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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen

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Artist, Cartographer, Historian, Transit Activist. linktr.ee/Vanshnookenraggen Co-founder of QueensLink @queenslink.org Opinions are my own.

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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 26/09/2026
Oh damn, this nor'easter already washed away the Rockaway stations!
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 25/09/2026
The excuse for not originally connecting to the uptown platform was blamed on poor signal locations. I'm not totally sure why, but I'd imagine that the block signal system had its blocks located in such a way that it would be hard to locate the train further south.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 25/09/2026
My favorite time of year.
Col. Kilgore surveys the carnage he's unleashed and wistfully comments, at a time of introspection, that he loves the smell of fall in the morning.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 25/09/2026
My favorite time of year.
Col. Kilgore surveys the carnage he's unleashed and wistfully comments, at a time of introspection, that he loves the smell of fall in the morning.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The degree to which the conversation surrounding hypothetical civilizational collapse due to AI has supplanted the conversation surrounding actual civilizational collapse due to climate change is, shall we say, concerning.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 24/09/2026
Bloomberg had a choice. DeBlasio had a choice. Adams had a choice. They all chose to make it someone else's problem. So here we are. Rebuilding it for only 40yrs service life is also kinda cynical, but it at least leaves the door open for the removal one day. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/23/o...
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Opinion: The Toughest Choice Was The Only Choice On The BQE - Streetsblog New York City
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that matters is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
how i look at my cool jackets on the first day of fall
trump staring adoringly at mamdani
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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Should the Kennedy Center be torn down? Obviously not. But you know what should?
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 17/09/2026
“All these homes that are gonna be torn down, the trees, hundreds of trees, and thousands along the route of this train. It’s really sad, and just congestion, noise, you know there’s just so much at stake in the community with this train,” Stupidity and fear. ny1.com/nyc/queens/n...
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Homeowners protest construction of Interborough Express station in Queens
Residents worry what could happen to the homes and trees in the area to make room for the IBX.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 14/09/2026
60 min producers really went down to a random dive bar, found a guy who'd been there for two days, threw a suit on him, and turned the camera on.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 12/09/2026
It's far from the worst thing to happen in recent times, but these subway Airbnb ads that are aimed at Gen Z (who don't have the money to rent one?) are pretty fucking terrible.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 04/09/2026
Brand awareness is key in international shipping.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 04/09/2026
A reminder: no one cares what George Pataki thinks.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 01/09/2026
Shot...
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 30/08/2026
I was today years old when I found out that the replacement Port Authority Bus Terminal will have LOWER bus capacity in favor of more mall space. PA really looked at the Oculus and said, "What if we did it bigger and more expensive?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzHU...
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Rebuilding the World's Busiest Bus Terminal
YouTube video by Urban Life NYC
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 30/08/2026
Don't be Evil < Suck a pedophile's dick.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 28/08/2026
What is the best way to serve the Lower East Side with a subway? The curious story of the strangest official subway proposal. www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/2026/...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So embarrassing that Lake America is the smallest of the Great Lakes. One more Trump failure.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 27/08/2026
If you spent 10,000 years asking AI to make this, it never could get close. youtu.be/OJWJE0x7T4Q?...
youtu.be
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (HD version)
YouTube video by Peter Gabriel
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 24/08/2026
I know that some have bemoaned the death of architecture over the last decade. But honestly, the era of the StArChItEcT couldn't have died soon enough.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 24/08/2026
Let me defend a bad decision here. The time to start working on a real plan to remove the BQE was 10yrs ago. In that time, the DOT has only put out one plan: build a temp highway to rebuild the main span. That's it. So now, 10 years later, the structure is in critical shape and there are no alts.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 24/08/2026
Proud to announce that today is the first day of my EMPA studies at NYU Wagner. I'm excited for the challenges ahead.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 24/08/2026
We really just kicked the can down the road for nothing, huh?
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 21/08/2026
The only acceptable end for Pete Hegseth.
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Raiders Of The Lost Ark Face Melt
ALT: Raiders Of The Lost Ark Face Melt
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 21/08/2026
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 21/08/2026
Trains are fucked.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 19/08/2026
*mic drop*
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Josh Gee @jgee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oh man this is hard www.dokugame.app/en/play/metr... @ndhapple.bsky.social @airlineflyer.net @2avesag.as @plitter.bsky.social
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Metrodoku New York · Doku
Metrodoku New York: today's grid, the same for every player. Nine cells, two criteria per cell, three lives.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 18/08/2026
Disney+ released a list of essential projects to watch before AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY: Rocky Rocky II Rocky III Rocky IV Rocky V Rocky Balboa Creed Creed II Creed III
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 17/08/2026
It's been very clear that the NYCT ops people have all been on vacation this weekend because OH BOY was service trash.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Promises made/promises kept: Please meet the 1966 report that would determine the next 60 years of how LIRR would be powered: the third rail. If all the work on platforms and dwells by Ronan & Co. was planning that was way ahead of its time that got things very right, this is the opposite.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 12/08/2026
Fixed
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 10/08/2026
You either die a fashion icon or live long enough to become and old man yelling at kids. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Incomprehensible Fashion Statements of Gen Z
It used to be that you could tell goths from preps by the look of them.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 10/08/2026
No one on the right has a soul anymore, so IDK why they speak like they understand what it means to have one.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 08/08/2026
If you thought "Let it Go" was bad, imagine a busker butchering it on a horn next to you when you've got 4 hours of sleep.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 05/08/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGWM...
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Mr. Show | Blowing Up the Moon
YouTube video by Better Call Bob!
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 04/08/2026
When I first joined Bluesky, I made a remark about how I knew of folks that had been hit by e-bikes, and that I thought they needed to be regulated. I was promptly called a racist. So I expect the discussions here to be as civil as ever.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 02/08/2026
Why are there so many ads for AI tools/companies on the subway?
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 31/07/2026
Just leave the Yellow Submarine, please. qns.com/2026/07/aoc-...
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AOC helps secure federal funding to remove abandoned vessels from NYC waterways – QNS
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez announced over $2 million in federal funding to remove abandoned vessels from the South Bronx, northern Queens and Brooklyn
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 31/07/2026
I gotta know what dimension is behind this door.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 29/07/2026
The most disappointing thing about The Odyssey is that Christopher Nolan didn't genetically engineer an actual giant cyclops. 1 star.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 24/07/2026
Eric Adams isn't around to skim off the top for construction jobs no more. MTA shouldn't be a jobs program for political machines.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 23/07/2026
Everything about these barriers is a joke. They offer no protection; I often see people leaning on them on the TRACK side. But what really pisses me off is how half-assed the installation is. There are stations with a few of these. Not even along the entire length. It shows they really don't care.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Since we're doing Discourse About Things Not Built, I think this is clever: - Getting under New York Bay is exceeding difficult. - The Midtown PATH tunnels are under utilized. Cleave the PATH into two lines: one east-west (WTC to Newark); one north-south (Midtown-HOB-Bayonne-SI)
The schematic from back in the day. Doesn't seem to have advanced beyond a very tentative 'this could make sense' on the map.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 21/07/2026
A lot of people don't know this, but the 6th Ave-14th St subway station was designed by M.C. Escher.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 15/07/2026
When are we gonna get a modern day Robert Caro to do a deep dive into the money laundering operation that is the RPA?
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 12/07/2026
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Jack Nicholson Grinning
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 07/07/2026
Before the IBX there was the Cross-Brooklyn Expressway. archive.org/details/1967...
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Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Interesting idea from the New York Fiscal Policy Institute: Turn the EDC into NYC's social housing developer. The EDC already has a lot of land, funding, and institutional capacity. Previous mayors molded it to their priorities. What more urgent task is there now than housing?
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Stop Subsidizing Office Buildings and Stadiums, Start Building Social Housing
The EDC’s tax giveaways don't get the best deal for the City. Mayor Mamdani has a mandate to build 200,000 homes and a powerful tool to help him do it.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 06/07/2026
If you read one book about NYC, make sure it's "The Power Broker" If you read TWO books about NYC, make sure the other one is "Gotham" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...
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Mike Wallace, Who Wrote an Acclaimed History of New York, Dies at 83
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