Yeah my office is under lease but we aren't renewing. The number will grow.

Yeah it’s the principle of the matter. What was even damaged in the first place?

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Along with being on the lookout for anyone committing abuse, please also consider donating to the organization. It takes thousands of dollars to treat each of these animals.

I’m involved with the organization and can promise you they are reputable and extremely caring.

Are these cats being treated for health wise at a vet/emergency vet? Was the suspected person a breeder (breeders are also people who usually abuse animals in their care).

I'm going to guess these places have LARGE commercial loans against them and the covenants prevent the space from converting as the bank would call in the loan if they attempt and that the places are underwater enough that refinancing isn't an option. If it's an REIT, they are just sitting on the tax benefits.

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It's moments like this that really test my commitment to opposing the death penalty.

Because otherwise it's "discrimination"!

I agree. But it's a lot easier to make LIC not suck when you just tear down some warehouses and build brand new residential towers such that you create a residential community, vs retrofitting office towers in Midtown.

Ah yes the 4 most well know, most tourist-frequented sites in the entire city. Very insightful content! Thanks for sharing!

Sure, that's the smart thing to do, but my question is more around what is the legal expectation regarding the decision you make. If I'm just holding a knife and I ask for your money, I technically didn't say I was going to use the knife to stab you, but you made that assumption based on the context of the situation. Do we as citizens have a legal obligation to get clarification from the person that they intend to do us harm with that knife if we don't give them the money before we decide what is an equitable reaction from us? that's more what I'm concerned about.

Thanks for mentioning this. I was about to open it

For real. Chances are most people’s ‘doctor’ is actually an overworked resident. The system would collapse in under a day if residents stopped working

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One way to solve the light and air requirements is to make long spindly apartments with windows and bedrooms at one end. That is the starting point of the prior comments. Adding "but also, you need to solve the light and air requirements" is misplaced.

my company is in this situation now.

signed a 5-year, full-floor lease immediately before the pandemic. absolute worst timing for it. during COVID we shifted to a more dispersed org structure.

outside of a few corporate on-sites and team-building days, no one is in the office. i go in once every couple months just to switch things up, but it's a ghost town. can't even use it to host client-facing meetings, because it makes us look like a scam company.

In the past, the City Council has generally erred on the side of zoning for the least profitable and viable uses, in order to make owners come to them to beg for whatever the market wants there. Local land use control is a pox on American society.

Nypost has more. Totally unsurprised to see the Kristin Richardson Jordan associated with this. I guess there are no Jewish voters in her district.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/29/nyc-council-considering-naming-harlem-street-after-elijah-muhammad/

Just to clarify, this women held a "vigil" the eulogized Michelle Go and Kristal Bayron Nieves (murder victims) alongside Lashawn McNeil (cop killer, murderer). She copied and pasted another DSA nobody's Putin-apologistic, anti-American screed about Ukraine...verbatim. Like it was searchable. W/e you think about Ukraine and American responsibility, you think she'd try to cover her tracks in her anti-American, "anti-imperialist" fictions. But no.

That's the lack of intellect and self-awareness we're dealing with here. She saw how divisive the coverage of Kanye ended up being and she wants in.

So many members of the City Council are an astounding mixture of unfit (as in, hostilely resentful to requests they actually assist New Yorkers with problems), evil, and stupid, to the point of being depraved. It's hard to accept ordinary people let someone like this into office. What did she promise them? (And why aren't you all more pissed off about it? This woman's gets a nice plump salary from the city taxpayer when a drinking bird would be a better councilperson.)

This is a stunt, most likely, because she has no accomplishments and fundraising for 2023 Council elections is starting, but it's still a deeply ugly, repulsive stunt that would not be tolerated from anyone but a progressive or socialist in New York City. She's trying to tap into something nasty in New York voters' hearts, and maybe draw out something very ugly in the fringe. It's gross.

And yet this will not get coverage anywhere in tiny Jewish publications, and the NYPost. This is on the same level of MTG and her space lasers, yet there'll be more coverage of her in the NYT (still this city's most prestigious local paper, on top of being one of the most prestigious print journals in the country) than of Jordan...when Jordan impacts this city.

MTG strikes me as merely a stupid crackpot meme font/troll, but Richardson is living in a city with more Jews than Israel and where violent anti-Semitic attacks are ongoing. Part of the reason that is is because of NY Shitty Council's fetishization with deprosecution and "decarceration".

Endorsements like this, the embrace of someone like Farrakhan by a lawmaker...doesn't help.

The area around Fulton St / Pace University and Wall is pretty active. Also the area between WTC and Chambers ( though some call that Tribeca) where there's a lot of residents and tourists.

Evertyhing south of that though, dead. It's a lot better in the summer.

But it's part of the reason you can't just throw up walls in old offices and call them apartments, even in cheap, poorly laid out form. Or am I missing part of the conversation?

There are dozens of left wing protests daily in the city without police presence.

It's also the study that compared "shunning" to actual, criminal assault.

It's political propaganda meant to misdirect from the political actors enabling criminals to torment people, without consequence.

I was reading that a lot of firms have either gone full remote or have played their hands right and had the ability to get into luxury offices where normally they couldn't. This has left a lot of regular offices vacant obviously. It will be really tough to convert them and the landlords are probably going to want subsidies for conversions. That being said though making Manhattan more affordable could be fantastic for local businesses.