Tuesday Links
City Toughening Rules for Rent Subsidies [NY Times] Average, or Even Median, Is a Lot of Money [NY Times] Need a Mortgage? Don’t Get Pregnant [NY Times] W’burg Scam Turns Loft-y Dream to Nightmare [NY Post] Cable Reconstruction Project at Manhattan Bridge [Brooklyn Paper] Police Shoot-Out Wounds Two in Brownsville [NY1] City Shuts Water Tunnel…
City Toughening Rules for Rent Subsidies [NY Times]
Average, or Even Median, Is a Lot of Money [NY Times]
Need a Mortgage? Don’t Get Pregnant [NY Times]
W’burg Scam Turns Loft-y Dream to Nightmare [NY Post]
Cable Reconstruction Project at Manhattan Bridge [Brooklyn Paper]
Police Shoot-Out Wounds Two in Brownsville [NY1]
City Shuts Water Tunnel to Gowanus Canal [WNYC]
What If There’d Been Citywide Planning [AYR]
Jodi Arnold Opens Atlantic Ave Boutique [CHB]
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“ENY — I own a car… it costs about that. $800 for insurance. $37 for inspection. And periodic repairs (many you can do yourself on the cheap). And gas is “negligible”… because I’m not talking about an hour commute to Manhattan. I’m talking about a 2 mile trip to be a cook at Applebees.”.
OK. That’s what it costs you. But maintenance goes up, and is not always a predictable cost. Then there is the cost of the occasional ticket. Of course there’s also the cost of acquiring a car. I’d still believe that in a city with multiple public transportation options, more poor people use public transit than drive.
FYI, I also own a car. Cost me more than $90/month, but I have full insurance coverage.
“And ENY, why are there so many cars in *very* poor neighborhoods?”
There are many more PEOPLE in poor neighborhoods than there are cars, Tyburg. As I mentioned, some poor people do own cars. Think about it.
tybur6 – I’ll leave it here – anyone can read this thread, can see the context, see if I was fair in quoting you and determine for themselves who is the sad (and bitter) person is.
I rest.
Anyone curious about the status of the father(s) of her two children?
(and I don’t mean the context of my comments alone… I mean the context of the ENTIRE thread including the NYT article. But you knew that’s what I meant, right?)
I’m not going to engage someone anymore that thinks it’s more important to take quotes out of context and attack details than to actually engage the *substance* — you’re a sad little person.
“Any half-intelligent person would understand that I wasn’t speaking in B&W terms. ”
Really? – Please find me one of your quotes where you were speaking in equivocal terms? or just suggesting the choice of moving out of NYC as just an option “on the table.” Again it is clear that you are incapable of admitting you were wrong (or at least were greatly overstating reality and being wrongly presumptuous so I will take your changing tone as such an admission-but god help your spouse)
Here are some of your choice quotes:
“And, yes, I think there’s other thing that keep people in NYC other than inertia. But that’s because they haven’t thought it through. ”
“bringing your child up in poverty in NYC has got to be one of the worst things to do to your kids. Borderline abuse if you ask me. ”
“How is saving $29 for a Greyhound bus to ANYWHERE not more attractive than staying in NYC?”
“FSRQ — This is just the problem. It’s a false promise of opportunity.”
ok.
I am talking about anyone UNDER those limits, which is essentially the working poor.
Montrose — I was agreeing with Benson yesterday. It hurt a little.