Good for you. Then deal with the multifamily properties when they come. Enjoy!

Well leave then.

assuming you own a home you may not be rich but your doing far better off than a lot of people. even the poorest americans are richer than the majority of poeple in the world. also the middle class really isn't a thing.

people need to learn to live with people that make less than them. you and your children can still do well if there happen to be lower-income people living in an apartment building next to you. if your whole argument is "but we've never had anything other than single-family housing here, my property values may change" is a weak argument.

YEAH!! F**k everyone if it affects my wealth! Being rich is what matters, the poors shouldnt have been poor. its not my problem! /s

So i lived in brooklyn which most of the housing was 2 and 3 family housing. You can still have all of what you like aboutnyour neighborhood with more than just single family houses. The buildings in queens are two story two family housing that take approxiamitely the same footprint as a single family house. Nimby people like you expect things to just stay the same which is ridiculious. Maybe we should tear down all the dense housing andbbring ny back to being open land because nothing should change?

Who said anything about banning single family houses? I just said we should get rid of single family housing zones. It's a fact that Single family zones were created to prevent building multiple family houses which are are associated with low income housing. It was a workaround against having " no black people" written into housing guidelines which was definitely a thing before the 50s. After they've always changed saying that they couldn't do that, a lot of places created restrictions limiting housing to single-family housing because poor people, aka the blacks, couldn't afford it.

No place should have single-family housing zones. All of that are relics from when they changed housing codes to keep black and brown people out.

Its cool as long as its before midnight. Dont want gremlins.

Whoever said nyers arent friendly never tried to ask for directions anywhere. If a tourist need directions thats when everyone tries to show off their knowlege of the subway.

as a single parent not being able to afford rent is a big obstacle. also not being able to afford healthcare when you have a chronic condition and you need a family plan, which doubles the price of insurance. my solution - build more housing, and universal health care.

Aw is that why gas was a few cents over $3 recently?

i was looking for a room to rent and realized it was a scam when i didn't meet anyone there and pretty much toured the room with the guy on the phone. they were offering me a place on something like 53rd and 2nd for $600/month. Apartments in that building rent for $4000. the story was that the space used to be the supers space and it's empty because the super moved to his own spot somewhere else. the person i spoke to claimed to be the owner of the building, and they said they were willing to give me a "deal", so they sent me a rental "application" via email that looked fake, so i noped my way out of there. if its in a building you can generally find and call the property management company and ask if the room is actually available for rent. thats what i did, i googled the addressed, found the number for the company that owned the building and asked "wtf, you know theres someone showing apartments for this apartment" and they let me know that it was a scam that they were aware of and the spot was not actually for rent. if the price is too good to be true, run away, that is almost always a scam. i found the first room i rented on craigslist for $600, but this was like 10 years ago. i would suspect this room would be at least $1000 now. i was skeptical at first, but i got the key to the building the day i handed over my security deposit. the guy verified that the key worked to the apartment and the building and i gave him my money. it was kinda stressful as you hear about scams, but i was able to get my entire security deposit back. i did speak to tenets of the building and they let me know it was legit though, before i went forward with it.

They have housing at a bit over 18k for a single person, which would be 1500/month rent. Can get a studio for that much or rent a room.

average rent will miss a lot of people. there are people that's been in their apartments since the 70s so they are paying $500/rent and there are people who are trust fund babies that literally rent places for hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. if i had kept my apartment from 2016 and only paid the 2% max increase for a rent stabilized apartment, i wouldn't be paying more than $1500 right now if i did my math correctly. my same apartment is now renting for 1900 on zillow.

The price you get often depends on where you are. Those carts do have to pay for the right to have those locations so its not unhead of for carts in high traffic locations to be more expensive. An example: i used to work in penn plaza. My daily latte from the starbucks inside that building is $.80 more expensive than if i leave penn station and go to the starbucks on 8th ave. The mcdonalds that used to be on 42nd street used to be more expensive than the mcdonalds at 44th and 8th. Sometimes you need to walk around if you want a cheaper price.

neither did the e until recently. the railroad and lirr had an elevator, but anything in the subway you had to use the stairs until a few months ago.

they have a ticket specifically for going from jamaica to brooklyn or penn. its $5.75, its called a city pass. theres no $10 surcharge on that unless you buy the ticket on the train. heck, if you have the app you can buy the ticket on that. but if you dont use the ticket there is a surchage on getting a refund and you dont get any money back for the low cost of the city ticket since the cost of the ticket is lower than the surcharge

its not that bad. there is a shuttle bus, if you're going further into the city its annoying but you can take the j to the a. or city ticket on the lirr for 5.75 or whatever the price is. if you really wanted to get an e train you could take the bus to the f line apparently. or the billions of cabs standing outside of the station asking if you want a taxi are always available. if you live in ny you should know at least 3 ways to get home.

That makes travel for me hella annoying. now i gotta figure out getting around on the J.

more than likely, it's gone. she's going to need to get a new laptop. i don't think insurance will typically cover a "lost" item (tried that with my insulin pump, with no luck)

I have an intense dislike for coned. Apparently during the pandemic they never read my meter and then decided to charge me $2000 for two years worth of service since i had underpaid prior.

Haha good luck with that. I bet theyd fuss just as much when they have to be pushed inside trains and buses japanse style because too many people are using them.

I wonder whats up with all the downvotes. Its a legitimate question. I hate driving down there but gps has always put me in that stupid traffic circle and i dont remember there being a non traffic circle alternative. I understand making it safe for pedestrians, but car traffic isnt going to disappear. Something needs to accomodate for it.

How is that even going to work? Where are the cars that need to go around the circle going to be diverted to? All that traffic from Easton parkway will need to be redirected to somewhere. I imagine this will be a nightmare for drivers. I understand making things better for pedestrians, but that shouldn't mean that drivers are not given any consideration. People aren't really going to bike from Bedstuy to go to Ikea.

Man, get out of here with that harlem is dangerous nonsense. Dont come there if youre scared. There are many places in the country thst are thousands of times worse than harlem. Nyc is one of the safest cities in the country.