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If you imagine #NYC police as Cartman (from South Park) doing the whole "respect mah authoritah!" bit, the behavior of the NYPD around the snowballs incident makes complete sense. It's not that anyone was hurt, nor was there any damage, but their fragile egos just can't handle not having their authority respected. Even when they do completely dumb shit like wandering into the m…

1st mama tried outdoor jam of the season for me. expansive space blues by drew gardner & co., kinetic improv by time trout (plus arthur russell's "hiding your present from you"), & the scene is now, #nyc's finest 40-year-running boho-jazz-pop surrealists (never caught "yellow sarong" before!)

Make it make sense... #NYC #MTA #FdTrain

a jammy, misty evening at baby's all right. a set-long hunk of burning cosmic scuzz by prison. pillowing & gnarly open-ended feels by garcia peoples (with tasty guitar synth), followed by a few new tunes, a few old. #nyc #brooklyn

30 years ago yesterday, surrender to the air at the academy in #nyc, a before/after moment in my musical life if ever there was one. https://youtu.be/r_r54FPveiA

new coworking space just opened in the neighborhood. #brooklyn #nyc

This is some bullshit. #NYC #MTA

the anti-dancing #nyc cabaret law might be finally dead? https://evgrieve.com/2026/05/as-2026-nears-halfway-point-new-york.html

As 2026 nears the halfway point, New York State eliminates restrictions on dancing in bars
EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.

This is a great
@… on #NYC 311 system. @… you should give it a listen

Service Request #1: What Happens When I Call 311?
Podcast Episode · 99% Invisible · March 17 · Bonus · 35m

So a judge just invalidated almost all red light tickets written to cyclists in #NYC, lol
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/21/tuesdays-headlines-cops…

I live near a fancy mafia family-owned private club here in #NYC and they often throw events that I find tacky and distasteful.Today is exceptional, though:
#Adobe is sponsoring a party for its AI products and they’ve paid for multiple cars with their “Adobe Firefly” (gen AI product) branding to literally drive around narrow busy streets in a circle during rush hour on a Monday.
Oh and all the cars are driven by young women with a ton of makeup.
Ugh.

wild polyrhythmic overload & double-drummer extended technique pulse-out at roulette with goat, from japan. like horse lords or Zs but maybe even more ecstatic & tightly wound. opening was YPY, who i've played on my radio show, but don't think knew was goat guitarist koshiro hino. #nyc

Recently encountered an issue with fire hydrants in NYC. #NYCDOT parking rules state that vehicles cannot park closer than 15 feet to a #hydrant. DOT installed planters about 5 feet from a hydrant giving the impression that parking on the other side of the planter is legal. I am suggesting the planter be…

is bullshit #nyc https://greenpointers.com/2026/04/27/mta-to-suspend-g-train-service-every-weekend-in-june/

MTA To Suspend G Train Service Every Weekend in June - Greenpointers
The ferry's looking really good right about now!

RE: #NYC

"supertanker" by al jarnow, for 3-2-1 contact (1980) #animation #nyc

Hey while you're in the area; how about some bike lanes? Other than Queens Blvd, we got diddly-squat out here. #NYC #BikeNYC #Mamdani

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@mayor.nyc.gov)
Around 12:45 AM I met the DOT paving crew in Forest Hills, where they were laying asphalt at night so fewer New Yorkers have to commute around workzones.

safe travels to sonny rollins from the williamsburg bridge (which really should be renamed after him). #nyc #jazz

Wallpaper at Fraunces Tavern Museum in NYC depicting General Washington arriving in Boston. The full 49-foot, 32-panel, 360-color "Views of the American War of Independence" is still produced by Zuber & Cie (est. 1797) in Rixheim, France, using 2,300 (!) wood blocks carved between 1834 and 1852. It takes a full year to print and is likely the world's most expensive wallpaper ($100,000?). The blocks themselves are classified as Historic Monuments by the French Ministry of Culture. #france #history #art #nyc #newyork #museum #wallpaper #woodblock #boston #war #independence #250th

this summer's heads happenings series starts june 11th at mama tried in #brooklyn with william tyler (!), gray/smith & speer (last gig before rob moves?!), & us sloppy heads! come happen! #nyc

Basically we need to make transit free because our local government is too fucking dumb to figure out how to handle fares. #NYC #NY #MakePublicTransitFree

Jehiah (@jehiah.cz)
Absolutely ridiculous way to do enforcement. MTA should never delay a bus to do fare enforcement. "The agency’s fare enforcement “EAGLE” teams are ramping up an initiative where they halt buses for about five to 10 minutes while they scan riders’ phones or OMNY cards to check if they paid." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

next weekend! come vibrate with us! #nyc #jazz #psychedelics https://

Good afternoon #BikeNYC #BikeTooter. Gorgeous day out there, make sure you've got your official #NYC garbage bin before the June 1st deadline!

Duck decoys found in 1924 inside Lovelock Cave (Nevada), sealed up approximately 2400 years ago by an earthquake. The one on the right is apparently a canvasback (Aythya valisineria). Museum of the American Indian, NYC. #ducks #archaeology #hunting #cave #birds #nevada #indian #smithsonian #nyc #anatidae #museum

enjoyed reading this, glad it exists, & delighted to be cited, but didn't quite capture the absurdity of brooklandia as i experienced it & what made DIY venues feel so special. structure felt a bit muddled & could've used a ton more historical/economic context (& more todd p., really). #nyc #books

lol #NYC has ruined me. Went to a Japanese festival thing in DC and all I could think was, "I can get this stuff for 1/4 of the price at the japanese shop literally around the corner from my house"

the timeless weird american peter stampfel leads the atomic meta-pagans through banger after banger at piano's. mostly new in the past few years, including my faves "mission statement" & "this body's just meat," some even newer topical tunes, a lost/found antonia song from '66, "euphoria" & more. #nyc

#Mamdani's comms team is so good that I have friends from the opposite side of the country (#Seattle) telling me about new policies in #NYC when they're made.
(a friend send me thi…

at loove annex, william parker's pocketwatch, rising from ripples to waves on vocal whirlpools & sleight-of-hand drumming by juan pablo carletti, & down into spectral blues, "right foot in a cup." 10 piece band tonight, plus parker on donso ngoni & occasional reeds. #nyc #brooklyn

properly excited to stay up too late tonight at/on @…, filling in for dj time traveler from midnight to 3 ET, back in my old overnight slot. #radio #nyc

strand books receipt, 1971 style. #books #nyc

williamsburg vibe shift report: people used to wait on block-long rope-encased bouncer-guarded lines to get into clubs & parties. then it was for rainbow bagels & sneakers. then it was for the apple store. now it's for the opening of a new turbotax service. culture! #brooklyn #nyc

amazing piece but basically woke up in the middle of the night wondering about the unanswered question here: if book freak richard hell has been in the same wee spot since '74, what does he do when his shelves are full? does he have storage spaces like verlaine? does he deaccession at the strand? #nyc #books

the digital church bells in our neighborhood are sounding especially lo-fi this morning. #nyc #brooklyn

the next bardo bath is coming up on saturday 4/25 at judson church in #nyc, an evening of participatory improv weirdness, including william parker (!), anne waldman (!), garcia peoples, @…, & more, with me on zones/collages/exorcisms.

BARDO BATH: "Dharma Art Empowerment"
Sat, Apr 25 at Judson Memorial Church

matinee jams at mama tried: synth-noise blowout plus kandy-kolored melodies by dan friel; viola/violin drone-float (amid movie-like rain outside) by jessica pavone & mari bruno; & spiky alt-prog by wendy eisenberg's editrix (who, like, belong on lollapalooza '91-'92) (complimentary!!) #nyc #brooklyn

at union pool, the 75 dollar bill little big band dream the eternal music, enormous drones & community pulses. rick brown's wooden crate sounded amazing through the UP speakers, like a huge resonant heartbeat. #nyc

opening wednesday of william parker's weekly gig at loove annex in williamsburg. trio with violinist gabby fluke-mogul & drummer tcheser holmes, shapes coming together like wind. and the 13-piece pocketwatch doing "the chant" for an hour, clockwork pulse opening to slow funk & ecstatic blowing/themes/duos/trios. #brooklyn