Let this be exhibit A of what Mayor Adams thinks of the small man in his city. This also shows what he thinks about cooperative-run businesses in New York.

It's probably gonna be more expensive to rip out the equipment than to keep it in. The only way this makes sense is that green handshakes aplenty must have taken place.

If the PCC was doing the job well, keep them there.

> MNRR did not want to share tracks with LIRR

Grand Central has so much extra capacity because there are no intercity rail services from there rn. This feudalism between the MNRR and the LIRR makes no sense at all.

Is that really why the place is so freakin deep? Bc the MNRR wants the LIRR nowhere near their tracks?

Touché

That might change today (Jan 25).

Question: Are George Santos' lips moving?

If yes, he's lying lies to end all lies.

If no, wait until his lips are moving, then refer back to the "if yes" answer.

(This guy is embarrassing the entire state.)

> My only point was that this isn’t an NYU problem per se, the problem is systemic and only regulation can fix systemic issues.

Okay, fair point. Regulation is always helpful.

Nevertheless, even if it is systemic, I can't see how that exempts NYU here. They seem to be a particular egregious example, since they're one of the most prestigious hospitals in the city.

In fact, it might be good for the public if they're called on the carpet before everyone. It might scare the other hospitals into treating the public better.

EDIT: Plus, ideally there shouldn't be a need for advocates to drive people into doing their job. If that's necessary, isn't there something much more wrong?

I know someone else who had to do that for his mom. He nearly got arrested bc he had to be persistent to overcome the resistance of the doctors - twice.

Okay. Didn't even know that was a thing tbh.

That being said, I don't see any indication that this was the case with the undocumented immigrant.

> Every hospital in this city (and I'm guessing everywhere in this country) offers better service for VIPs and their families. None of this is limited to just NYU.

Yes, VIPs will get better care than regular patients who get standard care. Shouldn't be happening, but there's no way to completely prevent that. But that's not what's happening here.

We're talking about regular patients getting unacceptably substandard levels of care precisely so that VIPs can get the gold standard. That is so mindblowingly wrong on so many levels. And I'm really upset by the amount of comments here that are giving NYU a pass for this, and this comment chain is one of the worst examples.

Let me tell you an actual story that shows what effect this can have. It comes from a friend whom I will now advise to lawyer up fast.

In late January, my friend brought in his mom to the NYU ER during a weekday evening, driven by her husband (friend's dad) to the hospital. She was an employee for the NYS Dept of Financial Services. Had decent insurance as a state civil servant. She could walk in on her own and was completely lucid, though she had lost substantial weight. She was thinking of going to the hospital during Fall 2021, but avoided going bc of the COVID surge then. Her weight loss worried her family so much that the son set things in motion to get her medical care.

They gave her a ER bed in the hallway pretty quickly. They had to wait an hour or two before they could do blood work and a CT scan. To their credit, they moved her bed behind a curtain after a time, but everything goes downhill from there.

From the CT scan, the doctors concluded that she had end-stage colorectal cancer, with weeks left to live. They were shocked since, according to her, a colonoscopy done just before COVID was negative. They asked repeatedly for a biopsy and/or a stool test for more conclusive results, but the doctors wouldn't hear of it. Given this article, I wonder if that's because that was being prioritized for richer patients. Could also be bc she wouldn't take blood transfusions (she was a Jehovah's Witness). I have no idea, but I digress.

Long story short, her 16 hour stay in the ER was a tale of neglect. Was technically admitted into the hospital during late night hours, but nothing was done to move her into an actual room. Apparently, that ER bed was really uncomfortable too. Around 6 AM or so, she got a sandwich and water that SHE had to request from the nurse.

The bedside manner of hospital staff was also apparently lacking. Even though the oncology team wouldn't show up until morning, surgeons and other staff were circulating in and out of the room lamenting what little they could do for her. When she and her son pressed them for hard details, they kept copping out by saying that their advice was only preliminary, and the oncology team had the last word.

The son left at 3AM, intending to return later in the morning. According to him, his mom told him that the conga line of staff continued thru the morning. It seems the oncology team came late in the morning, but were doing a poor job of keeping her in the loop. Just kept popping in, saying what a sick woman she was. Weren't responding much to her questions about what they can do, except to say that they were still deciding. It seems she saw staff just beyond the curtains conferencing among themselves about her condition, and weren't saying much to her.

Around noon, she decided that she had enough. Got up, got dressed, checked herself out of the ER and took a taxi home to Queens. Showed up at her home just as her son was about to leave for NYU. He sez that NYU called them, saying that he should convince her to come back. However, he and his dad said that they found it hard to do so given the conditions that she just left. To me, I guess the mom decided that if this was the end, she wanted to share it with her family.

She was okay for roughly a week afterward, as the family was looking for other doctors to go for a second opinion. The son tried to convince her to go see other doctors, but she was reluctant given her experience at NYU. Her condition deteriorated rapidly as February began. She had to go to another hospital in Queens, where she died within days of entry. She was in her mid 60s.

Officially, her cause of death was "suspected late-stage colorectal cancer". Neither NYU or the other hospital (LIJ Forest Hills) did colonoscopies, biopsies or stool tests that could have been more conclusive. Though in LIJ's defense, the mom probably wasn't in a state to take those tests at that point.

Once again, she was a employee at the NYS Dept of Financial Services. She helped handle FOIL requests from all over the country, and apparently was a respected member of her office. She was firmly a member of NYC's middle class, with good insurance, and this is the way she was treated. So I can only imagine what happened with poorer patients.

Plus, keep in mind that the family still doesn't know what exactly killed her. While it very well could have been cancer, the small chance exists that it was something else. Maybe it was something curable if it was caught in time, maybe not. The point is that, when she entered NYU, she was underweight and anemic. But according to the son, she was still completely functional (which is truly amazing). She could have taken a stool test at the very least.

Honestly, reading this article made my blood boil. I found it really hard to reconcile their experience with NYU's sterling reputation. This article helps it make more sense, though it's still a horror. And again, based on this article, I'm going to advise my friend to consult with a lawyer ASAP.

If the double standard in this story has anything to do with my friend's mother, this is one case where that double standard potentially turned deadly.

I can't believe you can make a comment like that with a straight face.

> These people clog up hospital beds for no reason other than to receive a single dose of ceftriaxone each day.

Okay, so what? If he needs it, he gets it and is out in a few hours. That's the hospital literally doing its job.

Also, the remark "we should send him to a city hospital" is deeply bothersome. Why exactly should he go to a city hospital? Isn't he already in a hospital that should give him adequate care.

Hear hear. There's a lot of irresponsible comments being made in this comment section.

The housing pressure in the city exists bc it's made that way.

Consider the amount of abandoned buildings that dot the city, esp in Upper Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. Bringing these buildings back into play would make a major dent in housing demand.

Think about the (utterly ludicrous) 421-a program which requires only 25-30% of a new bldg's units to be affordable. That percentage should be at least 50% if we're serious about cracking this problem.

Think about the housing vouchers that most landlords refuse to accept. That's a program that could be so much more successful if it were exploited more.

Plus, the Adams admin refuses to give firm numbers on how many affordable apartments it will construct or preserve. When apartment affordability has never been more critical, Adams' silence is deafening.

Ultimately, it's up to the government to make housing affordable. This is where City Hall should be leading the charge. But Adams is asleep at the wheel, which is negligent at best or malicious at worst. His inaction on this front (and on other fronts) has the potential to do major damage to the city's fortunes.