They can keep wishing and praying things go back to the status quo pre-covid but it's not happening. At the very least these owners could reduce the rent significantly to make it easier for large and small offices to get smaller amounts of space. They won't even do that.

So why are we taking these people seriously when they won't even make the most basic choices to lure people back to office spaces, if they truly don't think conversion is an option?

>Prosecutors on Friday charged Lulzim “Luis” Shabaj, 41, in New York State Supreme Court with scheme to defraud, saying that he and his twin brother Gzim “Jimmy” Shabaj had stolen thousands of dollars from the Spanish-speaking workers by declining to pay them for their work at a site in Harlem.

>Prosecutors said that Gzim Shabaj, who was charged earlier this week, had responded to one worker’s early September request to be paid by pulling out a knife and, with his other hand, repeatedly punching the worker in the head until his ear bled.

A couple of cheap scumbags. I'm sure they'll get a slap on the wrist and before you know it Eric Adams will be one of their good friends helping to give them a second chance.

Dude was a parking lot security attendant in Virginia before his brother promised him a $200k security job in the NYPD. Then they got called out by the press and he had to eat crow and take. $1 salary. I'm guessing whatever $ his brother was throwing at him with his old NYPD pension wasn't cutting it.

Maybe they'll scale back all the office space they planned, but I doubt it. Look forward to.them going ahead and building a bunch of office buildings that will be almost entirely empty and rat infested in the first years they open.

Isn't it insane we let privately owned arenas and massive event spaces move anywhere they want in New York City almost entirely public-funded at nearly tax-free forever?? We expect more financial fealty for poor and middle class New Yorkers than from people who have more personal wealth than they could ever spend in a lifetime.

Ydanis by all accounts seems like a kind and likable man. But he's laughably dumb on the topic of transportation and does nothing of value but show up at events to be "the face" of DOT.

They have a super majority and could overtake most of what Adams does. Do they? No. They don't even try. They basically do nothing most of the time and once in awhile vote for a bunch of new "task forces" that accomplish nothing and waste everyone's time.

His role is to undermine the NYPD commissioner and make sure every single "public safety" action is directly filtered down from the Mayor. That's the answer.

Eric Adams runs this city directly, he undermines and overrules everyone else he appointed or who otherwise leads the city agencies. He demands city agencies and employees override protocol and the rules to give him what he wants. He seeks extreme levels of power even Bloomberg didn't try to grasp for himself.

Good luck getting the Brooklyn Heights/DUMBO NIMBYs to allow any project to fix the BQE to go forward. They'd let the cantilever collapse totally before they agree to make any small sacrifice to fix it.

You're being willfully obtuse. Do you think black people are the only ones with fake plates? Or the only ones the police stop and fine for it?

If you don’t want to be targeted by police be white. It’s very simple.

Do they stop everyone with fake plates? Or do they pick and choose?

It's the latter. We already know that. Police enforcement isn't even handed and is often racist. Crime rate demographics mostly signify who was stopped, not who commits the crimes.

I'm pretty sure that job posting was mostly a joke for press. Surely there are already a few people in the Department of Sanitation who have that job.

I never said he was Jewish culturally, ethnically or by religion. I was explaining to you why someone could have "Jewish" DNA. Pay attention.

>You're pro genocide imo.

...Excuse me? I am commenting on a comment chain of you being antisemitic, I have no idea what Elizabeth Warren comment you're talking about (this isn't the one), and you're here suggesting I am the one supporting genocide?

You seem really defensive and irrationally angry about this very niche Jewish issue. But, sure, I'm the one who needs to "calm down."

There's nothing Mayors love more than creating a Task force or Committee or creating a new mayoral agency that is attempted to do what other city agencies already do. This will be a department of 4-5 people with 6 figure jobs. They will accomplish nothing but slow down the process at the city agencies doing the work.

>It’s one of the most heterogeneous groups there is.

It's not. And if you think that you haven't met many Jewish people. You seem to be unaware that Ashkenazi Jews are not the only ethnic Jewish people that exist on the planet. Sephardic Jews were the first Jewish people to immigrate to New York City as a matter of fact. Mizrahi is also a distinctive group. They come from different regions of the globe and have different languages, often variations of Hebrew.

>Which also shows up in DNA tests for non-Jews/anyone living in those regions.

No, it doesn't.

Being Ashkenazi or Sephardic or Mizrahi Jewish is a genetically distinctive ethnicity. We'd call it an ethno-religion. These are very distinct groups of people who are able to trace their DNA so easily because they were forced to migrate and were systematically killed keeping the community relatively small. It's not just a cute little DNA marker that will show up on anyone from Europe. The ethnicity hasn't been absorbed in every region. Jewish people aren't homogeneous.

You're mad because people's genetics indicate that they have Ashkenazi or Sephardic Jewish heritage? Ever wonder why it's so easy to pinpoint that on DNA results? It's almost as if these were smaller insular ethnic groups who have been systematically banished from multiple countries and murdered because of their faith and background. Do a second of research before commenting, it would have answered your question.

>“To me, it’s a civic duty to responsibly come back to work and actively engage in being part of the community,” Rechler said.

What community? There is no valuable "community" in those Manhattan office park neighborhoods. It is not our *civic duty " to enrich private commerical landlords who refuse to innovate or adapt to massive societal change.

I swear to God these people need to get bent.

>What does being attached to other men

...you do realize it's not just men who are LGBTQ+ right? And if this is a parade about Irish heritage as you say, you realize there are gay Irish people?

I swear to God, turn off Fox News and read a book.

Right so there's a deep state conspiracy where zero delivery bike accidents are reported to the police, is that right? A secret epidemic you can only back up with vibes?

Of course they are reported. Every vehicular injury and death is reported because they end up in police reports. If delivery guys were killing people we'd have known by now. Be serious.