Yo realtalk, New York may be the worst city ever

[akuratl02]

Cherry Valley .... I wish it was closer to transportation though ... It seems far and I live right in Forest Hills ...

The chicken spot on Union Turnpike is poppin too (cash only) ....

I can tell who is an OG here .... Y'all dudes remember Naked City? ... Wiggles was corny and expensive. Back in those days we was driving to BK and hittin' up "Sweet Cherries" .. Yeah, every night somebody was getting stabbed, but the mamis made it so worth the risk LOL

 

[sreggie101]

Cherry Valley .... I wish it was closer to transportation though ... It seems far and I live right in Forest Hills ...

The chicken spot on Union Turnpike is poppin too (cash only) ....

I can tell who is an OG here .... Y'all dudes remember Naked City? ... Wiggles was corny and expensive. Back in those days we was driving to BK and hittin' up "Sweet Cherries" .. Yeah, every night somebody was getting stabbed, but the mamis made it so worth the risk LOL

what chicken spot on union tpke?

i wish cherry valley wasn't in college point. all the way up there and you gotta drive on some of the worst roads in the state :x food hits the spot tho

 

[duba169]

Cherry valley and dani's pizza. Yummmmm. Best late night munchies spots

 

[mastamind033]

Wiggles is probably the worst strip club I've ever been to and was mad shady at times but it brings back a lot of great memories from freshman and sophomore year at St. John's

 

[duba169]

It's kind of a rite of passage. It was never good lols. **** was disgusting

 

[fresh out dabox]

ny is the rudest state in the world. I get the only road rage

 

[just nikes]

People wanting to fight if you driving crazy around them is so real. Has happened about 5-10 times from age 18-21

 

[nazdrowie]

[h1]Bugs, Spiders Keep NYC Clean by Eating Garbage[/h1][h2]The critters eat the equivalent of 60,000 hot dogs a year in just one area of the Big Apple, a new study says.[/h2]
Meet our cities' real litterbugs: New research shows that insects  and spiders consume a big portion of the food tossed on the ground in New York City—and likely other places.

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By scattering a bug-friendly buffet of hot dogs, potato chips, and cookies in parks and road medians in the Big Apple,  scientists measured how much critters such as millipedes, ants, and cockroaches nosh on the food we discard. The result: The skittering masses do a remarkably good job at cleaning up after us. (See "Surprising Ant 'Mixing Bowl' Found in Manhattan.")

Let's put it this way: Along the Broadway/West Street corridor in New York City, bugs can consume 2,100 pounds (950 kilograms) of food waste each year—the equivalent of 60,000 hot dogs, the study revealed.

"If insects weren't eating all of this food, it would accumulate and be foul," said study leader Elsa Youngsteadt, an entomologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Into the Concrete Jungle

Few scientists have studied how arthropods—a huge group of invertebrates that includes insects, spiders, crustaceans, and more—function in urban environments. But as cities grow, it's crucial to understand how animals fit into them, said Youngsteadt. (See an urban map of the world.)

She knew from other studies that animals tend to perform the same roles in an ecosystem, regardless of whether that ecosystem is "wild" or urbanized. Since arthropods such as ants and millipedes forage for small bits of food, Youngsteadt wanted to know whether they could consume the food garbage in our cities.

For their research, Youngsteadt and colleagues focused on two major areas within Manhattan: urban parks and grassy medians. Since parts of Manhattan had been flooded by Hurricane Sandy  in 2012, which may have affected the biodiversity of the area, half of the sites she picked, in both parks and medians, had been flooded and half had not been flooded.

As Youngsteadt expected, the parks contained a greater number of arthropod and ant species than medians did, although she didn't see any differences between the areas that had been flooded and those that hadn't. (See "Foodie Bees: Insects Head Downtown for Dinner.")

Once the scientists knew how many arthropod species lived in each area, they could measure how much the animals ate. At each site, the team put a tenth of a hot dog, a single potato chip, and a cookie in a small cage. The arthropods could reach the food in the cage, but other animals, like birds and rats, could not.

Free-for-All

Next, the researchers repeated the experiment with the same amount of food, only they left it out in the open. That way, the team could measure how much all the animals in the city environment consume our food waste.

The researchers found that arthropods consumed 32 percent of the caged food in 24 hours—much more than they expected. When the food was not put in a cage, animals—including arthropods—consumed 80 percent of it.

Some of the foods were more popular than others. "The arthropods definitely preferred the chips and cookies to the hot dogs," said Youngsteadt, whose study was published December 2 in Global Change Biology.

She also found that arthropods were much more efficient at consuming people food in medians than in parks, although she's not sure why.

Six-Legged Garbage Service

"This is another in a series of elegant studies on urban ecology by this group of researchers at NCSU," said Daniel Herms, an entomologist at Ohio State University in Wooster, who was not involved in this study.

"Insects are important in the natural environment, and this study is another example that they are providing critical services even in urban areas."

Although arthropods consumed only a few grams of food at each site, Youngsteadt's calculations show that these amounts can add up over time. In just one corridor along Broadway, arthropods could consume hundreds of thousands of cookies and chips.

The role insects play isn't trivial, either, Youngsteadt said—her research shows that insects keep our cities spick-and-span.

"Ants may disrupt our picnics and invade our kitchen, but you should probably like them better than rats."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...-insects-food-garbage-cities-animals-science/

 

[Coromanti]

NYC is going ham 3 protests at the same time.

#ICANTBREATH

 

[Top Boy]

 
NYC is going ham 3 protests at the same time.

#ICANTBREATH

I hate living in my city.. I want to be out there man. I feel so sedentary having to just sit here and watch live streams of other people fighting for me and people like me.

 

[tony plush]

So ****** overrated. Like everything about it sucks. One thing, these entitled little douchebagz who roam the streets with their beats by dre rapping obnoxiously

then the smell. Like stale urine :x . Rats on every corner. Pigeons being aggressive
the filthy bums who ride the trains. The Knicks being terrible. Not being able to catch a cab when needed. ****** sucks

/rant

tony plush = two zero five
I've never been to New York a day in my life. I just wanted to rustle jimmies.

top 10 favorite NT'er

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Wait, tell me OPs sn isn't his area code.

BAMA roll tide!!

You goddamn right.

 

[tony plush]

Roland Collins (born November 23, 1985), better known by the stage name Troy Ave, is an American rapper from the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.​

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[nazdrowie]

did op quoted himself as someone else?

 

[jordanhead718212]

Cuz Rich Boy is so much better

 

[ramonayala]

TEJAS FTW

 

[youngwolf]

Meanwhile, in New York....

 

[mastamind033]

^^Just trying to feed his 4 turtle sons

 

[sonoftony]

Meanwhile, in New York....

just another day in the subway b

 

[flyny]

Everybody eats, B

 

[Master Zik]

im at a cuny right now

i wanna transfer to another one. when does financial aid cut off? @ age 24? 


i got placed on some financial probation 

Wait so why did you put "CUNY?"

I believe Pell grants stop after 6 years = 12 semesters and I'm not sure when TAP cuts off

It doesn't go by age


edit: please don't tell me you go to CSI? That's a hell of a commute :x

A JHS and HS friend decided to go to CSI, we said goodbye to that friendship with the quickness.

 

[Los Angeles]

Repped

 

[htg designs]

Meanwhile, in New York....

That rat traveled all the way from Cali just for a taste of some famous NY pizza?

 

[Top Boy]

 
Meanwhile, in New York....

 

[airedweezy]

That rat traveled all the way from Cali just for a taste of some famous NY pizza?

Probably every rats dream to move out to New York

 

[gwap]

A rats paradise.... No alpo/barnes/lucas