https://imgur.com/a/9mnjRtM

I blurred out information that could dox them.

Update: that dean sent out an email a couple of hours later apologizing for spreading false information.

I think it was really problematic that they sent that out. Official communication like that should be very careful about what they write.

I think that was bad information, and I don't know why she wrote that.

Just got an email from the vice dean of the Pitt school I work in that there has been a confirmed shooter. I don't know if I trust that yet.

We're in lockdown in my building at Pitt.

More supply has to be built, but it also has to be built outside of one particular area.

Hudson County in NJ and some of the other surrounding NJ counties, plus Long Island and some of SW Connecticut have welcomed the urban sprawl from NYC.

However, north of NYC along the Hudson River has pushed back for too long. I grew up in that area, and they can easily handle significant increases in population. It's unreasonable to be within commuting distance of one of the largest cities in the world and think that your community should stay practically rural for over a century. They need to gradually start accepting the sprawl and realizing that the rural was great while it lasted, but it's no longer sustainable that close to the city.

And I'm saying this as somebody that loves the Hudson Valley. It just doesn't make sense that the mid-Hudson valley is still so sparsely populated while there is a massive housing crisis closer to the city that's ready to blow up.

We also need incentives/funding out there to just start mass developing single family homes in less urban areas. New York is pushing through orders that will force communities on the outskirts of urban sprawl to start developing more housing, which should hopefully help to offset this crunch in a few years.

I lived in the same apartment in grad school for 3 years and my landlord never raised rent in that time. When I moved out they thanked me for being such a great tenant and gave me my deposit back on the spot. They told me they only raised rent between tenants to match the market but don't want to mess up a good relationship with a tenant they don't have to worry about.

It's ridiculous that this is now completely abnormal behavior.

>The Marvel star was arrested around 11:15 p.m. Saturday morning inside of an apartment near West 22nd Street and 8th Avenue in Chelsea after police responded to a 911 call.

11:15 p.m. Saturday morning?

🤔

Not every area includes school taxes within their property taxes, so this is a little misleading.

I ride my bike regularly to work and for fun. But I'm not going to tell other people that they don't know what "nice" is for their city or that your ideas to radically transform where you live are a good idea.

It's perfectly fine to advocate for the changes you want. But expecting a massive transformation for where you live isn't realistic, and calling people names for pointing out that it isn't realistic won't help you build any momentum toward making change and it won't help you convince your neighbors, especially when you tell them that they don't know what "nice" is.

If you don't like an area, then why live there? Move somewhere else that will make you happy because the general mindset of that area aligns with what you want out of life.

Grow up and stop throwing tantrums when people disagree with you.

>Even if you find my specific preference too green, and you prefer pollution.

I don't live in NYC right now because I like more laid back places with easy access to nature. I like to currently spend as many of my days off as possible in the woods or in a kayak, and living in NYC at this point of my life wouldn't align with that. I actually get to do what I want with my free time right now because I live in a place that offers it. If I wanted to be back in the heart of a super busy metropolitan with a ridiculous amount of options for human interaction and food and entertainment options, then I would move back.

Part of growing up is realizing what you want and pursuing it with the options that you have available.

You only have so much time in life. Being miserable and telling everyone that you know how to make them happier better than they do sounds like an awful and lonely way to spend it.

Go ahead, fight with everyone around you and try to insult them. The rest of us are living our lives and enjoying ourselves. Give it a try. Or don't. Nobody really cares if you decide to be miserable or happy.

You didn't write "let's make the city nice!" You wrote:

>We should probably turn at least every other street into greenspaces with parks and bike lanes.

You suggested converting half of the streets in NYC into greenspace and bike lanes. That's not happening. Not just because it's difficult but because it also goes against what so many people want.

Your definition of "nice" probably doesn't match the definition of "nice" for most of the people that want to live in NYC.

Again, why not just live somewhere else if being in such a developed and busy city isn't "nice" for you?

If someone told me they were looking for suggestions on places to live and they really valued green space and places to ride their bikes, then I would recommend a bunch of places before NYC. That isn't an indictment on you. It just sounds like where you want to live and where you live are a mismatch.

That's not a realistic suggestion at all. NYC is one of the most developed and densely populated places in the world.

Seriously, if you don't like living in that dense and developed of an area, then why not live somewhere else? Why spend years of your limited time in a place that doesn't fit what you want?

George Santos was Capone's boss.

Consultants are fine for solving a problem or managing a project that you rarely need them for.

But if you regularly use them, then, as you said, you're wasting money that could have been spent to build out a full in-house team.

Can you try being coherent? It's hard to understand you.

You think that New York impeached Trump?

I'm sorry that a family of criminal grifters facing the consequences of their actions makes you so sad. We prefer people that actually pay their taxes in New York, rather than leaches.

$2K/month stipend.

For a citizen?

For an elected official that has been hiding from the public and being held accountable?

No.

>Dude I'm not trashing upstate

You literally called it not economically viable to live outside of NYC in New York. That's why I responded to you. I can't stand the "us vs them" attitude that some people have in regards to NYS / NYC. The entire state benefits from a healthy NYC, and NYC benefits from a healthy state.

>Also, I studied at NYU. So cut the crap with slinging

>Upstate universities being good are a legacy from a different era.

Lol 🤡

Thank you. You've taught me more about economics in this thread than I learned as econ major. Probably because I studied in one of those desecrated upstate schools 😔

I agree with having the MTA (or at least the part that functions in NYC) be under control of the city. Then the city could fund it through their own taxes, and the people living in places like Buffalo and Syracuse, who never use the MTA wouldn't have to pay for it.

They could then reinvest those funds locally to innovate 😍

>Also, most of NY State outside if NYC is in fact quite poor and economically distressed. That's do to globalization and lack of innovation though.

This is an oversimplified way of describing the reality for about 11.4 million people.

Considering that all of those people live in the great economic and innovation wasteland that you think it is, maybe Hochul's plan to have NYC businesses pay more into funding the MTA is a good idea?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-01/hochul-wants-a-payroll-tax-boost-to-fund-nyc-subways-transit

Afterall, most of NY doesn't have an economy or any business to contribute to this tax.

So is your point of view that all NYS outside of NYC is a dump and most of the taxes they pay to the state should go into a transportation option they will never use?

I don't know the breakdown in how state and city taxes fund the MTA, but if the city tax is already covering the MTA, then how much more should the state realistically contribute to the MTA while other parts of the state have transportation issues that also need attention and less local taxes to contribute?