Diana Budds
@DianaBudds
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writer covering design, urbanism, and culture. | recent work in @fastcodesign @archpaper @wallpapermag | 📥 [email protected] | 🇵🇠+ 🇲🇹
New York, NY
Joined January 2011
the architecture issey miyake commissioned for his stores was really incredible, starting with his longtime collaboration with shiro kuramata (who also designed perfume bottles for him)
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Zohran launched $30/hr snow-shoveling jobs with $45/hr overtime, and Republicans mocked him. Not only were sidewalks completely cleared within a day, but he did exactly what taxes are intended to do: take taxpayer money and invest it in people while producing results that
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It's very on the nose that you can only see both sides of the text by drone
I's indistinguishable from L's and T's. E's indistinguishable from F's. Multiple words get disjointed--not just on one plane but two. Truly, one of the most headache-inducing reading experiences I've ever had.
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love that this is about historic preservation and recognizing that architecture is for everyone!
It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.
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On CNBC, Mayor Mamdani says he's later today "going to be sharing the truth with New Yorkers" about how Eric Adams' administration "has left us with a $12 billion fiscal deficit." "It's something that is attributable to gross fiscal mismanagement," he says.
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Yes, it’s a government job. No, it won’t sound like one. We're hiring a Creative Director to run social media for @NYC_DOT—with real freedom to build a voice that's funny, human, and even a tad bit irreverent. Want to shape the voice of a massive organization, reach millions of
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Fascinating: notoriously neglectful and abusive landlord, Pinnacle Group, opened 82 LLCs to hold its 5,000+ rentals. Why would they do this? To evade accountability. It's why I passed the LLC Transparency Act, which the Gov just gutted with her veto.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said New York City would intervene in the Pinnacle Group’s bankruptcy case. Tenants have long complained about living conditions in the company’s properties.
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more of this!
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani stops by the bike path entrance to the Williamsburg bridge where DOT is addressing the “bump,” smoothing it for future cyclists. Mamdani says this is a route he’s biked many a time. While only a start, larger scale street safety improvements are to come.
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@Groundwork @KatieJWells @ConsumerReports @MorePerfectUS @bencasselman @nytimes “This isn’t about managing scarcity or efficient markets,” I said. It’s about “pushing to figure out the maximum amount you are willing to pay and squeeze it out of you.” 5/9
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The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.
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Right now, Instacart is quietly running experiments on millions of us while we shop for groceries online. They are trying to figure out exactly how much they can get away with charging you for breakfast cereal, lunch meat, pasta, and everything in between. How do I know? 1/9
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The two men who died in flooded basements as intense rain pounded NYC on Thursday were handymen in their respective buildings – familiar faces who could be called on to help out in a pinch, residents and neighbors said @BKriegstein on another tragic flood https://t.co/GWX6rPvJbi
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Juan Carlos Montoya Hernandez died attempting to perform electrical repairs during the storm. Aaron Akaberi died trying to rescue his pit bull from a flooding apartment.
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you really can't buy taste
President Trump isn't just remaking the East Wing of the White House. On Friday, he showed off an entirely renovated Lincoln Bathroom on his social media platform. Read more: https://t.co/QMTVaBCD6a
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I’m watching video after video of flooded streets, subways, stores, basements after record rainfall, but you wouldn’t know anything happened if you looked at @NYCMayor’s X account. Not one post all day about it. With 1.5M followers there’s a large reach.
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ready for a mayor that's going to focus on inland flooding/cloudbursts for resiliency infrastructure and storm preparedness. so much of what the city's gotten so far has to do with coastal surges and flooding (which we need too of course).
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🚨 In case you missed it: Amazon’s Ring is rolling out a feature that will scan the face of everyone who comes to your door – without their consent. The feature, called “Familiar Faces” will be available for new Ring doorbells and security cameras starting in December. But
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sounds great tbh
Days before NYC mayoral election, MTA chair trashes Mamdani's pitch for free buses https://t.co/RqMZyAHchw
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This aerial image from the 1960s shows that the 'yellow line' of Israel's redeployment in Gaza is roughly matching with the border of the area's coastal sand dune, leaving Gaza without the absolute majority of its agricultural areas on the fertile soils in the east.
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Really interesting new @WXYStudio vision for 5th Ave in Park Slope. Their designs include wider sidewalks, more street trees, busways, or even raised bike paths separated by greenery
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