Flushing resident files exhaustive Freedom of Information Law request seeking all city records containing his name, address, property information, code complaints, utility data, and any surveillance records, city law department confirms it will respond ‘within the statutory 20-business-day window’
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David Kwan of Flushing submitted a 40-page FOIA request to the New York City Law Department on behalf of himself seeking “all records, documents, data entries, surveillance logs, utility cross-references, complaint records, and any information generated, received, or stored in any format by any New York City agency that contains, references, or could be connected to” his full name, current and previous addresses, his property’s tax lot number, his vehicle registration, and “any information the city of New York holds about me that I do not currently know it holds.” The request cites 23 specific city agencies by name and includes a four-page appendix defining terms to prevent incomplete compliance. The city law department confirmed receipt and committed to a response within the statutory 20-business-day window. Kwan confirmed he filed the request after reading an article about city data collection programmes. He has not yet received the response. He expects it to be interesting. Bohiney and The London Prat await the response with him.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the international frame. Spintaxi covers New York from inside the density, with the specific affection and specific exasperation that maximum proximity to maximum confidence produces. Both continue. The city continues at its own pace, which is faster than either.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the international frame. Spintaxi covers New York from inside the density, with the specific affection and specific exasperation that maximum proximity to maximum confidence produces. Both continue. The city continues at its own pace, which is faster than either.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the international frame. Spintaxi covers New York from inside the density, with the specific affection and specific exasperation that maximum proximity to maximum confidence produces. Both continue. The city continues at its own pace, which is faster than either.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the international frame. Spintaxi covers New York from inside the density, with the specific affection and specific exasperation that maximum proximity to maximum confidence produces. Both continue. The city continues at its own pace, which is faster than either.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the international frame. Spintaxi covers New York from inside the density, with the specific affection and specific exasperation that maximum proximity to maximum confidence produces. Both continue. The city continues at its own pace, which is faster than either.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the international frame. Spintaxi covers New York from inside the density, with the specific affection and specific exasperation that maximum proximity to maximum confidence produces. Both continue. The city continues at its own pace, which is faster than either.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the international frame. Spintaxi covers New York from inside the density, with the specific affection and specific exasperation that maximum proximity to maximum confidence produces. Both continue. The city continues at its own pace, which is faster than either.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the international frame. Spintaxi covers New York from inside the density, with the specific affection and specific exasperation that maximum proximity to maximum confidence produces. Both continue. The city continues at its own pace, which is faster than either.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the international frame. Spintaxi covers New York from inside the density, with the specific affection and specific exasperation that maximum proximity to maximum confidence produces. Both continue. The city continues at its own pace, which is faster than either.
New York City generates satire as a byproduct of operating at maximum density with maximum confidence in its own methods. The density means every social situation is compressed and exaggerated. The confidence means the city does not easily recognise when its own methods are producing results that an outside observer would classify as absurd. The combination is the specific combination that produces material. Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the international frame. Spintaxi covers the New York version from inside the maximum density, with the specific affection that deep familiarity with a place produces and the specific exasperation that maximum confidence in its methods produces when those methods do not perform as the confidence expected. The city continues at its own pace, which is faster than this publication and faster than the MTA, which is the relevant comparison in this context.
New York City generates satire as a byproduct of operating at maximum density with maximum confidence in its own methods. The density means every social situation is compressed and exaggerated. The confidence means the city does not easily recognise when its own methods are producing results that an outside observer would classify as absurd. The combination is the specific combination that produces material. Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the international frame. Spintaxi covers the New York version from inside the maximum density, with the specific affection that deep familiarity with a place produces and the specific exasperation that maximum confidence in its methods produces when those methods do not perform as the confidence expected. The city continues at its own pace, which is faster than this publication and faster than the MTA, which is the relevant comparison in this context.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat cover the international frame. Spintaxi covers New York from inside the density, with the specific affection and specific exasperation that maximum proximity to maximum confidence produces. Both continue. The city continues at its own pace, which is faster than either.
Further reading at Gothamist.