And there's literally no cracks/gaps in the rock that would let water in?

Why do you think NYC would vote against this? Most people in NYC don't drive. Most commuters to Manhattan don't go by car.

Oh yeah. It's funny when people say all the new apts in NY are luxury. As in they're not tiny and have modern appliances? Those are the norm for a lower middle class apt complex in most of America..

oh ok, just did a quick search. Still a normal percent to pay.

I mean 2k per month on 8500 post tax comes to 23 percent. Which is a pretty low percent of income to spend on rent in tis day and age..

I mean Mississippi has a massive history of being racist against black people. Washington Heights/the Bronx is not exactly Mississippi...

Yeah, still seems weird to pick someone out for an anti-black hate crime in area that's about half black.

Yeah, the problem with that for me is that that food's so unhealthy. In the long term but also in the short term crap fast food always messes with my stomach. So my lazy takeout option always ends up being chipotle/tacos etc, which is nowadays in the 15 dollar range.

Does it never happen that you get home tired and you're like "fuck it I'll just get tacos?"

Also, were you ever tempted to just pick up some side gig-work or you just don't have the time for that?

This is the most negative framing of a new development I've ever seen. Were Staten Island and North Jersey also snubbed? I mean come on, if they actually build this it's gonna be the first time in decades a major train line got built this.

Well if it's a couple there's a lot of people. Even if not, there are plenty of people in tech and finance.

I think you're confusing stabilized and controlled. A huge fraction of the buildings in NY are stabilized b default. If you rent a stabilized building now you're gonna pay market rate, and the rent's gonna go up 3/4 percent annually. In a couple years you'll probably be below market, but not that far below market. It's really only gonna be way below market if you've been there 20 years. But it's not hard to get at all.

These headlines are clickbait. The vast majority of Ny'ers aren't paying this. This is the median of new leases signed in Manhattan. Most people have been in their apts a while and most people don't live in Manhattan. I pay 2k per month and live alone in Brooklyn.

I'm not saying this carries no information value but what it says is mostly about newer high end buildings in Manhattan.

I mean yeah, but there's a difference between something not getting done because it's under-funded vs. because the money getting stolen in corruption. They're different things with different solutions.

Wait is it true that they're spending 5k a month per bed? In that case how is it underfunded? It seems like the dangerousness must be a result of there being dangerous people staying in the shelters? What is the solution to that?

Eh airbnb is way cheaper than hotels and there are way more of them available outside midtown manhattan.

Hmm that makes me wonder if IBS is really just the digestive system stuck in fight mode.

Why? There have always been Republican in NY state. It's a huge state with a lot of rural areas, there are wealthy conservative suburbs, and then a certain fraction of NYC is always Republican. It's always existed and there have been Republican governors and even mayors before.

I mean a tax on hotels vs taxing the guests directly amounts to the same thing, either way It makes it more expensive to stay at a hotel than an airbnb.

Hotels are tightly regulated and pay really high taxes. That's why they're so much more expensive than airbnb.

Who knows. It just doesn't seem like a long term sustainable situation.

I don't know what immigrant friendly means. Most of the people coming from Venezuela are clearly economic migrants not political refugees. The liberal position on this is very hypocritical. Is the idea that America should take in unlimited immigrants? If so why are we making them go through all the trouble of an incredibly dangerous route through gangland and the desert? Why not just sell them plane tickets from their home countries? There's no coherent position there at all. No matter how restrictive or open immigration policy is, most people who would like to come to America are never gonna be able to come to America.