I think there might be some confusion on what a “YIMBY” is and why it’s worth critiquing. here’s a good explanation, and below is an excerpt if you don’t want to read the whole thing:

The problem, YIMBYs believed, was that a housing shortage was driving up rent prices. They rarely, if ever, talked about corporate landlords charging outrageous rents or that developers were demolishing rent-controlled apartments to build market-rate, luxury housing or that local and state governments needed to build more affordable housing and preserve already existing affordable-housing stock, such as rent-controlled apartments.

YIMBYs simplistically concluded that the housing market needed to be flooded with more apartments, and that would ultimately drive down rents. They knew developers built almost exclusively luxury housing, and that was okay with them. YIMBYs insisted that more luxury housing would solve California’s housing affordability crisis. From the get-go, YIMBYs embraced trickle-down economics or what’s now called “trickle-down housing” policy. As middle- and working-class people have long known, trickle-down anything doesn’t work — except to make the rich richer.”

Blessings auto shop on 4th across from Prato does a good job too.

I watch cars run red lights and stop signs on a daily basis. To address pedestrian safety we need to provide bike safety. To provide bike safety we need to change car culture. And with no one enforcing shit driving in this city, nothing will change. In Jersey City a city councilperson can commit a hit and run on camera and still sit in public office. If you really want to create safer streets, pay attention to local politics, follow Safe Streets JC, and hold public officials accountable. Otherwise we will all be left for dead.