Post AwA3KO7dSQfOHFsEk4 by black_intellect@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #AwA3KO7dSQfOHFsEk4 by black_intellect@mstdn.social
       2025-07-15T15:08:11Z
       
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       Where Americans walk and bike most often https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/walking-biking-county
       
 (DIR) Post #AwA3at5C79YwvvbESu by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-07-15T15:11:57Z
       
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       @black_intellect NJ is the real 5th boro???
       
 (DIR) Post #AwA6tZVBRIWlZLMAmu by n1vux@mastodon.radio
       2025-07-15T15:48:48Z
       
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       @futurebird  interesting!(Aside: *Historically* speaking, a 5th & 6th Boro' case could be made for Pavonia/Bergen, New Netherland (Dutch East Jersey) and Nassau County L.I..  Whether metro area planning would be more rational were it so is a different question.   And sitting here in Boston where what metro planning we had had was splintered for reasons, I'm not in a position to comment.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AwAFhJE51fbbCdaHk8 by marick@mstdn.social
       2025-07-15T17:19:01Z
       
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       @futurebird @black_intellect N.K. Jemison’s fantasy novel /The City We Became/ features avatars for the five boroughs. In the end, if I recall correctly, the avatar for Jersey City replaces the one for Staten Island, which ends up way out in the Atlantic, a true island."On Staten Island, the borough's avatar Aislyn, a white librarian in her thirties, is approached by the Woman in White […] they bond over racist humor.” Jemison not going for subtlety in this novel. .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_We_Became