Tim Donnelly
@timdonnelly
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Co-founder of @TheNY_Groove. Bylines in: @nypost @curbed @streetsblog @eater @vice; co-host of @thevocabaret; https://t.co/JrXpokah2j
Joined November 2008
A TikTok account is leaking NYC bathroom codes, tracking the best free bathrooms and shaming businesses for gatekeeping a basic human need. My latest for the @nypost:
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Someone at the bagel shop ordered a cinnamon raisin with tuna. This is Kathy Hochul’s New York.
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Kirsten Gillibrand is on @BrianLehrer pitching alternatives to congestion pricing's clean-air benefits, suggests 20 years to build "hubs" outside the city where people could park their cars & take the train, a concept more popularly known as "parking lots at train stations".
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Can’t believe the no major changes we made after Sandy didn’t prevent this.
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"Student journalists will be arrested if they leave Pulitzer Hall" is quite a sentence to hear on @WKCRFM.
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This is Brooklyn but an ambulance stuck in standstill traffic is the sign of a healthy city that requires no major changes, to me
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Here’s more NYPD cops not wearing masks on a train car where everyone else is masked
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does this gets the churro lady a free pass next time she gets arrested by NYPD?
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Nice scoop from @DaveCoIon here: New York State has been underfunding the MTA by hundreds of millions of dollars for decades using a sneaky shell game
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An awful new TikTok trend is people hating on NYC beaches
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getting in a plug early on this: if you're frustrated by politicians like this right now, I collected tips on staying hopeful in cynical times for @TheNY_Groove last week, read and subscribe!
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"Coverage about shootings outweigh the number of incidents"
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lotta comments here are the same energy as "i'm a new yorker and i NEVER ride the subway".
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The new psychotic NYC driver behavior I noticed during my 2 weeks of car sitting is when you come to a sensible stop at a red light and the person behind you decides to SPEED AROUND YOU TO RUN THE RED LIGHT.
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it's the last-ever Ask The Mayor with de Blasio today, final chance for someone to call in and insist he drink piss.
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also doing a bad job telling people they should not go to urgent care for a test! there are pop-up tents everywhere, and plenty of no-line Health & Hospitals sites around.
Call me crazy but if 50 people are shivering outside to get a COVID test, I’d say we’ve done a pretty crappy job making tests widely available. Half the people are coughing.
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Talking to people about how they realized it was an earthquake really reveals how accustomed we are to a panoply of other things in the city that violently shake our buildings all the time.
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thankfully the ambulance kept blasting what I assume is its "everything is fine here!" siren for 5 minutes so everyone who lives in these buildings could be sure that everything was fine.
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Hello! back on Twitter to say the rumors are true, we're starting a new local service journalism site to help unlock this city for every New Yorker, and @newmarkjschool is going to help us do it. Lots more coming, stay incredibly tuned . .
🌟 Tim Donnelly (@timdonnelly) is a journalist and co-founder of The New York Groove, a service journalism outlet helping everyone be the best New Yorker they can be. 📍 He is based in Brooklyn, New York.
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whenever delaying a major proposal, make sure you've spent the most amount of money holding comment sessions, installing equipment, buying ads and spending on PSAs right before announcing the delay.
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last day of de blasio's term must mean it's the day he builds the BQX.
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tearing down Grand Prospect Hall but landmarking Penn Station is the future we deserve.
Historic blunder?! State moves to protect Penn Station and MSG, jeopardizing redevelopment. In a bizarre step, the state says the awful train station should join the National Register of Historic Places
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all the answers in this thread being Terminal 5 reminds me of the time i pitched a story at my old job about how everyone hates Terminal 5 and they told me this was not a universal experience and no one cared.
terminal 5 and it’s not even close. the sound is bad and it’s annoying to get to/far from everything. i will skip a show i would otherwise go to simply because it is at that venue.
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good reminder that the rest of her answer on congestion pricing was also 🤌🏻
Kirsten Gillibrand's congestion pricing answer in full, including that first responders, "critical" workers and Staten Islanders should be exempted from congestion pricing
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a company named Bong LLC sued its tenants for filling the Bong building with weed smoke
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This is the first protected bike lane in America, one of the most heavily used in all of NYC and a theoretically beautiful path to bike to Coney Island and still it can't get loooong overdue repairs until 2023
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i wrote about the anti-outdoor dining protest on Cornelia Street in June, where people complained about piles of trash bags. Looked back on Google Street View and saw huge piles of trash bags on the street back in 2017 too. That's where you're told to put it!
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i wonder if those two years it was suspended before being incrementally and slowly reintroduced affected participation?.
Asked why he suspended expansion of the organics recycling program, @ericadamsfornyc says the program is "broken" and only functioning as a "symbolic" gesture because participation is so low.
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extremely 2021 story on @BrianLehrer right now: caller is living in basement because wife won't get vaccinated; basement floods because of stormwaters.
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Bad news: your holiday travel plans got canceled. Good news: you're in New York City for Christmas, which rules. I rounded up the best, Covid-safe options for your staycation holiday this year for @nypost.
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there's lots of room to tweak and improve outdoor dining for sure but complaints about trash and rats always leapfrog one obvious issue: why are we piling our trash on the curb and in the street in the first place?.
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“The text to your sister that says, ‘Expletive, I’m pregnant.’ The search history for abortion pills or the visitation of websites that have information about abortion.”
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Just biked by 5 teens standing in the plaza outside Barclays Center, giving the finger to a large picture of Kevin Durant.
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All those anti-Fetterman billboards in Pennsylvania now legally must be turned into ads for South of the Border.
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Definitely not prepared for the deep weirdness of having a vegan mayor who is himself deeply weird
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"If I had the capacity and was 20 years younger, not a single bike would pass on Bedford Avenue because we would physically block them. Not just interfere with them, but physically block them."
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I am simply asking all quaint seaside communities of the east coast to add sidewalks and bike lanes.
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mfs will pipe up about Dune but won't get out of the dunes when they are designed protected habitats for piping plovers.
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i'll always remember "The Killers playing an acoustic Mr. Brightside directly to Anderson Cooper in the green room of a hurricane-canceled concert celebrating the end of nothing" as one of the lesser but most illustrative moments of our pandemic era
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nice public street you got there. would be a shame if it were physically blocked from being a public street.
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Whole ass story about outdoor dining in the @NOLAnews, not one mention of anyone upset about losing parking spaces
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Brooklyn Ave. does NOT run through Dumbo like this, not sure this movie is based on real events.
New look at the #Supermariomovie shows Mario & Luigi it what looks to be Brooklyn (called it) with their rumored plumbing van. Pauline also appears to be in the back to the left
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you can tell you're a person who gets all their news from print media when you are surprised by the pronunciation of the name "Ghislaine".
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can't believe the strategy of "no masks no closures no vaccines just raw dog your way through this yeeeehaww" didn't work.
Florida reports 73,000+ cases this week and 15% positivity.
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this allegedly vegan man eats more fish than Heathcliff the cat.
.@NYCMayor plays a role in the most recent Eating New York newsletter (the star is the fish he ate at L'incontro, now on the UES) @tammieetc
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there's prob a deeper meaning about why people insist on going to CityMD for tests that has to do with the reflexive trusting of a major brand name, or the fact that no one has a real doctor any more so citymd is their first thought, but either way there are better options!.
Pro-tip: Go to one of these sites, avoid CityMD and urgent cares.
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it would be helpful to my productivity today if everyone could stop texting me that they have covid for like 5 minutes.
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the east river park situation shows we're basically never going to get ahead of the next storm or the next floods
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wow another shot of people on a plane reacting dramatically to the news yesterday
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the crime in manhattan has gotten so high the criminals can now afford to pay $5k a month for rent i guess
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is it a media wave, or is that the only people you talk to.
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i don’t know if this is illegal but it’s certainly very rude. There’s barely any bike parking in this city as it is!
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my one nepo baby claim is that my dad was manager of a men's clothing store and my grandma ran a florist so my friends and I all got free suits for every school dance and I got free corsages, i was a true teen power broker.
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love democracy where we have real choices of normal humans to vote for
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Eric Adams tells Brian Lehrer there is a difference between "vegan" and "plant-based" which there is not! There is no definition for the latter!.
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Happy 10th anniversary of the Great GoogaMooga to all who observe.
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why don't we simply expand the BQE so the water has another lane to use to get out of the city.
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really illuminating look at who actually fled the city during the high pandemic
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Some of you fuckin nerds need a reminder that summer isn't even half over yet
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current american healthcare status: can't get an eye doc appointment because I can't remember my Groupon password.
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We must stop empowering mirthless nerds with writing assignments
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Help I've been banned from the Santa Tracker app for tracking Santa's real-time location.
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After attending several recent shows with abysmal audience etiquette, it has become clear to me that we must expand the use of phone jail. I wrote about it for @HellGateNY:
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How could anyone be a white supremacist in the same world where the food in Jackson Heights exists.
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one of the only people at the superspreader event who hasn't tested positive yet; even covid is sending me rejection letters.
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Standard “at JFK” tweet reminder that the Airtrain is a very dumb system.
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69 Flood Songs.
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turning 40 this week and already being dunked on by press releases
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Luna Park's new prices have turned the people's playground into the people's pay ground! Here's my story for @nypost
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Donald Trump is now the first former president of the United States to violate the pitch clock.
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the famous central park concert that told everyone "return to your vehicles".
In which @NYCMayor goes on at great length about how awesome this summer's homecoming concert was — the one that was supposed to signify the rebirth of NYC but was aborted by lightning ( — and presents the key to the city to its organizer, Clive Davis
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oh great now we gotta hear NINE million stories??.
NYC: 2020 population of 8.8 million. Biggest large city increase from 2010.
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still thinking about owen wilson's bike-mounted reporter's notebook in The French Dispatch.
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