Good for you. Then deal with the multifamily properties when they come. Enjoy!

No one helped her family when they came. They worked, deferred, saved and planned. So why is someone entitled to something that my family had to work for, hmm?

Is this your alternate account?

First of all, I live in Queens, which is a part of NYC. Therefore I am not "suburban". Second of all, if I have said anything that is "racist" please by all means report me. Third, my kids did great being in a secure neighborhood with a great sense of community. We had Scouts, Little league, CYO baseball and basketball, and the ability to play unsupervised in the streets, not cooped up in an apartment.

I don't care what anyone but my immediate family needs. Therefore I will be an impediment to change that doesn't suit my interests. I don't owe you a thing!!!!

I don't have to. I live in a safe, clean, quiet neighborhood. And besides, my property is getting sweet ROI!.

That definitely won't work politically.

no, actually we don't. we live in a mixed market economy

Have they ever considered a distance-based fare like DC, London or Paris? Even BART is distance-based and it’s $4 to get from Oakland to SF, and they have discounted rides for as little as $1.50 for those who need it with their START program.

The MTA clearly needs to raise their fares while also figuring out a way to subsidize them for individuals or families who can’t afford it.

Name them, I’m genuinely curious

Cheap where? I can name 5 subway systems that are of its size, cleaner, safer, and cheaper. They get $20 Billion a year. Shit is ridiculous. Get rid of the endless commissions and unnecessary corruption.

well he probably wasn’t buying cheap mattresses right lol

The MTA is the problem… how do people not get that it is shockingly obvious embezzlement.

sigh. Does nothing to really address the massive housing shortage — AirBnBs are such a tiny sliver of the total stock and reflect a lack of affordable hotel space (which we also de facto banned the construction of in 2021 for stupid reasons). There is so much empty space above our buildings for more housing and instead we’re stuck in the mentality of rationing scraps while we are at the lowest rates of housing per-capita housing construction rates in 50 years. Extremely bleak.

Yup, unless they're counting where NYC has an attack on them, nuke, aliens, etc.. but in lots of those its just collateral damage , not focused only on NYC.

Nothing like a sad bum hating on the internet

There's also an assumption that our power, water and sewer systems can support this expansion.

It's still good if you want to rent a house out in the country, but if you're staying in a city you're probably better off with a hotel.

And being forced to pay a bondsman destroys lives any less? The final decision of this lies on judges and the law, and both of those can be improved.

They are perfectly fine for broke people. I'm looking up a place right now for only $35/nt. For 4 nights it comes out to less than $200! You can't beat that..

(Goes to checkout) Ohh.. $250 cleaning fee, and $75 "service fee" not included.

How many of these are do-nothing jobs for friends of the mayor for six-figure salaries?

Zoning? Yeah okay

He was babe ruth.

That’s why I said “the bureaucracy.” Sorry that wasn’t clear, but I meant the existing civil service. Hand-picked czars give the mayor more control compared to nonpartisan career civil servants.

You can grift of him if you catch him at the after hours and play it cool

That's not an end run around bureaucracy. It's literally adding another layer of bureaucracy.

Ask anyone working for the city how "simple" things become when the Mayor adds a new office to "oversee" what agencies are already working on. It's just another low staffed, over paid and under-informed office to submit more reports to and the odds are those offices won't even exist in the next administration.