Phil BuildTheFutureNow

Illegally parked cars block street sweepers in NYC. Trash piles up, clogs drains, and combined with heavier rains from climate change, causes dangerous flooding. The city needs a $30B+ stormwater upgrade. Replacing flood-prone homes with taller, resilient buildings saves lives.

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Everyone wants a walkable 'hood with transit & amenities. But if that's the only one, prices soar. So ya build affordable housing, but people from suburbs move in them, vacancies fall, and the problem remains. The only fix is means-testing & restricting it to native New Yorkers

the 2025 US median income is about $62,100. the MEDIAN is the middle point, so half of full-time workers make more than this and half less.
It's more useful than "average" because it isn't skewed by a few aristocrats making the it look deceptively high.

You can foster a dog or cat from best friends in SoHo, manhattan. Or you can adopt one and give them a wonderful home. bestfriends.org/new-york-city

A house of dynamite

Everyone's upset that the new movie "A House of Dynamite" just nullified his up to $3 trillion "Golden Dome" by showing missile defense as a coin toss that didn’t work.
Even the Pentagon is in panic mode over how everyone looks incompetent

Fare evasions cost NYC $1 billion last year — and the MTA is fighting back. But riders will pay for it regardless When a service isn’t free, people should prepare to pay up.

Fare and toll evasion cost the MTA an estimated $1 billion in 2024, whether it's the subway, a bus, Long Island Rail Road or Metro-North service ... And if you think that trend continues, it’s not the fare dodgers who’ll pay the price, it’s everyone else. finance.yahoo.com/news/fare-ev...

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When one billionaire politician fires everyone who disagrees with him, that’s not power to the people, it’s power away from the people

We used to have that mess, and it’s why people left nyc. Fixing problems means NYC becomes a totally different place. The real cause of gentrification was ended leaded gasoline and removing smog TBH. And no, you don’t want that.

How to lower NYC rent:
1. Reopen Fresh Kills Landfill
2. Bring back leaded gasoline
3. Use coal & oil heat for smog
4. Incinerate trash in basements
5. Cut subway funding
6. Remove congestion pricing
7. Cut school funding

If NYC modernized its subways and buses, some commuters could save 110 hours a year, that’s like getting a whole week back. Faster trains, quicker buses… it’s basically a caffeine shot for the city’s circulatory system and more time with family. Why aren’t we doing this already?

Imagine a “Save the Books” campaign that locks the library doors to prevent wear and tear. That’s what happens when cities “protect” neighborhoods by freezing development. You save the buildings, but lose the people who make them matter.

You know what’s odd? Cities with strict height limits are kind of like parents who don’t want their kid to grow up, so they buy smaller clothes instead of a bigger house. It’s weird, but now the kid can’t breathe. Shouldn’t cities be allowed to grow, too?

a man with a crown on his head and the words it 's good to be the king ALT: a man with a crown on his head and the words it 's good to be the king

The Trump family’s net worth doubled from $5B in 2024 to $10B in 2025, driven largely by gains from crypto ventures like World Liberty Financial and a surge in meme coin investments…. It’s good to be the king

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Exclusive | 300K NYC public school students — nearly 35% — ‘chronically absent’ as grades plummet, spending surges It’s been 10 days, do you know where your children are?

The next NYC mayor has to get school truancy rates down from 35% to close to zero.
In the last school year (2023-2024), about one in three, or 34.8%, of NYC public school students were chronically absent, meaning they missed at least 10% of school days.
nypost.com/2025/03/06/u...

To fix it, change the game: tie transit funding to upzoning, freeze property taxes for locals, and reinvest new revenue in parks and schools. Make “yes to housing” the winning move. That’s how we turn sprawl’s vicious cycle into a virtuous one.

America’s suburbs are a self-reinforcing trap. We built for cars, banned density, and called it freedom. Now housing is scarce, transit is weak, and class lines are drawn by zip code. Everyone’s acting rationally, yet the system keeps failing.

Nice firehouse you got here. Real nice. Be a real shame if somebody… upzoned it. Maybe added 60 stories of market-rate apartments on top. A real shame. Just think about it.

Grandma’s higher utility bill is subsidizing AI servers. Big Tech’s data centers get sweetheart electricity deals, cheap, stable power that your local utility makes up for by raising your rates. It’s not illegal. It’s a “regulatory conspiracy of incentives.” You pay more

NYC housing logic: High demand → block market-rate homes → build a few “affordable” units → cheap rents attract more transplants.
We’re solving a crowding problem by handing out free tickets at the door.

Associations between Urban Sprawl and Life Expectancy in the United States In recent years, the United States has had a relatively poor performance with respect to life expectancy compared to the other developed nations. Urban sprawl is one of the potential causes of the hig...

You often hear that walkable neighborhoods are healthier. One study found the difference in life expectancy between more compact, walkable urban areas and sprawling, car-dependent ones can be as much as 2.7 years.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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