r/nyc

Our Union Square is starting to remind me of San Francisco’s Union Square.

I took this at 5:48 PM at Broadway and Rector. Smoke stretched across multiple blocks.

https://www.economicpossibility.org/insights/a-revenue-neutral-swap-of-new-york-city-s-taxes-for-a-21-7-land-value-tax-is-simu

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/economists/haughwout/netzer\_paper.pdf

https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/economists/haughwout

I've always wanted to walk every block of Manhattan but knew the overhead of tracking those walks would be a pain, so over the last couple months I made an app that checks off each block once you've walked it. Some friends wanted to try it so I just uploaded it to the App Store.

You can turn on passive tracking so that your blocks are tracked without opening the app, and there's a leaderboard so you can see how your stats compare to other New Yorkers.

The app is called WalkNYC and it's completely free. It's only on iOS right now but I'm looking into porting it to Android. Would love any feedback you all have!

Here's the link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/walknyc-walk-every-block/id6758922428

Lived in NYC for years before moving away. Never got over the specific brand of platform rage, close laptop, walk over, tap in, doors close in your face, next one's in 14 minutes, Always 14.

So I built a tiny tool for Mac users who already live in the terminal. You type in the station, and it shows the next trains in both directions, for every line, color-coded by how panicked you should be. Can also plan an end-to-end route with transfers like the MTA Trip Planner, but on the terminal.

How to Install:

brew tap itsashishupadhyay/mta
brew install mta

Some Commands to try:

mta -s "Times Sq"         # next trains at every line, both directions
mta -s "bedfrod avr"      # fuzzy match, misspell, similar stations
mta -s "bay prkwy"        # 3 stations called Bay Pkwy. picker tells you which is which
mta -s "Penn Station" -d "DeKalb Av"           # end-to-end route plan with         transfers
mta -s "Times Sq" -d "Bedford Av" -v           # same but verbose. per-stop diagram, the prettiest output
mta -s "Bay Ridge-95" -d "Forest Hills" -t 10  # only show trains leaving 10+ min from now
mta -s "14 St-Union Sq" -l L                   # filter to one line. less scrolling
mta --help                                     # everything else

Repo + screenshots: https://github.com/itsashishupadhyay/NYC_MTA_Timetable

Please try it on your home/work/regular station, and please reply with what's wrong, missing, or weird.

Will you look at this!??