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> we have nothing like the street issues that west coast cities have Maybe not as bad west coast cities, but since January 1, 2014 things have gotten significa

> we have nothing like the street issues that west coast cities have Maybe not as bad west coast cities, but since January 1, 2014 things have gotten significantly, noticeably worse. In subway stations and cars, in the streets, in the parks, in Penn Station -- all over. And as you point out we have enough shelter beds for everyone. NYC 2019 is not what good looks like.

weeksie 7y ago
God, I miss Bloomberg.
- jquery 7y ago
  I feel like a lot of cities in America are suffering from applying national politics to their local elections. Electing a Republican or conservative/centrist Democrat every now and then wouldn't be a bad thing, Democrats do not have a monopoly on solving local issues in a compassionate yet effective manner, in fact I'd claim that the increasing ease with which the Democrat candidate wins elections in major American cities contributes to the lack of urgency and a sense of complacency with the status quo. It limits the range of possible solutions to a local minima. I expect the problems to get worse before they get better.
  - dragonwriter 7y ago
    > . Electing a Republican or conservative/centrist Democrat every now and then wouldn't be a bad thing, Democrats do not have a monopoly on solving local issues in a compassionate yet effective manner, in fact I'd claim that the increasing ease with which the Democrat candidate wins elections in major American cities contributes to the lack of urgency and a sense of complacency with the status quo. In California cities there is no one “Democratic candidate”; mayor's offices are nonpartisan elections and in a city like San Francisco there will be multiple competitive cabdidates, who might all notionally be Demcorats, some of whom will have a local government approach that is indistinguishable from what one might, based on party alignment on similar national issues, expect from a Republican.
maxaf 7y ago
I stopped taking the subway with my daughter after running time and time again into subway masturbators and dudes who unzip, whip out, and urinate in public without even bothering to hide in the tunnel. Closer to home on the Upper West Side - a self-described bastion of progressive thought in the city - public urination by the homeless and/or insane is a common sight. Nobody pays attention anymore. The police don’t cite or remove these people. Everyone celebrates “decriminalization” of antisocial behavior as if it’s some kind of an accomplishment. I say destruction of the social public is anything but. Is SF’s poop problem the next stop for NYC?

weeksie 7y ago

God, I miss Bloomberg.

jquery 7y ago
I feel like a lot of cities in America are suffering from applying national politics to their local elections. Electing a Republican or conservative/centrist Democrat every now and then wouldn't be a bad thing, Democrats do not have a monopoly on solving local issues in a compassionate yet effective manner, in fact I'd claim that the increasing ease with which the Democrat candidate wins elections in major American cities contributes to the lack of urgency and a sense of complacency with the status quo. It limits the range of possible solutions to a local minima. I expect the problems to get worse before they get better.
- dragonwriter 7y ago
  > . Electing a Republican or conservative/centrist Democrat every now and then wouldn't be a bad thing, Democrats do not have a monopoly on solving local issues in a compassionate yet effective manner, in fact I'd claim that the increasing ease with which the Democrat candidate wins elections in major American cities contributes to the lack of urgency and a sense of complacency with the status quo. In California cities there is no one “Democratic candidate”; mayor's offices are nonpartisan elections and in a city like San Francisco there will be multiple competitive cabdidates, who might all notionally be Demcorats, some of whom will have a local government approach that is indistinguishable from what one might, based on party alignment on similar national issues, expect from a Republican.

maxaf 7y ago

I stopped taking the subway with my daughter after running time and time again into subway masturbators and dudes who unzip, whip out, and urinate in public without even bothering to hide in the tunnel. Closer to home on the Upper West Side - a self-described bastion of progressive thought in the city - public urination by the homeless and/or insane is a common sight. Nobody pays attention anymore. The police don’t cite or remove these people. Everyone celebrates “decriminalization” of antisocial behavior as if it’s some kind of an accomplishment. I say destruction of the social public is anything but. Is SF’s poop problem the next stop for NYC?