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kickit t1_j251umx wrote

Reply to comment by The_Lone_Apple in Why New York State Insists That the Penn Station Area Is ‘Blighted’ by mowotlarx

Forgot to include this, but the article also mentions that one of the plan's ringleaders is one of the principle owners in the area, and has let the properties deteriorate.

> Some properties with faulty conditions or unresolved violations are owned by Vornado Realty Trust, the neighborhood’s largest landowner, which the state has said will develop some of the new towers. Vornado, a public company that is among the city’s largest owners of offices, has accumulated more than a dozen properties in the area over the last 20 years, holding onto them in anticipation of a larger redevelopment. Of the eight sites that would be redeveloped, Vornado owns four of them and a share of another.

> Over the years, state projects aimed at eradicating blight have been criticized for rewarding developers whose properties had seemingly contributed to it . . . the lawyers noted that Vornado’s chief executive, Steven Roth, once boasted about letting a Manhattan property languish on purpose to spur the government to offer financial assistance.

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Reply to comment by The_Lone_Apple in Why New York State Insists That the Penn Station Area Is ‘Blighted’ by mowotlarx

It might be worth reading the article, because redeveloping the area will fix none of the problems you describe, which are mostly congestion and "fast food dumps".

"Blighted" here has to do with the quality of the buildings, and per the article, less than 30% of the buildings here qualify. Otherwise, people live and work in those buildings, and one of the biggest reasons for redevelopment is to extract higher rents from the neighborhood. But redevelopment won't do anything about street vendors or the "press of bodies"

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Reply to comment by LiveFromNewYork95 in NBC’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Scores Its Most Viewers in 5 Years With Streams on Peacock (27.7M Viewers) by MarvelsGrantMan136

> I really liked House of the Dragon and Andor but the experience of 9:00 PM on Sunday night when my social media was filled with "HotD time!" and running commentary is 1000 times better than Andor releasing in the middle of the night and either waking up at 5:00 am to watch it before work or looking at memes of the episode all day until I can finally watch it.

this is the part I don't get. if you're going to do a weekly release schedule, (and I for one am in favor) what's the point of dropping episodes in the middle of the night when you could drop em anytime between like, 5pm and 9pm EST?

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