Finally posting my 9-11 Footage to @X - bracing myself for the comments, But this was my honest experience / POV on that fateful day - the view from the ground ( or roof ) at a time when we did not know what was happening, as the city was being shut down and we were trapped on the island of Manhattan, as we thought Sarin Gas attacks were occurring as well, as we thought there would be people in need of blood donors at our hospitals, as no cell phones were working, as my land-line became a life-line for neighbors, as people still thought it was an accident, as people picked up dry cleaning and headed to work unaware what happened, as my friends were told to stay in a subway car parked beneath the towers ( they didn't listen ) as so many things occurred that I witnessed first hand, from people cheering and dancing, to people realizing everyone in their workplace was gone on the day they took an extra day off... it took me 10 years to watch the tape and post on YouTube, it's taken me 14 more years to post it on X. Still processing I guess. I'll shut my trap and let the footage speak for itself. (happy to have @AllieRyanNYC for support and visa versa as this country suffers in different ways today ) #911anniversary

Ha.. 2 NY’ers want to gerrymander to what… destroy the 2 neighborhoods that’s actually vote & win republican ??? We are a mono party city, & both the HEIR and STOOGE to the Nepo Mayor want the country to follow suit? #yikes Those done w/this clown show are wondering Who’s the republican candidate ?? #NY10DEBATE

Welp… #NY10DEBATE off to a roaring start of pure TDS. …and now ISREAL. Remember when politicians focused on NYC… not demonization

Man, they had propáganda for everything. Or perhaps, since everything seems to happen either way, It’s “conditioning”

This was my all time fave @SNL Episode. Front to back, so many great sketches, ( Kirk’s Seafood, TJ Hooker, Wonderful Life lost ending ) watched it on 📼 so many times. So happy years later to work on the show that helped shape my sense of humor.

In 1963, New York City committed what one critic called an act of vandalism against its own soul. It tore down the most beautiful building it had ever built, and it has regretted it every day since. The building was Pennsylvania Station, and for half a century it was one of the great rooms of the world... It opened in 1910, designed by the architects McKim, Mead & White, and it covered eight acres in the heart of Manhattan. Its main waiting room was modeled on the Baths of Caracalla in ancient Rome, with ceilings that rose 150 feet into the air. Sunlight poured down through vast steel-and-glass canopies onto the concourse below. To step off a train and walk up into that light was, for millions of arriving travelers, the moment New York announced itself. A historian, Vincent Scully, famously wrote that, through it, one entered the city like a god. One scuttles in now like a rat... Because in 1963, the railroad, losing money and sitting on immensely valuable land, sold the air rights above the station. The great building was condemned. Wave by wave, the pink granite columns were pulled down and dumped in a New Jersey swamp, and a low, windowless complex of Madison Square Garden and an office tower was built on top of the surviving tracks. There was no law to stop it. At the time, nothing in New York protected a historic building from destruction, however beloved. Leading architects stood outside in protest as the demolition began. It made no difference... But something came out of the loss. The destruction of Penn Station horrified the public so deeply that it gave birth to the modern preservation movement in America. New York passed its landmarks law in 1965, and that law would later save Grand Central Terminal from the very same fate. In a way, Penn Station became more powerful in death than it had ever been in life. It’s really true that we never truly know what we have until we lose it... the columns of Penn Station could not be saved. But every landmark that still stands in New York today stands partly because of what their loss awakened in the people who watched them fall. Ada Louise Huxtable, the first architecture critic of The New York Times, wrote of the demolition in 1963: "The tragedy is that our own times not only could not produce such a building, but cannot even maintain it." I started this newsletter because the people who came before us left us something extraordinary, and almost no one is teaching us how to see it anymore. Every week I try to. If that is something you would like to be part of, you can join here: James-lucas.com/welcome I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support the work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

Bring back the cranks #bolex too

Crazy. Street ball level contact, wild - good for the @nyknicks

It's official... This morning New York City officially and permanently co-named West 8th Street as Jimi Hendrix Way. 💜 The new street sign unveiled today at the corner of 6th Avenue and West 8th Street is just down the street from Jimi Hendrix's landmark Electric Lady Studios in the heart of Greenwich Village. Stay Experienced!

Wow KNICKS - I haven’t heard the streets of NYC this LOUD since RICHARD HATCH won SURVIVOR #knicks

In June 2000, Robin Williams sat down for a conversation with George Lucas for Robin's brief weekly interview show on audible. The episode was originally thirty minutes but below you'll find the entire raw recording from two different sessions, with discussions ranging from Marlon Brando as Jabba the Hutt, to Lucas asking if Robin would voice a CG Howard the Duck for a special edition of the '86 movie 👏 Really cool

Guess Obama’s shitshow was a cool “even” 34mill. Hack journalism Can’t die fast enough

Guess this was a cool “even” 34mill. Hack journalism

Obama spent $34M and left it like this.

Lol—. This bit sums up living in NYC. Great place to be rich, great place to be poor… middle class/middle of the road, not so much.

Une camarade de 3eme vient d'expliquer à l'un de mes jumeaux que "mettre un point à la fin d'un texto, c'est froid et distant"... Un ami lituanien me dit, de son côté, que les jeunes lui déconseillent fortement de mettre dans ses messages une majuscule en début de phrase, voire de ponctuer son texte. Car : "Quelqu'un qui écrit avec une syntaxe et une ponctuation soignées peut être perçu comme condescendant..." Et quand j'interroge Grok, pour savoir si c'est une maladie très répandue, cette bestiole m'explique froidement : - "Écrire tout en minuscules est devenu un marqueur stylistique de relâchement assumé. Cela signale : je ne fais pas d'effort rhétorique, je parle comme je pense ." Bref, cela signale que je suis cool et sincère... Génial. Nous avons donc, en quelques années, régressé de mille deux cents ans. Au moins. -Au départ, les Grecs et les Romains écrivaient tout en majuscule, sans séparation entre les mots, sans point en fin de phrase. Ce qui rend leurs textes extrêmement pénibles à déchiffrer. - Ce n'est qu'au IVe siècle après Jésus-Christ que les scribes commencent à inventer les lettres minuscules. - Au VIIe siècle, les moines irlandais copiant des textes latins commencent à introduire systématiquement des espaces entre les mots. - Au VIIIe siècle, Charlemagne, lui, instaure la majuscule en début de phrase, le reste étant en minuscules (ce qui permettait de placer plus de texte dans une seule page, donc d'économiser du parchemin, ce matériau étant extrêmement cher) - Au XIIe siècle, les Universités inventent ensuite le paragraphe, qui permet de donner un peu de respiration à un texte. - Et ce n'est qu'à la fin du XVe siècle que le génial Alde Manuce, imprimeur et humaniste vénitien, invente la virgule et le point-virgule dans ses éditions des grands textes antiques (c'est aussi lui qui crée l'italique : trop fort🙂). Bref, du Ve av. J.-C. au XVe siècle ap. J.-C. : il a fallu 20 siècles pour rendre nos textes lisibles. Mais aujourd'hui, des zoulous de la "Gen. Z" ont décidé que tout ceci était "froid et condescendant". Le raisonnement est délicieux : les points en fin de phrase, la majuscule en début... font perdre un peu de temps, quand on pianote sur un écran. Certes, cela rend les messages bien plus lisibles, pour celui à qui le message s'adresse; mais cela demande à celui qui le rédige un petit effort supplémentaire. Et ça, c'est pas cool. Résultat : si je refuse de faire un effort pour les autres, et que je les oblige à en faire un... je ne suis pas une grosse feignasse égocentrique. Non : je manifeste, tout au contraire, combien je suis cool et sympa. Question de génération, surement. Ok boomer, tout ça, tout ça... Mais j'avoue, pour ma part, que je trouve ce genre de philosophie un zest paradoxal. Voire un peu agaçant.🙂

2026 may have already seen its biggest breakout act, Canadian Rock band 'Angine De Poitrine.'

This compilation brings together courtship displays from male peacock spiders filmed over the years 📹: Michael Lun

RIP Marjane Satrapi, the great cartoonist and film director, best known for PERSEPOLIS. She was only 56. A great talent. She will be missed.

More bike lane controversy -#bikenyc @nyc_evsa