Only like 60 years ago this would be a unequivocal death sentence.

There are many cities that have had zero traffic deaths in a year. That’s why vision zero exists: because it’s achievable.

Reckless is behaving dangerously or without caution/consideration towards others.

Wreckless means that something is without a wreck. A reckless driver would likely not be wreckless on a long enough enough, because reckless drivers are more prone to get into car wrecks.

The university has been there for literally since the 1880s. Every single person that lives near the school had decided affirmatively to choose Temple as a neighbor.

They imply that it’s some random millenial who walks dogs as a hobby but for some reason she makes $100k from it. But it’s a business owner who started a business. I am also a business owner and there’s no there there to write about. There are probably close to a hundred thousand small business owners in NY metro who make average money that don’t have disingenuous articles about them misrepresenting through clickbait headlines what their business model actually is, or that they have a business model at all. The opposite is implied in this headline. This woman owns a business that she created. It’s literally not news.

She started a business in 2014 for boutique pet care.

She literally has a mature individually-owned business with a captive clientele that has increased in recent years and she works twelve hours a day seven days a week. How tf is this news. She’s a business owner who is making very low six-figures in the single most expensive 23 square miles in the entire world.

It’s been two years of this prediction being “three months away”, like yeah I know many markets are messed up but this alarmism is simply not playing out.

55k is entirely too much money for one person. That’s a life-changing amount of money for like 85% of Americans.

People always say it’s brigaders like a real New Yorker is fine with certain hate crimes depending on the race of the perpetrator.

If you didn’t, they would be dead.

When they hit you, they get a concussion and you get a dented fender.

When you hit them, an EMT team has to scrape their splattered remains off the asphalt, and you get a dented fender.

Lol we went from 2 to 3 per 100k. What an alarmist headline.

>some guy gives me $100 to rent a thing that I legally own

>redditors don’t like it

What part of this should be illegal? I’m harsher on AirBnB than most redditors but telling people they can’t do legal things with their own property or within the lease the pay for is not how you fix anything.

Pedestrianized streets and retractable bollards. Now.

Also, having another place to go for coffee, drinks, food, exercise, and social gatherings is a massive boon to the city. It will REDUCE traffic (a major complaint about proposed “gentrifier” projects) because then people will have places to go OTHER than McGillins or Xfinity Live or the restaurants in the gayborhood. Creating more City centers is extremely important to resolving housing crises and reducing traffic. Only NY and maybe DC has ever actually been able build multiple “downtowns” within their downtown and in farther-out neighborhoods.

People being against the rail park, and infill housing, and office conversions, and new housing projects are the worst kind of people.

100% of the discourse surrounding gentrification is unproductive. Gentrification is simply the racialized term for the multifaceted housing crisis.

Upwardly mobile twenty-somethings of white, Indian, or Asian descent want to live in the city. They ALSO cannot afford 1.5 million dollar single family homes. The neighborhood that is claimed to be gentrified is actually simply affordable. People have to live somewhere, and the upwardly mobile twenty-somethings have to live somewhere too. If there were more apartments available, more city centers in each city, and less development regulations, then this wouldn’t be a problem.

It’s a shame when people think they have to work their own neighborhood WORSE so that people won’t want to come there. The issue is that this doesn’t deter them from moving in anyway. And when they move in, they’ll want bike lanes, and not to have to deal with indiscriminate acts of vandalism and harassment from homeless drug addicts who hang around outside their buildings.

It is a class issue. The average 40yo lifelong neighborhood resident who doesn’t want white people moving in actually has FAR more in common with the “gentrifiers” than they do with any other group.

People that use the word gentrification unironically are either maliciously lying or just plain dumb. Especially in neighborhoods like Navy Yard in DC, or O4W in Atlanta, both of which were literally weed-filled parking lots and cratered asphalt outside of abandoned factories collecting wind-strewn litter for years, occupying half a dozen square miles of wasted space. When they were “gentrified”, maybe 40 homes were able to secure a massive bag selling to developers, and then multiple thousands of people were able to live there. Anyone arguing against this is literally malicious and hostile to their own neighbors.

They fantasize that it is a situation similar to Disney’s “Up”, but it’s not. People need to have a place to live.

It’s happening now in Chinatown. They are arguing against the completion of the Philly Rail Park, which is in a completely wasted section of the city, currently utilized for almost nothing, on the other side of Vine, and they fight against it because it will make people want to live in a neighborhood that’s closer to them.

Atlanta’s Belt Line, which is a thematically and philosophically identical project, has spurred double digit billions of dollars of infrastructure and housing investment. There are now communities for active 55+yos, housing for thousands of people, exercise, outdoor yoga, hundreds of stores and restaurants that didn’t exist before. Not to mentioned the explosion in tax base.

And they want to block this for Philadelphia because it would make their own neighborhood nicer. Even though it starts ABOVE (not in) Chinatown, and continues all the way to the art museum. And CT/Philly nimbys get to ruin it for everyone because having a software developer live within a half mile of their outermost store is simply an insurmountable offense. It’s plainly disgusting.

The entirety of it right now is abandoned rail segment surrounded by empty surface level parking lots and abandoned buildings. It could be the new center of Philly and contain housing for literally tens of thousands of people. Easily. But it can’t be done, because it would allow upwardly mobile middle class people a place to live.

I am mega yimby and i am absolutely not offended by those proposals, and I can’t think of anyone who is. Those are all good things that almost all yimbys support.

Yeah but NY has, like, a fuck ton of space in the upstate area that isn’t Long Island..

I actually genuinely agree with all of it but I am also a schizoid myself

Is there a law that the weed has to be grown on Long Island?

This is the schizophrenic ramblings I’m here for. Thank you for this post 🫡

Gee you sound like a genuine Trump-voting Texan. I wish I could somehow take these comments back to 2017 and show people.

Lol are you ok?

Staten Island is in NYC too but that doesn’t mean much

Well yeah, and Staten Island is technically in NYC. I was in center city and south Philly and I walk/bike everywhere and even I found wissahickon/manayunk too far away for anything, let alone a sandwich.

Dude literally every single restaurant in that town has “Best ___ in the City” on their street facing window. Do you really believe that shit? This is you lmao.