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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So, no one knows why the Gowanus Canal isn’t dammed up and filled in?
Yes, FSRQ. That’s what I said — and NO, inertia is not the same as lazy. I explained what I meant by inertia…. but your own inertia of being a contrary douche prevents you from seeing that.
“Long Island – for example. You can get a nice 1 bedroom apartment for 500 bucks, in a school district far superior to even the good ones in NYC ”
This would be great if true, but it isnt even close to true(renting from your wealthy parents doesnt count)
“Oh – and there’s a far less chance your 8 year old kid will encounter a gun fight at 8pm on a Weekend night while riding his bike and get hit with a stray bullet.”
AND a much much greater chance than getting hit a bullet is getting run over by a Drunk Driver or becoming that Drunk Driver when the kid retires his bicycle and starts driving at 17.
The comments are pretty bad. Many of them coming from you, Tyburg.
Gas is negligible? Gas may be negligible TO YOU, but to someone making $250 a week, filling up your tank for $40 bucks IS NOT negligible.
Nor are car repairs.
People leave the NYC metropolitan area all the time for one reason – it’s too expensive.
With respect to this woman, perhaps if she is an excellent employee, a JC Penny in a cheaper part of the country would be happy to hire her?
People immigrate to the US from thousands of miles away. They don’t speak English well and they leave their families behind. Taking a $29 bus rise to Binghamton and starting over seems a lot easier to me. Unless of course you want to be dependent on the government for the rest of your life.
And I guarantee you that Binghamton has a bus system, libraries, support services and employment opportunities. And $500 apartments in safe neighborhoods.
And what does “this is a city with multiple transportation options” mean? The only ‘option’ is the bit of transport that gets you where you need to go…
Almost anywhere larger than 20,000 people has a bus system. And some cities have FREE buses.
This quote sums up your patronizing obnoxiousness perfectly –
“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. ”
In other words: the 100s of thousands, if not millions of low income NYC residents ALL are easy lazy (inertia is just a nicer word) or not as well thought out as TYBUR6 otherwise they’d move; but instead they stay and practice “borderline child abuse”.
“But the issue is HOW MUCH cheaper(ans often is =not that much) especially compared to wages.”
Long Island – for example. You can get a nice 1 bedroom apartment for 500 bucks, in a school district far superior to even the good ones in NYC AND get a job in retail making more than you would in NYC (I used to work at Target and Starbucks and made 13 an hour)
Car expenses in the burbs wash out with metrocard expense
and yes, they have libraries, parks, public pools in primitive Long Island as well.
Oh – and there’s a far less chance your 8 year old kid will encounter a gun fight at 8pm on a Weekend night while riding his bike and get hit with a stray bullet.
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.
All-in-all, the gap between the $1100 a year for a MetroCard and the cost of car becomes very very small… even for a poor person.
And ENY, why are there so many cars in *very* poor neighborhoods?