Eric Adams lies a lot.

pretty sure it's sarcasm

Government officials are always wanting to widen streets and add car lanes when people complain about traffic being difficult to navigate.

We need to demand they widen sidewalks when people complain about crowds and sidewalk cafes being difficult to navigate. That'll mean losing some car lanes, but cities are for people first, not cars.

They spend billions on new stations that are way, way bigger than they need to be. They spend billions tunneling in order to placate rich people who'll sue if they use the cut and cover method, which is much cheaper.

That's not cost effective. Paying way too much for an elevator due to construction industry graft is not cost effective.

But putting in an elevator at a fair price so that disabled people an mobility impaired people and elderly people who just don't want to risk falling down stairs will ride the subway more? That's absolutely cost effective.

When a driver crashes into a pedestrian, the pedestrian's risk of death and serious injury goes up rapidly based on how fast the driver is going. Risk of death and serious injury is also much higher for children and seniors.

We live in a city with the highest concentration of pedestrians in the western hemisphere.

What you're telling us is that you care more about going fast than about risking harm to human beings. Speed cameras exist to help protect us from people like you.

Good. And it's not enough. They made a lot of those fake vax cards.

End primaries.

Just do a ranked choice, non-partisan general election.

Ranked choice should've been implemented here as non-partisan, with only one election per cycle, like it's been done in many other cities.

Having a reactionary knuckledragger like Paladino around = diversity of thought, according to the NYT, apparently.

We should eliminate the state senate, ban outside income, and give the state assembly an even bigger raise, so that talented people want to compete for the job because of the salary. Right now we have mediocre people competing for the job because of the graft opportunities.

Somewhere out there, Julia Salazar is holding Santos' beer.

How about we also put up a plaque somewhere condemning the two lead prosecutors and the cops who still insist they didn't do anything wrong?

1 Hogan Place seems like a good location.

Is there a wide range of views about whether human children and geese are equivalents?

Most people don't care about geese anywhere near as much as vegans and animal rights activists do.

I'm not gonna eat foie. I don't think the way it's produced is ok.

But I live in huge cosmopolitan city with a wide variety of views about meat and animal rights, so I also don't think the government should be meddling in this question.

I'm glad the judge struck it down, but I also have some serious questions about why a small group of vocal and relatively privileged people managed to get a majority of city councilmembers to impose this ban.

It's a niche issue. It's not some huge priority. Why was it worth our lawmakers' time at all?

That's one of the names that delivery worker organizers use.

Sad.

Declaring the footprints to be "hallowed ground" and not rebuilding there was a mistake.

We could've had a good and respectful memorial without setting aside that much space.

We were traumatized it made us short sighted. It's right for people who lost loved ones to have a place to remember them, but we did way too much. It's like leaving a wound open on purpose.

And because it's such a large civic space, and because it's in the middle of a bunch of many other commercial tourist attractions, those of us who still carry various levels of trauma because we were here and watched the towers fall with our own eyes or lost loved ones, we don't get to have the peaceful place to reflect that we should have.

The Vietnam Memorial in DC works because it sets itself apart as a special place, with a single purpose. It would've failed if it was surrounded by hustle and bustle on all sides.

I think it's still fair to be angry at disrespectful tourists, but it's important to understand that the way we as humans choose to make solemn spaces defines whether they succeed at what they were meant to do. Arad and Walker's design doesn't work. The committee that chose it made a mistake. It's understandable that this happened, because we as a city and a society weren't thinking clearly. We felt powerless, we felt like we needed to do something grand and monumental, and I suggest that maybe we didn't. Grief is not grand.

I don't care if they beef with adult tennis players but somebody's gotta be like a level 9 douchebag to take over a playground for this.

I'm honestly surprised parents didn't just walk in the middle of the pickleball games, while another parent took video, waiting for one of these dinguses to commit assault, and then tell them an out of court settlement of $25,000 would be acceptable. Would've been easy.

Because we don't know if we're both attracted to the other, or if we're both single and/or poly, or if we both have penis and/or strap ons.

And I don't think we're going to find out, because this is not an appropriate forum to ask on, and we both seem relatively polite.

people who talk about how much they hate the ebikes happily order dinner for their whole family in mid february.

People who tell me it's impossible to use a bike as primary transportation in NYC because of winter also happily order dinner in a blizzard. If a 74 year old Vietnamese dude who sleeps on a crappy mattress and commutes to Manhattan from outer Queens to do deliveries can ride a bike all day in winter, any white collar office worker with no major physical disability can handle 45 minutes to and from work.

Get a bike.

It would be great if we could force the delivery apps to classify riders as employees.

It'd also be great if the US hadn't made a bunch of laws in the 20th century that makes it much more difficult for workers to unionize and strike than it is in most of the rest of the free world.

I would be happy with deliveristas getting $23/hour for an 8 hour shift... if they got health benefits and death benefits, because it's one of the most dangerous jobs in NYC.

Until we can make that happen, I will fully support them if they manage to organize well enough to successfully boycott bad tippers. They gotta get what they need. It's the law's fault they don't have easy ways to do that.

It seems like there's a huge number of people who DGAF about delivery workers, unfortunately.

"delivery apps will just add another fee to the end of the bill"
-If that ensures riders get paid fair wages, fine.
"people will stop tipping delivery drivers entirely"
-Servers in a lot of NYC restaurants make $23 bucks an hour or more before tips, and they still get tipped. Douchebags may want to stop tipping delivery riders entirely, but a significant percentage of local douchebags probably already tip meagerly or not at all.

Can deliveristas communicate with each other and blacklist customers on a forum that the apps can't control? Seems like if people who didn't tip stopped getting their orders accepted, it might have an effect on tipping. There are some restrictions on how independent contractors are allowed to organize due to unintended consequences of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, but I'm pretty sure they can still tell each other "that customer sucks. don't serve them."