Good point. If we got rid of those we’d be killing two birds with one stone - more housing and less people alive to means less demand! The YIMBY dream

🙏🙏🙏🙏 thanks

Thanks. Will reach out to police 🙏🙏

I believe so. The parents are reaching out to see if they’ve camera footages from that night.

Innocent until proven guilty, which means - "you" can't be deprived of "your" liberty just because "you" are dating a policeman's ex-girlfriend.

Bail is not punishment.

It is the rightful exchange of equity for process time. If a person, "you" cannot afford bail, it is not "your" problem that the government needs time to prove "you" guilty.

If "you" are not an imminent threat to "your" community, the court "must" forgo bail. If you don't have a record of criminal activity, if you show up each time for hearings, if you pay your fines, "you" should not be forced to post bail.

interesting how the measure is "re-arrest." This doesn't speak, at all, to re-offending.

Yeah the outreach team was literally just ended a month ago

Yes exactly , and that's with my wife's Healthcare discount, and in Queens if that matters. I've seen rates from 1200 to 2k+.

I hope they tax streaming services, delivery fees, up their taxes on Con Ed, National Grid, your cellphone bill AND raise the fares.

Citizens struggle with wild inflation and this is what they want to do!? Can we recall them all?

Is it $3k because of the two kids? Meaning it’s about $1,500 per kid?

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It's absolutely an outreach problem. Eric Adams patently decided to stop promoting the program at all the second he took office. He doesn't care about it. So of course he doesn't care if any slots are.

“Hey how’s yours cities transit system funded?” “Through my Netflix”

If the system can’t sustain itself maybe it shouldn’t exist 🤷‍♂️ at least not in its current state

That’s the typical r/nyc school of thought, if u spent any time on here on any crime and law enforcement thread

Who brought any of this up here?

Yes taxing mostly non residents (that’s the focus on the fight, mostly local politicians representing the bridge and tunnel) is much better than taxing residents even more. No problems with that take

This might be a longshot or totally wrong altogether but I took the train to Scarsdale yesterday and when I got off the train, i was sending out some emails while eating on the bench and a young asian guy came up to me and started talking to me. I didn't take a good look at him because I was doing stuff/still in "nyc don't talk to me" mode but he kinda looked like the picture. It seemed like he had some developmental disabilities or mental health issues. He was pushing a shopping cart and said his name was Peter and he was born in 1987. I thought it was kind of odd that he was out on his own just engaging with random people, but he struck up conversation with someone before me and started talking to some women walking their dogs right after me. I just assumed he was a local that all the other locals know. Maybe call Scarsdale police and ask if they know about Peter?

My point was taxes on cars, like congestion charges, are not comparable in purpose to taxes on streaming, as far as I can surmise, unless there's a reason we should discourage streaming services.

In the former case, we want to discourage a behavior (diving in Manhattan). In the latter, it seems to be more about raising money

What strict revenue target? You mean expected revenue, the routine calculation for every tax enacted?

I'm not a fan of this tax either, but you're seeing patterns where there isn't any.

Murder is illegal but people are still murdered.

Are you literally 10?

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I am a citizen and I vote. That's still my right, yes?

So you're in favor of nameless unexcited out of area bureaucrats setting standards for places of which they know nothing. It sounds like what Moses did to the Bronx when he put a highway through the place.

Yeo. It works really well to have. system like that. /s

I saved and scrimped and bought a shitty dump and lived crowded with my kids in an iffy area, and worked my ass off to improve the property. I later sold, taking the profit to enable purchase of a better property. No government programs assisted me! My parents were retired for 12 years and were on a fixed income. No help there, either!

I didn't look to the government and don't want to be taxed for something that isn't a necessity. Some people rent. They always have. You can't possibly suggest that everyone should be a private homeowner, so what gives?

Is that why they're up zoning in Throggs Neck, which is a moderate/Conservative bastion over in the Bronx? There's not even infrastructure or mass transit there, but sure, yeah, whatever.../s