Yeah, I've rambled past there several times. Was just making a point on how the picture resembled it. :-)

Useless position. Axe them to save 200m a yr and divert to build elevators and stations plus other must need improvements

organic booth clerks

Imagine you have to catch them as they run around the station.

I lived in LIC and worked in park slope. Was faster to go into the city then to wait and take the G.

And what exactly would happen to Scarsdale if people who are less than millionaires were able to live in their Metro-North train station town? Or is this really just dog whistling about how to prevent wealthy assholes in Scarsdale from having to live anywhere close to "certain people."

“Just because my grandmother has wheels, doesn’t mean she’s a bike”

I don’t think it was personal but one time there was a fully formed human poop on a column near the south exit for months

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I had a nest a few years ago that coned paid for but I only had it for like a year, I do remember a couple times it was adjusted, but it probably changed since then

Ralph

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>you are shouting 'danger danger' like that scared robot.

Or maybe I am speaking from experience because my aunt and grandmother lived in the projects on 115th and 2nd ave from 1982 - 2020, where I was also born, and spend my life visiting and seeing crazy shit.

Bucktownberry Ferry

Definitely!

It is possible to make scaffolding look cool and worth the photo

• https://www.geekygirlengineer.com/2013/11/03/washington-monument-in-scaffolding/

If it helps brainstorm names Governors island used to be called Paggank or Nutten Island, because of the many nut trees on the island

I blame air conditioning.

>Imagine seeing businesses/capital/professionals/full service buildings *fucking finally* arriving up to Harlem and thinking that's a bad thing, and pining for the days of dodging muggers and crackheads.

1. full service building means more expensive, its not like you get the extra services for free. Hence people get priced out.
2. There are no muggers or crackheads in the photo, that is you projecting. I know the 80s had more muggers and crack heads but the person is reminiscing on lost youth and sense of place and you are shouting 'danger danger' like that scared robot.
3. Where did the post say its a good / bad thing. Just said things change with time. Why you trying to be like that?

What is extra stuff for free is look at the prices of old TVs compared to what you can get for the same dollar (not inflation adjusted) now.

you don't even hear the accent (in Spanish) anywhere in NYC now.

I would be extremely surprised if there’s no requirement for a certain non-trivial percentage of all newly built housing to be low-income.

Even in the past 12 years, the LES has become so... sterile.

Ok, but you’ll have to use the service entrance.

Imagine seeing businesses/capital/professionals/full service buildings *fucking finally* arriving up to Harlem and thinking that's a bad thing, and pining for the days of dodging muggers and crackheads.

It's not as black and white as that, as NYC used to have a range of housing at affordable price points relative to your position, giving a lot of immigrants their head start. But the acceleration of people being priced out of the neighborhoods and communities they grew up occured while wages were pushed down. Overall homeownership in America is low thanks to the govt bailing out in 08 the very wall street companies that caused the crash instead of the builders and mortgage companies supporting lower income ranges. So now you've got NYC families being pushed out. A bigger issue for families on the lower income scale as picking up and moving to low cost states to compete with existing residents for low skill jobs is probably not practical. NY govt fails to do any long term planning and relies on "private sector" leadership which means no one will build low cost housing unless they make a lot of money. Affordable housing solution is to sprawl out to surrounding areas but that was already done with NYCers moving to NJ and transit infrastructure built. Now there's little political will for the effort to sprawl upstate.