That’s just in the old parts of Paris. They put all the skyscrapers in a designated business district called La Defense.

I might do this for a bus. Bus drivers might actually stop and let you on.

Chicago dogs are amazing. Would support.

This coming right after his office completely botched a case against a cop accused of making up evidence.

So he accomplished pissing off both pro-police and anti-police people at the same time.

They did some work on a subway station a few years ago and uncovered an old anti-apartheid protest flyer.

I recently found a flyer on the G train for a protest of the RNC convention in NY that happened in 2004.

I think once congestion charging starts we should honestly consider making the Brooklyn Bridge into something more like the High Line. Just an elevated park with maybe a few lanes saved for buses/bicycles and emergency vehicles.

“More community input” is an easy “win” for politicians because it sounds good in theory but often adds little or makes things actively worse.

And now some are rolling out Bluetooth. I haven’t brought headphones that used anything other than Bluetooth on a flight in a few years.

I worked at a large concert venue when the vaccines first rolled out and distribution was a big logistical question.

We reached out to Levine multiple times to volunteer our space as a mass vaccination site. He never gets back to us and a few days later posts on social about how it’s hard to find spaces in Manhattan that work for this and to reply to his tweet with ideas.

We were like HELLO?? CHECK YOUR VOICEMAIL/EMAIL. Just seemed like he wanted to post on social about being deeply involved with the logistics without actually doing anything.

If you’re traveling with multiple people, like a family, it’s a pretty marginal price difference to take a car because you’re spending $10 per person otherwise.

I know quite a few families who tell me they opt for a car primarily for that reason.

They could do a lot for the environment by making AirTrain free so fewer people are inclined to take cabs. 🤷‍♂️

I love museums but they sometimes thrive on artificial scarcity. I often end up buying the book about an exhibit because that’s the only way I’ll be able to see the objects after it ends.

I think in a lot of cases they don’t have the rights to publish them online. But it’s still frustrating.

> We ended SROs, “boarding houses” and most forms of tenements, but offered no replacements.

This is huge and so often overlooked. SROs used to number in the hundreds of thousands in NYC and most major US cities.

They were cheap and helped keep people off the street. But we banned them slowly and just expected people to find larger, more expensive homes. And without any support.

People like to say “no one should have to live like that” but it’s better than nothing.

A friend of mine worked at a NIMBY organization years ago.

I followed them on social for a while. It was just endless complaints about new proposed buildings being too tall. Even like a single story taller than the surrounding area had them up in arms… in Manhattan.

Yep. There’s a parking lot in the Seaport area that’s been locked in lawsuits with neighbors for decades all trying to stop the parking lot from becoming housing.

Why? It would block rich people’s views and lower their condo’s value.

I like what California is doing. Every city must submit a plan for building enough new housing accommodate population growth. And if they fail to do it, the state takes over and rubber stamps housing permits as fast as they come in.

So they’re the new vape/CBD stores?

Netflix docuseries on this is going to be amazing. I love a good fraud documentary.

This is like Fyre Fest Goes to Washington.

How is the MTA supposed to make buses reliable when there are too many cars on the road?

Right so both should be legal to take money away from organized crime?

You’re never going to find a perfect solution to these societal problems but I think the Prohibition example shows that handing over an entire industry to organized crime is the worse option.

It got significantly worse. The MTA did a similar study showing that ride share apps were primarily responsible for buses hitting their slowest average speeds ever when Uber/Lyft first flooded the streets with cars.

It’s true for alcohol too.

Why is this paternalistic logic okay when it’s about gambling? If you made the same argument about alcohol’s impacts on society as a justification for banning it, you’d rightly be laughed at.

That was part of a major lobbying effort that the NYTimes just wrote a big investigative piece on.

> Four years ago, betting on live sports was illegal in most of the United States. Now, fans watching games or attending them at stadiums are barraged with advertisements encouraging them to bet on matchups, not just watch as spectators.

> This transformation in sports betting started nearly a decade ago, at first with the explosion of wagering on fantasy sports. Then in 2018, the Supreme Court cleared the way for states to legalize wagers on live games. Today, 31 states and Washington, D.C., permit sports gambling either online or in person, and five more states have passed laws that will allow such betting in the future. Professional sports in the U.S. now are part of a multibillion-dollar corporate gambling enterprise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/briefing/gambling-sports-betting.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I believe so but this was like 10 years ago so not sure.

Yeah I saw the NY Phil do Koyaanisqatsi live and it was mind-blowing.