is New York City dead?

New York City Plans to Stop Homeless People From Sheltering on Subways

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/nyregion/homeless-people-subway-trains-mta.html

Not sure how much effect this will have, but I guess Adams needed to do something about deteriorating subway conditions.

I play empty subway car lottery about once a week
This week it was a couple of dead pigeons on the floor

glad to hear that the city is going to be giving all of these people places to live

Hotel rooms are waiting

Can’t wait for the NIMBY protests

i share the common trepidation that this amounts to kicking people who have no resources and mental health issues out onto the street in the middle of the winter. otoh, dude who shit himself and has forced everyone out of his car is fucking up everyone else's life too, so something's gotta give.

MIDTOWN!!!!! IS!!!!! BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/fZx2PSnzmC

— Rachel Seville Tashjian (@theprophetpizza) March 1, 2022

Those privately-owned public spaces (POPS) provided in the ground floor of office buildings are always kind of weird. Kind of a glorified lobby with some seating. I guess its just a place to hang out if you need to kill some time and don't want to pay for coffee at Starbucks. Except they usually don't have restrooms, so thats a minus.

Sad lol

“This place called black rock” uhh

There's one, maybe that one?, that largely functions as a pass-through between two streets in the middle of the block. :D

xp lol yeah

Oh great now that I've watched that video B**** R*** promotional reels are in my Twitter feed. Fucking life.

There's one, maybe that one?, that largely functions as a pass-through between two streets in the middle of the block. :D

xp lol yeah

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/nyregion/nyc-raised-crosswalks-traffic-deaths.html

surprised to see this coming from adams tbh

Street-activist social media generally had positive rumblings when Ydanis Rodriquez got tapped for DOT, so I'm guessing maybe this is coming from him? 100 crosswalks a year doesn't really sound like a lot tbh, but every single one will slow down cars and potentially save lives.

overall i would prefer a much more radical war-on-cars strategy. but absolutely anything to slow the cars down is a win imho. the couple in Glendale who are referenced and quoted in the article are friends of mine and they went through absolute hell last year.

artisanal caltrops imo

I like the proposal. Seems like a no brainer

Sorry for the "serious" Q, but are there any good pieces out there, maybe longform/thinkpiece, on the future of NYC in light of the likelihood that offices may never go back to full-capacity and at least aren't in the near future? Like on the economic/RE/business impacts of that and how they affect the city, its tax base, its services, restaurants, entertainment, transit, etc?

Loud sex is ruining hundreds of New Yorkers’ lives, 311 reports show

A person in Queens said a neighbor was “shouting loudly that he is a sexual-tyrannosaurus.”

Seems fun

didn't realize you'd moved to queens

I'm loling at the thought that it was just someone singing along to T-Rex.

311 is a joke

Picturing an extremely short-armed dude fucking now, thx

Jesse Ventura's character in predator refers to himself as a sexual tyrannosaurus

yikes
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/nyregion/brooklyn-woman-dismembered-body-shopping-cart.html

https://nypost.com/2022/03/03/nyc-sees-deadliest-february-for-car-crashes-as-red-light-running-spikes/

https://i.imgur.com/kISETnL.png
The fuck?
Some jerkoff politician is getting a new wing on his house with blood money from people dying

Has anyone seen a good explanation for why NYC rents are still so high? I just saw that offices are still only at like 30% capacity, so you’d get the impression that a lot of office workers would be leaving or would have left the city altogether.

Not even “still” so high. Skyrocketing.

Right. Like how can it be that there’s no change in demand for NYC apartments?

Or increased demand

my yuppie landlords (there was a nytimes "the hunt" quiddities piece about them buying the building i live in) are moving and want to rent their unit--a 1br lightly renovated in a highly joanna gainesish way--for $3300! in RIDGEWOOD!

Office workers left the city when the pandemic started. A lot of them probably moved back. Happy to not have to work/commute in manhattan, but still happy to live in the outer boroughs, and manhattan. It's all the office buildings in manhattan that are empty. They need to start converting them to apartments.

"a 1br lightly renovated in a highly joanna gainesish way--for $3300! in RIDGEWOOD!"

I've gotten used to saying this over and over again for the last 20 years when it comes to NYC rents/neighborhoods further and further out becoming expensive, but holy fucking shit.

Giant investment firms/hedge funds still own almost all property and would rather let apartments go empty than lower the rent. (They can stomach years of losses - hell, it's already baked into the tax code so they can write it off as soon as they own the building.) There is my conspiracy theory.

That theory at least seems to make sense to my untrained mind

Making New York Possible, is his banner title - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CashJordan

Damn, sry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW0mFzaMOto

Giant investment firms/hedge funds still own almost all property and would rather let apartments go empty than lower the rent. (They can stomach years of losses - hell, it's already baked into the tax code so they can write it off as soon as they own the building.) There is my conspiracy theory.

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I've heard vague explanations about how lowering the rent can also impact the commercial mortgages underlying these properties (I guess so long as you "could" rent it for x, the property can be valued based on that, but once you accept a lower rent, that can trigger provisions requiring additional collateral or something like that but tbh I'm talking out of my ass and don't know how it works).

still, after 2008, landlords did wind up having to lower rent for a while. I think you can only do these things for so long before it catches up with you.

Are landlords still offering a lot of "incentives" like "three months free rent" and stuff like that? That's usually a sign of landlords trying to keep rents looking artificially high. If they're not doing that, then not so much.

Reports are also showing very low vacancy rates, although IDK how that's calculated and whether it can be monkeyed with.

I'm always looking for houses near my apt, which is a very middle class not particularly trendy part of NYC. A house is for sale 2 doors down from my apartment. It is a 2332 sq ft 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom. Price? $939,000

oh they just added pictures! Looks like maybe they used to have 2 bathrooms but one of them doesn't work? If this was a LOT cheaper I'd buy it and gut it.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3941-55th-St-Flushing-NY-11377/31956467_zpid/?

does it come with the goose

you could rent out the shed for $3000/month

A little hard to believe that cramped-up looking house is over 2300 sf.

including all the floors?

just looks like a living floor and a bedroom floor to me. Basements and attics usually don't count toward sf.