Hey, thanks for the personal insult. Really elevated the conversation.

I've been walking in this city since the 1970s. I've never been hit by anything. If you're so scared of walking the streets that you have to take a bus to deal with your paranoia caused by the occasional extremely rare crash, maybe you live in the wrong city. Or maybe you should seek mental health counseling to deal with your anxiety issues.

And, yes, watch where you're going. Keep your phone in your pocket. Pay attention to your surroundings. You'll be fine.

It really isn't. Learn to walk like a New Yorker and watch where you're going, and you'll be fine.

Walking is dangerous? For 30 blocks in midtown? This might be the least accurate thing I’ve seen on Reddit.

amNewYork doesn’t like charter schools and is hyping a small rally against them. Take a quick look on the search engine of your choice, and you’ll see plenty of results showing that a sizable majority of NYC parents support charter schools and want more of them.

Agreed. There’s a sub for NYC pics, and this should go there.

Why all the Santos stuff on the NYC sub? The dude represents the burbs on Long Island. Let them own him.

There are like a billion people around the world who would rather live in NYC than where they live. We’re not building for all of them. Even if you’re a real estate developer shill, you have to acknowledge there is some sort of upper limit. The only thing we’re actually arguing about is what that limit is.

They were still just a blog, but at least the writing was more irreverent back then.

Another crappy Gothamist article. Today, one of their bloggers looked at another website and summarized what they saw there. Local journalism is doomed.

You're projecting a lot onto me. Not surprising for a real estate shill.

👆 this comment brought to you by a real estate industry shill who wants to build baby build so his boss can can even richer at the expense of local neighborhoods.

False. Prices depend on both supply and demand. The real estate developers want to make money and have convinced everybody that their supply-side approach is the right one. Reducing demand would do it just as well, and that would involve population loss. People moving away or dying faster than they arrive or are born.

It's happened before. The population dropped like crazy when people started moving to the burbs in big numbers in the 60s and 70s. Rents dropped. Sale prices dropped. People were picking up whole brownstones for almost nothing.

There are plenty of places willing to move people to do low skill jobs. The oil and gas industry in the Dakotas for example. Higher skill workers shouldn't have any problem either. The only excuse for not leaving is not wanting to.

I can afford where I live. If people can't afford it, they should move to where they can afford to live. It's not rocket science.

Or maybe it should put the brakes on development. We're the densest most-crowded city in the country -- let people move somewhere else if they can't find a place to stay here. Once some other cities get up to size, then maybe we can grow more.

Dude, what a bullshit trash statement.

We’re not suffering from a drought. We’re suffering from a lack of water mains and pipes in areas of potential expansion. Sewage is a huge problem. The system overflows during storms all the time, and adding more sewage will just make it worse. These are real problems, despite what propagandists from the real estate industry have convinced you to believe.

Immigrants arriving in NYC have used it as a gateway to move on to the rest of the country after days, months, or years for as long as there has been a country.

Not everyone needs to live in NYC, not everyone gets to, not everyone can afford to, and so on. There are probably a billion people around the world who would rather live here than where they live. Should they all be crammed into the city?

Lived here for all my life, and I’ve seen neighborhoods wrecked by overdevelopment. At some point, enough is enough, and we need to stand up to the crooked real estate industry.

You act like migration is a bad thing. Or new. It’s neither. People have been moving from NYC to other places in big numbers since the city was founded. Without international immigration, we’d have net population loss.

The solution for people who want a cheaper place to live is to move somewhere cheaper. It’s not that complicated.

Sure it does. It's called moving to somewhere else. Cleveland. Detroit. Hell, any city except SF. Not everyone gets to live in NYC, and when more people start looking elsewhere, the pressure on the housing market will lessen. If you can't find a place to live here, get your ass to Rochester.

Sewage infrastructure. Water. Roads. And, yes, transit. Having the largest system doesn't mean that it has infinite capacity.

This pro-real estate developer piece is absurd. We lack the infrastructure for a housing boom in NYC, but I suppose the Trumps and Kushners of the world need even more money to maintain their egos.

Edit: LOL downvotes from real estate developer shills.

It wasn’t sabotaged. People didn’t enroll their kids. Simple as that.

Cancelling the expansion of an underutilized program doesn’t seem crazy.

I’m all for improving mental health, but what does this have to do with Bragg’s job? The DA runs the office that prosecutes criminals in Manhattan. The city has a Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for this.