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retropopcult · 15 days

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Eclipse watchers squint through protective filters as they view an eclipse of the sun from the top deck of New York City's Empire State Building, 1932.

(source: San Diego Tribune)

#vintage #solar eclipse #1930s #NYC #New Yorkers

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nyc-looks · 9 months

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Caroline

“I am wearing a dress by Darker Waves, and a beret by a Japanese brand Aked. What inspires my style: whatever makes me feel good! I’ve always been inspired by the DIY ethos of punks and NYC club kids from the 90s who could take simple items around them and style them to make them look cool. They could make a garbage bag and some chains from the hardware store look couture. They’re proof you don’t need money to have style. You just need to have a vision and some hot glue.”

May 13, 2023 ∙ East Village

#nyc looks #street snap #street style #style #gothic #darker waves #aked boots #new york #east village #new yorkers

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louxosenjoyables · 7 months

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I ❤️NY

#New York #New Yorkers

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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 5 months

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New York magazine, January 15, 1979

#witches #new yorkers #occult #vintage #new york #new york magazine #seers #seer chiara #chiara #clear #psychic #1979 #magazine

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kecobe · 1 month

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Subway, New York Louis Stettner (American; 1922–2016) 1946 (printed 1980s) Gelatin silver print SFMOMA, San Francisco, California

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kny111 · 11 months

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New York would create a commission to consider reparations to address the lingering, negative effects of slavery under a bill passed by the state Legislature on Thursday.

"We want to make sure we are looking at slavery and its legacies," said state Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages before the floor debate. "This is about beginning the process of healing our communities. There still is generational trauma that people are experiencing. This is just one step forward."

The state Assembly passed the bill about three hours after spirited debate on Thursday. The state Senate passed the measure hours later, and the bill will be sent to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for consideration.

New York would be following the lead of California, which became the first state to form a reparations task force in 2020. That group recommended a formal apology from the state on its legacy of racism and discriminatory policies and the creation of an agency to provide a wide range of services for Black residents. They did not recommend specific payments amounts for reparations.[1]

The New York legislation would create a commission that would examine the extent to which the federal and state governments supported the institution of slavery.[2] It would also address persistent economic, political and educational disparities experienced by Black people in the state today.

According to the New York bill, the first enslaved Africans arrived at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, then a Dutch settlement, around the 1620s and helped build the infrastructure of New York City. While the state Legislature enacted a statute that gave freedom to enslaved Africans in New York in 1817, it wasn't implemented until 10 years later.[3]

"I'm concerned we're opening a door that was closed in New York State almost 200 years ago,"[4] said Republican state Assemblymember Andy Gooddell during floor debates on the bill. Gooddell, who voted against the measure, said he supports existing efforts to bring equal opportunity to all and would like to "continue on that path rather than focus on reparations."[5]

In California, the reparations task force said in their report that the state is estimated to be responsible for more than $500 billion due to decades of over-policing, mass incarceration and redlining that kept Black families from receiving loans and living in certain neighborhoods. California's state budget last year was $308 billion.[6] Reparations in New York could also come with a hefty price tag.

The commission would be required to deliver a report one year after its first meeting. The panel's recommendations, which could potentially include monetary compensation for Black people,[7] would be non-binding. The legislature would not be required to take the recommendations up for a vote.

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who is the first Black person to hold the position, called the legislation "historic."[8]

Heastie, the governor and the legislative leader in the state Senate would each appoint three members to the commission.[9]

Other state legislatures that have considered studying reparations include New Jersey and Vermont, but none have passed legislation yet.[10] The Chicago suburb in Evanston, Illinois, became the first city to make reparations available to Black residents through a $10 million housing project in 2021.[11]

On the federal level, a decades-old proposal to create a commission studying reparations has stalled in Congress.[12]

Some critics of reparations by states say that while the idea is well-intentioned, it can be misguided.[13]

William Darity, a professor of public policy and African and African American Studies at Duke University said even calling them reparations is "presumptuous," since it's virtually impossible for states to meet the potentially hefty payouts.[14]

He said the federal government has the financial capacity to pay true reparations and that it should be the party that is responsible.[15]

"My deeper fear with all of these piecemeal projects is that they actually will become a block against federal action because there will be a number of people who will say there's no need for a federal program," Darity said. "If you end up settling for state and local initiatives, you settle for much less than what is owed."[16] K, Blog Admin notes: [1] This is useful because it's attempting institutionalization of the divestment in needing money to solve the issue of slavery reparations and instead aims to provide a means to account for such a system by way of adhering to necessities. This seems like a legislative path to that. A formal apology is well overdue so the creation of these institutions, paired with divestment in money (which are literal enslavement notes) makes for said apology more effective and honest.

[2] Correct, slavery is handled and supported to this day at a state and federal level. Any strategies aimed at changing this enslavement system requires changes at both state and federal levels, otherwise what's the point? [3] Legislature like the one in 1817 what it did was make enslavement go covert while continuing to operate with the same engine. Which is why we need to correct any semblance of it existing by abolishing institutions that were created from slavery and repurpose ones sabotaged by past and existing pro slavery legislature. Reparations fixes itself to do just that.

[4] Read [3] because slavery's door was never shut. There's never been enough evidence, something I hope this legislature corrects, with regards to presenting when this "end of slavery" ever occurred. As far as everyone experiencing this god awful system is concerned slavery continued just fine.

[5] Slavery as a system created such a historical inequivalence for all involved that a path has never honestly been formed to claim we're all equal. How can we "continue" on something we've never even established?

[6] Translation: The enslavers who own this system over us and invested so much in slavery can't put their money where their labor is. This is our issue how? Legislature like this will help correct that.

[7] I would hope that this conversation around monetary compensation and reparations from enslavement systems involves a divestment plan from a currency note that has factual connections to and will continue to be looked at as an enslaver note to those who study slavery historically. So this might look like an institution that can help communities divest from ever even needing to use money due to their systemic connections to slavery.

[8] This legislature is needed and overdue, I wouldn't call it historic yet. People within government tend to have a low bar for what's historic and epic.

[9] Not enough people. 3 is not enough. This is a ridiculously low amount considering how easy it can be to sabotage this work as they have in the past, this increases that chance. They need more community input. Otherwise, what's the point?

[10] Further implicating these states with systemic slavery.

[11] Not enough for similar reasons that a slaver creating their own paper and telling you to live off of it is not enough to stop slavery.

[12] So the one thing that did have a semblance of working, you let it rock there, doing nothing? Seems like an institutional trend.

[13] How? Explain using evidence in the same way we abolitionists use evidence to prove slavery is not needed.

[14] Agreed, and they don't have the capacity to make their enslaver dollars mean much into the future. Money temporarily becomes pay outs which are like the apology letter you include system changes with otherwise its just enslavers recycling their image.. AGAIN.

[15] Agreed, but I hope this doesn't mean shift in focus from what needs to structurally change at a state level and what these types of legislature can do. I think federal changes should come with state strategizing as well.

[16] see [14] and [15]

#reparations #thoughts #news #policy #legislature #trans atlantic slave trade #slavery #abolish slavery #abolish police #abolishment #black lives matter #new york #nyc #new yorkers #black new yorkers

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thehalfwaypost · 25 days

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#trump tower #new yorkers #new yorker #party #fuck trump

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dedheaders · 1 year

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raimispiderman · 9 months

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The lady in the hat is one of my favourite unsung heroes in the whole trilogy. She just saw her fellow train passengers get smashed against windows but she still stands in front of Peter to try and protect him. All that AND her nail varnish matches his costume. ICONIC

#spidercapping #the train passengers #new yorkers

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newyorkthegoldenage · 1 year

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The Subway Sun, which the New York Transit Authority posted in the city's 7,000 subway cars, March 9, 1956. In this issue, the TA tries to convince long-suffering commuters that they are happier than they would be outside of the city.

Photo: Robert Kradin for the AP via BuzzFeed News

#vintage New York #1950s #Robert Kradin #Subway Sun #March 9 #Mar. 9 #9 March #subway #commuting #New York #New Yorkers #New York snobbery #Podunk #mass transport #mass transit #city life #urban life

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magsyoon · 2 months

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"Six young adults struggle to pursue their individual goals and navigate their way through adulthood in contemporary Manhattan, only to get unwillingly acquainted with a narcissistic talking macaw."

I've been developing concept stuff for a hypothetical animated series I want to pitch in the future; "New Yorkers" is the pending title but that might change. This series is the focus of my senior thesis (and it's why I've been so busy lately), though I've also worked on it in my other classes.

I'm still trying to figure out the story, though I'm intending on it being a lightly serialized sitcom with some urban fantasy elements. Influences include Durarara, Regular Show, Close Enough, and Bojack Horseman.

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#animated series #series pitch #character design #series concept #visdev #visual development #new yorkers #(<- tagged for future navigation purposes)#this is why i havent been posting lately LMAO im sorry class

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retropopcult · 3 months

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Times Square, 1979

#New York City #vintage #traffic #1970s #billboards #Coca Cola #pedestrians #New Yorkers #street scene #Manhattan #NYC #70s cars

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nyc-looks · 1 year

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Dante, 29

“I’m wearing pink ruffle pants from Kiki Riki, tulle shirt gifted from a friend, thrifted fur coat, bubblegum pink Telfar purse, YRU shoes, scarf I think partner & friend made, choker from Bitchfist, and glasses and hat from Shein. My style is informed by black queer punk pop weeb cultures mostly, and is just an unapologetic amalgamation of components that all reflect myself.”

Mar 11, 2023 ∙ Chelsea

#nyc looks #nyclooks #street style #street snap #street fashion #new york street style #new yorkers #kiki riki #yru shoes #telfar #tulle pants #bitchfist #style #outfit

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howifeltabouthim · 2 months

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In New York the things you hate are the things you do.

Lisa Taddeo, from Ghost Lover

#new york #miserable #new yorkers #social commentary #inescapable #unavoidable #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #lisa taddeo #ghost lover

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rumcakesandmushrooms · 4 months

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Genevieve sneered at the other girls in school because they were westerners. She thought herself much above us because she came from New York.