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Reeeally long tweets. It’s hard to write this stuff in 280 characters, ya know? Sustainability, homes and economic ideas. Or whatever you ask me to write (with limits)
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Curbside Kickbacks and the Parking Protection Racket (opens the original)
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If you take a walk down almost any NYC residential avenue across the 5 boroughs, you see millions of square feet of prime urban real estate handed over to a single private use. Row after row of private automobiles sit parked bumper-to-bumper along the curb, occupying public land day and night for free.In the standard municipal discourse, free street parking gets treated as a basic public utility. It is framed as an essential neighborhood convenience for local families, a necessary concession to
The Suburban Border Lords and the Outer Siege (opens the original)
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If you take the Long Island Rail Road forty minutes east of Penn Station, or hop on Metro-North heading north past the Bronx, the urban density drops off a cliff.As soon as you cross the municipal boundary into Nassau or Westchester County, six-story apartment buildings, row houses, and corner grocery stores vanish. They are replaced by sprawling green lawns, single-family homes, and strict, low-density suburban zoning codes.In suburban planning, these low-density zoning boundaries are framed as
Stripping the Frame: NYC Progressive Patronage and the Devalued Stock (opens the original)
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Walk down almost any residential block in the East Village, Crown Heights, or Washington Heights, and you will notice. Windows remain dark year after year. Steel grates hang over ground-floor doors. Up on the top floor, an apartment sits entirely vacant, its plaster slowly flaking onto hardwood floors while the surrounding neighborhood faces record-high rents.The popular explanation is landlord greed or corporate speculation- a story where wealthy property owners hold apartments off the market t
Tribute from the Towers: How Rental Tenants Finance the Park Slope Gentry (opens the original)
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Each month when you pay NYC rent, you got a line item that pays for the lobby heating, the superintendent's salary, and the landlord's mortgage. Tucked inside that check is another payment, buried behind complex municipal accounting. You are underwriting the property tax bill of a venture capital partner’s four-story brownstone three neighborhoods away.In the popular narrative of New York City real estate, brownstones are celebrated as the architectural soul of the city. We admire their stoops,
The Land-Use Cartel Has You by the Throat (opens the original)
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The cops only control who goes to jail tonight. The maps control who gets to live here tomorrow, who pays the tax bill, and who gets squeezed until your marrow turns into quarterly dividend yield.For forty years, we’ve been fed a specific story about New York City’s housing crisis. We’ve been told it’s a story of administrative friction. We picture well-meaning bureaucrats trapped in red tape, historical preservationists trying to protect the scale of their blocks, and progressive advocates figh
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