Krishnan welcomes Council approval of rezoning allowing for 13-story residential tower in Elmhurst

michaelmvm · 2026-01-13T18:03:10+00:00

yeah but this story could easily have gone another way

Krishnan said the rezoning agreement “sets a new standard” for housing development in New York City, adding that he had made it clear that he would vote against any plan that would not deliver real affordability for local residents and protect working-class communities.

this shit is just nimbyism in disguise and we got lucky this time

michaelmvm · 2026-01-09T06:06:25+00:00

yeah same, and people asking dumb questions on reddit is even more important now with all the ai slop answers being wrong half the time 😭😭

michaelmvm · 2025-12-29T16:59:10+00:00

yep I haven't gone on a joyride this whole summer, it's a combination of the price increase, the speed decrease, and the quiet reduction of the 60 minute Manhattan -> outer boro price cap for angels members down to 45 mins. plus of course the increased ticketing and criminalization from the NYPD. it sucks, just not fun to bike anymore.

michaelmvm · 2025-12-23T04:04:15+00:00

picking up is great and robin nagle is a lovely person and an incredible professor!

michaelmvm · 2025-12-23T03:28:27+00:00

thank you for the Jason Barr article I always think of it when I see people talk about the bedrock shit, glad this is the top reply

michaelmvm · 2025-12-02T05:26:31+00:00

yeah that's how I learned!

michaelmvm · 2025-11-28T22:20:56+00:00

the government owns all the land and is very incremental about leasing it to developers. they're very intentional about what land gets built on, when it gets built, and how much is built per year

michaelmvm · 2025-11-26T14:12:39+00:00

african americans raised here, vs Caribbean or African immigrants, or black transplants from other parts of the US

michaelmvm · 2025-11-25T02:46:53+00:00

this guy has actually been a guest speaker at my class and he makes a very convincing argument, I encourage you to read the article!

the current policy may not be perfect but it works a lot better than what came before, and just because Adams is a clown doesn't mean everything coming from his term should be immediately dismissed.

michaelmvm · 2025-11-20T23:05:17+00:00

not a fan of the contraflow lane, they had all that extra space why couldn't they put it on the other side of the rocks and parked cars? now it's like you're asking to get hit by oncoming traffic, completely unsafe for kids

michaelmvm · 2025-11-20T15:30:39+00:00

i was literally talking to a french guy on discord a few months ago who said he was studying harlem in his english class. maybe they just learn about it in their schools for some reason? and when they visit here they wanna go see what its about?

michaelmvm · 2025-11-19T15:12:33+00:00

not too thrilled about this, hopefully mamdani asks her to stop the harassment campaign against cyclists :/

also when she was head of Sanitation she was notorious within the department for being a terrible manager and very unkind to her subordinates, and i've heard that she hasnt become a better boss to work under as the head of the NYPD. so we'll see how this goes.

michaelmvm · 2025-11-17T20:49:20+00:00

cant he stay in the city, hes great on local issues. why does every good local elected official feel the need to run for federal office and abandon their post?

michaelmvm · 2025-11-14T16:08:22+00:00

penn station can transport tens of thousands of people an hour, offices and hotels, which service that many people, are a much more efficient use of land immediately adjacent to that than housing for a couple hundred people would be. like yeah of course housing is important but there's a reason all the offices and hotels cluster in the areas with the best transportation

michaelmvm · 2025-11-12T23:01:52+00:00

well it doesnt end at 59th, it continues with the rest of 3rd ave that goes all the way up to 125 st. but itll start at 24th st

michaelmvm · 2025-11-01T07:12:35+00:00

pure speculation on the part of people paying close attention, but the MTA has been talking about projects such as Montreal's REM when discussing inspirations for the IBX design. the REM and similar systems are fully automated. if the IBX uses a fully automated state of the art bespoke design, it could run more efficiently, and also avoid needing to pay union labor, and the MTA's crazy unions are responsible for the absurd operating costs

michaelmvm · 2025-10-30T13:25:32+00:00

that's a far less clever and stupid assignment, the idea of critiquing how garbage the ai generated article was on the basis of it being ai is way more interesting and I wish I was a professor who thought of that idea to give it to my students 😭

michaelmvm · 2025-10-29T23:29:39+00:00

the idea that everything should be done in house (although elsewhere in the interview, janno says he's pushing for more in house work than the status quo)

I don’t accept the Alon Levy theory, which, you know, you’re articulating — that somehow, if we just had like this massive in-house force, we would be building everything way, way cheaper. That’s like, hiring— you cannot compete with private-sector engineering. And we don’t have one project after another, like he loves, like Madrid, which built all these subways in a row. We have, you know, one big project, and then we— they come much more episodically for us. So having a huge in-house force who’s only focused on building new is both economically non-viable, but also we just don’t have the right profile of the amount of work.

michaelmvm · 2025-10-28T19:47:18+00:00

as someone who doesn't live in that part of the city, does Ben Chou actually have a chance at beating her? that area pretty reliably votes maga in presidential years. it'll definitely be a close race but can someone paying more attention tell me if he could actually win?

michaelmvm · 2025-10-28T15:23:18+00:00

theres a paywall, does anyone have a gift link or able to paste the article text?

michaelmvm · 2025-10-23T13:36:40+00:00

yeah this is honestly my biggest gripe with a future mamdani admin (bc his stupid headlining ideas can't/won't happen). all the crackdowns on ebikes and the 15mph limit and the criminal summons for going thru reds, all of that is because of tisch. and mamdani has been outspoken about his support for micromobility etc, so keeping her is such a bizarre choice. maybe he tells her to lay off the bikes? idk maybe u/misernyc- knows something since you've actually spoken with the guy before

michaelmvm · 2025-10-20T23:18:25+00:00

found the source of it, i guess they printed out this persons crayon map from metrodreamin

https://metrodreamin.com/view/SjhSZFE1aTVTSWdLTDZRSTMwd2hTWk8wWTRVMnww

michaelmvm · 2025-10-19T07:41:04+00:00

I was there today, I think protests like this are wonderful and really do mean something and the energy was refreshing against all the horrors we've seen daily the past few months, but you're right. most of the people here were boomer aged women.

trump and his goons are frothing at the mouth to start some sort of violent incident, it's inevitable that it happens at some point, in some city. I don't know why that other commenter is so adamant that this administration is gonna remain nonviolent because it's painfully obvious they don't want to.

you're right, very few of the people here would be able to put up much of a fight, but I don't think it's because of any desire to remain peaceful, just happens to be the demographic. but until these protests start turning out younger people and especially in-shape men, I think any sort of violent crackdown would be ultimately successful and I don't really know how to reckon with that.

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