'Some neighbors' are gonna have to sit on their hands if they don't want to get flooded out again at some point. Those same neighbors are gonna whine and bitch and moan when they're stuck in their apartments and complain the 'city didn't do enough' when another flood happens.
THis is bigger than just the neighborhood. There are still tunnels that need dire maintenance after Sandy flooded them 10 yrs ago.

Honestly I don't even think 10 ft higher is enough.

>For years now, has lost over $300,000 in rental income.

Imagine being a landlord *so wealthy* that you can afford to 'lose' this much money.
Please. Don't cry for these landlords, they're fucking scum trying to manipulate the market.

Do you see the Gulf Of Mexico? Like that. Google 'Chicxulub crater.'

ok so have you or any of the consultants you've worked with EVER taken a fee contingent upon results? And if so, how long did you wait to get paid? Months? Years??

>Make the contract only pay out if they do and it is shown to work in practice.

That's not how consulting works though. What tangible metric would you use for 'works in practice?' Consulting isn't some low-skill endeavor you can have a bunch of interns doing. Plus the longer you wait on a project the more the price rises. Also 'get rid of the corruption' is a fun easy solution but almost impossible to implement in the scope of any NY construction project.

>The solution isn't to just somehow find 7.7 billion dollars for this, it's to figure out why the fuck it costs more than the 1 billion it would cost in London/Paris/Rome/Madrid/Tokyo/Singapore/Hong Kong/Beijing/Seoul/Osaka etc.

Because hiring consultants to do that would itself cost $100M.

There are already lots of subway lines servicing that area, and the area is way more compact. Trust me, you'll be fine down there.

Thanks for this. I finally found out what kind of trees I'd never seen before and had no idea for 15 years. Small tree with huge leaves, it was a Catalpa.

Landlords huh?
https://imgur.com/6KOXu52

>Rechler wasn’t so sure anymore, though.
“The genie is out of the bottle,” he told the Financial Times in July 2021. “And so what is going to come back is clearly going to be different from what existed before. We are all going to have to adapt.”
By November 2021 Roth realized that something had changed.

I always imagine that movie is what rich people did before they got bored of that and went all Squid Game.

I'm morbidly curious to know, if Elon Musk did something like Squid Game would all his fanboi crypto followers sign up to be contestants?

What REALLY pisses me off more is how all these media outlets are like 'RENTS ARE SKYROCKETING THIS IS INSANITY!!!!!!!!' and then none of them bother to fucking do ANY investigation whatsoever, Just assholes in badly fitting suits and glasses pontificating and basically whining about it like 'WTF is going on nYC iS cRazyToWn!!!!!'

CNBC is absolute bullshit with that report.
Actual data is showing PEOPLE ARE NOT RETURNING FROM THE PANDEMIC.
You know what's keeping rents high?
COLLUSION.
Landlords have been using proprietary software to set prices in real time.
It's called RealPage and they're already being investigated by the DOJ.
https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-realpage-rent-doj-investigation-antitrust

Also landlords' warehousing' units.

Here's a deep-dive that refutes the influx of 'people returning from the pandemic.'

https://www.curbed.com/2023/01/nyc-real-estate-covid-more-apartments-higher-rent.html

Welcome to the NY Post.

Holy ass, someone is triggered easily. So anything that remotely annoys you is a 'serious quality of life issue' and deserves nothing less than extermination? Got it.
How do you even get through a day in NYC without your head exploding?

I'd take the raccoons hands-down over people like you any day.

Does that writer/publication have some beef with that artist? That's pretty harsh for ART.
Holy shit, vulture real estate developers destroying classic architecture and erecting soulless mile-high intrusive garbage in it's place, no one ASKED for that either but we all have to suffer those eyesores.
No one asked for Jeff Koons either but there he is.

THis is not a thing.
You need to do this yourself because apartments go quickly. You need to have all your paperwork ready with a handful of cash.
Yes it's cutthroat. But NYC real estate has always been this way.
The minute someone tells you about an apartment it's likely gone.

AnD things are much more cutthroat because landlords all use this software to collude with each other to keep rent prices artifically high, the DOJ is already investigating this. It's called RealPage.
https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-realpage-rent-doj-investigation-antitrust

Again, why were you driving in a bike lane?

yup, not surprised at all. Just so on-brand for the GOP. Now that they have the votes they're gonna kill all the investigations that half of them are under. It's infuriating and disingenuous.

That's because the duplicitous GOP needs him to hold their slim majority in the House.
And they need that majority so they can kill all those silly investigations into January 6th that half of them are guilty of participating in.

They're very likely Monk Parrots. They're incredibly evasive, you won't see them on the ground much but you'll definitely hear them because they squawk. ALOT.
THey're also pretty smart, they build nests in warm places, which usually happens to be Con Ed transformers on top of utility poles, which sucks when Con Ed has to service them and destroy the nests, even against the protests of the neighborhood.
https://static8.depositphotos.com/1037197/828/i/950/depositphotos_8288360-stock-photo-group-of-feral-monk-parakeets.jpg

Does it involve a bag of ice and a fan? I think Walmart already has that market cornered.

Centuries, millennia?
I probably should have been more specific, a white colonial contrivance.

Who knew? Humans still don't understand nature.

Always remember this: 'Garbage' is a human contrivance.

Just FYI they're privately owned, (by Lyft) not subsidized by the city in any way. It's not a public service.
The cool thing is, you can always buy a bike instead.