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#1 - Countdown clocks for all MTA products outside the stations, synced to a real time database you can access on your phones. Fire any MTA chief who can't get this done in a years time.
#2 - Incredibly increase ticketing for littering and jaywalking. (Not people at crosswalks when they don't have the little white WALK symbol, but those cutting into dangerous traffic). These two things make the city difficult and hinder traffic flow and are already crimes but hardly enforced. NYC is far too dirty and it's because slobs get away with it.
#3 - End Rent Control and allow market rate to prevail.
Redo the zoning code from scratch, to encourage more housing development in residential areas, and more office development in the core business districts in midtown and downtown. I'd probably act to discourage residential development in these areas.
Impose development fees to pay for the infrastructure to support this development.
Convert the school system to a voucher based system. Sell the existing public schools to private operators. The operators
would be limited to how many individual schools they could own, and how close their schools could be to each other. This way parents in any area would have a choice between operators.
I'd have intensive law enforcement zones based on crime statistics. The precincts with the highest crime would get more cops and more intensive policing. Broken windows will be reimposed city wide. Stop and frisk will be used in the intensive enforcement zones.
I'd have a shall issue system for gun permits (including carry.) Anyone who can show they have no felony convictions and were not legally declared mentally incompetent can own and carry any gun that's legal in the US.
I'd have massive redevelopment of both airports, including single seat rail systems from Manhattan to both. These would be from remote terminals in Manhattan where passengers could check in and go through security. This could be extended to stations in Brooklyn and Queens, if enough demand could be shown.
Encourage the higher education development that's currently happening (NYU, Columbia, Cornell, etc.) Develop a business and technology incubator system to fund start-ups that come out of these universities.
This is what I can come up with off the top of my head. I'm sure I could come up with more.
Dial the clock back and undo just about everything Giuliani and Bloomberg did.
Lol. I hope you have bulletproof windows.
I'd undo Sheldon Silver's filibustering and allow Staten Island to secede 20 years ago, which the rest of the legislature, the people of Staten Island, and even Mario Cuomo approved of.
1. Phase out rent control and rent stabilization over 10 years
2. Phase out the housing projects over 10 years
3. End landmarking
4. Enforce traffic laws
5. Repeal NYC income tax
6. Tax foreign investors buying trophy properties that sit vacant
7. Complete 2nd avenue subway and build new subway lines from Queens to Brooklyn
8. Put people on welfare to work cleaning the sidewalks and subways
9. Make the streets more pedestrian and cyclist friendly
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