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Liam Quigley

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photos, news, and hot action! / covering NYC parks & sanitation for @WNYC @Gothamist / [email protected] / mostly on https://nitter.cf/t.co/wr1uewf0Wa

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The amount of people I’ve seen run red lights in cars while walking in Brooklyn in the past 20 minutes is pretty out of control
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Another person left today. I'm now one of three tenants still in the building.
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I paid $225,501 to write this story: elkue.substack.com/p/im-not-…
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just when you think you’ve seen all of the electronic devices you possibly could conceive of
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Taking a vacation day on November 20th to play Grand Theft Auto 6 the entire day
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Arthur Schwartz and Leh Boy passing one another on 6th avenue just now
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A ballot drop box is joined by a mobile surveillance rig outside the Baltimore Museum of Art today
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this guy told me his scooter can go 45 miles an hour. He was also watching YouTube as he passed me going over the Manhattan Bridge.
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Brigid Bergin@brigidberginOct 21
NYC’s horse carriage drivers feel betrayed as lawmakers set to abolish industry Story by @_elkue gothamist.com/news/nycs-hors… via @gothamist
NYC’s horse carriage drivers say they feel betrayed as lawmakers set to abolish industry

NYC’s horse carriage drivers say they feel betrayed as lawmakers set to abolish industry

Central Park's horse carriage drivers are making their last stand as city lawmakers prepare to abolish the industry.

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NEW: Christy Tanner stepping down as CEO of New York Public Radio gothamist.com/news/new-york-… (I work there)
New York Public Radio CEO steps down after 8 months on job

New York Public Radio CEO steps down after 8 months on job

Chief executive Christy Tanner is resigning after just eight months at the helm. New York Public Radio is the parent organization for WNYC and Gothamist.

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NYC wants to move deliveries onto the waterways. It's starting with a 55-year-old boat. gothamist.com/news/nyc-wants…
NYC wants to move deliveries onto the waterways. It's starting with a 55-year-old boat.

NYC wants to move deliveries onto the waterways. It's starting with a 55-year-old boat.

The city's "blue highways" program aims to get freight out of trucks and onto the waterways.

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Queens is the greatest place in the world
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Mayor Mamdani says he's going to fix the BQE. But to do it, he needs to build a highway over the Brooklyn Bridge. gothamist.com/news/nyc-mulls…
NYC mulls building temporary highway in sky over Brooklyn Bridge to fix BQE

NYC mulls building temporary highway in sky over Brooklyn Bridge to fix BQE

New renderings show the city would build a highway that flies over the iconic bridge to divert traffic while the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway's triple-cantilever structure is rebuilt.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday announced the first two modular bathrooms the city ordered earlier this year from the company Throne Labs started to operate on city streets. The rest, a total of 17, are expected to come online in the coming months. gothamist.visitlink.me/v3BON…
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NYC bus stops could one day be covered with green roofs if this new pilot in Brooklyn is expanded citywide gothamist.com/news/nyc-offic…
NYC officials want to put rain gardens on top of bus stops

NYC officials want to put rain gardens on top of bus stops

The city is testing out a green roof on a bus shelter in Brownsville, with the hope that the design can be expanded across the five boroughs.

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Second summer in a row without seeing a waterbug in my house 🙏
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One of the last remaining iconic (to me at least) green pedestrian walkways over the FDR where huge work is underway to shore up the waterfront. Here, I and other kids in the area watched emergency vehicles race downtown 25 years ago today. (vid by my dad)
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Arya Sundaram@arya_sundaramSep 8
On the rise of Muslim political power in NYC: "The wave of post-9/11 Islamophobia that cast Muslims as adversaries also sparked a political awakening among a generation that went on to help Mamdani get elected" gothamist.com/news/how-post-…
How post-9/11 Islamophobia sparked a Muslim political awakening in NYC

How post-9/11 Islamophobia sparked a Muslim political awakening in NYC

Three top Mamdani advisers recount how Islamophobia and the post-9/11 mass arrests and surveillance of Muslims altered the trajectories of their careers.

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There were a lot of police cars and other vehicles driving really fast in Prospect Park today, often against the flow of traffic. The park has been 'car free' since 2018.
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Longtime Trump household in south Brooklyn now a Marco Rubio household
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