>So far, Ray has not sought any medical treatment and continues to work.

Fuck, I really hope Ray gets checked out by a doctor.

He was attacked with a metal pipe!

Businesses like Ray's and Economy Candy are NYC institutions. I will miss them when they are gone.

90 years old and working the overnight shift to make sure the store is well-stocked for his customers.

The city running with a skeleton crew isn't really working out, huh?

>The councilmember said they'd vote yes if the developer allocated some of the apartments as 2 and 3 bedroom ones.

Her official proposal was for 100% affordable units, with at least 57% going to 30% AMI tenants.

She also complained about the project being too large.

To act like this dispute was over the amount of 2-3BR affordable units is not only dishonest, but it is a lie that is contradicted by KJR's own words.

Zoning laws have their place, especially in cities.

I don't think they are the villain of this story.

If anything, NYC's tradition of member deference, even when that member is a complete moron, is the bigger issue.

>How many of those affordable units are 2 bedroom apartments? How many of them are 3?

70% of all units were going to be studio/1BR.

Why should affordable housing have to be 2-3 BR in a residential building that is majority 1BR/studio?

Even if the proposal was for mostly 2-3BR units, why should most of them be reserved for those making 30% AMI, as KJR demanded?

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>The developer randomly announces that they want to offer 50% but then also pulled the project immediately afterwards

The amended plans for more housing was introduced on May 10 of last year during a zoning subcommittee meeting where affordable housing was the subject being discussed.

It was not "random". It was in response to KRJ continuing to demand 100% of the units be affordable housing. And it was proposed during an official zoning meeting.

It was killed weeks later, at the end of the month, when KJR said it still wasn't enough.

That isn't "immediately afterwards".

It was killed after the final proposal was dismissed, for a saga that had been going on for months and months before that.

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>Totally posturing because the developer knows that the councilmember was asking for a better allocation of the units and not just a percentage.

Her allocation demand was 100% affordable units with at least 57% of the units @ 30% AMI.

That isn't just asking for a "better allocation of units". It is asking for 100% allocation of units.

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>So now 50% looks a lot better on patch.com than just a bunch of studio apartments that actual families can't live in.

Who said a family can't live in a 1BR or studio?

Plenty of young families would have benefited immensely from living in a brand new 1BR or studio in a luxury building.

Then again, such people may not align with the "historic identity and culture" (her exact words) of the neighborhood.

When politicians in Texas dog-whistle about protecting the "historic identity and culture" of their communities, we have no problem calling out the obvious racism.

When KJR does it, somehow people think it is righteous.

>I'll take my ball and go home

The one who said that was KJR.

The developer increased the amount of affordable units available to 50%, which is well-above the city's requirements and beyond his original plans.

Rational adults would have seen 50% affordable units as a fair compromise.

Between the two parties, only one side negotiated.

>he councilmember asked for the developer for larger apartments to also be allocated for lower income tenants

She demanded 100% of the units be affordable housing @ minimum 57% being 30% AMI.

Let's not pretend this was a squabble over the size and number of rooms for the affordable units.

Also, even if every single unit was 1BR or studio, that still means hundreds of new units instead of 0.

>What I don't understand is how this lady had a veto.

As others noted, the member deference influence is very strong.

For instance, in the past 13+ years, only one council member (Ben Kallos, 5th District) has been unable to use his local influence to stop a rezoning project.

Kallos has since left his position and currently works for the Biden Administration, so don't feel too bad for him.

>we want ACTUALLY affordable and low income housing

KRJ demanded 100% affordable housing, with over 50% of that at 30% AMI.

There's also the weird, racist "they will not replace us" rhetoric coming from her, but that is a whole different story.

Very interesting how gentrification and demographic changes are considered acceptable and even progressive in Georgia and Texas, but not in NY.

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Also, Mark Levine is such a weasel. He is whining about the truck depot, while at the same time admitting that the sabotaged residential proposal included his demand of 50% affordable units.

And yet, he refuses to publicly call out KRJ for torpedoing the project, because he is a coward.

I just find it curious that your support for illegal immigrants conveniently only includes policies that would benefit your family.

>I’m not a fan - to put it mildly - of DeSantis or Abbott, but the “let’s ship immigrants to sanctuary cities” play is clever in that it forces the mayors of the “other side” to also put pressure on the federal government for a tighter southern border

It also forces the national media, beyond Fox News, to cover the border crisis.

CNN had more exhaustive coverage of a handful of migrants being sent to Martha's Vineyard than when 15,000 Haitian migrants arrived in Del Rio, TX (population 35,000).

Do you have a source for this?

25-33% is a pretty sizeable amount, and it would be completely at odds with data available from other "homeless-friendly" jurisdictions like Los Angeles and San Francisco.

> I don’t think we should be supporting as many migrants that are coming in either but ‘’all people who are in country illegally should be deported’’ is not it.

So you don't think we should be supporting as many migrants that come here, so long as your illegal immigrant mother is spared?

>Billionaire’s Row?

Not Billionaire's Row.

"The Row" refers to the hotel of the same name. It was formerly known as Milford Plaza.

It is located on 8th Ave, a few blocks away from Port Authority.

>If I were a tourist I wouldn't book any hotels being used for this purpose.

The hotels housing migrants have been rented out in full by the city.

The Row was originally supposed to have like 1-2 sectioned off floors for migrants, but the entire hotel was converted into a shelter months ago.

There has literally never been a citizenship or ID requirement when it comes to right-to-shelter in this city.

Sorry, Mayor. You held like half a dozen press conferences last year lambasting border states as they were being overrun with migrants. They are just giving you what you asked for when you repeatedly talked about how this city takes care of immigrants.

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Also, doing things like spending hundreds of millions of dollars to sign long-term (6+ months) agreements with hotels just encourages more migrants to want to come here.

The local press coverage this moron complains about is just reporting that covers issues he campaigned on fixing as mayor.

I brought this up the other week.

There are 2-3 people who spam most of the Santos threads here multiple times a day to farm karma, but otherwise don't actually post here.

At least the people who post about murders and subway shovings are active members on r/nyc

Does being early mean just waiting at the platform for 20 minutes?

If so, the former.

>I'd have enough for a down payment on a co-op.

You'd think so, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people just pissed that extra $$$ away.

Hundreds of millions for hotels, including midtown rooms.

Nearly $10 billion for a "sanctuary facility" in Brooklyn.

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....But of course we have to cut almost $35 million from the city's libraries.

>It has nothing to do with ‘these people want to go to NYC’. That’s bs. Most of these migrants have family who work in agricultural settings in the US already, and I doubt they’re milking cows or digging potatoes in Times Square.

Nobody is being bussed here against their will.

Also, you can find articles detailing how migrants are thankful to be bussed to friendlier jurisdictions like D.C. and NYC over staying in Texas border towns.

Migrants in El Paso are not being set up in hotels and having their expenses paid for.

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>If the goal is for this migrant resettlement to be a success then you don’t send them to the most expensive city in America.

For migrant resettlement to be a success, it can't be built off of economic migrants exploiting the asylum process, so the system is already destined for failure.

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>You send them to the cheapest cities closest to where they entered the country, like Tulsa, Little Rock, Paducah, Baton Rouge, Springfield, Wichita, Missoula, Des Moines, Rapid City, Sioux Falls, Fargo, Grand Forks and so on.

Once migrants are released from federal custody, they can't be forced to go anywhere.

Migrants are offered free bus trips to NYC and are taking them. Perhaps if the mayor of Tulsa holds multiple press conferences saying they'll take migrants as Adams did for over a year, the governor of TX will route some Greyhounds there.

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>These red states have been sending their criminals, homeless and addicts to CA & NY for decades while nobody has said anything

NYC has had multiple scandals with bussing homeless people out of the city.

Also, look at the stats for homelessness in CA. Most of them are long-time residents (10+ years) of the state.

And your conspiracy theory of NY criminals being red-state transplants is not backed by evidence.

NYC is an international city, but we are not an international homeless shelter.

At the very least, you'd be facing criminal charges for felony embezzlement.

This guy steals from taxpayers and he never even sees the inside of a courtroom. Just an "NYPD hearing".

On the force for 19 years, and flushed his career down the toilet out of greed.

Partial pension is a slap in the face. Dude should be fired outright and prosecuted for defrauding the city.

This is the type of shit that undermines the public's faith in not just the NYPD, but the justice system as a whole.

Cheng was allowed to negotiate a deal where he admitted to criminal fraud in exchange for an early retirement. And he did this @ an NYPD hearing; not a criminal court.

He will never be prosecuted for his criminal behavior. Instead, taxpayers will be paying him for the next few decades.

Fucking embarrassing all around.