NYC landlords knew the market they were getting into when they bought the property. If landlords don't like operating in a large complex market perhaps they shouldn't?

Discrimination is the right word, small landlords just don't want to hear it. If you don't have the ability to handle this, maybe you just shouldn't be a landlord? There is no legal guarantee that every citizen can be a landlord, maybe some of the small ones just aren't cut out for it? Maybe they should try a different job if they can't run it. If a restaurant was failing to pay their employees on time in NYC no one would say "oh it's tough for restaurateurs out there give them a break." We'd say "You knew how tough the NYC market was before you invested in it. If you can't handle that then get out."

> Those people get a lot of their cost information from the Internet.”

Do you know why researchers have to go to the ends of Earth to find cost information about the MTA? Because the MTA refuses to fucking disclose how they spend money, even though that money comes from taxpayers.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/11/15/why-doesnt-the-mta-actually-tell-us-what-its-paying-for/

> “In New York, there are itemized costs prepared by independent cost estimators to inform the MTA when evaluating fixed-price bids, but … those costs are considered a trade secret of the agency, not to be publicized or else it would interfere with the bidding process,” researchers Eric Goldwyn, Alon Levy, Elif Ensari and Marco Chitti wrote in an upcoming report from the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management.

I can go on Google for a random road construction project and find its itemized cost. How do I know? Because I just fucking did it - here’s an itemized invoice from Florida DOT for a road repaving and widening project in the middle of god damn nowhere

https://fdotwww.blob.core.windows.net/sitefinity/docs/default-source/programmanagement/estimates/documents/cost-per-mile-model-reports/rural/rural-23.pdf?sfvrsn=bd45a5ec_4

How much did it cost taxpayers to remove litter on the roadside for this project? $102. How is the MTA spending $120 million dollars for elevators at the Hunter College station? Who the fuck knows

This smug fuck Janno Lieber cautions that researchers do not have any first party sources when it comes to MTA costs yet his agency refuses to make those costs public.

I refuse to support another penny going to the MTA until they are fully transparent on how they spend their money.

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In a world of infinite resources, sure I’d love beautiful, inspiring spaces. But given a choice between a dozen new stations—each cramped and ugly—or three oversized pretty ones, I’ll take the dozen every time.

Increase to 80% within 20 years to be exact.

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My eyes.

Like I said, it's like things change over time. Republicans used to root for unions. Democrats are the ones taking down confederate monuments. It's shocking how little you understand or just choose to be with willfully ignorant on politics

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There us bo wonder. Trump learned long ago feom Roy Cohen the way to deal with government investigators is to attack them.

Most 25 year olds in nyc make 500k, calm down.

Why don't they just focus on spending that capital money on upgrading all the lines to CBTC and maintain the current system or replace all the old rolling stock with new more-modern cars before trying to force more new extension projects, there is already a cascade of issues to resolve.

More like employees learn theyre getting screwed over by their employers and want to be paid what they're worth.

>we have a millenial

Why in the world does this matter

>she was granted 6 months maternity leave at full pay

Good, people have kids and financial support for them during a relatively short period of the child's life is great.

>right before she was due to come back she sent a note to her direct superior essentially saying she wouldn't come back if she wasn't paid more money.

Also good, it's important to know your worth and get paid it. If she asks for more than what they'll pay her than that's that and it won't happen, otherwise there's only benefits in asking.

>unlike the rest of us - fully remote due to some bullshit note from her doctor

Seems like a problem with your workplace demanding you go in more than a fault of hers.

https://commercialobserver.com/2023/03/flatiron-building-garlick-auction-deposit-new-york/

Off to a great start. Guy is a fucking loser

So this is where supervillains build their secret underground lairs...

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>Ashley, a 28-year-old accountant, is planning to quit her job at a New York insurance company. After seeing a LinkedIn ad for a new role on her team that revealed new recruits will be paid more than her, she hired a career coach to help her change industries.

>“It is the biggest slap in the face,” said Ashley, who asked that her last name be withheld because she is not authorised to speak publicly about her pay negotiations.

>“Ever since then, I don’t work a minute over 40 hours,” she added. “I do not stay late online. I will not take on extra work.”

>Ashley’s employer is among a growing number facing upset staff after posting salary information to job sites.

>New York City’s pay transparency law took effect in November and was followed by similar laws in Washington, California and Rhode Island earlier this year, in a trend that has undone longstanding taboos about discussing salaries in the workplace. A similar law took effect in Colorado in 2021.

>As a result, the share of US job postings that include salary ranges has more than doubled since 2020. Some 43.7 per cent of US job postings on Indeed contained salary ranges last month, up from 18.4 per cent in February 2020.

>Though laws vary state to state, most require that advertisements for any roles that could be based in those jurisdictions contain salary ranges in hopes of reducing discrimination. But since many organisations do not share internal salary data, the postings have given workers their first glimpse at how their peers might be paid. Many, like Ashley, were unhappy with what they learned.

>“What makes employers think that the current employees are going to be motivated to do better when they see that someone else on day one is getting the salary that they should have gotten three years ago?” she said.

>Business leaders said the regulations could not have come at a worse time. The labour shortage sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic has inflated salaries, meaning that in order to land new hires, companies are offering higher salaries than many of their existing staff are making for similar roles.

>Before New York City enacted its own pay transparency law, lobbyists warned that they could create conflict in teams and remove incentives for employees to work hard.

>Citibank came under scrutiny after one of its contract user experience writers complained on Twitter that she had spotted a LinkedIn ad for her own role paying at least $32,000 more than her $85,000 salary. She applied.

>“I was pretty upset because that was the exact salary range that I was targeting when I applied for this job [and did not get],” said 25-year-old Kimberly Nguyen.

>In a meeting called after a teamwide group chat turned hostile, Citi managers told the writers the pay disparity was because they were contractors instead of full-time employees and that the role would not be filled.

>A Citi spokesperson said that the salary range in the job description Nguyen saw was for a UX writer with five to eight years more experience than she has. They also said the staffing agency that hired Nguyen had negotiated her salary.

>Activists and community leaders argue that the laws provide vital information to women and employees of colour who otherwise might not have the professional connections to know what kind of salary to negotiate for. Illinois, Oregon and Kentucky are weighing pay disclosure rules of their own.

>But from the moment New York City’s law went into effect in November, workers complained that the published salary ranges were too broad to be useful. Some ranges had a difference of more than $200,000 between the high and low ends. And bonuses, which can account for a substantial part of a banker’s pay, do not have to be disclosed.

>The salary ranges “answer one question but raise several others”, said Tauseef Rahman, a partner at consulting firm Mercer which specialises in pay equity. “Now you know the pay range. The question becomes: ‘What does it take to move up in that pay range?’”

>Rahman said candidates were often offended because the companies rarely made offers at the high end of the stated range.

>But those most upset about the disclosures are the firms’ existing staff. Alan Goldstein, a New York-based executive recruiter, said Wall Street human resource executives blamed the transparency for a wave of resignations after bonuses were paid out at the end of February.

>“It upset a lot of people,” he added.

>Not all employers say that the transparency laws make managing people more difficult. Small business owners, who have struggled to hire throughout the Covid crisis, say that promoting competitive pay ranges has helped them lure applicants away from larger, more prestigious firms.

>Lilian Chen, founder of New York-based company Bar None Games which hosts team-building events, said since posting salary ranges fewer applications had come in, but those she had received were better suited to the roles.

>“There have been times where we will have a candidate who seems like they’re really good and then we get on calls and the salary comes up and it’s just not a good fit,” said Chen, referring to applicants who withdraw because pay is lower than they expected. “And we kind of just wasted both our time.”

>It is unclear how much workers have benefited from the new salary information. All Nguyen was able to secure from Citi was a performance review, but she said it had been delayed twice. Though Nguyen is still at Citi, she is actively searching for a new job and has become an advocate for a federal pay transparency law.

>Many Wall Street banks are shedding staff, making it more difficult for disgruntled workers to find another job at a higher rate, said Goldstein.

>Still, Nguyen said that workers were unlikely to back down.

>“The chaos on my team could proactively be resolved if they just brought everybody’s pay up to par. The whole thing is a manager problem. It’s not mine.”

They always trying to take down us blk brothers 🥺😭.

I remember several years ago when the 7 line was upgraded with CBTC signaling, Paris did the same thing to one of their lines and a few articles pointed out that it was the most apples-to-apples transit project comparison possible... the two lines were almost the exact same length and number of stations.

And yet Paris did it for like 1/3 the price... despite having very powerful unions.

It is depressing how inefficiently our money is spent.