Fewer job opportunities where? In Manhattan? Where people being paid minimum wage are paying $2.75 minimum each way to commute from outer boroughs? To make rent for apartments that don't exist in their price range?

Population count is not the same as well in a borough. Brooklyn is the largest borough but Manhattan has the most millionaires in billionaires. Not working in an office in Manhattan is not the reason why people in Brooklyn and Queens are having issues affording to live here.

So you are making an assumption that the population went down in the outer boroughs because.... The restaurants and coffee shops aren't doing as well as some people say they are? Please explain how you made this jump.

It's equally likely that people left because it's not worth it to commute to Manhattan everyday from those boroughs when the rent is so fucking high and the housing stock is so low.

The population of Manhattan went up. Seems like a pretty good indication that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and can no longer afford to live here with the pitiful amount of housing stock left for middle class and lower income people.

>the more, the merrier

Then Scarsdale really has nothing to worry about, since they're not being asked to make housing for anyone less than a millionaire (ickyyyyy!)

The housing requirement isn't for low income. It's not requiring section 8 housing. It's requiring they build any housing. But the fact that you jumped there and made the assumption that everyone in section 8 is a violent criminal pretty much proves my point. Just admit that the push to stop any housing is because of straight up racism and stereotyping of what poor or lower income people are like.

I assure you Scarsdale is full of criminals. But we call them white collar despite the destruction they do getting into the millions and billions of dollars in theft.

>only takes a few violent, disruptive students

So you're suggesting people who are middle class or even slightly lower than middle class are all violent criminals? Or just non-white people?

Honestly, I'd rather these Scarsdale NIMBYs just say what they really mean.

And what exactly would happen to Scarsdale if people who are less than millionaires were able to live in their Metro-North train station town? Or is this really just dog whistling about how to prevent wealthy assholes in Scarsdale from having to live anywhere close to "certain people."

>Let the judge decide if relevant

That's not how the justice system works. The judge isn't the one deciding what is relevant for the defense of a defendant before a trial has begun.

If a system relies only on the defense being left in the dark and not receiving all evidence against them in order for it to "run smoothly"- the system is broken.

The requirement isn't to build low cost housing. It's to build any housing. Being a NIMBY cuts pretty evenly across the political spectrum so I'm not surprised.

>Scarsdale is rich town with a village aesthetic.

And 90% of Manhattan used to be farmland. It's time to grow, adapt and change. Scarsdale isn't a precious gem. They can build 180 more units of housing and survive.

Because New York state is more than NYC. Suburbs need to do their fair share. It's long overdue. Scarsdale hadn't raised the number of homes there since the 90s. It's ridiculous.

Would we be sued by the Tolkien estate if we named it "Buckleberry Ferry"?

...what?

>The total number of homes in Scarsdale — about 5,750 in 2020, according to the Census Bureau — has barely changed since 1990.

We're taking Scarsdale build 170 more homes. They'll survive.

Of course, it's not about hardship it's about racist and xenophobic suburbanites trying to keep "certain people" out and we all know it.

It wasn't a press release. It was an internal memo. This was never going to be discussed as a political point, the intent was just to begin changing how they name internally and then on website, signage, etc. without comment.

Maybe prosecutors should deal with getting defendants they are owed faster by asking for more funds and staff from the state, rather than suggesting the only way they can win is to hide evidence.

Of course, the Post and other right wing rags would never suggest that.

Whatever, just build more of them. NYC Parks don't even get 1% of our budget and then provide a MASSIVE public service to every neighborhood. Give them more money and build more public bathrooms!

The basis of the podcast is whether the evidence was enough to convict, not whether he was guilty. Those are different things.

Not really. It did try hard to show us how flimsy the evidence and court case were regardless of whether he was innocent or guilty.

They may be lazy, but they aren't NYC employees.

They aren't law enforcement, they're station agents. Not their job.

Ah yes, pointing out baseline political corruption is "being triggered."

The way right wing cranks will bend over backwards to excuse political corruption so long as it's on their side. While simultaneously yelling hysterically about Chirlane McCray, as if anyone on the left will disagree that she was a crook. Or that we disagree that Eric Adams is corrupt and practices crony politics.

Also, I have no idea what religion she practices but YOU sure seem triggered by people calling her out.

It's not small fish stuff. It's a major conflict of interest violation.