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  • Carrie Shanafeltcarrideen@c18.masto.host
    Oct 14, 2026, 3:32 PM

    For 3.5 years, this is what our block of Broadway looks like as the MTA builds an elevator and replaces a stairwell at our subway station. The businesses all along the block are suffering and many have closed permanently. What used to be a big open plaza next to the park is a warren of filthy construction sites, rats, and garbage. Even the Burger King on the adjacent corner has closed.

    Meanwhile, I keep thinking about how in 2016, Chengdu had 2 subway lines and the next year had 12. /no tankie

    A corridor of green plastic-covered fences with a massive construction site near the skeleton of an elevated subway staircase and an elevator shaft wrapped in plastic
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  • Carrie Shanafeltcarrideen@c18.masto.host
    Oct 14, 2026, 3:35 PM

    It has looked exactly like this, with an empty elevator shaft and a staircase with no roof, since May. The original staircase was removed when I was working at my previous job in 2023. Most days, nothing happens. A few days a month, guys are walking around teasing each other and calling the site disgusting. Very occasionally, work noises can be heard.

    Every time I pass it, I whisper, "Our Sagrada Familia."

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  • Carrie Shanafeltcarrideen@c18.masto.host
    Oct 14, 2026, 3:41 PM

    Since we are at the end of the line and near a big park, we do get quite a few disoriented, displaced, and desperate people in the neighborhood. In 2020, our neighbors put out a "Friendly Fridge" and now has a robust distribution network to get food to hungry people and match them with city resources. But the construction has created a lot of places where someone who wants to surprise you and demand money can do so without being seen by the street--and backlash from people yelling at loiterers.

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  • Carrie Shanafeltcarrideen@c18.masto.host
    Oct 14, 2026, 3:44 PM

    If I were a business on this street, I would be petitioning Mamdani's office every day. So many empty shops on one of the most theoretically desirable shop rows on Broadway are just too depressing.

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