Sounds like a lot of hassle for the user as you need my keys. Also an ASP ticket is $65 and monthly garage is $300 most spots so you need to be much cheaper than that.

How do you handle this?

You make some points but also have the underlying assumption of zero office tenants. With all the cost and devaluation of that work it might even be worth it for the owners to just hold on at 20-30% occupancy and hope the offices gradually fill back up. Plus, if the space is vacant they get tax breaks so the hit is not as bad.

Again, not saying it’s impossible but with a 100 million dollar investment owners will do everything they can to get that back before cutting bait and spending money on a reno.

So not all work can be self certified so it may fall under that. Alternatively, the special inspector may be giving him a hard time. Usually for the jobs we do we also inspect -as licensed engineers or architects it’s easy to get the special inspection credentials.

I’m a professional engineer and depending on the work he is doing it could be self cert by a registered architect or professional engineer. Only downside is cost to retain us to do that, but it usually gets through permit in days.

Right and "cheaper" is the issue. The landlord would need to do a ton of work, devalue an overleveraged building, and after everything end up with residential units that are "cheap" so there is no money to be made.

It would probably be better in the long run to tear down the buildings and put up residential in its place. That would be worth the tax subsidies.

This is an insane idea. It would easily cost multiple billions of dollars and take 10-15 years. Half of that same money could create 10,000s of truly city owned affordable housing units (not just subsidized but privately owned).

I don’t think I have ever seen someone coping harder on Reddit than who you are arguing with lol.

My prediction is that NYC will have the staying power for young people but will lose some for the 45-65 crowd who are already established and looking for a lifestyle arbitrage of living somewhere that has a lower cost of living and working remote most of the time.

For younger people my guess is the NYC draw of things to do, places to eat and experience, the potential of finding a mate and friends and the ability to build their network will persist.

I’m not stuck anywhere and in my profession change and churn equal profit, I also work from home 3 days a week so not sure what you are on about.

I’m not sure why you are assuming it’s permanently gone either. Just as it changed to more wfh it can change back again. I hope it doesn’t but if we hit a recession and people need work they will go into the office if required.

I’m not saying it should not happen. I hope it does. I was just adding some context to the wide eyed people of this sun who may not know much about the commercial real estate market inner working besides - yay wfh new paradigm and yay more housing

Didn’t say was impossible or that I haven’t done renos. We can make anything happen it’s just time and money that needs to be paid by the owner. Also those lower Manhattan Reno’s you are talking about are few in quantity and are very different buildings than the giant midtown office.

Financially design professionals like me would make a killing on these, these cost more to design than new builds in most cases. I can just say I work with these building owners and the financial incentive for conversions of giant midtown offices is not there. If it was it would already be happening on a massive scale.

There is ALOT you are missing and assuming with your assessment here.

First off is you are assuming there is no cash flow at all for these office spaces. There is and return to office continues to tick up. If it keeps going and if there is an event like a white collar recession employees will be more willing to go in and will have less bargaining power.

The second is you are assuming it would be more profitable to go residential. There are huge construction costs to make this transition, plus downtime where the building is empty and design costs. Residential is also less money per sf by ALOT.

The last and most important point is the value of commercial space versus residential. If you convert a building not only do you lose SF to get legal light and air plus egress for each unit, you lose huge value on the sf you do keep. This drops the value of your overall portfolio which you use to gain credit and borrow with (to the tune of tens of millions). These buildings are not all about cash flow for owners. They are giant stores of wealth for credit and borrowing.

As a building design professional I wouldn’t say knowing how to convert class C office space to residential in a manner that makes financial and practical sense is “common sense”.

Where on this sub do you see this response in any remotely upvoted comment? Appears to be quite the opposite....

This still doesn’t show what the first commenter was saying. I read the article and the jist of it seems to be that hate crime charges often get dropped since they are hard to prove and therefore it’s better to charge them with something that will actually stick. There seems to be a higher burden to prove it’s actually a hate crime and not just an assault beyond the attacker just being another skin color.

Anyways, the data I was asking for is data that shows “people who commit hate crimes against Asians get the charges dropped at a higher rate than hate crimes against other races”. This is what the commenter was claiming and nothing so far has supported this.

These are just two individual cases though right? I was wondering if you had some data showing a trend where cases against those who commit assault against Asians are adjudicated differently.

Do you by any chance have a link to some data that shows this?

The thing to remember is they don’t need to stop the bleeding. They may be willing to wait a decade or more if they can borrow against the higher value of a commercial building.

We don’t touch shit like this because we are afraid, you don’t touch it because it’s dirty.

Who is the “you”? People on Reddit? I’m literally not white.

Not every things is “white peoples” (whatever that means) vs all other races.

You are wrong. Subsection (m). Can be covered with a grate like this.

https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/newyorkcity/latest/NYCrules/0-0-0-62749

That’s not true. These are also called vaults. They can be open like this. I am in the design industry in the city

Yup. This is a vault.