One of the most interesting and impactful decisions the initial New Yorkers made was making streets like Broadway so wide. In the 16/1700s it seems so unnecessary to make these streets so large. Could you imagine lugging over goods to your neighbor across the way so far? But today we are able to have 5 lane N-S streets.

It sucks but you love it?

And all I want is to walk down the street and be left alone.

What’s the station? It’s not obvious anywhere

NYC was nice back then. Now it's a capitalist hellscape with no green space. Fun fact, great cities around the world take great pride in designing cities that are nice to live in, except NYC. NYC sucks. I love it, but it's an embarrassment to humans who still have souls.

Yeah. I'm going to wait for the entire video to come out. Police will say "Suspect was banging on our patrol car" and the video will show the guy knocking on the window.

I agree - I was baiting (as opposed to trolling - my intent wasn't to irritate but to point out the emotionalized logical fallacy).

I also resent the pollution and ownership of private cars vs the fact that the US chose cars and oil over what was probably the best train system in the world.

We had effective and reasonably priced mass transit and gave it up so that the Rockefellers and the Fords could make insane profits (and later for Congress to get a cut for decades of preferential legislation).

For whatever reason drivers think they don't inconvenience anyone else and don't view the enormous amount of space given over to them as a problem

Not to mention the importance of institutional knowledge, and just having the bandwidth to manage projects.

NYC used to have hundreds more planners and engineers on staff. All those jobs and more get outsourced to private consultants at 3x the cost now, while they're managed by an overworked skeleton crew.

My fam owned that 1st house on right… today I am a Zillionaire.

Tell me you don’t know the law without telling me you don’t know the law

While the video shows nothing about why he was cuffed in the first place and whether or not it was justified, once the video started rolling the cops aren't acting violently. They hold his arms trying to restrain him. They don't beat him or taze him. And when he gets away, they don't chase him. They don't taze him or god forbid shoot him.

Yeah. Most places keep costs down by having more internal staff. We've largely gutted public staffing across the board, NYC's planning staff is a fraction of what it used to be.

Everyone is run ragged, so everything gets outsourced to contractors at 3x the cost.

Paris builds new rail constantly, at a fraction of NYC prices, despite being an old system, in an old city, with a river and riddled with catacombs below ground, with a heavily unionized workforce.

The big "trick" is they do it all in-house, only outsource if absolutely necessary, and keep contractors on a tight leash. Also, they don't have to do multi-year long environmental reviews and feasibility studies for every little project, they just do them.

The only thing we know for certainty is that he’s now getting a felony charge lol

And…that’s how you get upgraded to a felony

And the MRT has only been around since like 1990

Or Paris or Spain or Korea or Taiwan...

I mean it’s just a subway train, what else could it have done to please you?

I mean you’re right I could have worded the last line better, but can you forgive me for being peeved that you’d put words in my mouth that we’re way out of left field and mischaracterizing of anything I was saying? Especially considering my point boils down to we should treat tbi seriously.

I love how you go from “sorry that happened” about my TBI to “you’re talking to a straw man” talking directly to facts about being a person with a cop-induced TBI. Any level of sarcasm is disrespectful and disqualifying.

That’s not a problem with police, that’s a problem with Reddit commenters.

Actions that would have been 100% justified and could have been used by the first two cops. Repeated strikes, taser, spray. But they keep trying to just use arm control to control somebody bigger/stronger then them.

Crowd would have probably scream police abuse and become hostile had they used any of the tactics/devices above anyway.

A kid who graduated college and hasn’t gotten in any past trouble… what a great way to set your career back 10 steps. Idiot.

Docema who produced PBS' fire movies Darnell's Fire and Broadside does reconstructions from history. Many illustrations and video at NYC Fire Museum 3/15-8/15. www.nycfiremuseum.org or at www.savingny.com

> You are allowed to resist arrest, legally, if you believe the arrest is unlawful.

😂

I mean I’m all for folks recording police officers. They need to be accountable to the broader public and body cams and citizen bystanders are good ways to do that. But yeah people trying to treat all that like a joke and just film for clout aren’t helping anyone.