> This smug fuck Janno Lieber cautions that researchers do not have any first party sources when it comes to MTA costs yet his agency refuses to make those costs public.

Not surprised - he is and always has been an incompetent hack.

That's what elections are for - we vote for people to make and enact policies, we shouldn't need to get "involved" beyond that to help counterbalance the miniscule number of people who make it onto a Community Board.

For the love of God, can the city please just focus on providing basic services and infrastructure, boosting the economy and reducing poverty?

Building new homes, businesses, and infrastructure to accommodate more people is a good thing. If having to look at new people and new things upsets you, that’s entirely on you.

Sounds like a dumb idea, thanks for sharing!

Putting a bunch of people on the fringes of the city, where there’s limited mass transit, rather than Manhattan and the inner parts of Brooklyn and Queens, seems like a colossal mistake.

They built Paris as we know it today by annihilating huge swaths of the historic city.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann's_renovation_of_Paris

The best thing we can do, unfortunately, is make room for them all to live here instead.

As an educational thing it's fine, but there's no shortage of arable land in this country that we need to produce food within cities themselves, and urban agriculture is, for now, far less of a priority than jobs, housing, healthcare, or any number of other initiatives. The money and time/energy spent on this could be far better used doing something else.

Urban farming is very dumb.

New York City's bureaucratic feudalism never ceases to amaze me.

Highly skeptical Adams can deliver, but at least he has the right idea.