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actualtext t1_j203niu wrote

Reply to comment by Myske1 in Opinion: New York finally has momentum on housing and it’s time for a breakthrough by King-of-New-York

None of those things you’ve mentioned are issues of concern in NYC. But two things worth pointing out:

  1. In fact there’s been a huge 50 year project to bring water to the city. See here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Water_Tunnel_No._3 We’re not suffering from a drought.
  2. Subway ridership is currently at ~60% of 2019 numbers (you’ll have to look up the official numbers but that’s the number I keep reading in headlines as articles). And we’re still improving things. Maybe not as much one would like with extensions to lines, but there are projects like bringing the LIRR to Grand Central which will improve transit options and new Metro North stations going to Penn Station that will get built in the Bronx.
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beer_nyc t1_j2ajcsu wrote

> None of those things you’ve mentioned are issues of concern in NYC.

they're huge concerns in the suburbs of nyc

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Myske1 t1_j204kjg wrote

We’re not suffering from a drought. We’re suffering from a lack of water mains and pipes in areas of potential expansion. Sewage is a huge problem. The system overflows during storms all the time, and adding more sewage will just make it worse. These are real problems, despite what propagandists from the real estate industry have convinced you to believe.

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