It usually is!

I thought they already reversed it?

Train daddy is back

Then they’re gonna get mad and refuse to work. Waddya gonna do then?! Fire them? Lol

One year from now

"Byford resigns as Amtrak VP"

Summer or fall 2019.

I thought the same thing. I've never been inside though and I imagine it's pretty outdated.

>in 2019 a penthouse over there sold for 238 million

Do you have any credible sources for this? This site states that the most expensive home sale in 2019 was a $98 million, 5 story penthouse.

So its 0.33%? Why did you write it like that lol

So platform barriers coming to Amtrak stations

hell yeah, let's knock this baby down and build some modern condos

damn where they charging

The man job hops that is for sure lol.

"I work in ESB" is a dunk on everyone who doesn't live here.

"I own a townhome in UWS/WV/Chelsea is a dunk on everyone who lives here.

I'm glad people don't know where it is, leave it alone.

Stop posting about Jackson heights everyone. Nyc is only Brooklyn and Manhattan.

So the building is 121 years old and it makes me wonder if it'd be better/cheaper to just raze it and build a replica/similar style in its place using modern materials with perhaps apartments or event space (better for the odd floor plates maybe?). This is a good thought experiment moment on the nature of landmark preservation. If the interiors and facades are gut renovated anyways, is it still really the same building? If you completely rebuilt it you could make a new building that'll last another 100 years instead of constantly repairing the current one.

Kid Charlemagne only speaks the truth

> Licenses need to be easier and less expensive to acquire

They are... just not in the frequencies and geographies that many people want to broadcast in. There are tons of cheap, especially low power stations across the country... a lot of them religious based. A lot. Like way more than you'd ever imagine

Hahaha good point - I remember I visited another building shaped like the flatiron in the past and that weird corner fit like maybe a single (expensive) chair.

That being said, I feel like there's some sticking power to the building, whether it becomes a museum of some sort of niche event space.

Here's to hoping this buyer is a super fan of the flat iron and regards like like one might a Van Gogh painting...but which continues to cost additional money each year

Okay, so I said what I said and it stands. Billions for some while libraries close is not a good balance. Oh, if cops could start being more polite to the people who pay their salary it would be great too. Get on that.

Absolutely. The transit planning sweet spot is usually a max of about 1/2 mile away from a transit station. While Queens has a lot of subway deserts, if you took all the areas just 1/2 mile from the lines it does have, there's a fuck ton of space, plus Woodside LIRR, and even Astoria on the N has a lot of untapped space too. What I mean to say is, yeah there is a lot of neighborhoods, especially in eastern Queens, that upzoning won't be as desirable, but we're no where close to realizing the existing potential. IBX may add even more areas, and also the potential LIRR station re-activation in Elmhurst one day. Woodside itself is hugely untapped, if you look at other contemporary cities, the areas near major transfer hubs are usually very developed, and Woodside is desirable since you can take one of a number of LIRR lines into Manhattan.

These billionaires aren't buying for square footage, they're buying for bragging rights.

It's also why 432 Park was all the rage at first until it was revealed how badly built everything is.

Edit: All that said, put me in an apartment about 100 feet over the city and I'm content. I can do observation decks, but living at that height? I don't think Michael Jacksons doctor could calm me.

Closer to 18 years than 18 months

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