#nyc tag

[deanmarywinchester]

Hell Gate, as usual, has the best coverage, + now it’s basically the only fair coverage of campus protests. im a couple days late to this one but I was backreading news today and it stood out to me.

[faehalfwit]

Bushwick Brooklyn 2023

[deanmarywinchester]

hey, new york has cashless bail so I checked out the Columbia link because I was afraid it was a scam. It’s not a scam—it’s just not a bail fund either. It’s a legit-looking way (the instagram promoting the venmo account, also @ bcabolitioncollective, is followed by other community groups i trust) to donate to the Columbia and Barnard protests for other purposes. donate elsewhere if your goal is getting activists out of jail specifically, but if you just want to support, donate away!

bail funds for pro-palestine activists

a15 bail and legal defense fund (supporting community members criminalized in the us for solidarity with palestine)

university of texas at austin students bail fund venmo @ psc_atx (livestream)

columbia students bail fund venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

the palestine legal defense fund supports acitvists across the united states

palestine legal defence also supplies free legal support for activists

the national bail fund network may update with local bail fund efforts as events continue to unfold

this list is updated as of 24 april 10pm EST. i'll try to update as i find further bail funds and legal supports: if you know of other funds or if information shared here is incorrect, please reblog with updated info (+ a timestamp) so people can give and access support.

palestine will be free, solidarity forever 🍉 🇵🇸

[staticsnowfall]

michaela mabinty deprince (1995-2024)

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today, september 13th, 2024, the ballet world lost an extraordinary dancer and woman.

michaela mabinty deprince was born on january 6th, 1995, as mabinty bangura, in sierra-leone. she was orphaned, her parents passing to due to both direct and indirect causes of the civil war in her home country. she was demonized by her caretakers for her vitiligo, being called a “devil’s child”, and suffering from other forms of neglect and abuse. in 1999, deprince was adopted by an american couple along with another girl, and they were taken to new jersey, united states of america.

her hopes of becoming a ballerina had been planted when she found a ballerina on a magazine cover in her home country. she didn’t know of ballet at the time, but treasured the picture and dreamed of dancing. this dream blossomed into truth when she moved to the states, being put into ballet lessons soon after her arrival. deprince was a four-time participant in youth america grand prix, one of the largest ballet competitions in the united states. she was awarded a scholarship to study at the jaqueline kennedy onassis school of ballet, the associate school of american ballet theatre.

despite facing racial discrimination and other hardships in and out of the industry, deprince persisted in her dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer. in 2012, at the age of 16, she became the youngest member of dance theatre of harlem, and the next year, she joined the junior company of the dutch national ballet. she soon rose through the ranks, joining the main company and attaining the rank of soloist. she was the first dancer of african origin to ever join the company, and a shining advocate and role model for black women in ballet.

her other accomplishments include being an ambassador for war child holland, a dutch organization working to improve the wellbeing and resilience of children directly affected by war. she visited uganda and lebanon through the organization. she also appeared in beyoncé’s 2016 music video for ‘freedom’.

she will dance among all the stars in the sky. rest in peace beautiful michaela mabinty, you are already so missed. ♡

[genderoutlaws]

Black and white photograph of three lesbians in shorts and tank tops walking, likely at NYC Pride, two of them holding up a sign that says "LESBIANS OFTEN MISTAKEN FOR MEN IN WOMEN'S RESTROOMS"

ph: Morgan Gwenwald | June 24 1990

[shiny-eyed-corvid]

metallic and monochrome NYC street finds 4.1.24-4.21.24

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[deanmarywinchester]

sorry to add on to a post but I saw the mayor’s press office’s riposte at work today and had to walk around the room for a bit

this is so fucking funny

[katabay]

desmond & friends modern day assassin sequences…..I miss you……..

[dear-ao3]

if you’re on the east coast/new england/anywhere that’s being affected by the canadian wildfires you better hecking have a mask on today and i am not playing

[wolfofartblock]

"There are those frustrated with the results of the Animus project, and the last subject didn't make things any easier. Sorry Mister Miles, but we're not taking any chances this time around."

"This is a strain of the Blacklight Virus, recently obtained from the bright minds of one of our sister companies. Supposedly it's sapient, but it should at least be obedient. Play nice with it, okay?"

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Seconds before disaster struck lmao. The virus was not supposed to be used in this way, and so we'll pretend Abstergo's building was ground zero for the outbreak rather than Penn Station

[deanmarywinchester]

hey I know not everyone is interested in the nyc sanitation department’s report on containerization but I am! tldr: it’s an obvious idea but it’s going to be a big lift in NYC due to differences with other cities, including population density, lack of allys or underground storage space for trash cans, lack of domestic production of the right kind of trash trucks, and of course the car owner outrage already mentioned due to backwards parking incentives. turns out that this is more possible in bumfuck nowhere than nyc because bumfuck nowhere has uhhhh lower population and room for trash cans. this is less a cause of “incompetent cities are letting trash rot on the sidewalks instead of the radical idea of a trash can” than “an ongoing political battle over a necessary fix that’s going to be hugely expensive and logistically difficult.” but it is possible and there are people excited to be working on it!

Annals of US city governance, we are finally embracing the radical notion of trash bins:

The new rule is part of the city’s broader plan to move trash into containers, a simple yet revolutionary change in New Yorkers’ trash habits. To do so could easily cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade. City officials must buy new specialized trash trucks and stationary containers, while also increasing the frequency of residential trash collection in large swaths of the city.

"Specialized trash trucks and stationary containers" how will we develop this frontier technology??

Other cities like Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Singapore have already embraced trash containerization.

Genius sentence, the way its structured to imply only the best of the best in modern cities have piloted this crazy idea. Soon NYC will be on the elite list of cities not dumping bags of trash openly on the streets! If you find yourself asking "wait why has this not happened yet", well:

City officials found that it was possible to use trash containers on 89 percent of the city’s residential streets, but it would require removing 150,000 parking spots 

So, yup.

[deanmarywinchester]

posting against “let your haters become your waiters” variants becoming the new meme without people finding out that the newspaper Hell Gate got there in august. there are so many of these. personally partial to “the big comfy bed of success”

[hellonearthtoday]

my updated techno design for titwpo . he looks too pretentious but I fear that may just be how he is.

[lazarusemma]

put any clarifying info you want in the tags - what state/country, what grade, etc

[nyandreasphotography]

Pop Art - Comme des Garçons, New York City by Andreas Komodromos

[phoenixyfriend]

There's an ad on this train that reads "We even deliver to that burough" with an artist's depiction of the view out of the window of the Staten Island Ferry

Absolutely brutal