And it should be way more than 20%. Average income in Manhattan is insanely high, a little more taxes won’t hurt.

Should be at least 60:40 to help improve transit in/out of the city.

The benefit being there’s less need to drive in with improved transit.

Transit within the city is relatively speaking adequate. Getting in and out is still bad.

The permanent parts of this are armored.

The black cable and charger are just hanging. That’s likely stored in their trunk when not in use. That’s acceptable on a temporary basis. You just can’t permanently mount it like that.

They also technically protected on the sidewalk where it’s prone to damage.

This might violate local ordinances, but seems to have been done safely. That outlet looks like it might have been done by a pro too. I suspect that locks, so when not in use nobody can access the outlet.

Yea, furniture is pretty tough. It's cheaper to pay one of those junk haulers to take old furniture than to donate it. The ones that do take furniture require sizable donations, presumably to offset the space to store it, and labor to actually move it if you want it picked up.

And that's if you can find someone who will take it.

I’ve heard about that place a few times now. I’ve yet to make a trip down there lately. Need to check it out.

As I recall you can’t setup an account until you occupy the property.

That’s for good reason. You don’t want a future tenant in control of your power since an account holder can request things like service shutdown for maintenance. They don’t have the time/resources to be sorting out disputes so they just don’t setup people in advance. There’s no need.

When you move in you have a window to setup the account. You’ll then inherit the meter and start paying from that point forward.

Any dry cleaners normally does at least minor alterations.

For something like that it’s normally $6-15 per pants.

For regular customers it’s often super cheap. They use it as a way to keep you coming in. It’s a few minutes of easy work for someone with experience doing alterations and they’ll give you a 3 day window, so they just do it when they’ve got nothing higher priority to do. If you come in off the street you’ll pay a bit more.

You don’t really need a tailor for this. It’s a trivial task.

Well for one, it's terrible going through structure. It's bad at getting through thin wood framed construction, way worse with steel/glass and masonry which is common in JC. So even if they put the infrastructure in, and they'd have to put way more per square mile here than anywhere else, most people still can't use it unless they stand outside.

Secondly: Internet speeds are mostly a thing to make it easier for sales people to get gullible people to spend more money. Most CDN's limit anyone's connection to websites and services they host to 100Mbps by default, 500Mbps for a few premium services (and I can think of only a handful of things that actually do that). That's not just to control cost, it's the most rudimentary DDoS protection. Nobody needs more than that, so why bother even trying. 95% of what most people do in a day goes through one of the top 10 CDN's.

The highest bitrate 4k stream is about 50Mbps. For commercial services you can just freely subscribe to with a credit card it's 20Mbps (Disney+ I believe is the highest right now with 4k HDR). Even if a dozen people streamed in 4k @ 50Mbps, you're talking 600Mbps + 25% overhead for fun is still 725Mbps.. You're not even at a gigabit, and realistically no household is doing that.

Beyond that, services like Kaleidescape download passively overnight, but I'd bet nobody who's got Kaleidescape is using residential broadband, they've got business service with a proper SLA. So even on the high end: you don't need more than 500Mbps.

But sales people at every ISP now ask how many devices you own, and greater than 5-6 is going to recommend gigabit minimum.

That's where the money is. Convincing people who don't math good to spend more than they need. Do that over a few million customers, and you've got a perfectly legal high margin business.

There's no law requiring them to help you not overspend. These sales tactics are 100% legal and by the books.