Zojirushi. And not the ones that look like a little pot. Those suck. You have to get one of the ones that seal when they close.

To be fair, look at the crazy curve of the cost relative to today's dollar over that 40+ year span. The economy was anything but stable.

https://blog.tstc.org/2017/04/21/car-free-new-york-city/

And I think you, like most people, are vastly underestimating the cost of car ownership. Insurance alone for a 10-15 year old Toyota is going to cost around $500-600 a month for insurance alone. Then there's gas, maintenance, depreciation, inspections, etc.

Nearly everyone in the parts of the outer boroughs without the subway could get by just fine with bikes and buses. In fact, many people do. The problem with transportation in the order boroughs comes specifically from cars. If people didn't drive so much, then the buses would be far more reliable and efficient and biking would be a lot safer. There's nothing wrong with those modes of transportation, and many neighborhoods, in Eastern Queens especially, aren't dense enough to justify subway expansion over other areas. Those people should be taking a bus or bike to the subway or LIRR, not driving into Manhattan.

Well, it’s just my experience, having a 4 year old that I worked very hard with to overcome some delayed learning and speech problems, at these early ages, it’s mostly luck of the draw when it comes to them being gifted. It’s a lot about identifying strengths and weaknesses and addressing it. That’s the work. So if your kid needs more work in the basics, that’s what you’re addressing, if your kid is gifted you need to find an environment that excels that gift.

Basic 3k and 4K is very simple stuff, but it’s important and really good, a lot of it is socialization. And that’s kind of easy.

So this person has a gifted kid, and that’s awesome and she’s doing a great job addressing that, but the truth is 3k and 4K isn’t the problem for her, she needs to find the right environment to hone and develop her child’s talents. That’s not a public school problem especially at that age.

Now when we get to middle and high school I agree with. But of course we can never ignore a parent’s involvement in their kid’s development.

Maybe I’m just cynical but just hand waving that his kid is gifted is a cop out to excuse the horrible public school performance.

Use cash app. You get a dollar bonus every 6 hours.

Yea transalt, an organization that would in no way fudge the numbers to make cars look bad LOL.

Don’t get me started lol How do all those illegally park cars by the berry homes and baci not get ticketed? Im pretty sure a majority of that stretch has no standing signs. But yet there’s cars just legit parked there all the time lol.

Yeah, who wants a back yard?

Hope so lmao

Haha I think he was being sarcastic.

The issue is also that the highway network of Staten Island was never completed -- had the MLK and Richmond Parkway been extended as intended, we wouldn't have the massive traffic clusterfuck that plagues the middle of Staten Island during rush hour.

"We should only teach abstinence"

Like I said, a NYC tax to make parking exclusively to NYC residents I'm ok with.

I'm not doing neighborhood permits. You chose to like in Manhattan. If you want parking move to brooklyn.

glares at Richmond Road between Dongan Hills and Grasmere

I miss the bonus.

>well to do couple from well off families

Literally nothing in any article about them mentions this. The wife is an "editor" for low circulation web magazines mostly with her name attached to poorly written ads pretending to be articles about The Best Mascara. With a quick Google search, I'm left more convinced this is a scam than before.

1. It’s an initial estimate that is all but guaranteed to grow
2. There’s no auditing, so we’re left in the dark as to how exactly that money will be spent.

Wow i paid 9 dollars for a tiny piece of added pork when i could have just had a roach for free? Damn.

My mom who never owned a car breathing easy with her unlimited lifetime MTA card. A shitty perk from working the token booths back in the day.

I mean, he could just as easily say that refusing to pay for a permit means you want “free perks.” I don’t have a car, so “free perks” are not a motivator for me. But traffic reduces quality of life for everyone, including non-drivers. I am totally fine seeing car owners pay more for the privilege of owning a car, though I wish the money generated would go to the schools, instead.

>is this childcare or education?

Two birds, one stone. There are definitely flaws in the way the system is designed currently but I think it's an issue with the charter system as a whole. The private UPK schools dont have a financial incentive to keep 3 or 4 extra teachers on payroll to allow for the extended day. And honestly teachers dont have an incentive either because their employers are unwilling to offer adequate compensation.

Call me a fundamentalist if you want, but this is a great example of why all levels of education should be Public. So that universal childcare is possible.

London has permitted parking.

The source is Donald Shoup’s The High Cost of Free Parking. It is based on sixteen studies of multiple cities. However, Shoup is careful to note that the “30%” number describes “congested downtown traffic,” not “all traffic.”

In 2006, it was found that on Prince St., on certain afternoons, 28% of motorists were looking for parking. On Saturday, it was 41%. In 2007, it was found that in Park Slope, 45% of traffic was cruising for parking. (These reports are currently unavailable online, but you can email info@transalt.org for copies of them.)

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