Robert Hale

Mayor Adams Announces Public-Private Partnership To Reimagine 14th Street Corridor in Manhattan  - New York YIMBY Renderings reveal the proposed 14th Street corridor overhaul from Marvel in Manhattan.

Yawn. A serious effort to redo 14th would consist of telling the DOT to look up what to do in the NACTO manual and get after it. newyorkyimby.com/2025/07/mayo...

A lot has happened to PATH in the past 25 years -- 9/11, major construction work, COVID, etc. But consistent across all of these events have been ensuing reductions in off-pk service levels: since 2005, the number of PATH trips crossing the Hudson on Saturdays has fallen by *50%*

NYC subway needs exit numbering tho. Lifesaver in Tokyo

Hmm, if you're going to be digging tunnels, I see more value in digging them for the RER (B/D Nord-Châtelet, Montparnasse, making the C useful) and a cross-Paris TGV than diluting the 1 and adding more métro mileage way out in the banlieue.

July 2023 vs. July 2025.

How 200k+ growth vs 147k growth is described...

What are we doing here people?

A 30+ year old design, locked in for at least another 40 years to come.

Clearly none of the design improvements that @mta.info used for the R211 subway cars has trickled down to @mtalirr.bsky.social. An utter lack of any imagination.

CT P&Z’s have no authority over solar farm approvals. The result: 88% of projects are approved.

A 2025 bill would have added “local control” to solar, and Gov. Lamont worried we’d get less carbon-free energy. Makes you wonder if those dynamics might apply to housing!
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Park Street Hotel Hits Roadblock A Pennsylvania-based developer’s plan to build a 150-room Marriott Residence Inn on Park Street hit a roadblock Wednesday night -- as the City Plan…

As much as Lamont has set back housing today, New Haven isn't on any higher moral ground. You can't claim to be a place for all or for the rule of law when a developer follows the rules yet gets delayed and extorted. www.newhavenindependent.org/article/park...

Pro-Housing Groups Slam Guv's Veto Gov. Ned Lamont caved to NIMBYs and the suburbs Monday, according to pro-housing advocates who slammed the governor for vetoing this legislative session's…

Pathetic cave. www.newhavenindependent.org/article/hous...

S.F. activists fought for affordable housing in the Mission. Now they’re pumping the brakes For years, activists in the Mission fought a plan to build market-rate apartments, calling for affordable homes instead. Some of the same activists are now pushing back against an affordable...

Elected officials need to grow a backbone and stop listening to these goalpost-shifting NIMBY groups. Their goal isn't to make projects better—it's to kill projects altogether and/or squeeze cash out of anyone who wants to build, even nonprofit housing developers. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

they’re assembling the pervert megazord

I get the politics and don’t want to hammer Lamont (sign the bill, please!), but uhhh

One side: unhinged NIMBYs comparing TOD to the alien attack in the movie Independence Day

The other side: people should be able to afford rent and live near train stations to NYC
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In national elections, liberals like me ask leftists to be coalition partners — hold their noses and vote for a candidate they don't love to beat someone truly terrible.

In New York, the shoe is on the other foot. And we should be clear that we're willing to do what we ask of our partners.

After Years of Increases, Study Says Jersey City’s Rents Are Falling | Jersey Digs A new report says the average rent in Jersey City is falling, with a year-on-year decline in the double digits.

Housing supply 🤝 housing demand

All the usual caveats about trusting proprietary rent data apply here (it tends to capture the high end of the market best, since that’s what gets listed on major national listing sites), but, this is a lot:

I don't think Mamdani's policies will work out well, but there's a chance I'm wrong about that.

There is, by contrast, a zero percent chance that I'm wrong about Andrew Cuomo being a scumbag who degrades and disgraces our democracy with every minute he spends in public life.

"Keep New York transactional" is what machine pols, landlord class, big unions etc are really after

I’m not sure if Zohran Mamdani would deliver on better management for New York City, but I know for sure that Andrew Cuomo will not. Zohran is at least saying some smart things (mixed in with some dumb ones). Cuomo’s housing plan is from ChatGPT (free version).

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

Second election in a row with Cuomo on the ballot and the Ed board writes an endorsement telling us how much sucks in the process. This is a civic failure. Just say you’re afraid of progressives and don’t want to see homeless people. At least that’s honesty.

Ribbon Cut On Cofield Estates Six decades after Urban Renewal's bulldozers plowed through the Oak Street neighborhood -- and nearly three decades after the late Rev. Curtis Cofield II…

I'm glad to see this project complete, but at $360k/unit and 16 units/acre, and taking years to fund, it's not scalable. Also, the notion of a 100% below-market complex in a poverty donut being an unqualified good is questionable to say the least. www.newhavenindependent.org/article/curt...

Wild that the Times effectively endorses Andrew Cuomo for mayor while implying that Bill de Blasio's mayorship was a disaster and thus a huge problem for Mamdani, when as I recall the main problem with de Blasio's mayorship was... Andrew Cuomo

There’s no substitute for competence. Government cannot just give up on collecting revenue every time something is hard. The same incompetence that makes it hard to collect bus fares also makes it hard to collect subway fares, and commuter rail fares, and finally to run the transit service at all.

Meme Weeding: Embodied Carbon The greenhouse gases emitted by the production of concrete, called embodied carbon, are occasionally used as a green-NIMBY argument against building new things. A Berlin Green spokesperson coauthor…

Pedestrian Observations: Meme Weeding: Embodied Carbon pedestrianobservations.com/2025/06/08/m...

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns

los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Why the Jones Act’s future is dividing Ned Lamont, Joe Courtney The century-old maritime law is a rare point of disagreement between allies who have long worked together to support CT’s maritime industry.

Lamont's earning points in my view for proposing a rethink of the Jones Act-on top of holding firm on the CT budget guardrails. ctmirror.org/2025/06/06/j...

I am sure the anti-abundance leftist have a good explanation on how the right answer to this is to talk about race and gender more and add more regulations.

The world's only elevator-only shallow cut and cover station.

What are we doing here?

Someone should tell Sean Duffy about the big scary monsters in the subway. I saw one this morning.

This outage will put @mtalirr.bsky.social under a capacity constraint for the first time in 5+ years, so of course they are freaking out.

But we've spent $17 billion on capacity improvements and have three other city terminals. They should manage.

Run the trains on time, it's not that hard!