the state financing tenants to buy and convert to HDFCs is a great idea. Too bad HDFCs work best with people who have a lot saved and a small salary

Maybe they didn’t leave enough tip on their expensive rent. Honestly landlords are getting to brazen. Take their properties and convert them to condos or co ops. Give the current residents the opportunity to buy and to stay in their homes. Probably would be cheaper for them.

It's clearly a group better at the CYA portion of their job than they are a the actual job.

True lol

Instead we need we don't deserve anything in life. We earn it.

adams is not a progressive he is a conservative moderate like bloomberg

WTF is progressive about Adams?

As buildings that are majority rent stabilized all eventually become decrepit and go BK they should be sold as coops to the current owners. Then the owners can build wealth. Create there homes as they want them and be responsible for the upkeep of the buildings. Stop the cycle of rent and make people homeowners.

Lmaoo voters in NYC are unbelievably incompetent. After years of the last idiot, you would’ve thought they’d actually learn about the unintended consequences of extreme progressive policies, but of course not. Start letting the migrants sleep in your homes, show us how much you really care!

That means most of Reddit doesn’t have a brain?

Our choices are for people who think everyone deserves a shit education vs someone who thinks no one deserves an education. Same thing for every other issue.

> According to the lawsuit, they took the soil improvement route, rather than the piling route like many other nearby buildings. Pizarotti claims details of the method used were not revealed to it before it started building the tower.

I don't know, if I were some fancy NYC skyscraper builder I'd probably figure out how the foundation was built before I started. Still though. If they weren't responsible for the foundation, then it's hard to see how they're responsible for the lean.

Also I think it's Pizzarotti, the article spells both ways.

There are a fuck ton of offices around Penn station, are you kidding? The entire area is a dead, characterless chasm for commutting office workers. We don't need any more office buildings that will sit empty.

Agreed. I can't even speculate what the actual tally would be. My property in Queens has 3 alone. There are tens of thousands like it. I know quite a few locals who grow figs. We talk and share tips on tree care....

It would be cool to feature more private property trees. There are some impressive specimens near me, and it would add a lot of species diversity.

Even without private property though, the official map has far more trees than the OP’s map. Even just looking at Brooklyn it’s 177,293 in the OP and 227,812 on the official map.

That map sadly only features trees on public land. On my property I have a fig, Pear and Crabapple tree, none of which are counted. The crabapple in particular is a favorite with local bees, and it's blossoms in spring are a magnificent sight. I feel bad that they're on private property and no one gets to see them. Anyway, thanks for the link....

One needn't have a degree in finance and economics to know that the surge in migrants has an unsustainable burden on the city's budget. I'm equally concerned with less immediate costs. Those children will have to be educated, so bilingual services will be needed and some schools will probably see bigger surges. Classroom sizes will be impacted. Principals' budgets will be impacted if they need more teachers. Any migrant might need health care at some point. The effects will linger for a long time....

Then stop advertising NY as a "sanctuary city", dumbfucks.

Why would you use that one and not the official tree map with more up to date data? https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/

Because they’re building it specifically in close proximity to a major regional rail hub which has shockingly little commercial development given the traffic

>3rd party companies.

So, the construction site gets to choose their own company that they pay to "oversee" their work. And you expect them to actually act independently and keep everything in code? Sweet summer child...of course they aren't doing that at every site. They're directly paid by the people who need the go ahead to do whatever they want.

The first part of the article sounds like it was written by a snobby rich person.

God forbid Penn Station have semi-affordable places for regular people like Dunkin Donuts!

In a post Covid era with lots of people still working from home, I don't see why building more offices is a good idea

Judging by the people they interviewed in the video, the tenants have the means to buy their stuff again and/or move.

A lot of people would happily pay $1500 less in rent per month and you can keep your 3’ granite countertop and particle board flooring.