"Can't beat em, join em" mentality. I love it. You becoming one with the trees through our seed sounds better than me becoming one with the dogs, thanks to all that stinky pee. Perspective.

They pay a fee it's called tax

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I live in one of these buildings. It’s been a nightmare and so discouraging because there is nowhere to turn. You call 311 and put in your complaint and that’s it. I think they should convert these buildings to co-ops and let us buy them. The landlord is absolutely horrible. And the employees change non stop. It is crazy!

There are empty office buildings in every neighborhood. Can’t these apps afford to rent a lobby as a hub for delivery workers? Their net worth is in the billions and they only make everything worse in the cities which in they operate

Planning events are pretty much always full of idiots booing any proposed change

I hope you don’t mind. But I read this in the voice of Fran Lebowitz.

If Doordash/Uber/Grubhub want to do business in our city, we should charge them a fee. They charge us enough fees. Charge them a fee and put that towards these rest stops.

Edit: let me clarify, we do charge taxes, so do they. We should charge an additional fee for them. There is no way they will pass that extra cost down to the consumer. They won’t have the nerve.

I’m not sure why you’re confidently asserting that it’s only the explanation you’re offering.

I’ve looked into the HDFC buildings near me. The all-cash ones were cheaper than ones that took mortgages when you looked at comparable units. Clearly they’re not getting more money.

And I asked my realtor friend who lives in an HDFC unit and she said it’s almost always bad finances and an inability to get approved by banks.

Sounds like you’re looking at some pretty extreme cases likely in Manhattan based on the pricing.

Nobody in this sub knows how a community board works. You can join yours. You can speak at yours. You can participate. If you don't like the board, get involved and take over.

These votes equate a recommendation to the city and the Councilmember. It does not block the rest stop from proceeding.

If you are spending all your time being mad on the internet, maybe you should get involved with your block and speak up at a board meeting.

But then it would be take-out.

Until voter turnout for the "boring" local elections cracks at least 40% (which is still abysmal) consistently, I will continue to blame the eligible voters as holding a huge portion of responsibility for the state of things. Yes special interest has co-opted out government and corruption flourishes, but as a voting public we're not even trying to make it hard for them. Adams is exactly the same person he was when he was borough president. Now he just has more power and a bigger budget to fuck with. And voters gave that to him.

No it's because they neglected to put asset limits on HDFC purchases. The HDFC market is warped by asset rich people who haven't had an income in two years and thus aren't restricted by the income limits. The income limits make it so that anybody that falls within those limits can't afford the purchase price even with a mortgage when they're competing against these asset rich/no income cash offers. And the co-op owners know that they can get more money in the sale by going after those people.

I've seen some particular egregious examples where the income limit is like $50k/yr and the unit is listed at over a million dollars. Rich people love it because they still get to take advantage of the tax abatements/low maintenance.

If they thought about it, they'd realize it would cause an increase in delivery workers in the area thus they'd all get their food faster.

The city had a solution to this: replacing the current HDFC agreement with one that included asset limits. HDFC owners threw a fit because it would have tanked their property values because the HDFC market right now revolves around these all-cash offers from people who on paper don't have an income. They tried to entice the HDFCs with more tax abatements but nobody seems interested.

no one wants the e-bikes in their actual building because of the fire hazard.

Story does mention that the chik fil a one doesn’t allow e-bikes

Blandest neighborhood in the city has a predictably NIMBY community board.

The one on the upper east side is being paid for by chic fil a, bc of how much everyone hates the rows of bikes outside their location on 86th street. DoorDash and Uber should be renting the spaces tbh.

Ofc I still think they should have a space, but clearly no one wants it on their block. And the people who are ordering their lunch burrito from chipotle done exact go to community board meetings

This is part of Adams’ plan to turn old newsstands into charging stations for e-bikes.

It’s amazing how technology has made society as a whole become lazier and in this particular case more entitled. Agree with you 100%.

Solution: let the people on the UWS go and get their deliveries themselves. After all, they aren't THAT entitled (are they?)

Public unions are a threat to the public it seems then. Also I want to add that voter turnout is depressingly low in local mayoral elections, I believe if more people vote in the election and for the right person then we can solve our problems.

Build on the parking lots at a minimum.

Good. LeCorbusier’s “towers in the park” model hs had half a century to fuck in our cities - let’s have some more housing and some real, mixed-use communities.