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21 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Since people keep asking: if I lived in Manhattan, I'd vote for Mark Levine for borough president. He was the most supportive about rezoning SoHo: cityandstateny.com/articles/polic…
Oh – Elizabeth Caputo also seems very supportive of new development. So I'd rank her as well for sure: citylimits.org/2021/06/17/man…
Ben Kallos and Brad Hoylman have been awful on issues of development, don't rank them. Hoylman in particular is a huge hypocrite – owns a massive Fifth Ave. apartment and earns ~$100k a year from his in-law's real estate business, but opposes new housing in Manhattan. Awful
Oh I forgot this one. This one is sad. I respect her a lot for being the first to step forward about Cuomo's sexual abuse, but unfortunately she's leaning hard into NIMBYism (made worse by her urban planning background – she should really know better). So I wouldn't rank her
I don’t live in Manhattan so it’s all academic for me, but if you do, here is the case for voting for @LindseyBoylan despite her NIMBYism. I’d just recommend that if you rank her for this reason, you send her a tweet/email explaining that you did it in spite of the NIMBYism

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23 Jun
The MTA has a HUGE reservoir of obsolete workers that could be driving subways: conductors. If Albany had any interest in good service, they could change the Taylor Act and allow the MTA to reassign conductors to drive trains
Cuomo's had three opportunities to do this, every time the TWU contracts expire (twulocal100.org/contracts-taoa…). Two lines (L and 7) now have automatic train operation – the "operators" on those lines are barely doing anything, there's no reason to have conductors too
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23 Jun
Oh wow this is very not good – Chris Marte, the NIMBY FiDi/Chinatown Council candidate, is waaaay ahead web.enrboenyc.us/CD243400.html
Arthur Schwartz, the NIMBY running for Corey Johnson's west side seat, is losing handily to Erik Bottcher though web.enrboenyc.us/CD243210.html
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19 May
I’ve gotten so quick with the block button and it feels great. My new thing is blocking anybody I don’t recognize who tweets at me some variation on “you’re wrong” without making any argument as to why. The best part is that their tweet disappears immediately from my mentions
I blocked three or four people just from the Seattle/Houston tweet alone! I’d like to imagine every one of them screenshot the block with some variation on “not so into the free market of ideas I guess”
I used to agonize over blocking people. If they follow me, I’d worry about losing followers. I’d search all their tweets at me to see if they’d ever tweeted anything worthwhile in the past. I’d mute instead of blocking. No more of that! Just block, block, block
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5 May
The city could encourage this by allowing developers to fully deduct package rooms from zoned floor area (great idea!). But without that, it drives up the cost of housing by forcing developers to use buildable land for package storage rather than housing @ReynosoBrooklyn
Allowing more FAR deductions (hallways!) would allow more housing while flying under NIMBYs’ radar. Nobody looks that closely at the zoning code...we could have larger and more livable apartments – and, for big sites, more of them – if hallways didn’t count as zoning floor area
There is precedent for this: one of the ways that the Japanese national government liberalized zoning in the 1990s was to exclude hallways, elevators, and other common areas from zoned floor area calculations researchgate.net/figure/Success…
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It’s amazing how America has some of the strictest fire rules in the world when it comes to construction, but then nobody from the city ever checks to make sure you’ve even got a smoke detector. Seems like possibly lower hanging fruit
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This struck me early on. But rather than accepting the premise than working for Phipps is a black mark, I'd reframe and say that the NYC left is so anti-housing that they can't even support the city's oldest nonprofit affordable housing developer
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