The question is not about the validity of public restrooms.
The question is how do you maintain those public spaces? How do clean and keep them in working order? What do you do about individuals who damage and misuse them? What do you do about loitering and safety?
Just like your point these questions are an obvious and universal point about public restrooms in NYC.
I dunno Bushwick & Ridgewood ain’t exactly where you describe - they’re super popular and getting way denser.
Your statement assumes the status quo with regards to transit.
Added lines in northern queens, east-west Bronx lines, north-south queens lines, cross harbor to Staten Island would allow for much denser development.
How can you make the statement that a standardized test is not the best metric for anything.
Not driving. Not operating machines. Not ANYTHING.
Grow up. Stop pointing fingers at problems you don’t really wanna deal with.
At the end of the standardized tests are not the best metric for admissions to anything. We need to abolish the SHSAT and commit to providing a quality education to all of our NYC students. We the rest of our schools were funded like the SHS it would be a different ball game
I have zero idea what the outcome of this will be - but the idea is good.
The city sucks at rapid development.
Gotta call balls and strikes when I see them.
At a Coney Island go-kart track on Monday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a City Hall “pit crew” intended to keep government technology from sputtering in the slow lane.
https://t.co/HpztQ983ih
They’re not separate - but the “solution” at the competitive upper levels that is being proposed by some (perhaps even yourself) is an aesthetic change vs structural.
That entire idea is wild to me.
Right now that 3 black students have ZERO question in their heads or anyone else’s of why they are there - they earned that spot. What’s being discussed is some system that removes that from them.
@Rafa_Mangual@ImpeachBragg I’m with you 90% of the time - arming NYC is not a solution. Returning the policing and enforcement & justice system that makes holding an unregistered firearm in NYC akin to murder is how to go.
@gustucky@credealjunkie To be super fair to Dinkins (super good guy) he was also the last mayor of the Manhattan machine AND also a Board of Estimate guy while we switched to city council powers.
His constituency + power dynamic meant he was politically doomed. Great guy otherwise.
Our high costs are mainly because we closed Indian Point before “green” energy supply and infrastructure was built to replace it. It’s also high because to get “green” energy we have to build new generation and transmission that need to get paid for. Finally environmental laws have increased electricity demand as we decarbonize.
Road to hell is paved with good intentions type of shit.
As we still don’t have an adequate supply and infra to replace it (green or otherwise) continued pushing to electrify everything (stoves, boilers, cars) seems unwise.
Running full speed without thinking is how we got into this mess.
Hey NYC: right now we’re paying more for electricity and breathing smoggier air because Hochul stalled the Clean Path transmission project. 🤬
But don’t worry: the gas companies are making lots of money off us, thanks to her dedicated service to their interests 🙄
You should probably learn a bit more about NYC’s history before you rant off.
The #1 catalyst to NYC’s era of decay was the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 and the creation of the US interstate system.
Bad choices were made locally during that period - but most of that just changed velocity or depth of the scars.