Looks to me like that map is a composite of the 2015-16 Street Tree Census and the 2016-18 Park Tree inventory with 800K points--this is just the 2015-16 census.

But also, there's a Forestry Tree Points that seems to have over 1m trees. Maybe this weekend I'll update to include all of those. https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/Forestry-Tree-Points/hn5i-inap/data

Well when things are so bad that the artificially controlled rents don't cover the building costs it's hardly the profit motive.

Though there are plenty of situations where buildings were basically worthless and not worth keeping up. There were many examples in American cities in the 70s and 80s. Or go on abandoned porn on reddit.

Most buildings that I am aware of let the tenants finance big construction projects. Also buildings need maintenance. If the owners don't want to pay for the maintenance of their building I don't know what to say.

But no less satisfying.

Yep, and that was a high profile job, now imagine all the other low-rise buildings that fly under the radar.

>rubber-stamped by a retired 80 year old architect or engineer that's basically sold their stamp.

There was a fascinating story about this awhile ago with an architect who claimed he didn't even know his name/stamp was being used to approve a massive hotel at Hudson Yards.

The problem is enforcing, especially with a poorer population. Telling someone who makes < $100k, they owe $50k in the next 90 days or it’s going to get legal is not pretty, but the reality of this proposal.

$50k per unit doesn’t even go that far when you’re talking about a neglected building. Even well maintained buildings need a surprise $10-15k every now and then for random projects. $50k for a neglected building is hardly a crazy high number.

Current owners would just be subsidizing wealthier people/investors who would buy up the foreclosures while losing their savings in the process.

IMHO that’s predatory.

You're kinda right but it goes deeper than that. Pretty much all building inspections are performed by third party companies by ownership. In theory, the inspectors and safety people are there to keep the contractor in check so the owner doesn't get sued to oblivion when someone dies. In practice, there are a lot of owners who act as their own GCs with little actual oversight.

It's even worse when you realize that a lot of building plans are drawn up by developer's in-house CAD people, and then rubber-stamped by a retired 80 year old architect or engineer that's basically sold their stamp.

I worked on the 40th floor of a building near Madison Sq Park and it would sway visibly in windy days. We would often get seasick. It was awful.

Alternatively they're waiting for their nypost supported candidates to get in and change the laws back.

Yea when you own a building it comes with responsibilities.

If they require cash it’s typically because their coop is poorly-run financially and can’t get approved by banks to take mortgages. So you wouldn’t want that coop anyway.

Trust that the owners would love to take mortgages because it means they could sell their units for more. But their financials aren’t good enough.

You’re saying convert NYCHA to coops or convert rentals to NYCHA?

Lol I mean they kind of urinated on the law

To me if the tenants can make a case that the building owner is absentee and it can pass muster with a court. The building should then become a co-op with a board and everything that takes ownership.

Yeah, the top floors don't matter when they were meant to be shell/stash houses for foreign money that never intended to live in them anyway. Can't wait for the same thing to happen to the Penn/MSG project.

The city's approach to a lot of things is financially unsustainable. NYPD broke records last year for misconduct settlements. Taxpayers had over 121 million of their hard-earned tax dollars just flushed down the toilet. And in 2023 we're going to have to deal with wrongful conviction lawsuits from those almost 2k cases connected to the NYPD'S Joseph Franco scandal.

Because to Adams tax dollars grows on trees and is neverending. Pfft it's not like that money could've been used to do something crazy like benefit the entire community....

https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/nypd-pays-out-more-than-121-million-in-police-misconduct-lawsuits-data/

Looks like the top floors would feel like living on a boat even if it's built right. I don't know why billionaires want to live at the top of these new super narrow skyscrapers.

Im guessing this skeleton will sit there for a decade before tax money pays for it to be taken down when it becomes too dangerous. All parties at fault will be bankrupt shell companies whose owners will still be wealthy but pay nothing towards fixing or removing this building. There's another unfinished new tower by Hudson Yards that is sitting there because they faked architect approval.

Tinkers. Tinkling with the law is something different.

The cameras will fine drivers in their sleep

I find Ron DeSantis’ human trafficking operation as disgusting and inhumane as the next guy, but you do have to admit that it’s working. People who continuously have denied that the US has a problem at the Southern border are waking up to the fact that they simply cannot house all the people arriving. That’s what Florida and Texas have been experiencing all day every day for years. Many of the ‘solutions’ are shortsighted and inhumane, but solutions are needed that decrease the inflow quickly and sustainably. Denying the problem doesn’t help anybody, least the migrants whose sky-high expectations can never be met.

Thats our version of owning the Cons. We welcome everyone so we claim to be morally superior. They didnt think scumbags like Abbott would then own us by sending them here.

The Leaning Tower of Pizzarotti, I like it

It depends on the neighborhood, I’m in nyc often and I feel safe most of the time. The worst I usually see is maybe some homeless mumbling to himself or New Yorkers being New Yorkers. No big deal. The drivers , specially cab and Uber drivers are dangerous though , they have no regard for people crossing the streets . You’re not exaggerating on that part , is almost the same in Jersey, but since there are not that many pedestrians it doesn’t seem as bad . But we have bad drivers all over the tri state area and other cities in the US as well

Yeah, I mostly go to the city on the weekends and I’ve noticed there are a lot more people on the subways . Particularly the ACE and 123 lines . Oh and the 7 train as well