New York City Plans to Stop Homeless People From Sheltering on Subways
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/nyregion/homeless-people-subway-trains-mta.html
Not sure how much effect this will have, but I guess Adams needed to do something about deteriorating subway conditions.
― o. nate, Friday, 18 February 2022 20:04 (two years ago) link
I play empty subway car lottery about once a weekThis week it was a couple of dead pigeons on the floor
― calstars, Friday, 18 February 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
glad to hear that the city is going to be giving all of these people places to live
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 18 February 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
Hotel rooms are waiting
― calstars, Saturday, 19 February 2022 00:36 (two years ago) link
Can’t wait for the NIMBY protests
― dan selzer, Saturday, 19 February 2022 00:45 (two years ago) link
i share the common trepidation that this amounts to kicking people who have no resources and mental health issues out onto the street in the middle of the winter. otoh, dude who shit himself and has forced everyone out of his car is fucking up everyone else's life too, so something's gotta give.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 February 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
MIDTOWN!!!!! IS!!!!! BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/fZx2PSnzmC— Rachel Seville Tashjian (@theprophetpizza) March 1, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
Those privately-owned public spaces (POPS) provided in the ground floor of office buildings are always kind of weird. Kind of a glorified lobby with some seating. I guess its just a place to hang out if you need to kill some time and don't want to pay for coffee at Starbucks. Except they usually don't have restrooms, so thats a minus.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
Sad lol
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
“This place called black rock” uhh
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
There's one, maybe that one?, that largely functions as a pass-through between two streets in the middle of the block. :D
xp lol yeah
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
Oh great now that I've watched that video B**** R*** promotional reels are in my Twitter feed. Fucking life.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link
There's one, maybe that one?, that largely functions as a pass-through between two streets in the middle of the block. :Dxp lol yeah
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:44 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/nyregion/nyc-raised-crosswalks-traffic-deaths.html
surprised to see this coming from adams tbh
― 龜, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
Street-activist social media generally had positive rumblings when Ydanis Rodriquez got tapped for DOT, so I'm guessing maybe this is coming from him? 100 crosswalks a year doesn't really sound like a lot tbh, but every single one will slow down cars and potentially save lives.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:27 (two years ago) link
overall i would prefer a much more radical war-on-cars strategy. but absolutely anything to slow the cars down is a win imho. the couple in Glendale who are referenced and quoted in the article are friends of mine and they went through absolute hell last year.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
artisanal caltrops imo
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
I like the proposal. Seems like a no brainer
― calstars, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
Sorry for the "serious" Q, but are there any good pieces out there, maybe longform/thinkpiece, on the future of NYC in light of the likelihood that offices may never go back to full-capacity and at least aren't in the near future? Like on the economic/RE/business impacts of that and how they affect the city, its tax base, its services, restaurants, entertainment, transit, etc?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link
Loud sex is ruining hundreds of New Yorkers’ lives, 311 reports show
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
A person in Queens said a neighbor was “shouting loudly that he is a sexual-tyrannosaurus.”
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link
Seems fun
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
didn't realize you'd moved to queens
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
I'm loling at the thought that it was just someone singing along to T-Rex.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link
311 is a joke
― calstars, Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
Picturing an extremely short-armed dude fucking now, thx
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 3 March 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link
Jesse Ventura's character in predator refers to himself as a sexual tyrannosaurus
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 March 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
yikeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/nyregion/brooklyn-woman-dismembered-body-shopping-cart.html
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 March 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link
https://nypost.com/2022/03/03/nyc-sees-deadliest-february-for-car-crashes-as-red-light-running-spikes/
― 龜, Saturday, 5 March 2022 00:00 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/kISETnL.pngThe fuck? Some jerkoff politician is getting a new wing on his house with blood money from people dying
― calstars, Saturday, 5 March 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link
Has anyone seen a good explanation for why NYC rents are still so high? I just saw that offices are still only at like 30% capacity, so you’d get the impression that a lot of office workers would be leaving or would have left the city altogether.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 12:30 (two years ago) link
Not even “still” so high. Skyrocketing.
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 12:32 (two years ago) link
Right. Like how can it be that there’s no change in demand for NYC apartments?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 12:39 (two years ago) link
Or increased demand
my yuppie landlords (there was a nytimes "the hunt" quiddities piece about them buying the building i live in) are moving and want to rent their unit--a 1br lightly renovated in a highly joanna gainesish way--for $3300! in RIDGEWOOD!
― adam, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:20 (two years ago) link
Office workers left the city when the pandemic started. A lot of them probably moved back. Happy to not have to work/commute in manhattan, but still happy to live in the outer boroughs, and manhattan. It's all the office buildings in manhattan that are empty. They need to start converting them to apartments.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:47 (two years ago) link
"a 1br lightly renovated in a highly joanna gainesish way--for $3300! in RIDGEWOOD!"
I've gotten used to saying this over and over again for the last 20 years when it comes to NYC rents/neighborhoods further and further out becoming expensive, but holy fucking shit.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link
Giant investment firms/hedge funds still own almost all property and would rather let apartments go empty than lower the rent. (They can stomach years of losses - hell, it's already baked into the tax code so they can write it off as soon as they own the building.) There is my conspiracy theory.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link
That theory at least seems to make sense to my untrained mind
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:59 (two years ago) link
Making New York Possible, is his banner title - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CashJordan
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:14 (two years ago) link
Damn, sry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW0mFzaMOto
― Nhex, Tuesday, March 22, 2022 8:55 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I've heard vague explanations about how lowering the rent can also impact the commercial mortgages underlying these properties (I guess so long as you "could" rent it for x, the property can be valued based on that, but once you accept a lower rent, that can trigger provisions requiring additional collateral or something like that but tbh I'm talking out of my ass and don't know how it works).
still, after 2008, landlords did wind up having to lower rent for a while. I think you can only do these things for so long before it catches up with you.
Are landlords still offering a lot of "incentives" like "three months free rent" and stuff like that? That's usually a sign of landlords trying to keep rents looking artificially high. If they're not doing that, then not so much.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:26 (two years ago) link
Reports are also showing very low vacancy rates, although IDK how that's calculated and whether it can be monkeyed with.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:28 (two years ago) link
I'm always looking for houses near my apt, which is a very middle class not particularly trendy part of NYC. A house is for sale 2 doors down from my apartment. It is a 2332 sq ft 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom. Price? $939,000
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
oh they just added pictures! Looks like maybe they used to have 2 bathrooms but one of them doesn't work? If this was a LOT cheaper I'd buy it and gut it.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3941-55th-St-Flushing-NY-11377/31956467_zpid/?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link
does it come with the goose
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
you could rent out the shed for $3000/month
― Josefa, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:04 (two years ago) link
A little hard to believe that cramped-up looking house is over 2300 sf.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
including all the floors?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:15 (two years ago) link
just looks like a living floor and a bedroom floor to me. Basements and attics usually don't count toward sf.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link