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@jaymart222 Wtf have you not seen 270 Park? JPM just tripled down long term on Manhattan. The highest value added jobs are very much concentrated here. We are in the middle of an unprecedented soundstage buildout. Sunset Pier, Wildflower, Steiner expansion, Lionsgate Newark...

@roaddiets Factually just not true. The movie and TV sector for example has contracted to its lowest levels since the mid 90s. You then cite two banks while skipping the biggest JPM which now has 8000 more employees in Texas than they do in NYC.

The paradox of NYC right now is that it’s not “dying” in the sense that it’s losing population of people who want to live and enjoy the benefits of living in a city with rich food and culture. But it is dying in that it’s losing the economic engines that have always paid for these things as it swaps out more tax payers with more tax revenue need. Policymakers are still running the economy as if it’s the 80s with Wall Street: financial sector tied locationally It’s really not good.

New Yorkers from the North Country to New Rochelle and Buffalo to Babylon are saying yes to more housing. I say: Let them build!

@lacherbauer CME will start clearing Treasuries this year. Chicago has higher value added jobs. Dallas is a back office

For a long time, Chicago was New York 2--Second City. That's faltered somewhat after Chicago's population stagnated and businesses started preferring the Sunbelt due to favorable pro-business climate. Unthinkable, that Dallas now has more financial sector jobs than Chicago.

@berrystalliance That was a tragedy. It doesn't change the fact we have the lowest gun violence of any city in the country and our outdoor dining rules are far too restrictive

Meanwhile a 7month old baby was gunned down in the streets ….

If we simply stopped subsidizing Staten Island we'd be fine. It's time to raise property taxes on single family homes

Let's stop subsidizing Staten Island and Middle Village. We should, in fact, be raising property taxes on single family homes. Also Design-Bid-Build still exists and wastes billions. Literally billions

Lets stop subsidizing Staten Island and Middle Village. We should, in fact, be raising property taxes on single family homes. Also Design-Bid-Build still exists and costs us billions. Literally billions

No more subsidizing Staten Island and Middle Village We should, in fact, be raising property taxes on single family homes

Literally just fast track everywhere

As long as we have Design-Bid-Build we have money on the table. Forbid that idiotic practice once and for all

We still use Design-Bid-Build. As long as that's the case I don't want to hear about new taxes. We should insist Albany fix our comically broken civil service laws that cost us billions

@DavidD_Chapman Russia would get demolished by Poland or France 1 on 1, let alone all of Europe

Withdraw from NATO and withdraw all US troops from US bases in Europe and see how many days it takes Russia to conquer Europe.

@SwannMarcus89 TN gets a sweet top up courtesy of CA taxpayers every year

I just learned today median after-tax income in LA is thousands of dollars less than Nashville. That’s *before* rent and gas Republicans somehow manage to understate how much progressives fucked up the West Coast. How does anyone survive in Los Angeles?

@alanthefisher @electionsjoe He got rolled on Septa last year. Total wuss. Can't be POTUS

@electionsjoe He's running against a chud moron. He would genuinely have to do something incredibly stupid to actually lose. Otherwise, he's an incredibly lame Governor with no ideology and no vision. All he wants is a gold star so that he can eventually run for president.

Holy fucking shit

@kevinklink I disagree. Until charter reform most NY City Council people spent 80% of their bandwidth on hyper local landuse issues that should have been as of right, meanwhile they spend no time thinking about what's good for the city as a whole system

If I had the time to flesh this all out, I'd do a book on how American cities manage virtually everything at the wrong scale, and this accounts for about 80% of our routine issues. Policy wonks want to policy wonk everything; designers like me see everything as a design problem. But what I've become convinced of is we have a basic management problem. I find this to be really difficult to communicate, so bear with me (which would be the point of writing something out, right?) Smaller cities and towns have their limitations, but their local governments are intimately familiar with issues in town, know their constituents closely and are generally very accessible. As cities grow larger, the population of districts also grows. Sometimes to very large numbers. My district in my city has over 80,000 people in it - represented essentially by 2 people. Bear in mind there are entire towns of half that size with a City Council of 5-12 people. So there's that aspect - the political side. Then there's the day to day management side. As cities grow, they grow like corporations used to grow - vertically and siloed. It becomes harder and harder for lay people to know who to call, who does what, etc etc. I've seen a number of workarounds tried, with good managers and not so good ones. But fundamentally I see a systems problem - people just get farther and farther away from constituents and needs. One result is many very localized issues just don't get dealt with well at all. Everyone in the process seems to default to solving problems at the scale of the whole city, when in fact most issues are hyper-local. That hyper-local scale gets problem-solvers in the form of BIDs, CIDs, Place-management organizations, like mine. And these groups often do a great job - because again they operate at a fine scale and are accessible. But parts of the community without those groups, just generally don't get their issues solved. This is but one part of a much longer thought train, but over and over again I've seen how we have countless issues because of lack of management at the right scale - a more localized one. And those issues then metastasize and become much bigger fights. Much of this is rooted in the very 20th century idea that consolidation of governments and annexations would lead to management efficiencies. Because that was the mentality of much of society at the time. Might've sounded good in a textbook or a seminar, but it just hasn't worked. My gut tells me so much of cities would work 1000% better if we had smaller-scale, localized governance and management. I feel like people instinctively know this or sense it, but we can't figure out how to communicate it well or solve for it.

@bklnfin3st @NewsWire_US 100%

@NewsWire_US People need to understand the housing crisis is not bc of blackrock, or billionaires it’s bc of local and city councils that do this bullshit.

Los Angeles City Council Votes to Delay State Mandate for Denser Housing Near Transit, Adopts Limited Plan Capping New Housing at Just 4 Stories

All of the Ukrainian strikes on Russia are retaliatory. None of the Russian strikes on Ukraine are retaliatory. Russia started this war in 2014. It’s all very simple and clear

@lacherbauer Thank the H1-B visa cap.

Toronto will overtake Chicago as the largest and most important city in the Great Lakes region. Inconceivable 20-30 years ago.

Every single larger empty lot east of the Red Line should be a >30 story residential tower.