Re:Full Shutdown of L Train to Be Halted by Cuomo
by et2o on Thursday January 03, 2019 @03:34PM
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Not in Manhattan. They could be 10x the size and still get filled.
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Re:Full Shutdown of L Train to Be Halted by Cuomo
by drugme on Thursday January 03, 2019 @05:11PM
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The point is that when you're looking to redevelop, you go after low-hanging fruit -- like, for example, low-rise / brownfield industrial districts where the industry and people left decades ago and would otherwise never be coming back in great numbers. Like say the waterfronts in Brooklyn / Queens (which are of course exactly the areas the city is focusing on).
You don't just seize and destroy neighborhoods that have been thriving and integrated for 150+ years, like the East Village for example. Which seems to be what you're proposing.
(BTW I say "seize" because what you're proposing would never happen alone on any significant scale without eminent domain).
Re:Full Shutdown of L Train to Be Halted by Cuomo
by ng12 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @05:37PM
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> (BTW I say "seize" because what you're proposing would never happen alone on any significant scale without eminent domain).
How so? Landlords would jump to sell their rent-controlled buildings to developers who are champing at the bit. City programs are the only thing preventing development from happening.
Re:Full Shutdown of L Train to Be Halted by Cuomo
by drugme on Thursday January 03, 2019 @05:54PM
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Landlords would jump to sell their rent-controlled buildings to developers who are champing at the bit.
This is wishful thinking, on a number of fronts.
For example one does not simply "sell" (meaning, in the context of proposed redevelopment: purge all the tenants from) a rent-controlled building in NYC. Or even an existing coop or condo building, for example.