Inpatient units and full OR suites are a bit of a different beast.

>the structure could rise up to 594 feet tall and yield nearly 1 million square feet of facilities for cancer care, surgery, and medical research.

Hospital and research labs require floor plans, infrastructure, and safety precautions that you can't economically tack onto existing commercial office buildings even if there was an appropriately sized existing building in the immediate area.

The nation has spent trillions on maintenance of the nuclear arsenal without any tactical use since 1945. Dollars and cents aren't always the most important part of the calculation.

I sympathize with him. I too am ashamed to buy a new suit to replace the ones I got 10 years ago when I was 20+ pounds lighter.

I believe that they're rolling out cell coverage across the underground portions in the next decade. The cost is being borne by a private company, not the MTA, as well. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/nyregion/mta-cellphone-service-subway-tunnels.html

I am frequently critical of city spending patterns but making cuts to the libraries to balance the books is just comical. Penny wise and pound foolish.

I mean hasn't that always been the way of the finance world? IB -> MBA -> maybe back to IB for a few years or straight to PE/VC

NYPD organizational reform or bust next election cycle.

Children are more likely to live in poverty than any other age group in the United States. I work in healthcare and frequently reflect on this when seeing some of the absolutely fixable problems that affect children and young people.

My brother in christ, you live in lower manhattan.