ohhleary

@ohhleary

Beer writer, traveler, marketer, transit nerd, urbanist, born and bred Rhode Islander, longtime New Yorker, that guy alone on the plane that one time Beer content is at @brewyork.beer brewyork.substack.com 📍Brooklyn, NY

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ohhleary@ohhleary· 23d

Whoa, had no idea this was being considered. I don’t usually love one-way conversions but if it makes the traffic light timing across Metropolitan more reasonable, I’m all for it.

ohhleary@ohhleary· 24d

My friends are elder emos. Ask me how I know.

ohhleary@ohhleary· 25d

Well, the fact that it took me 20 summers in NYC for me to finally get to Fire Island is a mistake that I regret.

ohhleary@ohhleary· 28d

Still better than the view from my train window right now!

ohhleary@ohhleary· 29d

Unemployment means I’m home and out during the day a lot more, which means this is the second time today I’ve seen an @illegal53nyc.bsky.social truck blocking traffic on my street.

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jul 20

Begging journalists to stop for a second and think: are these business owners concerned about the impact to their business? Or are they just concerned about their ability to park in front of their businesses?

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jul 15

I’d like to correct the record. We were going 15mph.

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jul 11

Four speeding tickets in 91 minutes and three in less than an hour. Deranged behavior.

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jul 11

You have to be an absolute moron to trust AI to generate an accurate map, yet somehow these morons have marketing budgets.

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jul 7

The internet went out at my mom’s house and there’s no way to report an outage to Cox. They’re just like, “trust us, we know,” but it’s been out for an hour and they still insist we have service. Great system we’ve got here.

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jun 30

Thinking again about this passage I wrote back in February when I visited Rome for the first time.

Let’s talk about that madness outside. Because Rome is a fucking mess of a city, and it’s all because of an exhausting string of bad decisions in the last hundred years that made it more unpleasant a city than it probably was two thousand years ago. Cars dominate every single inch of this city. Historic piazzas are covered with parked cars. Streets around major tourist destinations are often six to ten lanes wide. For example, the Circus Maximus, an ancient site of chariot-racing that dates back two thousand years, is surrounded on all sides by car sewers that make the enjoyment of such an historically significant place almost impossible. Across the city, the pedestrian environment is, at best, shitty. The sidewalks are not nearly wide enough on major thoroughfares to accommodate the tourists even on a Thursday in February. The side streets lack sidewalks altogether, and while you’d think this would be a great opportunity to pedestrianize streets that are barely wide enough for a single car to pass, Rome simply doesn’t do this in most areas. And in the areas where they have pedestrianized, the sheer number of tourists visiting this city have made it an infuriating walking environment.

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jun 26

Apparently I most closely align with the guy who froze my rent!

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jun 24

Here's a Valdez voter who said he voted for her because Reynoso is a "machine democrat." How many times am I going to bang my head against a wall today?

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jun 23

I should’ve voted early. Today’s sticker barely even lasted all the way to work.

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jun 19

On the left, USA-Australia, slated to end in about 20 minutes. On the right, the last NJT train of the day, slated to leave in 26 minutes. 😬

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jun 19

How exactly does NJ Transit expect me to see if my train is approaching my stop?

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jun 14

Guess this is happening.

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jun 14

Tonight we celebrate our queer garbage people. And da Knicks!

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jun 13

Jumaane’s drip is strong.

ohhleary@ohhleary· Jun 13

Brooklyn is ready for a Knicks victory tonight.

ohhleary@ohhleary· May 30

Beacon of light, beacon of hope

ohhleary@ohhleary· May 28

I think I would’ve made a great game show host in 1988.

ohhleary@ohhleary· May 27

That's completely untrue. Every single alternative allows left turns.

ohhleary@ohhleary· May 26

Shout out to the Cleveland Guardians, who had not sent me an email since I attended a game when they were not yet called the Cleveland Guardians, for deciding that today was the day to send me a "partner email" for a discount on a home waste bag.