RantCrush Top 5: July 26, 2016

Yesterday, the MTA officially announced that the beloved and very effed up L train will go offline for 18 months in 2019 to repair the damage done by Hurricane Sandy. Daily commuters on the L train and Brooklyn dwellers are now being called “victims” and everyone is pretty stressed about the entire situation. Oh what to do? As the rest of us New Yorkers watch from our privileged and very operational subway lines, devastation strikes:

“the L is down/delayed/gone” twitter looks like this: pic.twitter.com/exlBXqOoSA

— Alex Bedder (@itgetsbedder) July 25, 2016

Some personal news: Starting in 2019, I’m breaking out on my own and operating a rickshaw for L train commuters.

— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff) July 25, 2016

The news has opened up some very Brooklyn (offensive, but true) commentary:

when the L train shuts down for 18 months pic.twitter.com/QDzsrTkrID

— nate lee (@nately) July 25, 2016

The L train shuts down for 18 months starting in 2019. Fortunately by then everyone in Brooklyn will be a freelancer who works from home.

— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) July 25, 2016

Is it naive to hope that the L train shutdown will make fancy north Brooklyn loft apartments magically vacant for rollerblading through

— #rachelsyme (@rachsyme) July 25, 2016

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