That … and bagels… now you’re set.

More info please?

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Eva makes about 500,000 not millions.

I worked in offices in there from time to time and it seemed fine to me… but I maybe am used to old buildings.

I should have guessed… instead I thought: could we make deliveries with a cargo ebike? Sometimes maybe. And if we had a building and safe efficient bike paths, did small deliveries… maybe it would be better in some ways. It’s actually a good idea - without replacing sitting in a truck on the BQE wishing there were more to life. The truck still would have to get to the warehouse.

Wouldn't work for my business - trust me. And I don't know about getting products into a grocery store either. But some e-bike on bike lane deliveries will be faster and cheaper I'm sure - and then businesses will need local warehouses which cost millions and that'll be another deal breaker. Conceivably, you could have a warehouse close to Brooklyn or way out in an affordable part and then deliver products on bike lanes if the infrastructure was there but you'd still need trucks to bring the products to the warehouse from far away. Somehow, the city has to accommodate trucks. The city does not have to accommodate private personal vehicles for trips that could be made with public transport.

I hate the BQE with a passion because I have to drive a truck on it. Trucks bring in almost every bite of food everyone in the city eats, etc. trucks keep the city alive. Truck drivers are tortured in New York, especially on the BQE. Whatever the solution, a BQE tunnel with few on or off ramps and maybe ezpass congestion pricing for commercial traffic would help defray costs. I would pay a $30 toll to get the cars out of there and do my route.

I went to a conference as a rep for a congresswoman years ago. Here’s what I remember: the trajectory for trains heading west - avoiding hills - makes a big difference in shipping. Halifax NS, Norfolk VA, and NYC-NJ are the three best natural east coast sites for depth and have the best paths west. NYC is the absolute best but the real estate on shore is too expensive plus labor… so Norfolk and Halifax were battling it out. This was about accommodating a new wave of huge ships… and Portland wasn’t close. There also were surprisingly few permanent jobs given the vast amount of activity. This information is 25 years old… but at the time that was the consensus.

I think I made my point.

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I recently read a book on 17th century American colonies and MA was already head and shoulders off the charts for a frontier area in terms of life expectancy and education - indeed higher than almost anywhere in the world at a time when the other colonies had negative natural population growth, extremely short life expectancy, etc. The college educated proportion and over 80 population were staggering for the period.

That's ridiculous. They need a lethal, GPS-operated, robotic, drone-tank hybrid that costs at least three libraries each. Fricken bleeding heart liberals...

The job of a librarian in Brooklyn with two or three staff at 4pm and 100+ visitors including 70 under 18 versus an upstate rural or suburban librarian with the same personnel level but no more than 3 or 4 people at a time for roughly the same pay is…. Unbelievable.

I have four kids and we like to go on family trips- Airbnb is usually the best choice.

Washington is 49 and Oregon is 13. Why would that be?

This chart seems to track something else - like the system for reporting abuse. States that are next door and similar should tend to be close together if the figures reflect some kind of social reality and not something skewing the results.

Tragic stupidity …

Speaking as the younger brother of the victim, it wouldn’t help much.

Thank you for your input everyone! Forewarned I will figure out how to ride around a little- maybe. I have kids though so it seems like it might be too dicey. Too bad You can’t take safe biking for granted in America- although you wouldn’t know that from stock photography.

Wouldn’t subsidized high speed rail to nearby cities (Poughkeepsie, Albany, etc.) be both a boon for upstate cities and a small part of taking the housing pressure off NYC by allowing some people to live further away and still get to the city as needed?

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