>another building in the financial district

Yup, it used to be the cocoa exchange, now there are all sorts of oddly shaped converted apartments (and probably a terrible place for a hotel/hideout)

Anyone else think that Detective Falcon looks like Ben Wyatt/Adam Scott from Parks & Rec?

Middleman tech "entrepreneurs" need to get their cut to subsidize their lifestyles, and VCs need some sort of justification for burning their investments.

I agree that BK-BX cross-borough public transit is pretty terrible, but to reach even upper Manhattan, public transit should be used. I just mapped a route from a friend's place in Bushwick/Ridgewood to Columbia/Harlem, and it's 1hr both by subway and driving. And not that you would bike it with kids, but it's 16mi--pedaling is a 1.5hr trip on Google Maps, but class 2 ebikes can top out at 20mph.

I think the bigger issue would be why one has to drive an hr each way on a regular basis in a dense city, as it's an example of inefficient sprawl. A 1hr bike ride is essentially from AMS Schiphol airport to the old city center, covering everything in between--from accountants to hospitals to arenas and parks.

> A lot of the "fuck cars" people (not all of em) never tried moving a few of their young kids across the city, or had to carry tools to construction jobs on the subways or buses.

1. Bakfeits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQhzEnWCgHA

2. Cargo van are much better for work jobs than the ever-present pickup trucks; thankfully most actual tradesmen use them in the city, but the number of pickup trucks from outer boroughs/LI/NJ plates with a construction vest as some sort of justification for improper parking is definitely non-negligible.

LOL, good luck shouting into the void with this one. Getting drivers to be aware of humans around them is apparently such a hard ask, let alone stationary bikes. As you mentioned, these large SUVs have such large over-hood blind spots that they love to gobble up small children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6k0-3QrZjA

You also have to love the marketing about it: instead of regulating visibility guidelines, we have a created a phrase for an incident where "Oops I ran over a child".

I had my Ducati knocked over in the 30min it took to get a haircut. It was parked in front of an apartment building with a good 5-7 feet on both sides, but it appeared to have been backed into, likely by the SUV that was parked in front of it. One cracked fairing, bent clutch lever, either a cracked clutch reservoir or even a damaged MC, plus a broken shifter such that I couldn't even limp home. I ended up taking the subway back home, grabbing my toolkit, coming back, and having to do repairs in the dark by this point. But I managed to get into first for the entire ride home. I had also called the police precinct 2 blocks over to file a report, but no officers came by during this entire ordeal of 2+ hours, as I had wanted to file a report to request the apartment building to turn over the security camera footage that it was parked in front of. When I had first inquired about the footage with the doorman on duty, they just shrugged, so I assumed that the driver was a resident and the building wasn't going to cooperate short of a subpoena.