@mattyglesias If only the stabilized rents had ever been frozen in NYC before. Oh wait they have, as recently as under DeBlasio, and the overall % increase in rents was the lowest they have been for any point in the last 50 years outside of the peak of the crack epidemic and after 911
@AndThatsBB Kurt's OBP is fifty one points higher than Rice (even though Rice's OBP is great). That's equivalent to the difference in OBP between an average OBP and the absolute worst OBP in all of baseball. Nothing more important than not making outs and Kurtz has been best at that in MLB
@AGoldmund In real life the person with that job had a tiny studio apt and was totally broke, lived with 2 roommates in Brooklyn, split an apt half the size of the one in that show with a boyfriend, or had a weirdly good deal on a Greenpoint walkup because her Polish landlord liked her
@AdamThaSportFan If the Yankees made the ALCS but then traded Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger and David Bednar at the end of the year for low level prospects, it would be crazy, even if in 5 years Judge will be 39 and Bednar and Bellinger 36 and probably not great
@AdamThaSportFan I don't think that the problem was that they traded those guys (other than Olson) but, yeah, of course most of those players aren't good 5 years later. Chris Bassitt is 37 years old. The argument isn't that they should hold on to everyone until they retire.
@DrDiGiorgio People live 3 years longer in the UK. 4 years longer in Canada. 5 years longer in Switzerland. 6.5 years longer in Hong Kong. It's true that all have different systems, but all spend 25% to 50% less relative to GDP than the US.
@ReggieBushWack@RyanFieldABC With 99% of any event, regardless of audience, you get about 65 to 80% not showing up for free tickets. The only exceptions to the rule are when the RSVPs all have some connection to the event, like they are connected to the artist/honoree, or attending for professional reasons
@ReggieBushWack@RyanFieldABC Yeah, I actually did a film screening of the ESPN series about the 86 Mets in Citifield, with several of the players there and free food and drink for all and we got thousands of RSVPs and still had a 70% drop off rate, which is totally normal for a free event, even a special one
I have worked with several different council members who have mentioned the John Wilson episode about scaffolding. Mamdani and his team are just very very media savvy
Zohran Mamdani joined How To with John Wilson creator John Wilson in a new video to discuss one of New York Cityβs most stubborn eyesores: scaffolding.
Photo via Office of the Mayor of the City of New York
(Via Variety)
@PocsikWill@ootunji69@RossBarkan@awinston I don't think many people would object to development in the area, and it is par for the course that stadium owners nationwide get first crack at development around a stadium. The casino part is the fucked up part, and gambling ruins more lives than it improves, everywhere.
@ootunji69@RossBarkan@awinston If you don't think billionaire casino owners can possibly be predatory the that says plenty about your values. Not even criticizing, but his point was if a Mets fan doesn't care if the owner runs casinos then they might not have the moral high ground
@ootunji69@RossBarkan@awinston No one said anything about displacing tenants. I think the point is that gambling is exploitative and socially destructive. If you are in favor of billionaires building casinos, then fine, that's what you believe, which was the original argument.
@ootunji69@RossBarkan@awinston Willets Point is between Corona, East Elmhurst, and Flushing. Flushing is more mixed now, but Corona and East Elmhurst are pretty damn working class.
@pamsson Yeah. I'm in favor of many (definitely not all) of the congestion and parking reforms, but I am always dumbstruck when friends say things like "nobody has a car in NY." Outside of Manhattan most household have a car, and for good reason.