Bicyclists can do no wrong.

Probably should change course and think about making a “George Santos Megathread” these days.

Or maybe even a “vehicles blocking a bike lane megathread”

Lex and 125th has always been rough.

They just want to abolish the police there’s no nuance with these people. It’s “why don’t they do anything” and when they do it’s “why did they do that”.

The NYPD have the least amount of police related shootings/killings of any major police dept in this country. Stop fear mongering.

By “milking the clock” do you mean “mandatory overtime” because that’s what it is.

We get it, you hate and want to abolish the police.

Considered they seemed to be violent and destructive, I’d imagine most real activists wouldn’t want to be associated with this group.

Unbelievable!

“Jordan, a Democratic Socialist who describes herself on her Council website as “a third-generation Harlemite who has known Harlem since she was four months old,” did not make herself available for an interview. However, on Instagram, she addressed the controversy, writing, “you cannot build a truck stop” and “we want ACTUALLY affordable and low income housing,” while promoting a Jan. 28 rally at what she called “the scene of the crime truck stop.”.”

Aka: “Hey! Even though I openly advocated against 939 new housing units, and it’s perfectly legal to build this truck depot, you can’t do that”

No one should be turned away from the ER, I never said that. However, someone who works a job and makes 50k a year and has to pay a $500 copay if they’re having a medical emergency, and someone who’s not a citizen get a free visit?

Actually emergency Medicaid covers an unlimited amount of ER visits and due to EMTALA, no one can be turned away for any reason. No I’m not going to deny someone medical care, but this is clearly not sustainable long term. Thanks for the crass language, and assuming everyone who doesn’t think we should have completely open borders and take in the worlds poor is a Trump supporter tho, real critical thinking skills.

You do realize all of the major hospital systems in this city have a charity care system which allows people with little to no income to see primary care doctors and specialists for essentially free as well right?

They can get emergency Medicaid. And we are currently housing them in hotels and providing them with free meals at NYC taxpayers expense. The majority are low skilled workers who would be making minimum wage as citizens and would still probably be receiving “social safety net” benefits.

So we should go back to how immigration was 100+ years ago and provide 0 social services, housing, food, medical care, etc that we are allowing to the current migrants? You can’t compare immigration now to how it was back then.

This. People love to compare the way this country handled immigration 100+ years ago to now. We were very much a developing nation then that provided 0 “social safety net”. The immigrants of then weren’t provided with free medical care, housing, food, etc.

Most other countries require proof of income and a job so they know you won’t become a burden on their social services. We do not.

It’s actually a comparable percentage of the city budget as other major cities.

I’d imagine they upgrade the vehicles when they hit a certain amount of miles/age. I dont think they replace the entire fleet at a single given time.

But we can just virtue signal our way out of this, can’t we?

Blame the people who didn’t vote in the primary then. You shouldn’t be discounting or ignoring the people who actually did with a “but if” scenario.

They should be using their cars from the 70s still!

Horses don’t belong in the city, let’s not advocate for MORE of them.

Lol

Did you really want Silwa to win?

I don’t doubt that name recognition helped him, but the common theme seems to be to paint everyone that voted for him as a borderline right wing fear mongerer. Last time I checked Eastern Brooklyn and the entirety of the Bronx don’t vote “right wing” nor are they Fox News target demographic.