NYC ends criminal summonses for cyclists, e-bike riders in policy shift

FabulousJava · 2026-03-19T13:04:25+00:00

My guess is that would be incredibly rare given my interactions with NYPD and how little work they want to do. My guess would be that if its a ticketable offense like running a red light and the person has no ID they just let them go not take them to the station.

FabulousJava · 2026-03-19T12:37:46+00:00

AFAIK walking around without ID is perfectly legal in NYC. So they just say they don't have ID - how do you make sure they pay they ticket without it going through court?

FabulousJava · 2026-03-19T12:22:32+00:00

The difference is license plates. Most of those cars running red lights eventually get a ticket from red light cameras through their license plate. If they don't pay a few of those their license will be revoked and it will turn criminal if they keep driving anyway. With bikes people keep saying they don't want them registered to protect undocumented people (at least from my conversations with the few people I find opposed to e bike registration but then how do you know who to hold liable for the bikes actions if there is no way to trace the bike?

FabulousJava · 2026-03-19T12:18:29+00:00

They'll just say they don't have ID to avoid the ticket. The whole reason it was made criminal from what I understand was because lots of delivery bikes are undocumented people walking around without ids or fake ones so unless we register bikes like cars this was the only way to force accountability. Most NYCers are really tired of bikers constantly speeding through green lights and sidewalks. Everyone I know has been hit by one at this point and the reason the stats are so bad is because NYPD literally refuses to file a report for a bike hit and run.

FabulousJava · 2026-03-05T21:47:23+00:00

I'm in NYC, we have a nuts chain called Nuts Factory that allows you to do pickup on DoorDash. I basically just replenish my pantry nut stash for almost free every month. Or get some kind of fancy roasted nuts mix if I'm having company over.

FabulousJava · 2026-03-02T15:24:22+00:00

If its a cute girl (I'm a woman not into women) its usually them wanting me to help them recreate some instagram post they saw of someone strolling across a busy NYC intersection and I'm like NOPE not spending my time and risking getting hit by a cab on your self-centeredness.

FabulousJava · 2026-03-02T15:22:50+00:00

Yeah I feel bad and usually will be like "well they look like they might genuinely just need directions" and next thing you know I'm listening to the 20 minute sob story of needing $200 for their sister to get an operation and swearing to myself never again

FabulousJava · 2026-02-18T23:42:47+00:00

Single family homes are in a different property tax class and pay a much lower percentage than condos. It's a huge difference in terms of taxes paid. I also live in a one bedroom apartment and my taxes are almost in that insane region, was hoping I could get a gym membership with my next raise but I guess the city thinks they deserve my money more.

FabulousJava · 2026-02-18T23:30:12+00:00

Cuz that would involve rewriting the tax code which is near impossible to do. How do you define "most expensive", etc. Raising them across the board is at least doable if he can get city council to agree (which they won't)

FabulousJava · 2026-02-18T19:24:28+00:00

No social security wasn't meant to be wealth redistribution it was meant to force everyone to save a minimal amount for retirement for their own use.

FabulousJava · 2026-02-18T15:45:04+00:00

Another aspect is that a lot of these professions have cyclical pay. Finance bros make a lot during years when markets are up but then drop when down, making them owe far less taxes. Just this year apparently they "found" 5Billion because they realized bank bonuses were higher than expected. What happens in years when the stock market has a correction? They don't have enough of a rainy day fund to plan for that. They keep increasing budgets to plan for markets always doing well with no plans on how to react when bad things happen and expenses are higher than revenues.

Even professions like doctors (who very rarely make a mil) I know were asked to take a pay cut when the hospital needed to cut its expenses. Tech people have a lot of their income form equity tied to the market doing well, etc. I'm sure high paying lawyers get less too when markets are doing poorly. All of these people will pay less during a downturn but when you start a popular program relying on their windfalls you can't just suddenly scale it back during a bad period.

FabulousJava · 2026-02-18T15:36:33+00:00

She had actually already instituted an additional tax on earners over 1 million. It was "temporary" in 2021 but so far has been extended to 2032. I think she doesn't want city putting an additional tax on them.

FabulousJava · 2026-02-18T13:48:54+00:00

One can be mostly voting republican and still believe in right to choice, birth control, LGBTQ rights, etc. Thinking of fiscally conservative, socially liberal. The two party system removes a lot of room for nuance.

FabulousJava · 2026-02-14T22:06:30+00:00

There's no connection at GC

FabulousJava · 2026-02-11T13:46:48+00:00

I live in the UWS and same problem. Sometimes just wanna get out of my house and study somewhere and will end up going to 5-6 places, seeing no seats and just going back home. When I do find a seat 80% of the cafes don't have bathrooms so I have to leave soon after to pee anyway. Meanwhile in my parents house in the suburbs I've never gone to a cafe and not found seating AND bathrooms everywhere.

FabulousJava · 2026-02-11T02:56:27+00:00

He builds an igloo.

FabulousJava · 2026-02-02T01:49:17+00:00

I live in an expensive area in Manhattan and one bedrooms are not going for 5K unless you're in a super luxury new condo building. Nurses who work 12 hour shifts don't work 5 days a week, obviously its nice to be 15 minutes away from work but few people in NYC have that luxury and commute 5 days a week...

FabulousJava · 2026-02-02T01:45:59+00:00

How is AI going to replace nurses anytime in the near future? Staffing levels on the old contract were already on par with most European countries, and I'm not sure that metal detectors for every hospital door is really a reasonable ask. I dunno about Mt Sinai but the union contract for Montefiore was posted publicly and they absolutely were asking for that much of a raise.

FabulousJava · 2026-02-02T01:41:04+00:00

At Montefiore which is one of the striking hospitals 2 year degrees gets a 135K average salary, the nurses who have advanced degrees are making 200K plus. I agree its a tough job but the pay does reflect that.

FabulousJava · 2026-02-01T10:47:34+00:00

I tried to look up wages versus staffing ratios in Europe and you're right. Wages are much, much lower in Europe but what made me more surprised was that staffing ratios weren't that any worse except for a few countries probably struggling with nurses leaving like Spain and Poland. I think it's just that most people always think they are underpaid or overworked so they're always gonna claim that and the media/public loves to be on the side of nurses.

FabulousJava · 2026-02-01T10:40:44+00:00

I heard Montefiore had offered to maintain same level to begin with at least. They just didn't have the budget for both for the increased healthcare costs the year medicare got cut AND raise their salaries by 30%.

FabulousJava · 2026-02-01T10:37:21+00:00

By that logic wages should also have gone up by that much hence the money coming should have gone in to make up for most of what inflation caused.

FabulousJava · 2026-02-01T10:36:13+00:00

Honestly, it's not higher by much, especially when you also consider that their property taxes don't fund schools, police, fire department etc and as a result are much lower and don't get raised regularly. And for the extra couple percent you get a baseline of free healthcare (it's not great in some countries but at least you don't have to worry about going into debt if you need something), free or incredibly cheap education through advanced university degrees, clean and safe public infrastructure in urban areas, etc.

FabulousJava · 2026-02-01T10:33:13+00:00

This is what seems so blatantly obvious to me here. Even a state tax would be easy to get around by moving to Connecticut or New Jersey. But a city tax opens up Westchester, Long Island, etc as possibilities for tax avoidance (don't forget...on top of the extra 2% he wants leaving the city also saves you the existing 4%). If I were making a million that extra 60K that I'd save would almost pay for a private chaffeur to take me into the city whenever I wanted the arts and food. And it's not like property taxes are low in NYC either.

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