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>but no one says anything about that.

There has been ongoing discourse for years in not just NYC but all over the country regarding removing and renaming anything deemed remotely 'problematic'.

The Museum of Nature History removed a statue of Teddy Roosevelt (that had been there for 80 years) because activists complained it was "racist", yet I have not heard any of them expressing even a modicum of pushback to a street named after a notoriously racist, abusive, assassination plotting bigot.

This has to do with the legalities of being categorized as a “shelter” as opposed to a “drop in center”. Tho obviously it’s the right thing to do, we need to decide whether we want there to continue to be regulations regarding what can be considered a shelter or a “youth center” or “drop in center”

This isn’t true, they were exonerated and they’re suing the city of New York for wrongful imprisonment. As always you can be almost sure that the FBI killed Malcolm X as they did every other Black leader of this time

But fuck the nation of Islam in general. It’s a cult

I’d suggest the doc “Who Killed Malcom X” it’s the documentary that reopened the investigations

This was part of a larger bill that re-named 128 other public places and thoroughfares.

There was some pushback during the hearings, notably from City Council member David Carr, but he is also a republican so he didn't have much political capital to fight it.

This is irrelevant to your post but I really appreciate that you link to articles that don't have paywalls

Dude was a parking lot security attendant in Virginia before his brother promised him a $200k security job in the NYPD. Then they got called out by the press and he had to eat crow and take. $1 salary. I'm guessing whatever $ his brother was throwing at him with his old NYPD pension wasn't cutting it.

Same, am Latino and never got stopped or arrested when I was driving for years.

IMO The real question is what kind of people they are stopping in different neighborhoods compared to the make up of the area.

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Dam right I am cause it is and you probably are one

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I have a 212 number for a decade now. I am getting lots of calls from a 215 area numbers bcz there is a hospital in PA that has a similar number as mine except for the area code. You wont believe how many people dial 212 by mistake instead of 215. I decline all 215 numbers with an auto reply text informing them to dial the correct hospital number.

I'll tell my switchboard operator at PEnnsylvania6-5000

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All the alleged killers were recently exonerated.

I thought I read somewhere the men they charged were all exonerated in the past few years and they’re still not sure who did it.

It’s sad that this is just the default, not only in nyc but as a country. We’ve stopped progress and have become ok with saying “nah, it’s too hard”.

The CIA and FBI would be extremely happy to provide material support and coordination for Elijah Mohammed

Affordable housing in this case is kind of a misnomer/misleading I guess if you want to be pedantic. It doesn't mean affordable to everyone, it means relatively. Pixall owned most of that plot and had plans for new high rise buildings with 5000 units. 1500 of which would be classified as affordable housing. That doesn't mean tenement level, projects.. affordable housing has specific criteria which these units met.. so take up your issue of that definition with the city not me.

Regardless, 5000 new homes, many of which are relatively "more affordable", would greatly improve the housing situation in that area and around the city. There is a shortage, and building newer nice units for people who can afford them theoretically frees up other units for more people to move in.

The tax break was tied to jobs yes. But the tax break wasn't the only benefit nor the biggest for Amazon. Hell, does amazon even pay taxes? Getting the land in the first place would've been a battle and they would've had to pay a lot more. Cheap real estate without public push back is what they want. Check their track record, they never meet the big milestone of x number of jobs or whatever. That is like honey dicking the public, bc the politicians and media can say 25k jobs will (potentially) be created, but there is nothing holding anyone to that number for the deal to go through.

They still get preferential treatment and save lots of money, the politicians get an easy win and probably funding or some cushy job when they're done. Meanwhile their actual plan was a few thousand new local jobs. NYC doesn't need to give companies hundreds of millions of dollars to create a few thousand new jobs. That happens organically.

Remember amazon is supposed to be all data driven too. No way that contest was real they wouldn't just randomly pick their new hq location. They had a short list of places they wanted to be and pitted cities against each other to see who would bend over backwards for them.

Affordable housing in this case is kind of a misnomer I guess if you want to be pedantic. It doesn't mean affordable to everyone, it means relatively. One company owned most of that plot and there were plans for new high rise buildings with 5000 units. 1500 of which would be classified as affordable housing. That doesn't mean tenement level, projects.. affordable housing has specific criteria which these units met.. so take up your issue of that definition with the city not me.

Regardless, 5000 new homes, many of which are relatively "more affordable", would greatly improve the housing situation in that area and around the city. There is a shortage, and building newer nice units for people who can afford them theoretically frees up other units for more people to move in.

Is that the 'study' where they looked at news sources that identified the race of the perpetrator and skipped those that didn't? So, for example, there were 100 articles on hate crime attacks with 10 mentioning white and 1 mentioning black, they'd say whites are 10x more likely to commit hate crime, while ignoring 89% of the articles.

He should've kept the job for the title and get a gig somewhere else after

You'd be surprised at the antisemitic vein of leftist ideology. But it's there - eg. People who think they're being anti-Zionist but are in fact antisemitic, or pride parades that ban the Star of David (Jewish symbol) because it's "Israel's symbol"

I'm left myself, but I rarely if ever mention I'm Jewish to other lefties in case I am "oNe oF tHe BaD oNeS"

Also basically saying, "all Jews are white and can just blend in with the rest of us white people"