We didn’t get around to sending out a newsletter for a bit and so this is a double issue. Note that there are a few things you can do today around the neighborhood if you feel like it, including the Vanderbilt open house and the Olly Olly flea market (both from 12-4pm). Life, particularly in your neighborhood, is quite rich.

Latest updates:

Weekly updates linked below. There is quite a bit happening around the neighborhood over the next week that we need to remind you about. First, just in time before the impending robot takeover, remember that neighbor Drew will help you go ahead and join the robots this Thursday; second, the brand new art gallery on 29th & 11th referenced below (AINA) has its grand opening this Thursday as well; third, the London Terrace street fair on 24th Street is this Saturday from 10-5pm; fourth, the Longest Table potluck referenced below is next Sunday from 12-2pm; and fifth, the special filming of A Home Worth Fighting For is also taking place next Sunday (at 5:30pm).

Nothing goes faster than a summer in New York. Here’s to it being officially fall, my friends, the most quintessentially New York season.

Weekly updates:

We’re a little late with the weekly update today, but how’re you gonna never be slow, never be late?  I think it’s because you didn’t pay your dues or something, and more on that below. 

Weekly updates linked below.  First, we want to thank two members of the Chelsea Garden Club, Luis and Milton, for caring for some of our block tree pits for the last year; we had reported two weeks ago that the Horticultural Society of New York was responsible for the beautification, and it turns out that was only partially true.  Thanks also to those of you who wrote in about this, including Phyllis. 

The usual updates below. Two garden-related notes: First, we wrote a few weeks ago about the rooftop garden on the top ofthe Post Office building, and I now have a modest dream that a group of us will go up there for a tour or maybe even a gathering.  If you have a connection to Tishman Speyer, the leaseholder of the top floors of Morgan North, or Newmark, the real estate advisor hired to sub-lease the space, please let us know.  Thus far our tactics have ranged from sending emails to both followed by a light “just following up” or a “just bringing this to the top of your inbox,” yet to no avail.  I get it though. 

One of my most charismatic friends will tell you that the secret to everyone liking you is walking around with the baseline assumption that everyone already likes you and thinks you’re beautiful.  Now, I will be the first to admit that something about the words “she wants me bro” hits my ear wrong, both as a phrase and as a feeling, particularly when coming from a male voice and when “she” is like a bartender pre-tip who just courtesy laughed at your uncomfortable joke.  But the more I think about it, the more I realize that you’ve got to spend a lot more time in your own head, alone, than telling me about that flirtatious bartender at Whitman’s.  And so you know what?  I agree with you.  She wants you, bro.   

The usual updates linked below.  The organizer(s) behind this endeavor will be out of office next week and attempting to learn to surf, by which we likely mean just repeatedly falling into the ocean as an overly tanned Lachlan or Callum or something tells us we’re doing something wrong with our shoulders.  Is it the feet or the shoulders, Lachlan? 

The usual block updates linked below.  New York is, when brought to the logical conclusion of its most terrifying form, the long hallway of an apartment building.  Get off the elevator; walk towards your apartment; face an unnerving and almost disturbing quiet given that you know there are people all around (right? right??), yet you’ve never met them and they’re all behind just-closed doors.  Get safely in your apartment and behind a just-closed door yourself.

Usual block updates linked below. The saying goes that everyone has a story, and I’m a big believer that half of you are walking around with some pretty fascinating and colorful thoughts in your heads. So at this point I remind all of you that the original conception of this endeavor was to be a cacophonous community sounding board. In different words: if you’ve got a thought and want to share it with the block, tell us what it is and we’ll (probably) post it, with attribution and likely even admiration. Now the other half is, I’m pretty sure, just like talking about how AI has changed the way you work. I am somehow incredible at finding myself across from this half at lunches and happy hours. To you I don’t have much to say other than that I’ve never used it and I’m not even really sure what it stands for.