Rich Mintz
@richmintz
Street safety, housing, democracy advocate. Fmr Housing committee chair, Manhattan CB6. LGBTQ person. Trans people exist. Opinions mine. 🗣️🇺🇸+🇩🇰+🇪🇸(🇦🇷) he/him/🚲/🚍/🏍️/🏡
The beloved bagel shop at the end of my block has been shut by the health department (staff are inside doing what looks like a deep cleaning) and honestly this makes me want to punch someone at the health dept like how DARE you
Forgot this on Sunday: came around the turn on the GCT viaduct to find like 200 people watching Manhattanhenge, sometimes this city is Good Actually bonus henge pic from Union Square
If you want to be asked “is this still available” two hundred times in 48 hours by people in Peru and/or profiles that are sketchy af, just try to unload a motorcycle on Facebook Marketplace at a bargain price
I went back to the source. Here’s where it used “quietly” in draft copy today. Looks like I edited it out in the final.
New contribution to transplant discourse: only native New Yorkers know the Brooklyn Bridge isn’t supposed to be on fire
Some fresh bollard action protecting the 1 Av bike lane This is the only pair, I wonder if they’re going to put them up every time they install a concrete refuge
If you’re wondering how things are going over in Zuckerberg land, this is the level of Mamdani brain poison posted on a picture of *Cynthia Nixon* by a woman with a cute poodle as her profile pic
I think there were twice as many people on the edge of Baruch Plaza watching Game 5 on the screens outside Dog & Bone and Fitzgerald’s
Happy Local Law 11 Inspection Day aka Surprise I Can See You Nekkid Day to those who celebrate
god fucking dammit, in 20 years in New York City I’ve never hit it twice on a round trip
they closed the FDR after 34th which means the city is near gridlock below 23rd, more than a mile above the parade zone
If Chotiner spoke to me this way I would just melt into a pool of, like, cat vomit on the floor, but when you’re stupid you’re invincible www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
I have to say I kind of like seeing the new Mamdanica typeface everywhere
The most amazing thing about this weekend: I live in Murray Hill Adjacent and even on a normal Sat night some sloshed mook from Massapequa drops some trash into my bike basket, last night NOTHING — it was genuinely a good-energy crowd
I GASPED. When IT happens it’s gonna be just like this, just 2 digits and the borough changed
7 hours after the area cleared, there’s almost no evidence that any of this even happened, because employees of the half a dozen businesses directly abutting the impromptu party (some not even open last night) have been (and still are) out cleaning it all up as a public service