the thing about this is that it would make a huge chunk of New Yorkers who consider free curb space to store their cars to be an inalienable right absolutely nuclear-level lose their shit, but also that group of people voted 95% for cuomo or sliwa anyway
On the other hand, VRE fares discourse would be intolerable
Be the change you want to see in the world! I've noticed a real uptick in people calling LIRR "the Lurr".
Yikes. I always feel bad when I have a lot of guests in town because hotels are so expensive--the special permit rules really suck.
The affordable-housing crisis is a national phenomenon: Nearly half of all renters across the country are now considered βrent burdened.β But it is also a generational phenomenon. About half of the young participants in a recent New York Times/Siena poll said their primary concern was affordable housing β and that they worried about it more than every other expense item combined, including retirement, health care, education, bills, transportation and food. In 2014, the median age of a first-time home-buyer in the United States was 31. Last year, it reached a record high of 40. Property ownership has long been viewed as a pillar of American wealth generation, but to an increasing number of young Americans, the notion of ever owning a home has become pretty much inconceivable. This is especially true of young Americans who live in New York City, where the median apartment sells for close to $800,000. One way to look at Mamdaniβs rise β and, in turn, Cea Weaverβs β is as the coming-of-age of a generation that identifies not with owners but with tenants. βMy generation does not see homeownership as an attainable thing,β Weaver told me when we met for the first time in January at City Hall.
This also explains a lot of local politics, at least here in NYC www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/m...
"Oops...All Bigotry!"
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social I'm on board with this proposal to solve the political difficulties we were talking about the other day. Just buy off the incumbents and it might go easier.
I think that one's harder to measure objectively
If the squirrel is competent at running a vending machine (a fact that's empirically testable), why shouldn't you?
It strikes me that one industry that's retained the kind of model you're talking about is the car industry--manufactured by huge conglomerates, but sold by relatively small-scale dealerships that operate at a local, not a national, level.
Even if we're to believe that the kid "ran from his mom and into the street before he was hit," as the cops claim, we need streets that allow kids to be kids. As @sgoodyear.bsky.social says, children "dart." That's what they do. Lower speed limits enforced by design would prevent these tragedies.
Although there's a contradiction here--the only way that it's possible to build a Sega Genesis at all (and ship it from wherever it was produced to the US, and sell it at an affordable price) is to have these kind of large enterprises. Best Buy giveth, and Best Buy taketh away.
This guy should be in prison in Romania, and the only reason he isn't is that Trump felt some kind of rapist solidarity.
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
Hell yeah last workday till November where itβs not light out after work. We made it!
There are a lot of cynical responses to this that are possible, even appropriate, but this finding is an indication of both how we got here & a window into how dire the democratic crisis. Co governance is pretty hard if you assume bad faith from most of your fellows *especially* if itβs warranted.
Fuck that. Flyover country already has an entire chamber of the legislature specifically dedicated to overrepresenting them. They can have the seat of government when we eliminate the Senate.
Have you seen "What We Do in the Shadows"? The plotline about the energy vampire feeding off the borough council is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
"AVs almost by definition lower the friction and costs associated with driving ... And we already know, from the last century-plus of experience in the US, what happens when we make driving easier: We will get more of it. And more concrete and asphalt infrastructure to accommodate it." #UrbanTruth
Why is this train being pulled by a cup from a corporate watercooler circa 1992?
And even if he votes like an asshat, kicking him out of the caucus is counterproductive (unless we can convince him to resign)--might as well wring what good we can out of his injury-riddled brain.
Oof, I didn't know about this one. What a chud. Arizona can do better (he said, hopefully).
Seriously AND literally (they're a good dog)
Between endorsing Platner and "big-ass truck abundance", Ruben Gallego is showing a real weakness for dumb shit that smacks of gender.
A lot of people are just unable to understand that housing markets operate at the metro-area level. They think that because they personally have strong preferences related to neighborhood, every single person does.
OK, but that's because they're a heavily cash business, which is due to the fact that it's still illegal at the federal level. Don't blame legal weed for something that's the fault of prohibition.
It's like the cheap, rushed-to-production prequel to "I have no mouth and I must scream".
The way this city, of all cities, treats driving as a human right is maddening.
That seems fine to me? She got fired, not murdered.
That way, there's nobody to blame for high parking prices except your neighbors.
