Bay Ridge is a pretty decent place to live, if you can deal with being tethered to the “R” Train. On the upside, I like the Great Wall Supermarket on Ft. Hamilton Pkwy & 68 St — if that counts as being in Bay Ridge.

Bay Ridge is a pretty decent place to live, if you can deal with being tethered to the “R” Train. On the upside, I like the Great Wall Supermarket on Ft. Hamilton Pkwy & 68 St — if that counts as being in Bay Ridge.

I need to check out Bamn. I wonder if panhandlers and homeless will be a problem late at night.

I need to check out Bamn. I wonder if panhandlers and homeless will be a problem late at night.

In any event, 35000 / mi^2 is a little more dense than Bay Ridge, or about the same as some parts of Los Angeles. It’s not a crazy high density. Also, my own observations of Japanese cities sort of reminded me of Queens and Los Angeles.

Thank you for the link to BAMN! If banks and airlines can automate, then why not restaurants? Or for that matter, how about drug stores and groceries?

BAMN looks like they took the idea from Horn & Hardart.At the risk of coming across as a Boring Old-Timer, I will say that I recall many unremarkable (though fun) meals at the Horn & Hardart Automats in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Unlike BAMN, they had lots of seating — of the type one might find in a cafeteria.

Also unlike BAMN, they did not cater to the cool kids wearing backwards-facing baseball caps (a breed which of course did not exist then), but were instead mostly for office workers by day, and (from what I remember), many loners in the evening. Eventually, the restaurants became kind of drab, and Horn & Hardart converted their Automats to Burger King franchises.

It will be interesting to see what happens to BAMN in 25years. (Or in 25 months…?)

In any event, 35000 / mi^2 is a little more dense than Bay Ridge, or about the same as some parts of Los Angeles. It’s not a crazy high density. Also, my own observations of Japanese cities sort of reminded me of Queens and Los Angeles.

Thank you for the link to BAMN! If banks and airlines can automate, then why not restaurants? Or for that matter, how about drug stores and groceries?

BAMN looks like they took the idea from Horn & Hardart.At the risk of coming across as a Boring Old-Timer, I will say that I recall many unremarkable (though fun) meals at the Horn & Hardart Automats in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Unlike BAMN, they had lots of seating — of the type one might find in a cafeteria.

Also unlike BAMN, they did not cater to the cool kids wearing backwards-facing baseball caps (a breed which of course did not exist then), but were instead mostly for office workers by day, and (from what I remember), many loners in the evening. Eventually, the restaurants became kind of drab, and Horn & Hardart converted their Automats to Burger King franchises.

It will be interesting to see what happens to BAMN in 25years. (Or in 25 months…?)

Which, would make it a 3x the density compared to NYC or Berlin according to this:
http://alain-bertaud.com/images/Average%20Density%20graph.pdf
(35,000 per square mile is about 135/hectare)

Which, would make it a 3x the density compared to NYC or Berlin according to this:
http://alain-bertaud.com/images/Average%20Density%20graph.pdf
(35,000 per square mile is about 135/hectare)