Open Thread Wednesday

I want to give a BIG shout out to the fine folks at Jalapa Jar who provided delicious breakfast tacos, salsa and chips for the teachers and staff at PS8 on Tuesday morning! (State tests are happening this week and the parents/PTA wanted to treat them). Jalapa Jar went well above and beyond and prepared more food than expected and even had their staff come in extra early so the order would be ready for pick up at 7:00 am. Bravo, Jalapa Jar!

Seriously, these guys are the best, their staff attentive and food is fresh and flavorful (and portable!). Stop by their shop in the 2/3 Clark Street Station and grab a bite or some fresh salsa.

The construction in the building Vinnie Viola bought at the end of Pierrepont Street is very loud.

Saw this today:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-most-unaffordable-place-to-live-in-america-is-2016-06-23?mod=mw_share_facebook

Almost every morning an alarm goes off there, and continues for a long time.

I stopped by Jalapa Jar shortly after it opened and they were disorganized and out of ingredients. Okay, said this former line chef, they’re still getting their act together; happens all the time. Went back a few weeks later, same story. Waited a few months more and found nothing had changed. That was all a while ago and Jalapa Jar may now be a finely oiled machine but for this customer, it was three strikes and I’m out.

I don’t like the new Anish Kapoor work in the park, and I usually love his work. It’s loud, garish, and silly. Looks more like cheap Disney theatrics than the deep, dread-inducing, introspective pieces he usually creates.

I heard a rumor that Banana republic is going to become another urgent care facility. Can anyone confirm?

I apologize, dogs don’t have a sense of time. Even so, it is still relevant.

I’m a big fan, and have had consistently good experiences over the months they’ve been open and operating out of Clark St. If you can’t deal with waiting, you can always try their ready-made salsas from the fridge.

It says so on the NYDEPT of construction permits on the windows

I admire his work too but like many artists I like to give him grief about his exclusive license with Vantablack. I stopped by the opening this morning but had to to leave for an appointment before he arrived. I do feel like “Descension” doesn’t quite live up to the “wow” factor he’s capable of. Thinking of adding a “con” before the title in Krink marker at some point.

In my opinion they should do away with the “dedicated” lanes entirely. They are broadly ignored by walkers and riders alike. Not necessarily ban bikes or make people walk them (as is supposed to be the case on, say, the Promenade), but instead rely on people’s judgment as to when bikes can and should be ridden, with pedestrians having the right of way across the span of the path, as in most any other park. There are stretches where the “walking” side is way too narrow to accommodate pedestrians, particularly when the park is crowded–there just isn’t enough room to set aside for cyclists who want to treat the path as a thoroughfare. Another unintended consequence of the park’s unexpected popularity.
(I’ll resist the urge to even start with the special brand of hypocritical sanctimony that attends the annoyed bell-ringing of a cyclist who has almost certainly never once stopped for a pedestrian at a stop sign or red light. Other than to put it in a long parenthetical, thereby starting with it despite promises not to start with it. Bit of a failure altogether, resisting-wise, I suppose.)

He’s got a horse running in the Kentucky Derby this weekend. Second choice at 5-1.

Anyone know what the loud and military looking helicopters were that landed in Manhattan about 1:30p yesterday?

This is the near-term future of health care in America. The chains are going to expand and the market will decide the winners and losers. You don’t (or maybe you do) say, ‘We don’t need a CVS there because there is a Duane Reade a block away.’ Similar scenario.