You said today vs 2016, not 2016 vs before 2016. Half truths and outright lies, no wonder you worship the Post. Let’s not keep this conversation going. Enjoy your shit tabloid.

Neither of those support a 50% reduction in coverage since 2016. Enjoy the Post!

Do you have a source or not?

Post a source, especially for the 50% number that you cited. Unless you made it up!

>It has about half of the circulation of the NYT, while covering literally just one city

You even said "literally".

>NYT is strategically phasing out its local section and has dramatically reduced coverage in the last 5 years, to a more than 50% reduction.

Source? Especially for the 50% number

What makes you say the New York Times has no local coverage, other than the fact that other stupid people on this subreddit say that?

And the New York Post only covers NY? Go look at todays cover. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

Good one!

Yeah it’s a tabloid by idiots for idiots

Deport all New York Post readers

>When 70 Pine was built in 1932, it was the third tallest building in the world and served as the headquarters for the Cities Services Company in New York City. Today, the landmarked Art Deco building has been reborn as a modern residential building.

Might wanna Google stuff before you show your ass like this.

When you say "giant Midtown office", I feel like you are immediately thinking of the absolute hardest building to convert, but the plan is to make it easier to convert older smaller office buildings to residential. The stretch of Midtown that's specifically referenced in the article is full of tons of such buildings. This exact type of building has been converted to residential elsewhere in Manhattan.

As for the financial incentives—they aren't laws of nature, they're based on a status quo that everyone in the world knows doesn't exist anymore. They'll change and you'll make your killing. Get that paper!

Damn, you should go tell your competitors who’ve gotten rich doing it in Lower Manhattan for decades that it’s impossible

OK well I'm gonna be real with you, I think you kind of just made this whole dorm thing up. NYC has been converting office to residential in Lower Manhattan for decades now, none of them are dorms.

This is common sense but all the smart guys here on r/nyc say otherwise.

>There's a bunch of reasons why office landlords won't want their offices converted to residential.

All of these hinge on the offices being converted into dorms, which I have never seen anyone but you suggest will happen.

>As I mentioned in another comment, trying to compel office landlords to convert will be an expensive and time consuming process.

I think letting your office space sit empty while you look for nonexistent tenants is also an expensive and time consuming process.

>If office building owners don't want their property used for residential, what will the City do? Seize the property? That will mire the City in years of costly litigation, and by the time it's settled, new housing buildings could be halfway done.

If the office buildings are empty, as they are now, why wouldn't the entities who own them want to allow for conversions to residential? Do you think they're going to wait around forever for office tenants who aren't coming?

Going to make a wild guess that the PBA won’t be electing this guy.

Oh cool, a New York Post article about the New York Post mayor responding to another New York Post article. Not only is this important and relevant, but it will surely generate productive conversation.

I’m for expanding transit where the population is growing. The LIRR adjacent population in Nassau County has not changed for 50 years. Thanks for your life story though, boss.

You live on Long Island?

Now brick it up until they start building apartments by LIRR stations.

$18 an hour? These guys will be on the take in no time. Pay your employees, people.

Now this subreddit being a cesspool of spam is a bad thing?

You will never guess which eight council members they are!

Uh don’t forget the NYPD officers on the platform who crushed candy as the pushing happened