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ctindel t1_iv8drwh wrote

Reply to comment by 3B854 in NYC proposes strict Airbnb registration rules to take effect in January by Eriosyces

Excluding the bad host problems, airbnb is great for people who want to stay in a regular neighborhood around locals instead of in the touristy areas where hotels are licensed to operate. Let's say you're a parent from the midwest coming to visit your adult child who lives in queens or brooklyn, do you want to stay in wall street/times square/midtown where most of the hotels are or do you want to stay in the same neighborhood where your kid lives?

If cities didn't limit hotel locations and try to concentrate them in certain places, and hotels provided more kitchen-like amenities so people can cook for themselves when traveling this would all be less of an issue. But airbnb basically figured out that hotels aren't providing what a lot of people really want.

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3B854 t1_iv8v4kp wrote

There are hotels in Brooklyn lol

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ctindel t1_iv8vtc0 wrote

Hotels in the outer boroughs are clustered around the airport and expensive or trendy neighborhoods like Long Island city or downtown Brooklyn. The ones that don’t fall into those categories have frequently been taken over for use as homeless housing.

And anyway, all of the things being equal why wouldn’t you wanna living room and the kitchen for the same or less money?

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