Interesting I wonder why they went for unisex in the lobby but not upstairs. Especially since the old lobby had separate sex bathrooms.

Where are the gender neutral bathrooms? When I was up in the second tier last month they had mens/womens rooms up there. Is it different in the lobby?

> The numbers do not lie.

Numbers lie all the time. They lie when police don't enforce the laws (traffic or otherwise), they lie when DAs don't even bother to prosecute crimes, they lie when DAs downgrade felonies to misdemeanors.

If people's jobs and careers depend on there being less violent crime based on certain measurements, you better believe those measurements are going down one way or another. But this city is more dangerous than it was in 2019.

I mean it is ridiculous to hold property owners accountable for a problem which is mostly caused by the city's own policies around trash pickup as well as restaurants, outdoor dining, the general uncleanliness of a city teeming with reprobates that just throw garbage on the ground wherever they stand.

I mean most of the time it makes sense to buy and hold real estate in NYC. Actually my conspiracy theory is that the "powers that be" periodically (say once every 50 years) decrease the police enforcement to allow crime to increase and the city to fall to shit so they can go buy up and consolidate more real estate at low prices, then install a tough guy like giuliani and bloomberg to clean it up so the prices rise again.

I mean my friends were paying that much in the Mima building 10 years ago. They moved to a brand new building in williamsburg that had a nice roof deck for $4k for a 2 bedroom.

It’s not that hard to solve and we already have the most expensive police force in the country, so yeah let’s just have them take care of it.

> Yeah, and it's the free market that allowed 10 to a room tenements

Well, when the city doesn't allow you to build supply that matches demand, that's how people can afford it.

> with factories right next to homes

Separating industrial from residential doesn't cause the housing supply to be limited though. I don't think there's any problem with this.

> rent regulation is absolutely a good thing because landlords are universally terrible who see their tenants as nothing more than a source of income with little to no labor required.

If you believe that being a landlord/super is no work, especially in NYC, then you've never done it.

Anyway, the answer is to make it so the majority of people aren't renters but owners. That way they aren't beholden to these evil landlords you hate so much. This should be a country of owners, and instead of limiting construction we should allow unlimited construction as long as the buildings are coops that are affordable by the middle class and have to be owner-occupied as a primary residence by covenant.

> All you're really saying is that the free market is terrible at making housing affordable and we should massively expand public housing.

It isn't the "free market" that imposes stupid things like FAR limits and air rights, it's the government regulation that prevents people from tearing down buildings and replacing them with bigger ones in the first place.

Less community/city review and need to payoff politicians by donating to their non-profit to get anything done. As long as plans are up to code you should be able to build as tall as you want for residential buildings, no FAR maximums or air rights nonsense.

Seriously, what non-train-riding asshole thought this was a good idea

We don’t need them to we just need them to keep the homeless people out of the train and stations.

Absolutely. I have no trouble with MTA enforcing subway fares. Why should some people get to cheat the system? It's inherently unfair to everyone else that follows the rules.

I think everyone would prefer that it didnt

People not paying the tolls means the tolls have to be higher for everyone else. It is literally everyone's business.

Just go upstate. Literally no benefit to having snow in a crowded urban environment, all it does is fuck things up the day off, and cause a mess potentially for weeks after.

191 street is the deepest subway station.

https://untappedcities.com/2022/12/01/quirky-nyc-superlatives/7/

Why bother, just get rid of the cap and let property owners build as tall as they want until we no longer have a housing crisis.

There’s a humanitarian problem caused by having too little of something necessary for human life but we’re going to have the government tell people it’s illegal to make more of it? Fucking dumb.

If they’re that rich why don’t they just buy the parking lot and put it to rest. Other buildings have purchased air rights of neighboring buildings to prevent taller buildings from blocking the view.

> You'd think so, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people just pissed that extra $$$ away.

Me either, but that's their prerogative. I remember when we gave people a bunch of extra money and they decided to blow it all on fireworks.

> The one benefit tenants still have is that courts are still short-staffed, and the backlog is still going through pre-pandemic evictions.

Also that they've lived 3 years rent free. If I had ever lived 3 years rent free I'd have enough for a down payment on a co-op.

Yeah or "Migrant crisis used as cover for corporate welfare of wealthy donors"

Does anybody shovel buckets of water?

I gotta imagine NY and the feds will create a seawall long before the water makes it to my neighborhood since I’m not in a flood zone.

I was outside wearing a t-shirt last week it was insane. But if it means I don't have to shovel snow, bring on the global warming.

Absolutely. But the tax code isn't written to help normal people, just businesses.