i mean duh. canals won't make any sense compared to trains for transportation. they're more fun now but not practical

you dont' induce demand by making more of that thing. ie: building more cars isn't inducing demand of cars. you can say making new york more desirable to live is inducing demand for housing, but building more housing isn't inducing demand for more housing.

That's hilarious. I'd say look on the bright side. Less people calling an ambulance for frivolous trips or calling a less expensive ride for themselves.

People always bring that harlem truck depot example, but those voters are voting rationally. They live and vote there, but they wouldn't get be able to afford the newly proposed apartments. What incentive would those voters have to support new construction. You need a new paradigm.

That's the way it's been for a recent period of time in human development and will probably be the case for the forseeable future. Humans do a lot of insane things.

yea, this is better than the band of migrants who were arrested for shoplifting from Macy's the other day. Let's keep welcoming them in with open arms and see how city and country develops from the influx of people.

yup, nobody else is calling out the famer's almanac.

It would've been cheaper and more efficient to build a pedestrian tunnel connecting the two stations instead.

constructing a twenty story two hundred unit building for 700 million vs four hundred forty story for two billion. exactly as it sounds. I don't know why you'd assume rich would disappear, I'm not saying it. I'm just saying building taller would require you to build more expensive and it's not the ratio that's holding it back. IT's good to hear you know how economics works for supply in a free market. Now apply it to the constraints of building taller. There's no way you'd get more more taller without dedicating more space to making your building work and make it less efficient.

then go build the transit. what'll likely happen is the housing development gets built and there's no more new transit. The investment in transit in the form of capital projects of tunnels is going to cost more than the building. Nobody is falling over themselves to build housing or it'd already be built with exemptions. The higher it goes the more likely it'll be unaffordable luxury. The types of housing that needs to be built, capital efficient affordable housing isn't being limited by the ratio cap, it's just a dumb opinion piece.

The best way to respond to sarcasm is with more sarcasm and it was sarcasm to beginwith

The part about the tall height would mean almost certainly it would be luxury. In the best case: yea, it'll be an investment by wealthy foreign owners who would never live there or use any of the building/community services, but probably just as likely it'd be turned into an airbnb listing with a revolving door of new neighbors.

sure, if you're into the Idaho amenities. More density here means crowded subways and grocery stores though

don't think that's what's holding construction back. most developers won't want to build too high as it'd get progresively more expensive per floor and more footage dedicated to elevators anyway. also packing so much density in a single area would be bad for community resources in the area.

I mean that article is from 2015. Yea, I heard that new immigrants are arriving, but the place is way more disneyland than ten years ago from both the types of stores and the kind of people visiting. Also COVID must've done a number on the neighborhood.

Do asian people still live in manhattan Chinatown anymore? Any new immigrants? Every year it seems more tourists and mainstream

maybe the homeless can make use of those migrant camps or hotels the mayor has contracted out for them. It'll help alleviate some of the burden and average out the housing needs of both groups.

Happy New Year Ya'll

Doesn't matter about his past or what he claimed about it. What matters is what he'll do for his constituents going forward

that's peak expensive hotel period. I'd suggest the week right after for less crowds and expenses. If you must come when you want, pick a relative closer area to tourist attractions and next to the subway.