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co_matic t1_iz4yxgl wrote

Reply to comment by The_Lone_Apple in NYC comptroller says Adams has ‘exacerbated’ widespread city worker vacancies by mowotlarx

If you have friends who are invested in commercial real estate, then you need your office workers in the office to keep up appearances.

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skeeh319 t1_iz52bst wrote

Exactly. Adams needs New Yorkers to continue buying $20 salads in midtown to keep his real estate donors happy. The man is incredibly short sighted and self interested. I really hope as New Yorkers we can galvanize behind whoever will be opposing him in the primary.

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AnacharsisIV t1_iz5wjkd wrote

Unfortunately a big chunk of the city's taxes come from either taxes on commercial real estate or from businesses that basically exist solely to serve 9-5 office workers.

Short of singlehandedly changing the economy of the city in a 4 year term, I don't know what you expect from Adams. I work from home and would love to continue doing so in perpetuity but the house of cards that is our city has been built with the assumption that people will be in offices.

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Evening_Presence_927 t1_iz6sqwr wrote

At least start the process of weaning us off of that revenue stream. Vacancy taxes and higher taxes on the rich would help.

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skeeh319 t1_iz7s1d6 wrote

47% of NYC revenue comes from property tax. As someone else said vacancy tax is a big one. And letting the free market do it’s work, the city needs to evolve with us. If people work from home more and eat at home we have to built communities and businesses around that. And make midtown residential, create parks. But Eric Adams is not a long term planner, he is more focused on slashing jobs, investing 5.5 million into a hip hop museum, partying with his friends, and campaigning for his 2025 race. What I want is for him to make concrete plans for how we will bring the city with us forward, instead of just strictly holding us in the past of pre pandemic times without any debate or negotiation.

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The_Lone_Apple t1_iz55qcz wrote

Our new ranked-choice primary system delivered us Eric Adams.

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cascoin84 t1_iz5p8wo wrote

Uh no. Adams was leading after the first round so he would have won under the traditional system. The ranked choice system allowed Garcia to come very close to overtaking him.

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skeeh319 t1_iz7sdva wrote

That’s empirically incorrect. What got us Eric Adams is the abysmal voter turnout in New York City, in a large part thanks to the board of elections. Only 23% of voters voted for eric adams. Only 12% of voters showed up for Deblasios reelection! The problem is we don’t show up and we end up with politicians that don’t actually represent voters.

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