New York State just authorized a land value tax that could generate billions of dollars for new transit.
For the @NiskanenCenter, @aarmlovi and I wrote about how the renewal of § 119-r in the FY27 budget could unlock a virtuous cycle of infrastructure delivery in NYC.
Zohran just cited Minneapolis, Austin, and Auckland as cities that lowered housing costs via upzoning
certified ball knowledge, Auckland is a deep YIMBY cut
Mamdani unveils his new housing plan, with a goal of building 200K new income-restricted, affordable homes over the next decade
He describes his evolution from development skeptic to YIMBY
“I want to speak to the skeptical New Yorker because I was once the skeptical New Yorker”
Drivers are a great example of "equality feels like oppression." The 51% of road users on foot used to only get 30% of the space. Even with the (great) new design, pedestrians only get 42% of the road, while the 39% in cars get 49% of the space.
Across too much of NYC, outdated zoning is holding transit-rich areas back.
On White Plains Road in the Bronx and Coney Island and McDonald Avenues in Brooklyn, we’ll update zoning through community-led plans that deliver affordable homes, new jobs and neighborhood investments.
If you're filing noise complaints against Brooklyn's oldest lesbian bar during Pride, you might be in the wrong neighborhood.
This has been a home for queer Brooklynites for 26 years. Ginger's deserves better.
NEW: Mayor Mamdani's first neighborhood-level housing plan targets the blocks south of Prospect Park — near the future IBX
City Planning Director Sideya Sherman: “There’s an opportunity to create potentially thousands of housing units for our city"
@Gothamist@WNYC
My most socialist position is that all NFL, NBA, and MLB playoff games should be on network TV - kids whose parents can’t afford or don’t have streaming services should still be able to watch
Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. https://t.co/hwzwfkkLBS
“More than 80 people died or received serious injuries in crashes over the past seven years, according to the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives. That averages out to a life-altering crash every single month.”
This is *insane.* Even if you are too tired to follow the news you have to understand this. The Louisiana governor has *suspended an active congressional election with 42k votes already cast* — it's insane.
Let's upzone NYC!
Now live:
https://t.co/CvGmSOxD2G
See the zoning potential (air rights=blue) for every residential lot in NYC. And then ... change it.