No, he wanted to change zoning and said that’s what he would build in order to get the zoning changed. He would have been under no obligation to actually build anything like that once the zoning changed.

The thing is - Teitelbaum, if he was serious, should have kept his request in for a vote. He didn’t. If he did, he could point to it, he could make it a campaign issue in the neighborhood. Instead he pulled out and has lost any good will he might have had in community with this stunt.

High amount of sway - not complete sway. He would have to jump through more hoops.

Importantly, the previous chief actuary was Asian. You’re going to have a hard time proving this was Asian bias. Maybe they’re homophobic and you can argue that. But the other guy also has political experience in addition to actuarial experience with city pensions. I’m guessing this has nothing to do with his sexual orientation and more to do with having someone that gets politics.

Honestly, I think it’s more convenience than cost at the current price point. From most areas of the city it really is far faster to take a cab or even an airport shuttle from midtown than navigate the subway with luggage. It’s not an easy transfer if you are carrying multiple checked bags, and if you’re traveling for business, your company is probably paying for the cab anyway.

If there were multiple points in the city where you could essentially get an express option to the air train and there was an easy transfer between - you’d have a lot more people using it.

I’m half joking. I’d probably protest that as well unless the casino (and its proceeds) was owned by the city.

That won’t necessarily solve the issue. Taking the politics to the national level can help some thing but hurt others. We have scores of M1 Abrams tanks sitting unused in fields because the manufacturer is great at lobbying congressmen to not put their people out of work.

You’d probably end up with modern, expensive, state of the art and unused transit projects in Kansas while the MTA gets little or nothing because that’s how congress often works.

Edit: grammar

That area has space though. There is a huge empty lot just south of the UN that’s tied up in litigation over a family feud. Maybe it can be eminently domained.

I forever associate OTB with 70s/80s NYC. That and Aqueduct. Old men smoking like chimneys throwing money away on horses.

Car thefts are not tied to arrests. So your assertion isn’t true at all. You could have 13,750 car thefts by one very busy person who has never been caught and bail reform would have had zero impact on that crime figure.

Now look up the index of used car prices in 2019 - 2022. Let me help:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SETA02

So the easiest cars to steal (see Hyundai and Kia’s lack of immobilizers in used models) are worth 50-60% more year over year. And you think it’s bail reform that caused a spike in car thefts?

I’m the end, it almost always comes down to money. If I own a house on a tree lined street with other houses, I’m not going to be very happy seeing those trees come down, a large building goes up that now obscures the view I used to have - and I may have to deal with months or years of construction and the negative things that come with that. During the process and even after it, the value of my home drops substantially.

That’s often why people vote and protest against these things. The money. Even in Manhattan - if I have a view of the River and a sky scraper is built across the street and I now have the view of someone’s window and get less light - obviously the value of the apartment goes down - so I might find reasons to oppose that skyscraper from going up.

That’s not to say it doesn’t need to happen. But development should probably be encouraged in underutilized previously commercial areas (like what DUMBO was 30 years ago, before places where you can expect opposition.

He would be eligible for a reduced pension at the age of 62 if this is his only term.

No, it’s not automatic. Unless he resigns, they’d have to vote to kick him out. Worse, if by some miracle they arrest and convict him - but Republicans don’t kick him out and he doesn’t resign, he could probably argue to a judge that he needs to be released each day to do his job in congress and stay in jail at night or when congress is otherwise out of session.

Believe it or not, NYC Mayor, is neither a statewide or nationwide office. I know us NY'ers tend to talk like it is.

So when is he switching parties before running for national office? Or does he think he can win a statewide or nationwide Dem primary with these talking points?

I think that would be up for debate. If the train operators got to work via the subway then you would have a point. However if they were on the clock I wouldn’t consider that a “subway ride.”

And once again - someone pushing racial division proves that they have piss poor basic math skills.

It doesn’t matter if that’s true. The comments imply that the race is the problem when it’s very obvious that the vast majority of that race has never committed a crime. Painting an entire race as criminal is in fact racist.

Oh yeah, I remember that one, because it was right before Christmas and I was like, how the fuck am I supposed to shop for everything (yes, I was waiting until the last minute). This was back when I only used Amazon to order books.

It isn't. The entire subway system was shut down in August 2011 for 1.5 days for Hurricane Irene. So, it's only been 4,156 consecutive days. . .

It also won't get 100+ comments and bunch of dog whistles plus some bull horns blaming one particular race for all violence against Asians.

edit: I was wrong. The racists still showed up to write a bunch of dog whistles about black people and took the number of comments above 100.

So once again, despite recorded evidence to the contrary, you're making the assertion that stop and frisk worked. It did not. And it's not me saying that. It's researchers that studied it.

And despite the policy being found explicitly racist in a court of law, you'll deny that too. I really have no interest in arguing with someone that denies reality.

Have a great day.

Imagine calling complaints about rank racism “political correctness.”

You’ll have to forgive me if I doubt your story. Regardless, you would have to be exceedingly ignorant of stop and frisk policy if you think the criticisms of it are about “political correctness.” It didn’t save black and brown lives. And it was more than an “inconvenience” for a lot of people.

Because it won’t inconvenience him. It won’t make people safer either, he’ll just feel safer knowing cops are “inconveniencing” people he looks at as criminals.