SROs should be legal again. That’s basically what these companies are offering. SROs were an important form of affordable housing for decades.

And it’s not just bed capacity. Someone who works in this field commented on the first NYTimes article saying basically that the whims of the mayor won’t change established legal guidelines for committing people or the decades of court case rulings that got us to this point.

Adams can’t snap his fingers and make the state hold more people in facilities. There might be an increase in 72 hour holds but that’s about it.

It's just a bit silly to complain about the mode of transport that is definitely not killing hundreds a year and call them a menace. Bikes are just new... people are accustomed to cars killing tons of people and breaking all kinds of rules.

Lol. How many people have drivers killed in NYC? How many have cyclists killed?

Do any of the buses that go through the Holland/Lincoln tunnels have them? That would be such an improvement for getting to/from Hoboken/JC by bike.

I’m still surprised that we don’t have bike racks on the front of our buses like countless other cities.

The city is building lots of bike lanes but somehow still doesn’t have this basic transit feature for cyclists.

I’ll drink to that

Edit: Wow this beer is strong.

I basically stopped driving in the city around the start of the pandemic. I had to do it again recently to move some furniture and I was really shocked at how much worse driving norms have gotten.

People driving on the shoulder of the BQE way more, obscured plates, casually running red lights, flashing brights at me for not running a red, etc. Truly feels lawless to a new degree.

Time to start dumping them in the East River.

Some guy in Park Slope called 311 on a cop who was parking his personal pickup truck in a bus stop every single day.

The cop actually got the guy's number from 311 and sent him harassing/threatening voicemails.

I don’t understand why they give such wide painted sidewalks on just one side. Why not add 5.5 feet on both sides?

Yeah it’s so ridiculous that sidewalks are completely overflowing while cars have as many lanes as a suburban highway.

Yeah it just feels like this massive tease that they gave Times Square such a nice, permanent, pedestrian-focused redesign more than a decade ago and really haven’t done anything like it since in other places. Just plastic bollards and paint for the most part.

I understand it’s complicated and costly. But they did it in Times Square and they could at least announce plans or intentions to do it other places.

It’s fine if their current approach is meant to be some temporary test. But once they’re done testing these things and haven’t found any big issues they should move on to planning something more permanent like an actual widening of the sidewalk.

Otherwise we end up with situations like the Willoughby Open Street where some powerful city insider got all the barriers removed one day with no input from anyone and it took a big public outcry to bring them back. Real physical changes are much harder to undo on a whim.

Yeah all of the recent changes to NY’s streets that take space back from cars have been done in temporary ways (paint, plastic bollards, temp barriers, plastic planters). It’s like they want the next mayor to undo it.

Manhattan’s sidewalks used to be wider. They were made narrower to fit more cars. Time to undo that stupid decision.

The entire initial appeal of Airbnb, in my view, was being away from designated tourist zones and having a kitchen if I wanted to cook. And that’s it.

But they ruined it with outrageous fees and host demands.

Yeah last time I used airbnb was in Barcelona and I spent my entire last day there scrubbing the place clean and I still got a bad review from the host (mentioning cleanliness) and got charged a cleaning fee.

Fuck that I’ll just go back to hotels.

Green-Wood is still an active cemetery but they also have events for the general public and are actively trying to walk the line between being a park and being respectful of the dead and their living relatives.

They’re running out of space for burials so if they don’t find new income sources they’ll be in trouble eventually.

Because it was so deeply unpopular last time it was tried that a bipartisan effort produced the Faircloth Amendment banning any increase in public housing.

I’d say it’s just as shortsighted to assume that WFH will completely disappear and we will suddenly return to pre-COVID ridership levels.

It’s literally illegal under federal law to build any new public housing.

This city’s focus on subways/trains as the only meaningful mode of public transportation is just myopic.

Go to cities like London where buses move tons of people and even neighborhoods without Underground stations have good transit service.

But they accomplish that by disincentivizing car usage. You always pay for street parking and they have congestion charging so buses move around efficiently and aren’t perpetually stuck in traffic like here.

We are basically choosing to make a cheap, efficient mode of transit unreliable by catering to car owners so much.

Plus our bus network has barely changed since WWII and mostly focuses on moving people around within one borough. That should also change.

My point is we don’t have to wait decades for subway expansion. But political choices favoring car owners prevent buses from being a good alternative.

What infrastructure specifically? The subway is having low ridership problems so can’t be that.

That’s a common NIMBY tactic. Just move the goalposts over and over and waste everyone’s time.