There are many places in Manhattan not dominated by tall buildings. That said, the hypocrites should not expect the city to stand still for their own selfish benefit.

I'm envisioning a 1% acceptance rate for legal cover only. Thats really not solving anything.

I like the idea of more public housing. However, most of public housing construction was funded by the federal government. They don't do that sort of thing anymore. NYCHA loses money as the rents are set up as a percentage of income driving anyone making a solid income away. And NYCHA is poorly managed.

You sound very naive. Under the current housing crisis any landlord can find an easy reason to legitimately reject a Section 8 applicant or just accept one as a token. Its just one more application out of many. And its not like the apartment is going to waste as someone else who needs it and willing to pay for it out of pocket will get it.

There is simply not enough housing stock in NYC for the demand. Section 8 isn't going to solve this.

Paying for more Section 8 housing at a better rate will not solve the lack of affordable housing. Only more housing construction will. Now, would more demand stimulate more housing stock to meet the demand? It hasn't so far.

You think anyone investing in Tribeca or Dumbo rental properties is thinking about Section 8? You honestly believe think thats the clientele they are taking into consideration and not the people making 6 or 7 figures a year?

Absolutely. Some of the rules are very antiquated as if its 1988. Why deny payments to the landlord because the tenant changed their cellphone number without informing the offices?

> No one has a right to a successful business, you have to work for it.

I agree. What does that have to do with a highly flawed government program landlords don't want to deal with? Doctors are not forced to accept Medicaid. Improve the system and landlords would happily take Section 8 just like supermarkets and bodegas take SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).

Restaurants are not forced to sell food under some government program. Supermarkets are and gladly do as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) consistently pays out. When Section 8 gets the same reputation without the constant horror stories, please let us know.

You honestly think people buying expensive real estate in NYC for rentals had any intention of dealing with Section 8?

Perhaps North Carolina does a far better job of administering Section 8 than NY.

Good for him. It doesn't sound like he is working a highly competitive real estate market.

The paperwork for a landlord dealing with Section 8 is non-stop. Only a large landlord can afford the staffing to do it. Its been awhile, but if Albany stalls on passing a budget, Section 8 payments can be suspended until the budget is passed. If the Section 8 tenant doesn't update their info, that could be a problem even if its something trivial like changing cellphone numbers.

Discrimination is not the right word. Its a problematic system anyone with a half a brain should avoid in favor of a tenant paying their rent with their income.

>Bullshit!

-Dr Martin Luther King

Personally I don't care about the $1 fee for the card. Its finding out at the worst possible time the card is expired. And the MTA is hoping people will just throw it away instead of transferring the value to a new card.

This ignores the modern free transfers from subway to buses and buses to subway. The 2 fare zone mattered if you had to pay it. Also I don't have to pay $1 for a MetroCard with an expiration date if I use a credit card.

Its not that Eric Adams is shameless, its that he simply doesn't care if his actions make him look shady to the public. He simply cannot wipe that stupid smile off his face and say I'm sorry and will try to do better in the future.

And without the bodega cat :(

Thats not completely true. Parts of the BART system are now reaching end of life stages where the very concrete is wearing out. It wasn't designed to be used so heavily by so many. In contrast the NYC subway is designed and expected to move millions 24/7.

It would be if the subway had both.

Mass transit exists so millions of New Yorkers can go to work and school. It makes little sense to spend limited dollars to idiot-proof the system for the dumbest percentile of the population.

Most teens over 100 years ago were often full ass adults with jobs and families. Self indulgences are usually a privilege.

More likely they would say how fucking gross everything is.

The Morgue

The Jeffrey Epstein Center for Human Justice

Citi Field in the post season

Germany was in dire shortage of much required for nuclear weapons. Nazi Germany had no uranium mines while the US could import what it needed from as far away as Australia.