Did New York Waste $25 Billion on a Ghost Town?

The most expensive neighborhood in America was supposed to be the future — a $25 billion "city within a city" on Manhattan's far west side, built on a platform over 30 active rail tracks.
Today the offices are full and the rents are at record highs. But walk it on a weekend and something's still missing. This is what $25 billion — and nearly $6 billion in public money — could buy, and the one thing it couldn't.

There Is A Lesson Here... Don't Listen To Urbanists & High RIse Housing Dreams Developers Always Screw Up

#OurModernTimes #UrbanDevelopment #HIghRiseDevelopments #NeverReallyPrivateFunding #NYC #BloombergsBoondoggle

#Caturday

Nannette got in the box and my friend and I were both taking photos, this was the best and is her photo posted with permission. She's done similar things before, I think she knows she's modeling😅 #NYC #AltText #CatsOfMastodon

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We just had a blizzard in the Northeast #USA and in #NYC a news reporter just wanted some empty chatter about the weather

But her interview subject had other ideas

#Housing #HumanRights

Our last #dance of the year is this week Dec 3rd 7-8PM. Please join us to close out 2025 joyously in the dark with the company of others. No talking. no phone, just dance. We've been thrilled to bring back NLNL to #NYC this year and are looking forward to continuing on the first Wednesdays into 2026.

As always: $15 suggested donation. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. RSVP below but we will admit folks dropping in as long as we have space.

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#HellsKitchen

An onlooker vibes in a planter while a band plays behind.

#fujifilmtx1 #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #film #nyc #streetphotography #believeinfilm #xpan #hasselbladxpan #panorama

Tonight is the first #dance of the last sequence of 2025. Only 20 or so minutes left in the set so if you're too far tonight mark your calendars for the first Wednesday of the month. We'll be back Nov 5 for an hour of movement in the dark beyond the curtain.

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#nyc #HellsKitchen #wellbeing

This month's NLNL starts at 7PM at Prime Produce in #HellsKitchen on Wednesday July 30th. Come and #dance your worries away in a safe and dark environment: no phones and no talking. We're aiming for this to be a monthly #event in #NYC on the last Wednesday of the month. RSVP on Eventbrite but we also accept folks at the door; pay what you can.

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Hello! I’m new here. I’m a conceptual/surrealist Ugandan photographer & multi-inter-disciplinary artist based on occupied Lenape land (NYC).

I tend to hide my art and hide as an artist but I’m trying to get back into it, and put myself out there.

Excited to connect with other artists, & also showcase my work on here! 🍉

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#art #artist #photographer #blackartist #cinematographer #artist #nyc #newuser

It's taking me a moment to really think about this fediverse presence I'm trying to build for NLNL... today I'm remembering to post here letting y'all know our next dance session is tomorrow night May 28th at 7PM. Registration required but $15 donation optional. We want folks to have a safe space in the city to shake their bodies for #exercise, #MentalHeath or any other reason they might have.

Boosts appreciated!

#NYC #dancing

The saga continues. Is this the first rite of passage for every #nyc transplant? 😬

#plushtodon

MBTA To Roll Out $32 Nonstop ‘Yellow Line’ Between Boston And Manhattan

New Train Service That Caught Me By Surprise

#Boston #NYC #Manhattan #Transit #Rail #YellowLine

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Our first #event is just over a week away. We hope this is the beginning of a great tradition of dancing in the dark to shake out the stresses of the month. No lights, no phones, no talking, just #dancing. Invite your #nyc #friends and come get a little #exercise while #grooving to #dance #tunes in #HellsKitchen

RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/no-lights-no-…

The Mid-Manhattan library.

#Photography #CandidPhotography #NYC #NewYorkCity

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today in union square, about 500 people gathered to watch a guy eat cheeseballs until he yacked. it was magical.

#nyc #cheeseballman

A nice building with the characteristic fire escape. I'm not entirely sure what the faded text on the building says. NYC.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #NYC

Steam escaping the gutters. NYC.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #MonochromePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #NYC

Grand Central Station, NYC.

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🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #MonochromePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #NYC

An island built on stilettos. NYC.

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🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #MonochromePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #NYC

Perhaps my favourite shot off the black and white roll. NYC.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #AnalogPhotography #FilmPhotography #35mm #NYC #MonochromePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography

Join us for our inaugural lighting talks bringing together hacker-folk from the various independent community-run hackerspaces in the #NYC. This edition will see stories from an Open Source Space Suit, Tales of Hacker-Folk, The GameTank neo-Console, Ancient Egyptian Labor Unions, Constellation Compilation, and more.

Hack Manhattan
34 W 37th Street, Midtown
1PM; free
ohc.nyc/headliners

Two people sit on a bench next to a fearless squirrel.

Probably my second best film photo of my 'career.'

#minoltacle #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #film #nyc #streetphotography #believeinfilm

When the sun begins to set, you can see the buildings cast shadows on each other from really far away. View from Central Park, NYC.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35 #NYC

View from High Line, NYC.

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🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35 #NYC

Next to a very delicious curry place. NYC.

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🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #NYC

Friend posing. Central Park, NYC.

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🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8
🕺 @FiverX2

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35 #NYC

Hotel lobby. NYC.

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🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35 #NYC

Hotel lobby. NYC.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35 #NYC

First scans are back. Not the strongest photo, but it's a start. Central Park, NYC.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35 #NYC

#News: The #NYC government’s #AI #chatbot is telling businesses to break labor and housing #law.

With @THECITY and Documented NY: themarkup.org/news/2024/03/29/…

If you were Black and woke up in NYC on Monday, July 13, 1863, things got terrifying quick. For Black New Yorkers, there was no reprieve. Black life was dispensable to white mobs & law authorities. The Civil War, poverty, & rabid racism in 19th-century New York explains the events of that week. For Black Americans, the NYC Draft Riots were a heinous episode in an already brutal age. But it didn’t happen in a vacuum.

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@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #NYC

Do you live in NYC?
Do you care about climate change?
Focus on the Bayway Refinery.

Bayway is responsible for the climate emissions of 3.2 million households. It's right across the river from Staten Island.
#nyc #oil #refineries #climate #bayway #degrowth

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