You’re deeply concerned about their safety, I see.

I would think that would make you happy.

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Of course, the DOE is an endless sprawl. That’s partly why it’s so expensive, despite the fact that fewer people use it each year.

DOE employees don’t kill people because their job isn’t public safety. Happily, NYPD almost never kills an unarmed person.

Closer to $38k per student actually.

Police aren’t even that massive a part of the city budget compared with other cities.

0.05% of the DOE’s $38 billion budget.

Stop and frisk was basically ended before de Blasio took office.

https://i.imgur.com/7vnkUGy.jpg

Yeah I remember deeply hating the Zog people.

Used to absolutely hate adults dominating play areas when my kids were young.

It has downsides but there are a lot of things that are great.

But the main point is that it’s idiotic to think that office buildings in that area aren’t suitable for residential conversion because in your opinion the “neighborhood is unappealing.”

>The minimum hourly rate would apply to a worker’s total “trip time” each week, which would be calculated from the moment a worker accepts an order to when the delivery is completed.

So the longer it takes to deliver the food, the more the delivery worker gets paid?

I think that’s largely true, but there is another side unfortunately. Which is a lot of the homeless and drug scene that used to exist out there has been pushed inward, basically because police and private security won’t tolerate it happening in the new fanciness of Hudson Yards. Buses, too—last ten years, a lot of “commuter buses” that used to stop on the west side have moved in east of 8th avenue, which is insane given the congestion already in that area.

Hudson Yards is kind of its own thing. Wasn’t so much that it was a “dump” before—there was nothing there at all.

I’m not a Hudson Yards fan generally but I’m glad it’s there. 10 years ago I never would have imagined the idea of a pleasant stroll down 34th over to shop at a Whole Foods a couple blocks from a tony waterfront.

Ha, yeah, the area does bring out my inner Bronson.

Definitely, beginning with the problem of hardcore drug use and street dealing.

Is there such a thing as a Tokyo Cheesesteak?

It’s not really a problem that needs “solving.” People already would live in Times Square and pay a lot of money to do it. And the more people who did it, the more who would follow.

The real problems are all the other ones listed in the quote above.

I should add I live between Penn Station and Times Square and yes, the transportation is phenomenal. You live blocks from trains that can take you directly downtown, to either side of uptown, and to three other Boroughs. You can get out of the city quickly through the Lincoln Tunnel, and you have quick access to the West Side Highway. If you’re forced to go to Long Island, it’s a straight shot across town to the Midtown Tunnel. If you’re healthy enough, you can walk to anywhere in Manhattan. You can take a short walk to the Theater District or to MSG. There are some things that aren’t great but mobility is not one of them.

Plenty of people would be willing to live in Times Square and pay plenty for it.

All of that makes perfect sense except “their neighborhoods are unappealing.” Having a hard time imagining what neighborhoods those would be.

I kind of don’t follow what you’re talking g about. But the guy who was arrested appears to have been in the army at some point. That could explain a SC address.

He’s not 41.

That’s not him.

Unfortunately there’s another guy with the same name on Staten Island.

Good lord.

The question isn’t whether someone with mental illness invariably commits crimes. It’s whether there’s a correlation.

But yes, the term should be defined. Half of America is probably mentally ill under the broadest definition. I know I am.