What If...
What if you were a wealthy philanthropist who could write a $100 million check to fund any infrastructure or public project in Brooklyn? What would it be? A selective high school to rival Stuyvesant in Manhattan? Hundreds more patrol officers on the police force? A monorail above Atlantic Avenue? Let your imagination run wild.
What if you were a wealthy philanthropist who could write a $100 million check to fund any infrastructure or public project in Brooklyn? What would it be? A selective high school to rival Stuyvesant in Manhattan? Hundreds more patrol officers on the police force? A monorail above Atlantic Avenue? Let your imagination run wild.
I would rebuild ebbets field and bring back the dodgers.
I would hire a hit man to blow up all those idiots with booming bass car stereos
To whomever up there who said that Brooklyn Tech is mostly Asian: take a clue, Stuyvesant is mostly Asian too!
Education, Education, Education. There is so much construction going on and a huge need for skilled tradesmen (women.) Paying illegals a subhuman wage where dangerous working conditions prevail has to end. There are huge numbers of young men who have no hope or skill and must get the necessary training. Not everyone can be a college graduate. Fortunately construction can’t be exported overseas. We have to train folks to do the jobs that exist and can lead to productive lives. And while we are at it let’s train lots of nurses. Us boomers are getting old and this is a growth industry with many positions available at high wages. Good jobs lead to stability, home ownership, family values, etc. Society will benefit all around and the middle class can expand, not contract!
paying the police more won’t work, they do so little work now. In our bad neighborhoods like Bushwick, BedSty and ENY people are urinating on the street, throwing garbage, disturbing the peace with loud music, and they don’t do anything when it’s right under their noses. they want to stand around and talk to one another, cashing in that 20 yr. pension.
tunnel the BQE underground
I went to Midwood, which is a great school. When I was there it had a student pop of 2400 and in some classes we had to sit on the window sills. Now the school has 4000 students. It can’t be a good learning environment. The money should go to the school system, but with a plan!
What Bloomberg SHOULD have done — leave everything else in public school system the same, just cut the number of kids per classroom to 15 (typical ratio for private schools…).
MF
i’d put an outpost of local foods–baked goods, fruits, vegetables — in every bank branch that just has ATMs in them (bc they’re a total waste of space). then i’d make all banks put fee-less ATMs on street corners, like there used to be for newspapers.