Neumeyer’s, in that I find Zimmer’s
music, particularly his epic style, to be brimming with “strongly individual-
izing stylistic markers.” Part of Zimmer’s appeal to filmmakers is specifically
that he is not as stylistically chameleonic as, say, John Williams (who can do a
convincing Zimmer impression, though I have not yet observed the reverse).
Zimmer cannot help but speak in his own, immensely distinctive voice. Buh-
ler and Neumeyer are correct in arguing that his action cues can sound inter-
changeable from film to film, but the approach of this essay will be to pick out
those distinguishing components of Zimmer’s music that make it so applicable
to larger-than-life films. We must intentionally distance ourselves from the
34 Frank Lehman
sheer fact of his musical ubiquity in order to recognize exactly what in Zim-
mer’s style is not generic—or, perhaps, not generic in relation to other, previ-
ously dominant scoring paradigms.

Jacob Garchik@jacobgarchik· Apr 8

When’s the last time somebody played a “radio” on the bus?