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1. Eliminating the city-wide school district, and replacing it with local (and locally-financed) schools (one high school per local school district). This will make affluent neighborhoods far more attractive to middle class families (not just the rich and the childless hipsters), although it will also make ghetto schools poorer.
2. Converting all public housing to no-strings-attached condominiums (being fully aware that most residents would prefer to cash out and move to cheaper areas). Alternatively, removing the current residents of public housing to low-rise replacement apartments built cheaply in East NY/Bushwick, and selling all public housing in affluent neighborhoods to developers for solid cash.
3. Slashing welfare and Medicaid and eliminating local business taxes to keep the city competitive.
4. Razing the garbage housing stock that dominates most of Brooklyn, the Bronx and large swathes of Queens and Manhattan and replacing it with modern condominiums and townhouses.
Goddamn lol. Capitalism at it's peak. You really see NYC as a city that should contain only well to do middle and upper class citizens huh?
One suggestion I have is those abandoned condos that were built in former poor neighborhoods such as LES/Alphabet City and Williamsburg should be reformed as real affordable housing for the working poor or homeless since NYC still has a large homeless population. Another one is for more subway lines in neighborhoods like East Flatbush and Canarsie. I know the L train was originally built to stop at the shore and I hope one day they'll continue that.
Stop building all these high rise buildings and cramming thousands of people together, we are crowded enough as it is.
NYC has been among the densest cities in the world for the past 200 years. In fact it was more crowded in decades past. There's plenty of Montana for you.
If we stopped building housing, you realize how much more expensive it would be to live here. If people agreed that the city had become too overcrowded and unlivable then no one would be moving in. Rather than stop growth, we need to build the infrastructure to keep up with it.
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Re-evaluate all no parking spaces, since we have a parking problem here, a lot of no parking places should be parking.
Chruches and synagoges in boroughs parking should be allowed in front of.
Remove all broken fire hydrants.
Instead of knocking down 1 family houses and putting up 8 family houses, make the lot a parking lot, with trees surrounding the lot. parking is such a big issue here and needs to be resolved.
Remove all bridge tools already.
Knock down houses and put up a parking lot, instead of new housing? Spoken like a true driver. Most people understand that NY is an interesting place because it is walkable, dense, and mostly pedestrian oriented. There are plenty of dead cities across the country that cater to your automobile.
Making it more convenient for people to drive will result in more drivers who will thus need more parking spaces, lanes, etc.. It's a never ending cycle that will result in a more congested and unlivable city catering to selfish motorists (i.e. LA, Houston, etc).
If anything, the people who choose to drive in this city should be taxed more. Since they clog the roads for deliveries and services that actually NEED to drive.
You have just created Long Island.....high property taxes and selective school districts that poor or middle class still cant get into because they dont live in the district.
Yep. I want more middle class in New York City, and by this point it's pretty obvious what the middle class needs. Local schools, the bulk of local taxes benefitting the taxpayers, not the poor, etc.
To me, a "better" New York axiomatically means "middle-class friendly" New York and unfortunately, the city planners need to make a choice: middle-class friendly or poor-friendly. You cannot have both, as American post-WW2 history so plainly demonstrates.
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No they should make it rent with an option to buy.
I'd rather eliminate NYCHA entirely, and if that means giving the apartments to their current residents for free (i.e. converting their rent to mortgage payments), with no strings attached, I'd be all for it.
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Nobody's getting rid of any of the three.
Sadly, no, but I'm hopeful. Obama's starting to ration federal health care. This could be an excellent excuse for the Bloomberg administration to start rationing city's Medicaid spending as well.
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You got money to buy the "garbage housing stock" from the landlord who already owns it?
Landlords will gladly sell to developers if there's profit in it for them. What is needed is easier evictions (for demolition purposes) and a lot less red tape when developing new buildings, especially when dealing with the usual NIMBY opposition.
First suggestion to make NYC better: do not elect carpetbaggers as Mayor. Restrict the office to either A) native-born New Yorkers, or B) people who have actually come here to make this city their home. ("Establishing residency" through buying a building here doesn't count).
And then what? Get a worst Mayor?? Like the ones before Bloomberg? I am willing to bet that no other will do as good as Bloomberg did in paying so much attention and commitment to NYC. He is not perfect, but he is really good. Yeah the economy sucks, like the rest of the country, but that was not his fault. Mayors from all over the country get a bad rep when the economy is affected the way it has been. There are cuts and enemies that have to be made unfortunately.
I'd take Ed Koch over Bloomers any day of the week. Giuliani too for that matter.
I heard in a report that phillys crime rate is 8 times higher than new yorks is new york that safe of a city. Why does everyone act like new york is dangerous and got to watch your back and that brownsville and mott haven morissana east new york are real bad if thats the case just curious
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What is SO funny?? He is actually right. 
