Holy fuck balls. Talk about a city of built on shaking down residents/visitors.

First time visiting in my life this past weekend and I paid $15 to cross one bridge to then pay $8 to cross another.

Seriously, eat shit.

New Yorkers don't cross bridges. You live where you work. They generally stick to their boroughs.

No one wants to go to Queens.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Reminds me of that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer went across town & got lost. Then some pimp picked him up.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Poor Kirkwood's at the nexus of the universe.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

<º)))><

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Are you enjoying all the bags of trash everywhere? That's how I know Chicago isn't a world-class city, the sidewalks aren't covered with festering bags of trash.

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Until you use their public transportation system a visit to any large city is incomplete.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

Mexican sauce

I was only there for 1.5 days so didn't have much time to explore such an expansive city. Definitely noticed it in Brooklyn. Some businesses had 4 piles with 15-20 bags stacked on the sidewalk.

Lower Manhattan where I stayed wasn't as bad. Stacks of 2-3 bags. But I think that's because they probably just threw the other 15 bags down all the holes that were EVERYWHERE from construction.

If you are staying in Manhattan you really shouldn't be taking bridges unless you took cabs. There are free bridges too.

Those bridges really aren't designed to screw tourists. They are designed to screw the people who live in long island who commute in every day making big money while living in a place with a yard and much less of a price.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I had a wedding 1.5 hours west of NYC near West Point. Picked up the car in LGA and used Google Maps to direct us.

Was there a way we could've avoided bridges?

There is always a way to avoid toll bridges in NYC. It isn't as convenient but there is always a way.

Google Maps doesn't care about toll bridges. When we would go in on weekends we would basically look at the map, navigate to the free bridge, and then put in our final destination. During the week you are better trusting google maps and spending the money if you need to.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

That stench near the curbs of the sidewalks. Like piss and garbage everywhere.

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It is amazing they have not come up with any sort of solution for the garbage problem either. It's not like garbage didn't exist 100 years ago. I don't know why they don't have a dumpster on every block that gets emptied every 2 or 3 days. They've got the money.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

We used the subway. Very nice system as we got nearly anywhere we wanted. It's nice the lines have many stops but slightly annoying since they travel slowly compared to other cities' subways I've experienced.

crossed from Bronx to Manhattan on several bridges just a few weeks ago with no tolls...fucking suburbanites

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Rats the size of cattle

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In contrast to Chicago? Yikes.

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We should have specified the size of the bridges.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Supposedly, our rat problem is as bad or worse than theirs....but damnit, rats live everywhere in NYC. They bold and shit. No matter where you go, the rat accompanies you. Part of the landscape.

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It's been years since I've been to NYC so I can only guess they did similar to what the CTA did; eliminated A, B or "all stop" designations. Quality of life took a big step backward when that happened.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

buncha jelly hayturs:

The problem is most of the city wasn't built with alleys. In Chicago that trash is there, it's just hidden in the alleys you barely notice.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I see why black people didn't watch Seinfeld.

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And I love NYC...in fact, hopefully beginning next year I will make it a point to go once a year. And I will hang in Queens, IMU....and Brooklyn, too.

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You can get borough to borough without tolls, but you cannot cross from jersey to NY without tolls. All of the Hudson River bridges and the bridges from Jersey to Staten island have tolls.

You can easily get from the Bronx to Long Island without tolls. Just take one of the smaller bridges over the Harlem River and then cross the 59th St Bridge or Brooklyn Bridge.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson