Friday Links
Students See Hard Future if Free Fares Are Ended [NY Times] Thousands Lose Rent Vouchers in Cutback [NY Times] ‘B’klyn Madoff’ in Court Over $45M Scheme [NY Post] Williamsburg Squatter Ousted by Cops [NY Post] More Scandal at ‘Horndog High’ [NY Daily News] New Building for Red Hook Charter School [Brooklyn Paper] Displaced Tenants Protest…
Students See Hard Future if Free Fares Are Ended [NY Times]
Thousands Lose Rent Vouchers in Cutback [NY Times]
‘B’klyn Madoff’ in Court Over $45M Scheme [NY Post]
Williamsburg Squatter Ousted by Cops [NY Post]
More Scandal at ‘Horndog High’ [NY Daily News]
New Building for Red Hook Charter School [Brooklyn Paper]
Displaced Tenants Protest Lack of Housing [Brooklyn Eagle]
Freddy’s Patrons to Chain Themselves to Bar [Curbed]
Borough Park Fire Injures Young Girl [NY1]
DOT Begins Annual Pothole Filling Campaign [NY1]
Union Market to Open Monday [CHB]
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NYC subsidizes more social services than the suburbs because NYC has more residents who need social services. This is apples and oranges. Believe it or not, there are thousands of families in the city that will not be able to afford paying nearly $100 a month — PER CHILD — to send their kids to school. This will impose an immense hardship on these students. It is simply mind-boggling to me that anyone could really think kids in the city school system, many of whom already face huge systemic disadvantages, should have their options limited by whether or not they can afford to take the subway. Can you GET more cynical?
THL;
I made my case above. The taxpayers subsidize the public transportation system. We subsidize the schools (and as I showed with the statistics cited, it is the second-most expensive system in the country). We provide free lunches in the school. NYC has the most extensive social services in the country. NYC’s citizens have the highest tax burden in the country.
We are facing a fiscal crisis, and if parents are being asked to shoulder their children’s school fare on an already-subsidized system, that is not too much to ask for, especially when others are being asked to take on much more.
As for the comparison to the suburbs: the suburbs don’t have to subsidize a mass-transit system and other social services the way the city does. How many projects are there in the suburbs? We in city have a higher tax burden because of these social services, but a line needs to be drawn somewhere.
benson has socialization issues, THL 🙂
Why does the thought of NYC children being provided public transportation to school so disgust you Benson? I’m at a loss as to why you think that it’s so egregious.
It’s something provided to every child in the suburbs.
Rob;
Good idea! Have a great weekend!
lol let the students all bike to school
*rob*
Bxgrl;
I refer you to the government’s own data:
http://www.census.gov/govs/www/school06.html
If you download the PDF file with all the data, and go to Table 15, you will see the spending breakdown by school district.
To take up Denton’s point that more money is spent on “monethnic” (his code word for “white”) school districts than on NYC’s, please note that the per-capita spending for NYC’s public education system is $17,000 per pupil (which is the second highest in the country, after Washington DC). By contrast, that for Brentwood, Long Island is about $15,000.
Well denton- you’ve been told. Of course you would invent those stats- aren’t you a stinkin’ liberal? We all know you would never look stuff up first before posting 😉
Denton;
These figures are pure baloney. NYC spends way more per-capita on their students.
In case you haven’t noticed, I have stopped posting in the OT.