It's funny because this sub is totally behind this sort of essential infrastructure but when it comes to Con Ed...

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/125mdb5/reminder_public_hearings_on_coneds_rate_hikes_are

everybody is just like "fuck Con Ed, I shouldn't have to pay for electricity."

Which is especially funny because a significant portion of that rate hike is going towards clean energy infrastructure. It always amuses me as someone that works in energy that people talk a good game when it comes to clean energy but don't actually want to pay for it. Do people think infrastructure is free? I don't get it.

Ahh the stairway to hell

Yup. You don’t need to send teens to jail to ruin their lives. Just take away their weekends and after school time and make them do the most mundane community service work possible. They can decide whether they prefer sweeping the park on Saturday or reporting to jail.

"Ew why would we want disabled people using our station"

Probably.

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That’s my mistake then. I thought they were going to demolish the old building and put a new one where the park and school are. As that’s what I remember a flyer saying.

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It’s a massing diagram, not an official diagram. Shows the scale of the project. The rendering will come out eventually, though. Will be nice because architect is foster.

Hope they reopen the stairs soon.

The blood bank does not demolish the school or park - those are located across the street. The plan was to demolish old building and build new one. Its height would cast a shadow on the school and park at certain hours. That's the complaint they going with on paper but I'm sure its related to other reasons to residents nearby. They don't care for the school or park

Won't somebody think of my view!

Funny I’m reading this as I sit waiting for radiation in the main campus building at 1275 York Ave.

i wanna go visit one of these days; is it deeper than the hudson yard one?

This particular scenario would be up to the person whether through demanding better pay, quitting, or unionize. I think the bigger issue is long term NYC residents being pushed out of their neighborhoods. In a capitalist society that's hard to prevent but ideally people would profit from the sales of their homes and use it to move to lower costs areas appropriate for them and their fiances. Unfortunately the answer for that in many cases is outside NYC like Florida.

I haven't checked it out today yet, but my understanding is that the elevators are staying open, it's just the tunnel to overlook that's being closed.

> It's equally likely that people left because it's not worth it to commute to Manhattan everyday from those boroughs when the rent is so fucking high and the housing stock is so low.

I think its more like tons of office workers no longer have to commute to Manhattan every day so why bother living in expensive NYC when you can work from home in a quiet suburb with good schools and easy parking and cheaper houses. Then there's less need for stores and restaurants in Manhattan so the people in the outerboroughs who did work those jobs in Manhattan don't need to be here anymore either.

I live on 71st and my only issue with the blood bank (from what I know) is they are demolishing a park and a high school to build it.

I’m all for buildings like this, the blood bank even homeless shelters. Just put it in the lots where they are putting up multi-million dollar condos like at 1562 2nd ave instead.

god that fuckin elevator in the summer, and that poor guy they would station in it with a teeny tiny fan

That's not what's happening here. This area - specifically this intersection - has been hospitaltown for like 50+ years.

Why the FUCK would they stop an elevator!?

Seriously. It has to be one of the most character-less stretches of street (which describes most of the UES between 50th and 90th/Lex to York). And that particular stretch of streets is all medical facilities anyway!

Okay, if the job opportunities in Manhattan are so awful, why aren't they finding equivalent job opportunities in the outer boroughs and continuing to live there?

My knees love this news

Let’s count the amount of days before it stops working.

I mean, yeah don't take a job as a public servant if you don't want to be a public servant.