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I agree, and while this federal administration can go fuck itself right away, I am also glad there is some check or balance against an otherwise corrupt local political machine writing blank checks for what should be commodity public transit services.

We are dealing with emboldened republicans here. It’s the cost they don’t agree with, not the project.

Good points although since it is a publicly-subsidized service, that is kind of the reality here. The real ROI of the subway is in the economic boost (and tax revenue) you get from moving people anywhere they want for cheap, not whether the "business" itself is cash flow positive. Interesting story though since a large proportion of the system was one a private business (IRT, BMT etc). That changed, and probably for some legitimate reason if not for the better (we’ll never know). It could be that state aid is the only way to keep the system running at a level that stimulates the economy. All I know is, I reckon that if running a subway was ever super-lucrative, it’d likely still be privatized. It probably came down to soaring labor costs, likely driven up by insurance against rampant safety issues. Unions won that battle, and are still winning, and while they’re not all bad, the ones robbing taxpayers need to be knocked off the pedestal. Anything else is just fiscally irresponsible.

Since NYC politics is deafeningly dominated by some truly insidious progressives, nobody really even thinks twice about this stuff. Voters see two things: entitlements, and officials who posture against some boogeyman of the week (be it gentrification, the rich, Trump, the police, whoever) while never really checking or balancing themselves as governments are supposed to do. From there it’s easy to guilt or shame anyone who doesn’t fall in line with the runaway train of spending (LOL).

I hope you just cut and pasted that and didn’t actually sit there typing it. That would have been a huge waste of time.

I agree. That’s why I said, "I could see a lot of them looking at places like Marin, which is neither city, suburb, nor rural. There’s a lot to choose from in the greater Bay Area that can’t easily be classified."

I think what could be happening with Jeff’s interpretation of the Zillow NYC shopping data is that people who live in a condo or co-op in NYC are looking to move to someplace with a yard. The town that the someplace is in is considered a "city" by the folks doing the data mining, but most of us would have said that’s a suburb. SF is clearly a city in its design, San Jose a suburb, and Sonoma Coast, for example, rural.

Someone should be able to look at the Zillow data in NYC to see what kind of home, not towns, the people are considering next. Are the numbers of folks looking to move to a place with a yard up or down versus 2019?

As San Francisco gets less expensive, I could see some who live in SJ wanting to move there, but that would be a factor of changing prices more than changing tastes.

The house is overpriced and doesn’t have parking. That’s why.

No. The area was a sh*t hole 10 years ago and has been gentrifying since. Home prices are way up in that neighborhood but this is overpriced for 1,000 sq. ft.

waaaay overpriced.
way to small.
the bedroom should not have a queen size squashed into it.
hate the open shelving, that is NOT a selling feature. the fireplace is nice also, but because of the size of this apartment, it takes up needed wall space and is also not a selling point.
while it shows nice, it is a terrible apartment and should be a rental, not something someone will pay a mortgage to, plus then maintenance charges.
The kitchen and bathroom are renovated nice, but again, way too small.
I also like another posted stated do not like the pass thru in the kitchen, it is not needed and the cabinets are placed way to high. The fridge looks big, clunky and out of place.
I do not like this apartment at all, and i dont care where the location is, it isnt worth squat. Too small, maybe for a first apartment type of person that has basically nothing.
Too small, over priced and should be a rental.

Isn’t San Jose like LA, in that it’s basically a suburb(an city)? Except it’s a massively overpriced, congested suburb, which shows that suburbs can be just as overvalued as urban areas and maybe it’s not suburban vs urban? I mean, just where is the line between suburban/urban?

As someone who lives outside of NYC, but who works (part time, now, due to the Coronavirus), enjoys culture, and socializes in Manhattan, a big issue I fail to see being addressed is the Mayor’s and others failure to see the subway as a BUSINESS, with paying customers to be mindful of. It is NOT an extension of the public sphere, and more attention needs to be paid to the needs of the customers and less to free transit passes, accommodating the homeless, vendors and assorted hucksters.

The 1 at 103 & B’way is four blocks away (and not full blocks because Broadway is almost at the point where it merges with WEA). Quite tolerable though I can’t remember if there’s any hill right there.