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Only know one person who lived in Conyers and he is a philandering pos. Assume this will be an air bnb used exclusively for extra marital escapades.

I guess we should start shutting down all of the public facilities that can’t be used by everybody: swimming pools, basketball courts, skateboard parks, Central Park rowboats, jungle gyms in playgrounds, etc.

I’ve climbed the Vessel, and the existing elevator seems perfectly fine as it is. It reaches the top open-air level, with just one small set of stairs to the tippy top. I"m guessing that the push to add an additional lift is meant to send a message to developers (like the new Queens Library architects, who really screwed up.)

Has anyone ever read the Kurt Vonnegut story, "Harrison Bergeron"? It’s about a future society that takes the idea of "fairness" to ridiculous extremes.

The Barclays Center is one of many new arenas in pro sports. There’s nothing "New York" about it.

NYC is NOT a world-class city in terms of transportation, high-school graduation rates or air quality. Of course, this means nothing to Crazed and Dazed, who spends her days in a reverie of billionaires (who are unknown to her) and high-rise apartments (that she’s never set foot in.) The second phase of Hudson Yards is nothing to look forward to, judging by the boring bullshit that it has turned out to be so far.

There is no reason to salivate over the fact that criminals and their spawn launder their money in this town.

The 14th Street busway was a great initiative that has helped traffic move much faster and reduced air pollution.

The long term trend of lower air pollution levels is helping many of these neighborhoods. NE LA used to really foul but now its breathable. Breaking up LAUSD would drive further increases.

Yet another misuse of the term "right" by clueless leftists.

A "right", as denoted in the Bill of – is something inherently due to any person independent of others’ efforts. Free speech, freedom to protect oneself, freedom of religion, are all inherent rights that the Bill of Rights specifies cannot be taken away by the gub’ment. Far too many somehow think the Bill of Rights bestows those rights on the population thanks to government’s largesse (no doubt taught by leftist scholars in what-ought-to-be-free-college-since-that’s-the value-of-this-level-of-education )- they are mistaken. The Bill of Rights guarantees that the government cannot take them away!

Now, healthcare and housing, for instance, are not "rights’ in any genuine sense, since they necessarily entail the efforts of others. You can choose a healthy lifestyle on your own, but to demand that someone who has spent thousands of hours and dollars in medical training tend to your needs essentially supports slavery of a kind, unless you pay for it. Likewise with housing – there is no moral reason to just expect that you are owed living quarters just because you are breathing air. Sure, they are nice to have, but calling them rights conflates real rights with the BS that the left constantly tries to bray about to get the useful idiots to believe they are deserved.

So, naturally, transportation falls even lower on the list. And, as has been mentioned, the entire concept of "someone else will pay for it magically" (I’m talking to you, Fauxcahontas) just aggravates anyone with more than three working neurons in their skulls.

Infill is a good idea for so many reasons. It diminishes New York’s carbon footprint, reduces urban and suburban sprawl, reduces commuting times, and makes for a more dynamic neighborhood. More retail outlets will be a boon to current residents. And besides, it’s in fucking Harlem, already one of the densest urban areas in the U.S.

Just why does a resident of an apartment building have any right to deny a landlord the right to build an apartment building next door? Sunshine? Shade? Air? Breeze? Inherent rights? Ethnic solidarity? Racial justice? Nostalgia for the good old days? Zoning integrity? My guess is that the phony community leaders and tenants’ rights leaders are looking for an under-the-table payoff to "come to an agreement".

I have some small undistinguished properties in Inwood with low-rent tenants, bought decades ago, that will be the last to become Yuppified, if ever. One property is now an empty lot next to an apartment building, let’s call it "The Inwood Towers". If I want to put up another god-damned apartment building next to The Inwood Towers, why should Jesus, Jorge, Billy Joe Bob and Travis Ray Lee have any say in the matter? (These are roughly the actual names of the residents.)

The comparison is what monthly rents would be if you add back in housing stock that is currently not renting to long-term tenants because its being used for air bnb.

The actual math is beyond my ken; you’d need a practicing economist for that.

Screw Boise and the 9th circuit on this one. I suggest I just keep on working and making a lot of money and pay a shit ton of income tax, state tax, and property taxes on my houses – and with all that money the govt figure it the hell out. It’s not my job to figure out the logistics. I do my share by working my ass off and writing fat checks to the clowns in charge who think Air B&B is the problem. If the status quo is what we are stuck with then just rebate me some of that sweet tax money for my pain and suffering What is your solution ?

They can still have pretty significant localized effects. Yes, across LA as a whole the effect isn’t much, but Air BnBs can have an impacts on desirably locations like Los Feliz, WeHo, and Santa Monica. These places are already struggling with affordable housing. No, it isn’t causing anybody to go homeless, but full-time, hardworking, middle-income Angelenos have definitely been hit when they try to find a new place and 10% of the neighborhood apartments have been converted to de-factor hotels.

Those people deserve protections, too.