Antisemitism is a horseshoe phenomenon.

Let them rot and pat ourselves in the back for how progressive and enlightened we are, apparently.

Definitely 5th Avenue, the Cloisters is just medieval Christian art and nothing else.

There’s plenty of great nature within an easy train ride of NYC. you’ve got the Catskills and Adirondacks for mountains, sandy beaches on Long Island, and rugged New England coast within three hours by amtrak.

For making friends in different fields, try hanging out in the student neighborhoods like Morningside and Greenwich Village. There are lots of other out-of-townsra looking to make friends, and they attract lots of people with different interests.

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if you’re that attacked to your car, I recommend living anywhere but America’s only transit-as-default city.

Of course, devoting unlimited public space to cars means there will be no traffic! Just look at Los Angeles and Houston.

Then take the subway.

What are you looking for? It’s not the typical spa experience, but if you’re after a schvitz and a platza you can’t beat the Wall Street Bath.

I thought they didn’t open until next year?

This would be incredible.

Getting bumped by a 140 pound guy on a scooter is much, much preferable to getting killed by an idiot texting and speeding in a multi-ton car.

Yes we should enforce good street use on smaller vehicles, but in terms of potential for injury it’s apples and oranges.

Because public space is important and effects everyone?

I’ve used scooters precisely zero times in New York but I still like seeinkore options.

No, New York City is not “full.” Parts of Manhattan are arguably “full” to the point where more density could be a bad thing, but there are four other boroughs still made up mostly of sprawl.

If the price is still too high, then by defintion there is not enough of it.

If melons are too expensive, the answer is to grow more melons.

Airbnb allows housing to be funged into hotel rooms but not the other way around. It has a niche because there is unmet demand for cheap hotels, but also worsens the unmet demand for housing. It doesn’t cause the problem, it reveals it.

Yes, restricting Airbnb is probably a good move in the short term. But the real answer is we need to green light a lot more construction of both housing and hotels.

You can’t gentify a parking lot.

The problem with environmental review is that it treats “do nothing, build nothing” as the default, environmentally-neutral choice. Failing to build is actively bad, because it forces people who would rather live sustainable, transit-based urban lifestyles into the car-dependent suburbs.

Imagine living in Manhattan as someone who hates skyscrapers. It would be like hating snow and moving to Greenland.

Good. The point of congestion pricing is to nudge commuters out of cars and into transit. I don’t use commuter rail myself, but this is smart policy.