That is often true for businesses that are open.

However, the storefront vacancy rate is 12% in NYC. It is 25% in my neighborhood. Couple that with office vacancies, and you have anywhere from 1/4 to 1/6 office/retail properties where there is no tenant. In those situations you often see these problems. If a single property on a street is unshoveled, that entire street is dangerous for the disabled and elderly. In my own neighborhood, there is never a sidewalk block that is 100% shoveled.

I’m confused by your last two sentences? Can you explain?

The fine goes to the owner of the building. The owner is then responsible to enforce a tenant’s obligations under the lease if they have agreed to do so.

That’s my point. The fine should be the same. If you don’t have resources, you shouldn’t be in business. This is basic site maintenance and failure to shovel is both a danger to everyone, and specifically is an attack on disabled people. Imagine making the argument that you should pay a deminimis fine to not comply with the ADA bc you are a small business. Or that you should be largely exempt from anti discrimination laws.

Why only chain stores? You’re just as likely to fall and be injured in front of an independent store as a chain store. This type of stuff makes no sense; and just seems like a punch up at bigger businesses. If you can’t afford to shovel snow <5x a year, you can’t afford to do business.

Unless NY state children requiring special Ed have worse parents than children in other states needing special Ed, we can surely do better as these other states already do.

So you want everyone to go to public school. Got it. If that's your main point just say it up front. I for one am not in favor of a monopolist position for a failing system. Organizations earn funding with evidence of efficacy. Not the other way around.

You did say we need more money for public school students. It’s your entire point. Let’s not try to thread needles here. But to be clear, these country club schools are total bs. On that we agree

I wasnt comparing ny state to oecd nations. I was comparing to every other state in THIS nation. When you cut and paste you may want to read the actual comment. And no California and Illinois and other high income high tech states do not have different social safety nets. Let's take California for example. Ny state diverts >50% more students to special Ed than california. Why? Because the large incremental payouts to schools for special Ed students incents them to declare more students special Ed. If we simply had the same % as California, we would be able to spend >50% more per student just there.

And the fact that they spend less and have better outcomes completely undercuts your second point. If spending per student was directly tied to outcomes, NYC would have one of the best, not worst, large metropolitan school districts.

And your comment about my comment being ridiculous is just rude. And in the context of not even understanding the comment, doubly so.

This may not be rocket science, but it's certainly not marketing either. Requires some understanding of public policy and public finance. And the simple argument of "we need more money" isn't a serious one without an actual analysis of root cause issues.

NY state has both the highest public special Ed spending per student and the highest percentage of students receiving public special Ed services. The issue isn't lack of resource. It's the tremendously poor use of existing resources. US federal studies consistently find that NY special Ed students have poor outcomes notwithstanding higher per student spending. The fact that private special Ed institutions have superior outcomes is the clearest argument to overhaul NYs public special Ed programs rather than divert more funds to an already overfunded and failing system.

Not when you need to fund it during a recession and a period of multi year high interest rates. To the extent the rest of their portfolio suffers, will create credit and liquidity risk.

1. Reddit - moving to clean energy is great

2. Also Reddit - Adams is an idiot

3. Rule 2 always overrules Rule 1

I watched the first episode of the reboot and it was awful. Everything you would expect from a CBS / NBC / ABC style show - characters who are broad caricatures, schmaltz emotional pulls and a tidy ending.

Football is literally a militaristic ground acquisition game. Wtf

The biggest land owners driving gentrification in Chinatown are Chinese. Try again.

What about a comparable Canadian city like Toronto? Vancouver is a nice suburb

I mean you could write this story about any city initiative right now. The city bureaucracy is corrupt and broken.

Why are you conveniently ignoring a $40m "donation" to a failing museums that no one has any interest in. And the people fighting on environmental grounds are largely parents of children in the two schools whose children are being exposed to noxious fumes from a rushed brown site cleanup. So I frankly don't care what some preservationist group wants.

Ps - i know you need maps to identify the space. I don't. People should comment on things they have real knowledge of instead of doing Google gymnastics for fake internet "wins".

A school is a clear benefit for the community. $40M for a relatively small museum is just a bribe. Their entire annual budget is $4M

It's amazing the corruption people try to justify when it's for "their team".

The issue is it’s a brown site full of embedded mercury. And there are two large schools on the block. Slowing the development to ensure safety is the prudent thing to do.

It was a quid pro quo. That is the definition of corruption. Ends justifying the means is never ok

Interesting. I live in Manhattan and can go 5 minutes on a major thoroughfare and see zero. The number of cabs on the road is 50% or less than pre pandemic levels, and many seem to just congregate at all times at the airports and midtown

Nyc as a luxury product is never a good thing. If you don’t want cars in spaces, ban them.

Because they offered a premium service at the same price as a cab. Contactless, no hailing, less scamming. The works.

The only issue is that the “same price” was just venture capital funded losses. It actually costs much more to operate a ride sharing app business model. A recent test in NYC showed cabs are now anywhere from 35-83% cheaper. The airport run differences are even bigger.

So now we have many fewer taxis and Uber / Lyft priced as the luxury services that they actually are.

What does this mean for middle income users? Back to the subway unless and until taxis get back on the roads.

Being too expensive isn’t turning to shit. It’s basic economics.