South Brooklyn DSA

It happens to be a great idea, assuming the objective is to harm local businesses and destroy a neighborhood.

How sad and vulnerable do you think the neighborhood is, that it will be destroyed by a bus lane? What a silly talking point.

It's not "hundreds" it's 130. It's not "removed" it's moved around the corner for 6 hours a day on weekdays. That's all it takes to destroy a neighborhood? That's all it takes for local businesses to lay off workers and stop paying taxes? Get real.

1) NYC is already a tough place for businesses due to heavy taxation and stifling regs; and the retail environment today makes it that much tougher. Try Googling “Retail Apocalypse” for starters. So, yeah, any incremental difficulty makes those businesses more vulnerable.

You can't have a community around retail. You can't measure a neighborhood's vibrancy through profit. Try again.

What can you plan a community around? Who owns those businesses? For small business owners what you so cavalierly call “profit” they call “livelihood.” How dense can you be?