Is there another paper in the world that hates its namesake city as much as the Post?

It's not about those neighborhoods which should be historic. It's the countless neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens filled with Archie Bunker and attached garage houses. That housing stock isn't particularly historic or attractive and is already priced well beyond the means of the lower middle class they were built for.

Woodside is a prime example.

It doesn't have an upside. There shouldn't be a single plot in NYC outside of SI that is zoned single family only. But I have noticed that subway stops in a lot of mid and lower density areas have new construction around them. It's mostly the standard issue 4 to 6 story cookie cutter "luxury" apartment buildings, but it's something. Even though I don't know why someone would want a balcony where they can step out directly onto elevated subway tracks.

A lot of upzoned neighborhoods take forever to redevelop. A street of attached single family homes by me was upzoned over a decade ago. Exactly one new building was built. One of the problems is that you can't force long time homeowners to move. The other is that you can't stop purchasers from simply living in the single family home they overpaid for. Even then, that upzone was only to 3 family. At 6 or more, keeping the single family home makes less financial sense even for people who are willing to overpay.

Aren't Calatrava buildings expensive to maintain as well?

I like the WTC station though. However, I like the original design that opened on nice days better.

The worst redesign was 1 WTC. The original accepted design looked great. The shard with garden levels at the top. What was built is one of the ugliest buildings in the skyline.

The ferries could actually stop closer to subway connections.

To be fair, you were passed out on the sidewalk.

Looks like the top floors would feel like living on a boat even if it's built right. I don't know why billionaires want to live at the top of these new super narrow skyscrapers.

Im guessing this skeleton will sit there for a decade before tax money pays for it to be taken down when it becomes too dangerous. All parties at fault will be bankrupt shell companies whose owners will still be wealthy but pay nothing towards fixing or removing this building. There's another unfinished new tower by Hudson Yards that is sitting there because they faked architect approval.

One bathroom costs 3.6 million dollars? I'm in the wrong business.

Yep. That's pretty much the Montreal model, and Montreal's model is both really good and has been around for a long time. But instead of just having them send over their plans and making minor adjustments for NYC, I'm sure we will pay for a bunch of studies and never get anything passed.

We also need to bring back alcohol to go.

The disconnect is that you keep switching to the word poor. Working class people in and around NYC aren't poor. There's a 15 dollar minimum wage and under the table work usually pays more per hour than that. If you are driving to get to work in NYC, you are not poor. If you were poor, you would take transit because it's much cheaper.

You think day laborers are poor? They can pull in up to 80k a year and pay no taxes. Now if you work retail for $15 an hour and can only get 20 hours a week, you may be poor, but you also aren't driving to McD's to work that job.

130k? Lol. 130k is wealthy. It isn't lower middle class. And all white people are rich and live in Westchester? The trades are full of working class white people. So are the NYPD and FDNY. Lol if you think every white person is Donald Trump Jr.

By the way, black median income in Queens is higher than white median income and has been since the mid 90s.

https://apnews.com/article/90f4279c3a4098e031dbaff8a2b76764

https://www.planetizen.com/node/21423

Let me put it differently. The Dominicans who have those cars aren't poor. Neither are you. Poor people aren't scamming tolls. They're jumping turnstiles.

Who is obtuse? What is the rate of car ownership in NYC and urban NJ? Poor people aren't driving around much here. This isn't Mississippi. A car is an unnecessary luxury item here.

There are poor white people. Also, fake plates isn't a crime committed by poor people. It's a crime committed by lower middle class people. Poor people in and around NYC don't normally even have cars.

Couldn't you force trucks onto Furman street and cars through the tunnel to the FDR? Maybe pause toll collection to encourage that route.

Furman may have to close too. So build a new temporary trucks only road through the park. That park is going to be nearly inaccessible during construction anyway.

Observation makes me sure. And ghost plates are still all over town in pretty much the same numbers after the NYPD crack down on black and latino drivers. And why would I turn myself in for anything? The difference between me and you is that I acknowledge white privilege exists while you pretend it doesn't. Whether you've taken advantage of that privilege actively or passively has always been up to you, but if you are white, you have absolutely taken advantage of it.

And not getting pulled over being confirmation bias is laughable. There is plenty of demographic data on police stop rates. Driving while black is an actual thing whether you want to pretend it isn't or not.

And not only are people with fake, obscured, or no plates mostly white, they're also mostly cops. It's legitimately the easiest "crime" to actually stop if cops actually wanted to stop it. It's the most transparent violation that it's possible to commit short of open carrying a gun through Times Square. Yet it still happens.

Where's your data on me being "100% sure?"

90% of people searched are black or brown. That's the article. One doesn't have to extrapolate any other data to see racism there.

And sure, I'm the problem in that I don't get pulled over at all. Not much I can do about that though, is there?

There's no subject in your first sentence. Edit it and include the subject.

Edit that so it makes sense.

And you really are a cop aren't you? You know, you don't have to defend everything other cops do, right? And in fact, that's the biggest problem with you guys. Here's a simple statement to help you understand. You are part of the community and you are not an invading army. Can you act like it?

There are more white people. But the word "murdered" has a meaning.

We are getting somewhere now. And I appreciate you finding these. The first is 5 years old and the second 2 years old. So you do have to go a ways back to find a person of the majority getting killed unjustly. Since the oldest video you posted, how many black people were killed by police? Since the newest?

It's not the internet and virality that is the problem though. It's societally acceptable for a regular citizen to kill another regular citizen unjustly. People are never going to be perfect. It will always be both societally acceptable and sad when one random person murders another.

But we should hold police officers to a higher standard because we hire them to protect society. They are hired by and represent the state. When you put the badge on, you aren't just the guy who got in a bar fight last week. You are a representative of the people. You're there to protect them. Both the 6 white people you posted and the 100s of black people you didn't. You signed up to protect and serve. You did not sign up to be an invading military. If you want that, join the marines. But the truth is that the marines, when invading Afghanistan, understood what protect and serve means better than NYPD in their own city.

90% is the search rate of NYPD. 90% of their searches are minorities. What percentage of drivers do you think are minorities?

What I said is most people driving with fake plates are white. And most drivers overall are white. If you want to solve that problem, you need to actually confront the main culprits.

I can also tell you this. I am white and I could drive around in a clown car with no plates and the cop i was replying to isn't going to do shit. Part of that is inherent bias but the other part is because he expects white people to be connected. And maybe we are. That's something I haven't done the math on. I have a DEA card because one of my best friends is a detective. I also know judges. And I don't even come from anywhere around here. The white people in NYC almost all know at least one NYPD very well. And you know, the last time I got pulled over at all in NYC was with way out of state plates a long time ago.

Okay officer. It doesn't matter what the makeup of NYPD is. 90% of drivers who were searched are minorities. What percentage of drivers in NYC overall are minorities?

And I'll give you a task. The cops that murdered Tyre Nichols were black. Show me a video of cops of any color murdering a white person in a similar way. Not accidentally killing a junkie who is fucking them up. Just straight up murder like Nichols. One example.

Cops have a color. It doesn't matter what they were before. It's not white. It not black. Or Latino. It's blue. And blue hates black and brown. 90% in the OP should have told you.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?