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Are we under appreciating Citi Bikes secondary function as public furniture? Hottest seats in the house for movie night on 31st Ave
I've been adding POPS and DOT plazas to Google Maps and OpenStreetMap to raise their visibility, categorizing them as parks so they show up in searches & listing required hours to prevent early closures (a persistent issue with POPS). Even in data-rich NYC, a map is never complete.
The inaugural Astoria Farmers Market!
Picked up 40 lbs of free compost from the new Queens giveback site on a Citi Bike - a first according to good folks at @nycsanitation.bsky.social.
Check it out every Wed & Sat.
www.nyc.gov/site/dsny/wh...
Went on a little guided tour of Astoria and its “fruit” trees led by my favorite @jordan-engel.bsky.social
This is a great tour! I met really interesting people, and learned so much! Don't let the forecast stop you from going tomorrow, you'll learn about bounty all around us! (Do I know anyone who knows about fruit tree grafting? I'm really curious now.)
Casually scrolling ... oh hey! Maps I made for a masters project at Hunter.
That’s what Dr. Shiva told me in 2013 when I interviewed her about our divestment campaign at Berea College. While few ever saw my little interview, that quote was picked up by @350.org & @greenpeace.org & found a life of its own. I see it every Earth Day, and each year it’s more relevant than ever.
NYC urbanists, the 2025 #JanesWalk schedule is live!
I’ll be leading two free walking tours of Astoria’s fruit trees:
• Saturday, May 3 at 9 AM
• Sunday, May 4 at 3 PM
www.mas.org/events/janes...
We’ll be sharing food, drinks, and singing our favorite socialist tunes. DM for the address.
Had a great chat with @gothamist.com about growing Astoria’s heirloom fig culture, and our upcoming community fig tree exchange.
Join us this Sunday @ Astoria Food Pantry. Do you already grow figs? Bring cuttings to share with your neighbors! Do you want to grow figs? Just bring yourself and learn how to propagate and care for your new tree.
Yesterday's march felt like deja vu in many ways. Some notable differences - a lot less cars, and a lot more supportive drivers. #CongestionPricing works!
We need this kind of multimodal connectivity to extend the ferry’s catchment area. But a 6 minute schlep to transfer to the nearest Citi Bike station makes this commute far less appealing for most riders.
RIP Shoupdog.
So - give it time.
As biking becomes more accessible, fewer cars lead to less traffic and safer streets which make biking more accessible, creating a cycle that benefits everyone.
For drivers, every person on a bike means one less car at the light. Every person who’s able to live without a car means one more empty parking spot on the block.
The reason there are more cyclists every year in #NYC is because the city is making it safer for people who were previously afraid to ride in heavy traffic.
But we know they’re coming, partly thanks to this street redesign. I use this bike lane frequently as it’s the only safe E-W route in the area, and so do many others. But even if it no one used it yet, it would still a major step toward a safe, connected bike network.
My neighborhood forums are full of drivers understandably upset that the new two-way protected bike lane on 31st Ave in #Astoria isn’t yet full of cyclists. Driving is already hard enough in the city, why convert traffic lanes for cyclists who don't exist?
Classical #architecture isn't inherently fascist, but fascists love using it to enforce nationalist identity and stroke the egos of white-supremacist leaders as saviors of Western Civilization. Fascists don’t care about #PublicSpaces when it comes to funding libraries, comm gardens, or bus stops.
Their persistence epitomized Rabbi Tarfon’s lesson that "It’s not your responsibility to finish the work, but neither can we abandon it.”
At the ranch, Russell Means got a call from Leonard. We listened as Leonard thanked the warriors who fought for his freedom for decades. They never gave up. Belva, Paul, Russell, they’ve all gone to the Spirit World. I wish they could’ve seen Leonard come home.
Years ago I marched with the #LeonardPeltier Defense Committee across the Pine Ridge Reservation to the Jumping Bull Ranch, site of the ‘75 FBI shootout. With us were my friends Belva Janis, Wounded Knee ‘73 veteran, and Paul Shields-Peltier, Leonard’s son who had only known his father behind bars.
In the dark times will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing about the dark times.
From The Svendborg Poems by #BertholdtBrecht, written during his exile in Denmark during World War 2.
Print by @erikruin.bsky.social on @justseeds.bsky.social
#DarkTimes #Fascism
During this morning’s rush hour, commute times through the Holland Tunnel dropped from 23 minutes to just 12.
www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com
Look at those beautiful unclogged streets!
#CongestionPricing #NYC
You can read my article about these trees here:
citylimits.org/2024/11/13/o...
During my very unemployed summer, I biked down every street in Astoria Queens & mapped out 1000s of fig trees in front yards. They're mostly heirloom cuttings from Greece & the Mediterranean. Now r/Astoria is talking about doing a propagation exchange help preserve these cultivars!