America really has a missing middle when it comes to housing. You're either stuck living crammed on top of each other in a dense urban core or you're living in spread out suburban towns where you need to drive to buy a Kit Kat. It really should not be a choice between claustrophobic clusterfucks and endless strip malls, but that's pretty much it in the US.

I'm pretty sick of living around so many damn people, yet I would also like to live somewhere where my non-driving partner has the opportunity to get around without me. At this point it's pretty much a debate of what shit you're willing to put up with more - which is quite sad when you think about it.

In college I lived in a complex of duplexes, SFH, and rowhomes, along with a shuttle bus that ran to campus. It was a great combination of being able to get away from other people yet having campus always accessible - I often see that living situation as the one I enjoyed the most, but such a thing isn't really available when you're not a student anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_middle_housing

Born and raised here, been to all five plenty of times each. I’ve been to SI the least, but I still go several times a year. It probably isn’t a place worth going to unless you have a car

Pelham Bay Park has a pretty dope driving range. Nothing like packing up the clubs and driving a group of friends out there to smack golf balls all day

LES was a residential neighborhood first. Walk further east along Grand and it’s still a very quiet residential neighborhood. The city decided to fuck the place up by stuffing a bunch of homeless shelters around the Delancey area and concentrate 70 bars in a 3 block area in Hells Square.

They pretty much have taken a residential area and turned it into a playground for the rest of the city, residents be damned. And people wonder why NIMBYs exist…

In that case the one in my neighborhood should consider building one. (hint hint it is the one where axe man went on a rampage)

This is a hunch based on my own observations, but I think McDonalds is easier to keep open 24/7 out in the suburbs and sticks than it is in NYC.

I went to school in suburban upstate NY and the McD's was open 24/7, but the dining room was closed 12am-6am. Drive thru only. All you need is one person to take orders and a skeleton crew in the back prepping the orders. And the safety issues that come with being open late night are mostly mitigated by being drive thru only. Some of the dinng rooms at 24/7 NYC McD's turn into fucking zoos overnight.

That whole area is a mad house at night. Gross.

> refused to go back to their old schedules.

This tells me that the 24/7 model was never sustainable in the first place.

Businesses exist to make money. If there was good money to be made during the overnight hours, businesses would stay open. Clearly that is not the case. Businesses closed during lockdown, reopened with reduced hours, then realized "hey, I'm not actually making that much more money staying open 24/7, so I'm just going to close at 10pm now".

Fine with me.

When I babysat my toddler cousins, I would try to bring them out to the local ball field every night after work. On the vast majority of those nights, there were adult softball leagues hogging up the entire field. It was fucking ridiculous. And I say this as someone who plays in a league on occasion. Adults can pay for memberships in private spaces where they can play until their face turns blue. A group of adults should not be able to hog up public facilities 5 or 6 days a week.

So a city that taxes us so far up the ass crack that it implements its own 3+% local income tax cannot compete with other municipalities in terms of salaries for its employees? The fuck are our tax dollars paying for then?

I swear if there was one reason to live outside city lines, it’s so that I don’t have to send an additional $8000 a year in local taxes alone to the morons who run this town

NYC: it’s fine we can tax our way out of mismanagement!

I’d just bring all your affected years’ tax forms to a CPA, explain your situation (I paid NYC resident taxes while living in CT), and ask if they could help you sort it all out and remedy the situation.

Like I said, it’s probably thousands of dollars at stake, so it’s worth your time to get a consultation.

Sorry buddy but you filed your taxes incorrectly. You way overpaid if you paid NYC taxes while living in CT.

If this was within the past few years you should file an amended return and get your money back. Consider consulting a CPA since you probably overpaid by thousands.

What form did you use to file your NY taxes? IT 201 or IT 203?

Singapore is a fuckton cleaner than this dumpster will ever be, but a large part of that can be attributed to getting your ass beat if you dare litter or eat smelly food in public

That’s a valid argument. I was mainly refuting the point that only the Post would use a term like “laugher”… which is clearly not true.

Guess it’s one of those words that people only use in writing and not verbally.

Laugher is a informal term used in sports to signify a non competitive blowout.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/article/Giants-hit-4-homers-finally-win-a-laugher-beat-17266048.php

https://www.thestar.com/sports/bluejays/2022/07/24/blue-jays-complete-laugher-of-a-sweep-at-fenway-park.html

https://www.9news.com/article/sports/nba/knicks-down-nets-in-laugher/73-325589394

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/nfl/story/2022-01-17/column-krasovic-column-on-rams-playoff-game

There are no chairs there, so there's nowhere to sit. Put chairs there, the homeless will take it over and the chairs won't be suitable for sitting.

"Same shit, different toilet" if you ask me. Sue me.

Because this rule is arbitrarily enforced based on the whims of the mods.

Take Uber from JFK.

Once you have multiple people the cost of splitting one cab is close enough to taking mass transit anyways

Lmfao Revels business model literally involves allowing the common moron to ride mopeds with no training or oversight

I always joke with my friends that if I could do anything without punishment, it would be taking people's phones and speakers on the train and Gronk spiking it into the ground

I respect that

Repercussions*

r/boneappletea moment

Cuomo is the reason why she is governor but not the reason why she had to run such a weak campaign

Oh please. The four seats they lost were theirs to lose. These were suburban NYC seats, not seats smack in the middle of Stefanik country. Three were rated by FiveThirtyEight as Democratic leaning and the fourth was a tossup. Zeldin dragged down ballot GOP candidates across the finish line by running up the numbers outside of the five boroughs. Hochul was a weak candidate atop the ticket and it showed with weak performances down the ballot.

> I dont believe Republicans would be better for Asians than Democrats, but I do believe Democratic leaders continuously have shown they just don't really care

Yup. I want to know how you're going to make it safer for my parents to get to work tomorrow. Not 5 years from now, not 10 years from now, not one generation from now. To the uninterested observer, Republicans are campaigning on that issue directly. Lots of liberals just babble about "root causes" and "long term solutions" - that does absolutely nothing for Asians who are in fear stabbed, beat, and shoved in front of trains today.

For some reason it is incredibly hard for Democrats to get that through their thick skulls and they will continue to bleed votes until they understand that. One side is talking about how they willl address crime now, the other side prefers to get into a whole academic discussion about structural issues. The average working class voter does not give a rats ass about the academic BS.