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Virginia K. Smith

@vksmith

co-founder @theNY_Groove, digital editor @marketplace, proud member @mplaceunion @sagaftra (also: @wgaeast and @gmgunion forever)

 Brooklyn
Joined February 2009
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I'm not nuking my account (yet) but I sincerely just hate being on here and would like to spend less time generating data and shareholder value for the absolute worst people alive — you can find me on @vksmith.bsky.social or just like email me idk!!
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hey gang, we're officially closing up shop on this wasteland. come follow us over on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/nygroove.ny… and sign up for our free weekly emails: nygroove.nyc/support-us/#/po… see you around the rest of the internet, and more importantly, see you around the city 👋
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Jake Offenhartz@jangelooff16 Jan 2025
Need an oral history on how this got made
NYC Sanitation (@NYCSanitation) profile pictureNYC Sanitation
@NYCSanitation16 Jan 2025
In 1991, David Lynch showed the world the alienation and innate horror of a dirty street, directing this unforgettable anti-littering ad for the City of New York. RIP to a visionary filmmaker and a pioneer of the Trash Revolution.
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really loved this week's blog from @DaveCoIon about the long-running confusion over New York's founding (complicated in part by a past mayor who changed the date in order to spite the British) nygroove.nyc/happy-400th-bir…
Happy 400th birthday New York! Or 361st? Who knows!

Happy 400th birthday New York! Or 361st? Who knows!

No one seems to know when "New York" was actually founded, but we're celebrating its quadricentennial this year anyway

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Dave has now informed me "it was a City Council president, not a mayor who got the flag and seal changed," time to read the blog again!!
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New York Groove parties: Making your horrendous suffering almost worth it
Bianca (@biancafortis) profile pictureBianca@biancafortis19 Dec 2024
I won a @TheNY_Groove contest for "worst thing your boss has done" by sharing about a job in nyc where I made a $26K annual salary. To my surprise, I beat out people who have suffered literal crimes. Thanks for the cool mug, almost makes the poverty worth it
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Bobby Wagner@bwags19 Dec 2024
“grok is now free for everyone” yeah man, so are those mixtapes people hand out on the street
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must be said that this morning the national NPR correspondent mispronounced "Mangione" but the local WNYC anchor of course nailed it
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𓆦@minasdemon6 Dec 2024
Don is such a diva…… he didn’t have to gag her like that
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Yuie@YusufYuie4 Nov 2024
Another gem “Give Me The Night” produced by Quincy Jones w/ George Benson.
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moike@lilmoike28 Oct 2024
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@ratlimit
@ratlimit28 Oct 2024
"I hate small talk" = "I don't know how to let my authentic self shine thru regardless of the conversational register + lack the playfulness to discern the deeper attitudes behind other people's words"
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"Should we talk about how I got the mayor indicted?" — Sabrina Carpenter at her #NYCShortnSweet show
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it’s called self love, but most of you on here wouldn’t know anything about that….
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@DiscussingFilm18 Sep 2024
Francis Ford Coppola has given his own film ‘MEGALOPOLIS’ a 5-star review on Letterboxd. Read our ⭐️ review: bit.ly/DFMega
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bullied into apologizing by the PioneerTown Gazette..... local news does it again folks!!! vulture.com/article/selling-…
Selling Sunset’s Alanna Gold Apologizes for Overselling

Selling Sunset’s Alanna Gold Apologizes for Overselling

“I certainly do not own Pioneertown, I never should have said that,” she said in a statement.

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10/10 closer to this dudes rock obituary 🥲
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The New York Groove@TheNY_Groove9 Aug 2024
The facts are hard to ignore nygroove.nyc/rfk-bridge-trib…
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Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall5 Aug 2024
A West Side Rag commenter got impressively close to uncovering the truth in 2014 about the dead bear cub in Central Park. A mention of RFK Jr. as a suspect would have put it in the Hall of Fame of comments.
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