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.

Wouldn’t making it easier to buy a home just result in higher purchasing prices as more people compete over the same number of available units?

More housing, more residents, more tax revenue to fund infrastructure.

New York State actually has quite a few competitive congressional races right now because our liberal judiciary made the state draw maps that weren’t completely gerrymandered.

Meanwhile red states have no problem with it and are aggressively tilting the scales in their favor.

So NY could end up helping Democrats lose control of congress because of judges appointed by Democrats, lol.

Yes, bus lanes are such a cheap and effective way to improve transit... if they're kept clear.

But the reality is that only automated enforcement cameras will effectively do that and many people here seem to have a knee-jerk reaction to traffic enforcement cameras. Even if the NYPD were totally onboard with traffic enforcement (lol) they can't be everywhere all the time.

That's how lots of other global cities have effectively reduced traffic accidents/fatalities... camera enforcement for tons of driving infractions like speeding, running reds, illegal turns, blocking intersections, etc.

Yeah I’ve had tons of international roommates who weren’t on the lease over the years but landlords have gotten more strict about everyone being on the lease and those international roommates were always pretty grateful that I trusted them. That indicated to me that they’d had a hard time finding a place.

Some of the best roommates though because they feel lucky just to have found a place. And they never have lots of stuff or pets, lol.

I met a crime scene investigator once and he said any time media shows up to the scene of a death and he says “suicide” they just leave because it’s not newsworthy unless it’s something public like this. Even then, people kill themselves in parks all the time and it doesn’t make the news.

What’s sad is some people will leave notes about how they want the media to report on their suicide, he said. But their suicide at home isn’t newsworthy. Just shows how irrational people often are when they do it.

So that’s where my AliExpress stuff is hiding…

Depending on the age of your child, OP, they also have an early childhood jazz education program called WeBop.

Their holiday concerts are very family-friendly as well.

Oh yeah... and when the largest protests in history demand it. Easy, lol.