you really should see a doctor if your mid-day poop hurts that much, James.

Sounds of New York. So beautiful

maybe they should reorganize how they operate so the officers doing nothing or in performative roles are working; might assuage the understaffing issue

When it comes to private homes in a neighborhood, there's a certain calming factor of not having something stand out like the owner is screaming, "Look at me," 24/7.

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Ah, but you've bumped into me and my glasses dropped and cracked. Can you give me $$$ for the glasses? They are one of a kinda Gucci designed glasses.

I’d assume 100% of it lol. I don’t know when cities are going to realize that overtime is far more expensive than just hiring additional employees; maybe it’s just a political Will thing or something

Yeah just me

Are you sure it’s not coming from inside the apartment? Are they screaming, “Let me out”?

People like you think every single building and block is historic. That’s the problem.

NIMBYism and making things harder for developers is the exact opposite of what we need during a record housing shortage.

Both can be true.

The politicians aren't capable of busting up weed stores themselves; they require enforcers. But they've spent years shitting on their enforcers, and unsurprisingly the enforcers are not particularly eager to serve as muscle for this racket.

They've managed a few busts by relying on the Sheriffs but the deputy's union is trying to get out of it.

I feel like half of these things are just because Adams lied. And the other half are because Adams is incompetent.

By the way, since it worked, when will you be sending me the $$? I take Venmo and cashapp

To be clear, I agree that being able to let a landmarked property fall into disrepair so you can demolish it is a loophole that should be fixed. It's a tricky problem to solve without creating unintended incentives in the process, but I would certainly like to see something done about it.

As for mandating aesthetics, landmark designated buildings aside, I just disagree with you here. Property owners should be free to build according to their own preference, even if that means we end up with ugly buildings sometimes. Do I like that midtown will soon to be home to this grotesque monstrosity? Not at all. This thing will be a blight on the city's skyline for many decades, but the freedom that allows this is the same freedom that has allowed such a wide variety of architectural styles to find a place in New York, and is one thing that makes it such a joy to walk around in this city.

It’s almost like the state is run by people who are incompetent with planning

This is largely the doing of the State legislature’s Black caucus. They held up legalization for years in a political climate where both the leftists and moderates/liberals agreed it was the right thing to do, because the Black Caucus wanted the first licenses to be reserved for Black people. The State did what was legal in reserving them for “justice involved individuals,” but the damage was done and the rollout has been slow as all hell because of it.

Here’s a 2019 write up from the NYT about it.

there are plenty of hotels that are not $350 a night. Fuck Airbnb. We have too many homeless in this city to treat our housing like this.

Yea, not sure why this is hard to figure out. The NYPD is short 1000+ officers from their budgeted headcount, and facing unprecedented levels of resignations.

It's probably just Dolan.

I'm super confused about all these shops. There are ones near my work in Times Square and in my home in Brooklyn that are completely built-out with signage and lots of products and customers going in and out. But I keep reading there's only one or two legal shops in NYC. So are these stores dropping over $10k/month in rent operating illegally? Why would they invest all that money if they can just get shut down?

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I have like 5 people doing it all day outside my apartment every day and night. Considering recording it and marketing it as an urban white noise app.

Nah, theres a bunch of whacked out people that yell for no reason on 8th Ave and port authority. All day.

Its gotten so bad, my boss lets us continue working from home cause no one can concentrate in the office.