(Part 2) Top products from r/nyc

The last excellent work of fiction I read was City of Dreams by Beverly Swerling. The book that I feel best captures the feeling of New York City, however, is Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin.

I mostly read nonfiction books about New York City history, and I'll share a few of my favorites with you. The definitive tome, of course, is Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Mike Wallace and Edwin Burrows. Another favorite of mine, as I love the history of New Amsterdam, is Island at the Center of the World:The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto. One of the most fascinating subjects I have been learning about is Native American history at the period of first European contact, and I really recommend checking out Adriaen Van Der Donck's A Description of New Netherland (The Iroquoians and their World), which many scholars agree is just as much of a significant work as William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, and would be the definitive guide to the new world if it had been written in English. Evan Pritchard's Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquian People of New York also offers an incredible look at native culture.

If you are interested in the subway system, check out Stan Fischler's fantastic Uptown, Downtown. One of the most underrated books I have picked up recently explores the construction of the amazing Grand Central Terminal, and I learned an incredible amount from it: Grand Central's Engineer: William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan. If you are interested in urban planning, I would also suggest The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor.

At this point I've read a ton of nonfiction books about the city, so if you have any questions or want any other recommendations, feel free to ask!

Here's a little bit about the book and a link for the lazy:
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything

Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success-and survival-is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst-and enjoy every moment of it.

In An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Col. Hadfield takes readers deep into his years of training and space exploration to show how to make the impossible possible. Through eye-opening, entertaining stories filled with the adrenaline of launch, the mesmerizing wonder of spacewalks, and the measured, calm responses mandated by crises, he explains how conventional wisdom can get in the way of achievement-and happiness. His own extraordinary education in space has taught him some counterintuitive lessons: don't visualize success, do care what others think, and always sweat the small stuff.

You might never be able to build a robot, pilot a spacecraft, make a music video or perform basic surgery in zero gravity like Col. Hadfield. But his vivid and refreshing insights will teach you how to think like an astronaut, and will change, completely, the way you view life on Earth-especially your own.

This was awesome, thanks. I work just a few blocks from 60 Hudson and 32 6th (My company gets their internet from Rainbow Broadband, streamed from the antenna on the top of 32 6th) and have always wanted to see what the data centers and switch infrastructure inside actually looks like. But I'm not holding my breath.

If anyone else is interested in this stuff, I recommend reading Tubes by Andrew Blum. He worked for years to get exclusive looks inside the workings of these exchanges, and then tells you all about it. According to his book, the main entrance for network cables into 60 Hudson is a hole a few feet wide in the basement that every tenant has to pay for space in, making it the most expensive tiny sliver of real estate in Manhattan.

I have this one:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X528FNE/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It's not the cheapest, but video quality is very good and I haven't had any issues with it. I can strongly recommend.

Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York by Randy Kennedy (NY times author who used to have a column about the subway called 'Tunnel Vision')

This isn't about the whole city itself but about the subway, it's place in New York City's history and the many stories within. It's a little dated but most of the stuff is still applicable. Short book and a great read.

For anyone that liked this, I suggest you take a look at the book Mannahatta by Eric W. Sanderson. It's really fascinating.

The US has gotten very interested in Yakuza activity in the US in recent years. See also Tokyo Vice which goes into how the FBI fast tracked a liver transplant for a Japanese mob boss in exchange for help on a bust in the US.

Not easy to verify that it wasn't messed with. A USB condom would be a better assurance. Same with the ports on some busses.

Four Foot Eleven, a mini-doc about Chris "The Angry Bagel Guy" Morgan's rise to fame hit Amazon yesterday. It covers the lead up to the fight and the aftermath. A percentage of proceeds go directly to help Chris. It's free for Prime and a buck to rent for everyone else. https://www.amazon.com/Four-Foot-Eleven-Chris-Morgan/dp/B081G6Q792/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=%22Daniel+La+Barbera%22&qid=1573868630&s=instant-video&sr=1-1

You can easily shave $5 off your monthly bill from spectrum by buying your own modem. Most people don't realize it but they are renting the modem from their ISP. If you use the service for more than a year, you could have just bought your own modem because they cost less than $100 to buy. You can pick up something like this modem. I paid even less because i bought mine used off of craigslist.

Please read the short essay Here is New York by E.B. White. Written during a heat wave in the late 40's. It's stunning.

Sure this is the one I got from amazon. It comes with a very long wire so I ran it on the corner and edge of the window to keep it always plugged in. The camera turns on by itself when I start the car, and turns off after few seconds after you turn on the car. Didnt really need to configure anything on the camera itself.

I think theres a subreddit for dash cams as well and they have a lot of recommendations there also.

Nothing new is necessary.

Countdown by Alan Weisman, describes many nations that have lowered birth rates without coercion to increases in joy and abundance.

Usually it results from making contraception widely available, education, and concerted PR.

If you remember reading "The Little Red Lighthouse" when you were a kid, this is what it's about: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Lighthouse-Great-Gray-Bridge/dp/0152045732

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It's a really comfortable and nice bike ride all the way from lower manhattan to here (no hills, or cars, but a few areas with pedestrians).

There's a book I've meant to read called Mannahatta that's a natural history of the island. The cover's a wild photo with 1/2 of Manhattan built-up and the west 1/2 is all trees.

Yep, it's DOCSIS 3.0 certified (the newest standard) the reason why they said the Apple Airport wasn't compatible is you probably had an old Comcast modem (only DOCSIS 2.0) so they said you need to upgrade to a modem/router combo unit.

I used to work for Optimum and had this modem on their network: https://www.amazon.com/ARRIS-SURFboard-SB6141-Certified-Cablevision/product-reviews/B00YUU5628/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_paging_btm_2?filterByKeyword=speed&search-alias=community-reviews&pageNumber=2#reviews-filter-bar

Goes up to 150Mbps+ which is 10 times more then you really need.

Don't know. But now, all those outstanding warrants for low-level charges have been retired.

At one point in time, 42% of New Yorkers had slaves. That's a mind blowing number. Almost $170K a year (and those numbers are 4 years old now) now to put a kid in Rikers for a year. That's another mind-blowing statistic. So we have some history to work through.

Highly recommend "Sapiens", somehow all of us "tribes" survive in places like NYC, it's so amazing.

https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_New_York

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cost-inmate-nyc-ivy-league-tuition-article-1.1471630

> NEW YORK — New York is indeed an expensive place, but experts say that alone doesn't explain a recent report that found the city's annual cost per inmate was $167,731 last year — nearly as much as it costs to pay for four years of tuition at an Ivy League university.

You say you want something but you immediately put yourself out of the race. Read the first few chapters of http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-The-New-Psychology-Success/dp/0345472322/ and you'll learn why your mentality is toxic both to you and the people around you

I always carry a few USB condoms for this reason.

Why the hell are you downvoting this guy? It's not EXACTLY what OP wanted but it's a decent effort at getting pretty damn close.

Also a tip for amazon links: take

www.amazon.com/description/dp/asinnumber/randomothercrap

and shorten it to

www.amazon.com/dp/asinnumber/

example: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000K4Y0NE/

Here is New York by E.B. White. Short and timeless.

The city itself was going broke and there were massive layoffs of city workers. I just read this book that captures what was going on back then - http://www.amazon.com/Ladies-Gentlemen-Bronx-Burning-Baseball/dp/0312424302

According to The Big Oyster (which is supposed to be about oysters but is mostly NYC history), Broadway was a pre-colonial trade route for oysters from lower Manhattan up to Yonkers on the Hudson and so accounts for Broadway's northwest vector.

>Transgender bathroom issue

Trump relinquished federal authority. Giving up federal power is not very authoritarian.

> Neil Gorsuch

Based on his writings, Gorsuch could and likely would overturn judicial precedents that have allowed the Executive branch to continually and vastly broaden its powers, which would be a massive check on federal authority. In cases like the EPA, it's ever expanding in ways that aren't exactly legal. Rolling that back would limit the power of bureaucratic agencies that often operate with no checks.

>H. R. McMaster replacing Michael Flynn

I'm sure the guy that wrote a book condemning Vietnam-era generals for just rolling over to the President's wishes is going to roll over to the President's wishes.


Rolling back of federal authority is not authoritarian, and being impolite on Twitter doesn't make one a fascist. He has certainly talked about rather authoritarian wishes but has taken the opposite stance in his actions.

And he's riled the press to call him out on his shit, where they've taken a backseat in aggressively critiquing the executive branch for quite some time.