My Grandfather grew up in Ridgewood and got around on the Subway just fine. Also bikes exist.

FDNY and NYPD both use low starting salaries with fast raises as a retention strategy. By year 5, FDNY firefighters make $85k/year, before overtime and holiday pay, and they get four week paid vacation.

OP doesn't care about fair wages though. OP just doesn't want to pay much to have somebody risk their life in traffic to bring him Chik-fil-a. Personally, I enjoy living in a city where if I don't feel like cooking, I get to go for a walk and have a wide variety of choices of where to pick up food.

from 2002 through this year, one to three FDNY firefighters or EMTs have died on the job each year, except in 2005, when four died. https://ufanyc.org/line-of-duty-deaths/

A bunch of people I know from high school are working for big banks or for hedge funds, in senior positions.

Every single one of them is the son of somebody who had a similar job before retiring.

Oh no. Not the banker bonuses!

I found seven news stories about delivery guys dying on the job in NYC in the last 12 months. First two pages of google search results. I might not have found every incident.

Dec. 14, 2021: Salvador Navarette-Flores. Hit an illegally parked truck. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/12/14/moped-rider-killed-in-crash-with-truck-in-illegal-loading-zone-cops-and-a-witness-says/

Christmas Eve, 2021: Taurino Rosendo Morales
https://abc7ny.com/new-york-city-upper-east-side-delivery-worker-struck-pedestrian/11390331/

April 30, 2022. Zhiwen Yan.
Allegedly murdered over sauce, by a customer who later killed himself: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/diner-pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-nyc-delivery-worker-over-condiment-dispute/3719042/

July 3, 2022. Christian Catalan. Hit and run:
https://abc7ny.com/bronx-delivery-worker-killed-christian-catalan-hit-and-run-driver/12029766/

July 11, 2022, Eduardo Valencia. Crashed into a pole. https://www.ourtownny.com/news/vigil-continues-for-ues-cyclist-killed-in-crash-DC2141445

August 4, 2022: Daniel Vidal. Run over by a truck. https://www.ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn/news/2022/08/06/food-delivery-worker-run-over-by-truck-after-falling-off-motorcycle

August 14, 2022. Be Tran. Age 74. Hit and Run:
https://www.today.com/food/news/doordash-delivery-worker-killed-hit-run-rcna44012

20% every time. I don't uber that often. I don't order in that often either. Being chauffeured in a city that's easy to get around without a car is a luxury. Having food delivered in a city where it's easy to go pick ip food is a luxury.

They shouldn't have limited the number of licenses. And they should've let people trade liquor store licenses for weed store licenses. Not both at the same time. Just let people with liquor licenses choose to switch to selling something less harmful to society.

Yeah nowhere near enough extramarital sex, and nowhere near enough bombing southeast asia for no reason.

NYC should just have nonpartisan ranked choice elections like a bunch of big cities out west do. Politicians end up having to be a lot more clear about what their ideas are when they don't have a simple label to run on.

Oh no, are we about to go from having an overwhelming democratic supermajority on the City Council to (checks notes) having an overwhelming democratic supermajority on the City Council?

Yeah I knew he was a crook, and I didn't vote for him because of it, but I also knew he was batshit crazy and expected him to at least do some things that were terrible and funny at the same time because of it. So far too much terrible, not enough funny.

If it's got plates, it's NYPD's problem. If it's got no plates, it's Sanitation's problem.

Sanitation acts slowly. NYPD acts never.

So if nobody's responding to your 311 complaints, change the car so as to make it Sanitation's problem.

You're goddamn right.

What about fining people who shovel snow out of their parking spaces and into my bike lane?

Urban farming is education and recreation, not realistic food production of any meaningful scale.

It'd be better PR to just call it what it actually is. Education and gardening are nice, and good.

BSing us and telling us we're gonna stop needing to buy food from the midwest and great planes... literally the most productive agricultural region on Earth, is just gonna make people snark. Stop it.

The entire point is that they win every time not the car. And cars win every time not a human being walking.

Paint them orange make them reflective and if people can’t manage to avoid hitting shiny orange things that have a foot or two of painted striped in front of them, then they deserve a fucked up car.

Does using real metal bollards instead of plastic bollards that might as well be imaginary require a drainage redesign, though?

ask on r/asknyc, too. it's more oriented towards helping people solve problems and I've seen people ask questions like yours there and get very good advice, including from professionals who happened to be on the sub.

If the democrats were less naïve, they never would have done redistricting reform in the first place and they would have been able to redistrict Maliotakis out of a career and gerrymander upstate and the hudson valley into permanently safe blue districts.

States with permanent democratic legislative majorities should play as dirty as red states do until congress agrees to nationwide anti-gerrymandering laws or an amendment.

What NY and CA did with non-biased redistricting commissions was unilateral disarmament. So now, on a nationwide scale, the Dems are taking high-minded rhetoric to a knife fight.

And so does The Boyfriend.

A five point margin of victory for a blue state governor is better than a 20 point margin of victory.

Cuomo was too centrist. If we want to make progress, the ideal margin of victory is between about 5 and 10. Any better and we've got someone who too many Republicans like. We've got a solid legislative majority. The ideal situation is a governor and a statehouse willing to consistently crush Republicans, hopefully enough so that people who live in red districts consider voting blue in order to win favor and investment from the state.

And if they're from NYC and want to drive they should move to Massapequa and Jersey where a lot of their relatives have already gone.

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Link it to the park completely, with no cars in between.
Then do the same with the Parade Grounds.

I love the taste of driver tears.

Cuomo won by a huge margin. Hochul won by a smaller but still comfortable margin. So she's safe, and she's also got a base of support that's further left and less enthusiastic about the status quo.

That means she has an opportunity to change more things about NY than Cuomo could (or wanted to).

Which is more effective, the one who wins elections by a larger margin, or the one who has more of an effect while in office?