Parker Richards

Brooklyn

Staff Editor, Opinion at The New York Times

staff editor @nytopinion, lately of @TheAtlantic, @newrepublic, @YaleReview, @dartmouth. usual disclaimers, &c.

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Articles

The Death of Outdoor Dining Is a Blow to New York's Vitality

Sep 24, 2024 | nytimes.com | Parker Richards

First it was the death of congestion pricing - and with it, around $10 billion from federal matching programs for much-needed improvements to the subways and other mass transit, eliminating as many as 100,000 jobs. Then it was the slow abandonment of bus lanes (the city is on track to build just 27 miles of the 150 miles promised by Mayor Eric Adams). And now, bit by bit, New York City's overwhelmingly popular outdoor dining is collapsing.
La eficiencia es la enemiga de la alegría

Oct 15, 2023 | almendron.com | Parker Richards

Ya no es posible tener un nivel aceptable de extravagancia. Hasta en los rincones más pequeños de la vida cotidiana se nos pide que abandonemos las deliciosas ineficiencias —las arcaicas veleidades, las caprichosas tonterías— en aras de un compromiso totalizador con los falsos ídolos de la lógica, la regularidad y la eficiencia. Llegó el momento de dar pelea, de manera desorganizada y totalmente descentralizada.
Down With Efficiency! (When We Get Around to It.)

Oct 4, 2023 | nytimes.com | Parker Richards

Credit Credit... Pierre Buttin We are no longer achieving an acceptable level of whimsy. In even the smallest corners of daily life, we are asked to abandon delicious inefficiencies - the archaic flights of fancy, the capricious nonsense - in favor of a totalizing commitment to the false idols of logic, regularity and efficacy. It is time, in a disorganized and utterly decentralized way, to fight back.