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Ok, I admit, a few savvy New

artappraiser — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 23:48:19 +0000

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Ok, I admit, a few savvy New Yorkers do figure out how to get nice things and make the rest of us pay for them:

"The city’s ferry system is taking taxpayers for a ride, with each individual trip costing $10.73 more than passengers pay, according to a government watchdog." https://t.co/JxyYpm5s78
— The Beat (@TheBeatMI) April 2, 2019

For the foreseeable future,

artappraiser — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 03:23:57 +0000

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For the foreseeable future, Manhattan will be like a ghost town of needle skyscrapers containing empty apartments purchased with laundered money:

JUST IN:
The pied-a-terre tax in NY is dead.
The real estate industry mounted a fierce behind-the-scenes campaign against it.
Officials say they want a different tax instead.https://t.co/RajJMaVo4P
— Clifford Levy (@cliffordlevy) March 29, 2019

The real tragic part though, will be when the resale market for these bits of floor way up in the air collapses. Then there will be all these humongous abandoned needles to get rid of.

And then a decade after that, someone will come up with a crazy fun idea to use all these abandoned things, just like they did with the High Line Park running along and atop abandoned railroad tracks of Hudson Yards. And then within a few years someone will wreck that innovative use, whatever it is, with tasteless overbuilding of some kind.Just like they just now did to the High Line with the current Hudson Yards development. Because: the machine must be fed---simple straightforward taxation for services does not make for a highly lucrative bureaucracy.

It Isn't Really Monday Until

artappraiser — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 02:26:58 +0000

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It Isn't Really Monday Until The Subway Is On Fire

By Ben Yakas @ The Gothamist @ WNYC.org, NOV 19, 2018 10:46 AM

Happy Monday, the NYC subway system is a literal hellscape pic.twitter.com/mYN2n5uD16
— max linsky (@maxlinsky) November 19, 2018

Did you wake up this morning thinking that because it's a holiday Thanksgiving week, everything would go a little more smoothly and quickly? That you would effortlessly glide into the shortened workweek with the faint, comforting hint of stuffing and sweet potatoes in the air? Well you were wrong, because the only thing you might be smelling onboard our fundamentally broken subway system is the scorching scent of fire [....]

continued with more fine pics and many more varied Tweets included....

"Citing" Abuse of Power" ?

Flavius — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 19:08:48 +0000

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"Citing" Abuse of Power" ?

Which ones?

Firing the person who is

artappraiser — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 05:51:38 +0000

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Firing the person who is supposed to be a check on you, and not doing it yourself? Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. https://t.co/e9FRyLo4Hr
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 16, 2018

De Blasio refuses to

artappraiser — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 05:50:44 +0000

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De Blasio refuses to apologize to NYers for city's response to the storm. "I am very frustrated with what happened. I think it was a horrible experience for NYers," Mayor de Blasio says. "I don't think it's fair to say the city agencies could have stopped all of this."
— Grace Rauh (@gracerauh) November 16, 2018

the optics of raising MTA

artappraiser — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 05:33:17 +0000

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the optics of raising MTA fares after pledging $3 billion to the biggest corporation in the world are...not great? https://t.co/Cn0ORiYyBP
— Alex Kotch (@alexkotch) November 15, 2018

can Jeff Bezos just like … give the MTA some money

he's worth what, $150 billion? can't we just have some of that to fix the subway??? https://t.co/8iTqi4a1UY
— Amy Plitt (@plitter) November 15, 2018

After the Hurricane Came the

artappraiser — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 01:45:12 +0000

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After the Hurricane Came the Con

Six years after Sandy devastated Long Island, homeowners are still dealing with the wreckage of a sweet-talking contractor who took their money and left their houses unfinished.

Long form piece by Kaya Laterman @ NYTimes.com, Oct. 26

Life is cheap, nobody cares,

artappraiser — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:46:46 +0000

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Life is cheap, nobody cares, and it really doesn't depend upon what race or sex you are:

A body in a car. For a week. In Manhattan. The great @MWilsonNYT explains the failure to notice, or to respond. https://t.co/Vzw051YAFS
— Dan Barry (@DanBarryNYT) October 24, 2018

De Blasio sucks (I get more

artappraiser — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 13:15:55 +0000

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De Blasio sucks (I get more disgusted by both behavior and results every day, he makes Bloomberg's ego and ambition look normal and Bloomberg's managerial skills makes De Blasio look below pitiful in comparison. DeBlasio is quite simply a party hack, and a poor hack at that.)

This ⁦@nahmias⁩ piece is excellent and it paints a brutal portrait https://t.co/ST4OPzL8rK
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) October 19, 2018