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Behold, our once beautiful, mutagenic sewage lake

We already knew about this from that one documentary in 1999

https://i.imgur.com/RJX1RrU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/6zvuFB8.jpg https://i.imgur.com/MsEIwgs.jpg

This looks like an early photo of ESA

The bus system in general is such a missed opportunity.

The fact that it mostly follows the same routes from before WWII and the buses mostly stay within one borough is just myopic.

Every area that doesn’t have direct train service to Manhattan should have a bus service that goes straight there instead of just taking people to the nearest train. Like why shouldn’t you be able to get on a bus in Red Hook and go straight to Manhattan without transferring to a train? Or a bus straight from the Navy Yard to Manhattan? And yeah use dedicated BRT lanes at every choke point (bridges tunnels).

With a schist creek providing water.

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Don't want to know what lives in that water.

Your article is old, from 2022, and it's opinion that talks about only homicide. Crime can be more commonly about assaults, muggings, stabbings, and rapes, for example. Remember that police are literally running out the door every week. That means fewer police on the job today than the article publish date. Now look up those historical stats.

This place is a schist hole.

There’s water in the picture. You just need to pump it out faster than it leaks in.

We did while Alcee Hastings was in office. There's no prohibition on felons serving in Congress, and rules like Florida has that prevent felons from holding federal office are certainly unconstitutional. It's just that few felons run for public office at all, let alone federal, and of course their status doesn't help in the election.

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Is that what bedrock looks like

Absolutely. I was attacked on the subway in 2020 (due to racism) and I always carry pepper spray now because of it.

All I am saying is that it doesn't preclude him from running or being elected. How many other members of Congress have records of one kind or another. Hell, Edward Kennedy killed someone yet held office for decades.

*If you build safer public transit

Pushing people on the tracks should be an impossibility. Additionally, people getting attacked in stations shouldn’t be a thing.

>I’m still angry Franken resigned.

I am too.

City should monetize this and put the money into MTA

I honestly don't know much about housing vouchers at all, but doing some google-fu for the last 15 minutes it seems like the problem is not so much discrimination against the PEOPLE that want to pay with vouchers, but the landlords are fearful of the IMPLICATIONS of dealing with voucher-holders.

In other words, landlords do not want A) to wait for the government to send an inspector which can take god-knows-how-long before the person can actually move in and rent, B) wait for the government to pay the landlords which, as with any aspect of dealing with government agencies, can take a dawn's age resulting in late payments or insufficient payments from the housing authority, C) endure yearly government inspections which, while designed to ensure that voucher holders do not live in substandard housing, are completely subjective and leases can be terminated because of a hairline crack in a light switch faceplate, &c.

In other words: it seems like landlords' problems aren't with voucher-holders, themselves, but the voucher system itself because it's administered by a government agency. In this case, the NYCHA which, everyone knows, is an absolute steaming pile of dog shit. It's an agency that would rather spend billions defending lawsuits than just making repairs in the first place.

Ya, interesting, I go to the village all the time, never heard of it.

Ghostbusters 2

"You don't need no window where you're sleeping, it should be dark!" Eric Adams

This is wild