I’m always happy to get rid of parking spaces, but the reason they congregate where they do is bc it’s an easy location for them to pick up deliveries and that’s the fault of the apps. So it would be a moving target at which point you’re giving a business free real estate. I would like the apps and the restaurants to pay for this inconvenience personally. I should note. I don’t use DoorDash or Uber eats and almost never seamless, I’d rather just call a local restaurant with its own delivery people and not a chain restaurant

They are definitely not stepping in out of the goodness of their hearts. They are opening a second location that is about equidistant from where they put this pit stop. I’m also pretty sure that the number of complaints they’ve been getting means they have to do something to ease the congestion. The community will act at some point is they don’t

no one wants the e-bikes in their actual building because of the fire hazard.

The one on the upper east side is being paid for by chic fil a, bc of how much everyone hates the rows of bikes outside their location on 86th street. DoorDash and Uber should be renting the spaces tbh.

Ofc I still think they should have a space, but clearly no one wants it on their block. And the people who are ordering their lunch burrito from chipotle done exact go to community board meetings

Having nothing to do with COVID it’s still a good idea. A hospital is a vector of disease

Things like this are kind of funny to me. I grew up on the ues and now live there again. Pre the second avenue subway it would be easy to have looked and been like all that money and time for 4 stops. Total boondoggle. The reality is the 4/5/6 we’re awful in terms of crowding. The Q has made it much easier to get to different parts of the city easier and without extensive transfers. All the new stations are ada compliant. Pre pandemic o would have said that I definitely used the q to go places I would have taken a cab. It has definitely improved the lives of senior citizens who live around the stations. I look at gcm the same way. It may not feel like it’s going to make much of an impact, but it will reduce some crowding. Make access easier. And maybe just maybe it will convince some more of the nearly 3mm people who live on Long Island to take the train in instead of driving. Plus we should be building more transit options regardless. We should already be thinking about the next big projects that will make commuting into and getting around the city easier. And while we probably wont ever have a unified transit system. One that dovetails with each branch is multiple ways is certainly better

Just so you know most of the buildings you think you’re talking about already have a trash storage system. They only put the trash out on days when it’s picked up. I have no idea what my building actually does with its trash. It collects it everyday. Stores it. And it’s out on the sidewalk less then 6 hrs on average. It’s the smaller buildings that put the trash out. And even when I lived in one of those we had locked bins that residents put trash in and then the super would put them on the street the day of pick up.