ICYMI: my dispatch from the three-hour-long line outside Mamdani's new jobs center nygroove.nyc/jobs-nyc-mam...
Tim Donnelly
Tim Donnelly
@timdonnelly.com
NYC journalist and other words; co-owner of The New York Groove. (Subscribe today! https://nygroove.nyc). Co-founder of Vocabaret. Formerly NY Post, Lifehacker, Brokelyn and so forth.
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This week's @nygroove.nyc newsletter is out: a dispatch from the long line outside Mamdani's new jobs center + an 'all hands on deck' effort to save the next census, plus a spooky Q of the week 😱 nygroove.nyc/email/edb742...
Hundreds of people have been lining up for @mayor.nyc.gov's new jobs center in lower Manhattan since it opened two weeks ago. I talked to a bunch of them about their desperation, and hope, of getting a city job nygroove.nyc/jobs-nyc-mam...
“I have like $20 in my bank. I'm serious. And I know I don't look like I need a job. I gotta eat and buy toilet paper, darling.” nygroove.nyc/jobs-nyc-mam...
we'll read about the grift of this era for the rest of time but one thing is certain, I will read all of it www.wired.com/story/bud-li...
The new issue of The New York Groove is out and it's chock full of goodies this week: toot scoot love, ballot props, readers' QR code hate, a Girls joke by committee and more nygroove.nyc/email/3b1fdd...
What to know about the propositions on your ballot this year, which could make it easier to get outdoor dining AND bike/bus lanes in the city (plus @davecolon.bsky.social tells you how he's voting) nygroove.nyc/coge-ballot-...
scoring bravado points by wildly misrepresenting the law to a j-school junior getting class credit
Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night. Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.
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The City Council is set to finally ban horse carriages in Central Park next week. Read a little about how they got there: nygroove.nyc/free-the-cen...
We're bringing the handsome weather man back to Caveat in a few weeks and tickets are, as expected, already going quickly nygroove.nyc/nov-3-were-g...
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A darkness descends upon the land. And in that darkness, a small, annoying rectangle of light. QR codes have come for another famous "anti-phone" theater. Read the story from @vksmith.bsky.social nygroove.nyc/nitehawk-qr-...
I'm here in the @nygroove.nyc today with shocking news for you that AI has threatened to ruin another good thing: 311 nygroove.nyc/nyc311-ai-sm...
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we've also got a report from @timdonnelly.com on the fresh new hell of AI's incorporation into the 311 app. we hope you're sitting down for this reveal, but so far? everyone's least favorite tech is making it harder to get help, not easier nygroove.nyc/nyc311-ai-sm...
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the thing about this is i don't understand how many personal AI assistants everyone needs? i thought people were already asking claude to raise their children or whatever
Meta's Muse is a privacy and security shitshow any sensible person saw coming miles away. Truly an abysmal company; clearly confident they won't see U.S. government accountability anytime soon.
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~1 hour until tickets open for Open House New York this year. Make your plan now! nygroove.nyc/open-house-n...
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actually relevant updates on station screens? announcements you're able to clearly hear and understand??? a brave new world awaits the MTA, @timdonnelly.com reports nygroove.nyc/the-mta-is-a...
It's new @nygroove.nyc issue day! nygroove.nyc/email/6c8176...
Here's me on the MTA's effort to bring AI-enabled announcements, dynamic volume and other 'next gen' tech to the subway system nygroove.nyc/the-mta-is-a...
It's new @nygroove.nyc issue day! nygroove.nyc/email/6c8176...
it's Open House NY season motherfuckers; read about what's new this year and find Team Groove's picks, like this: nygroove.nyc/open-house-n...
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Breaking News: Tennessee called off its next execution and will review its process after the botched attempt to put Christa Pike to death.
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Today at the MTA Board meeting, @timdonnelly.com made his MTA debut and got Janno Lieber to do an impression of the unintelligible station PAs www.youtube.com/live/0e3tHtO...
The city's greatest documentarians are back with a claim for who was New York City's greatest modern mayor: Mike "who wrote this crap?" Bloomberg. Read @davecolon.bsky.social's analysis here: nygroove.nyc/new-york-a-d...
we've been down this road already nygroove.nyc/ai-subway-ads/
Meta Charm is a Tamagotchi-like device with Muse AI.
they really gotta make more politics that's not totally embarrassing to be associated with in any way
The Brooklyn Democratic Party County Committee meeting has ended, the rules changes were passed with hundreds of proxy votes, Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn was nowhere to be found. Chaos reigned. dispatch for @thecityreporter.nyc www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/23/b...
"Oh yeah, I would hope so. Raise [congestion pricing] 20 more dollars. Jack that shit up as much as they can."
We spoke to drivers, bus riders, and pedestrians during the annual Midtown gridlock nightmare caused in part by the UN General Assembly. "This is unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable." Plus more news for your Wednesday. hellgatenyc.com/midtown-traf...
absolute humiliation king, you gotta admire it (you don't have to admire it) gothamist.com/news/early-a...
i assumed we'd eventually force everyone to be vegan by lack of resources but if they want to self-own their way into it that's fine with me too
The owner of a top BBQ joint in Texas decided to cut brisket, the top-selling item, from the menu rather than institute a $10 markup for customers. The decision was fueled not just by the skyrocketing price of brisket but by inflation.
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I am often invited to climate-themed dinners where I have to specifically request a vegan option, because the event isn't naturally vegan, which is always interesting to me...
One weird thing about energy/climate academia is how many people choose to do lots of unnecessary and harmful stuff (fly lots, eat lots of beef, drive fossil vehicles lots, etc.). I get that we need policy and system change, but also, doesn't this it undermine credibility after a point?