Did you read the articles I linked?

Lithium batteries, especially refurbished ones, can overheat and can cause fires/explosions especially when overcharged. What do you think will happen when one battery explodes when it's in proximity of a bunch of other batteries with the same issues? This is why newer buildings are moving towards fireproof bike rooms

Thank you for the info!

> A recharging station that brings them all together, especially on the same circuit, is a good way to cause an explosion.

Did you just make this up?

Putting e-bikes together in one non-flammable place is safer than spreading them out into various places, some of which are flammable. Putting them on one circuit isn't particularly risky. If the bikes are each three feet apart, the probability that a fire will spread between them is low.

Commuting from Williamsburg to the Financial District via Ferry was more of a luxury when I did it rather than the most sensical means of transportation. Obviously, that's a different route than what you're asking, but I wouldn't imagine the experience is different. The ferries can become overcrowded during rush hour, especially coming home in the nice weather months. And if you're sensitive, there is a chance for motion sickness in choppy weather. Timewise, they can sometimes save you time, so long as your destinations are near the ferry landings.

The landings aren't very mass transit accessible in my experience. So unless you live/work right near the A and B of your trip, it might just be a warm-weather luxury for you as well.

Same reason Adams brought back 4 day ASP. More money.

Yeah, I suspect Staten Island, as well as the other more suburban parts of NYC will be 100% NIMBYs. My CB covers a good amount of suburban areas in Queens, but all the density along Queens Blvd may be canceling it.

We don't

Most of these replies are disingenuous. The article does not say it’s unsustainable for nyc, a major port of entry, to provide services to take in migrants. You guys are projecting

The article calls for a shift to services which will put migrants on a path to self-sustenance. This is cheaper in the long run than paying for emergency shelters and paying hotels to fulfill this role.

It is also cheaper than paying to put up a camp in Randall’s island, paying to dismantle that, paying to bus everyone to red hook, and paying again to put up a camp there

Get rid of community boards. These things only give retired affluent people with free time extra power beyond the ballot box

>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.

This is complete nonsense. Of course they will pass extra costs onto customers. The only way that would not happen is if supply is completely inelastic (they cannot change how much food they deliver, for any amount of money) and/or demand is completely elastic (food sales would drop to 0% if any of the fee goes into the final price of delivered food).

Yep. Of course they will. When VC money starts to run out and companies need to turn a profit the prices go up. Happened with ride share and will happen/is happening with food delivery

Rich people they do like to bitch. Someone below says Door Dash et al should rent the spaces because of the fees they charge? How about you don't use any of those services and you won't get charged any fees. Walk to the deli instead of abusing the delivery people.

Must be the same kind of people that resent tipping wait-persons as well. The complainers live on the upper west side, they're well to do and entitled. They do not want the unwashed masses anywhere near them...so then the ones making a stink should move to Vermont.

The people who use those bikes are working people so of course the well to do denizens of those hoods don't want to have to look upon the lower classes.

Beautyful

Staten Island CB3 is 100% NIMBY town. They but threated DOT when they wanted to put in bike lanes. (which they did anyway, fuck you nimbys)

What was the application process like? Was there an essay and an interview?

Not necessarily. Being a CB member is a lot of work and a pain in the butt. It’s not always easy to fill seats.

Please do not take this as defending cruelty.

This clear scoundrel should be roundly condemned. He steals from those who can least afford his insufferable nonsense. I want to point out, he is clothed in the wolf's clothing of infamy. Slavery and injustice is prolific in the history of the United States. His church members are the generations of victims of charlatans and misanthropes whose illness is prolific.

He is the same as Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Jim and Tammy Fae Baker, Kenneth Copeland and Peter Popoff. These ministers don't serve a deity. They serve themselves. They are monsters. They eat the lives of poor people without guilt or remorse.

It is horrible to watch. It is the legacy of slavery and intolerance.

We are better than this.

Reddit would cease to exist if people actually got involved instead of being mad on the internet

Seriously every time I have to go to a meeting in one of the penn plaza buildings its so depressing.

You’re defending this guy who robbed lower income people of color by using slavery as an excuse? Don’t you see how twisted that is?

I've been to a few

And the "Bishop" was actively blackmailing people using Eric Adams name and suggesting he had insider power. This guy procured from his proximity (until that bizarre "jewelery heist" caught on camera).

They could but they’d be wrong. Delivery service existed in Nyc before them. They’ve just made everything more expensive. We need to bring back in house delivery services and leave Uber out in the suburbs.

Good, they’re already bad enough flying through the city creating hazards, can’t imagine them all conjugating in one place.

Seriously its NYC, they can go rest in central park or any other public space. Why are we dying on the hill of defending these delivery riders like them and rideshare drivers aren’t one of the biggest issues with this city right now polluting the streets with their negligent and downright bad driving/biking.

I as a tax payer owe these people nothing and do not want to support this god awful unregulated gig economy.

We pay for the NYPD with our taxes, if the ebikes are unsafe it's the NYPD's job to enforce traffic laws. Don't be mad at Uber, be mad at the cops