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.
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Replying to @sbkDSA @nycphotog and
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.
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Replying to @jhirsch99 @nycphotog and
You can't have a community around retail. You can't measure a neighborhood's vibrancy through profit. Try again.
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Replying to @sbkDSA @nycphotog and
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?
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Replying to @jhirsch99 @nycphotog and
Imagine a community where everyone can afford to live well, where nobody has to go without basic needs so someone else can make it.
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Replying to @jarmarwat @sbkDSA and
The issue related to parking and excessive traffic is real. This solution doesn’t help, however. As I referred to in another Tweet, even it conceptually this made sense, I’ve no confidence in our system to execute. For example, SBS buses often run near-empty.
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