The expansion has, due to it becoming yet another social media influence battle in the great culture war. Not helped by idiots like Jordan Peterson stoking boomer fears.

But the first congestion charge, the LEZ, the first two ULEZ zones? They went through. And this expansion will too, and it won't take years like in NY.

Or just wait til its eventual collapse and 1000 deaths. Bet it'll be finished in 2 years.

This is an insane idea. It would easily cost multiple billions of dollars and take 10-15 years. Half of that same money could create 10,000s of truly city owned affordable housing units (not just subsidized but privately owned).

This is super helpful and will be utilized when I have guests in town. Thank you

sounds very trumpy. We want a mayor not a king 😑

Watch some professional rugby at the NY Ironworkers 1st game in their new stadium

3pm Kickoff Sunday Geb 26th New York vs. Toronto Memorial Stadium, Mount Vernon NY

https://rugbynewyork.flicket.io/events/6b8b01ca-4af7-4082-b1df-b9cce7947288/reservation?slug=2023Website

Nah that Amazon stuff is bullshit. They never intended on creating 25k new jobs that was just one milestone and the additional tax benefit wasn't where they stood to gain the most.

The deal meant they could bypass city/public council approval which would have added many hoops to jump through. It gave them a sweetheart deal for a lease on prime real estate that was otherwise earmarked for affordable housing preventing amazon from getting the land they wanted without paying through the nose and angering the public. Having the city hand over the land for cheap in exchange for "more jobs" avoids those issues..

Even without the tax breaks, they would've saved hundreds of millions of dollars. Their plan was to consolidate several thousand employees already in NYC to one main campus, transfer high level employees from Seattle and then fill the remainder (a few thousand, but still nowhere near the 25k) with new local workers.

Everywhere amazon has done this before, they treat the community like shit, are almost universally disliked and fail to meet whatever job/economic promises they make. They don't care about the community or these promises, they are simply taking advantage of flaws in cities economic development policies. That is, there is no accountability when they fail to meet a target. Often these deals have no real contingencies they are based on good faith. The city is promised benefits from all these jobs and new growth in exchange for their support. Usually with a bonus if the company reaches a milestone. BUT no one ever talks about what happens if they fail to meet that target as is most common with these large corps.

It is a shitty move all around. The companies are trying to spend as little as possible. While the politicians can claim an easy win right now. It looks good to have a photo op in front of a large high profile project, the intricacies don't matter cause most people won't get into it. You know what else would create 25k jobs and stimulate economic growth in NYC? Investing in infrastructure, but you can't really have a ribbon cutting ceremony for stuff like that..

Does anyone remember the mid 2000s happy hour excel spreadsheet that used to get passed around? You could find awesome deals with that thing!

TimeOut magazine also used to be the place to get this kind of info but the internet obviously changed the way things happen.

Thank you for putting this together richarrizard

Love it, thank you 💘

Really great. I didn’t know about the flamenco in Astoria def gonna check it out

I heard the whole “Penn District” complex including “PEN15” (lmao) is on hold

Beating off is considered a sin, so where does it end if you're penance is more beating off? This isn't well thought out.

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I take the train home at all hours all the time

Sad losers who need something to take their aggression out on

In the event of a terrorist attack in NYC, the NYPD and literally all federal agencies will be there in minutes

Terrorist attack is when they will be tested. (Mta police, port authority)

Yeah, no.

I've lived in New York my whole life and have been attacked many, many times for my race. I don't recall ever it being a White person violently attacking me. I've hundreds of Asian American family members and friends who live in New York, and they all have similar experiences.

Of course you'd dismiss the above as just anecdotes, so let's use the cold, hard statistics.

White Americans make up 76% of the US population and are responsible for 24% of the crimes committed against Asian Americans every year. Black Americans make up 13% of the US population and are responsible for 27% of the crimes committed against Asian Americans every year. Adjusted for percentage of population, that means Black Americans, compared to Whites, are 6.5x more likely to attack Asians.

Interesting note: Asian Americans commit less than 10 crimes per year against Black Americans. It is such a rare occurrence that they cannot even reliably record a number for it in crime statistics. This makes the ratio of crimes committed against each other between the two groups to be anywhere from 5,000 to 50,000. That is to say for every one crime Asian Americans commit against Black Americans, there are 5,000-50,000 crimes committed in return.

Source:

US Department of Justice Statistics

https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv18.pdf

That’s the MTA police, their job duties literally are nothing, they work 3 days a week and make more than NYPD, they don’t call it hitting the lottery for nothing when you become a MTA Police officer or the jackpot when becoming a Port Authority cop. Imagine just chilling and talking with a group of friends without a worry to make an arrest or meet an “activity”goal while making a base salary of $110,000 for MTA Police and $125,000 for PAPD

CanJam NYC! 25th -26th Feb

Except the vast majority of anti-Asian hate crimes were perpetrated by white people. So it definitely is apt to call it a case of white supremacy.

You people sometimes…

Lmao if this isn’t the most echo chamber-y comment of all time on here. You can’t throw a stick without hitting a comment about how people aren’t paying attention to the real cases of anti-semitism being perpetrated by those (read: black) people, when statistically, they aren’t even the supermajority of anti-semitic incidents.

Gtfo of here, fascist scum. You’re embarrassing yourself by treating Fox News like news instead of the propaganda it is.

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Welcome to “new” New York City. Where 85% of subway users skip the fare, and Officers do not care. You can get away with anything here. They’re going to raise the fare for the 15% who actually pay the fare.

Why did this need to happen in the first place?