Toll Hikes, Fare Hikes, War Hikes 2052Many of those SuperBlocks you refer to were doled out as Mitchell-Llama housing. IIRC, the builders were guarenteed city-backed financing in exchange for making those superblocks...
.... ... Guess I wasn't clear enough. Here, let me pull my foot out of my mouth and try again... The Girls Can't Hack It! 2054You said the key word: "regularly". Once in a while, a woman will win an ultramarathon against male compebreastion, but that's because the number of entrants in an ultra is so... NYC (and many other places) has-have a "residency requirment" for gov't employees. In other words, if you want to work for NYC you have to live in the five boroughs. (with some exceptions.. most notably police and firefighters have exemptions codified in NYS law). The local gov't types claim this is "good" because it gives the local folk better chances at gov't jobs. Or something. In reality it's dumb, stupid, and moronic: a) if you figure that 5% of the workforce is employed by the gov't that means that you've increased the "natural" (for want of a better term) housing demand in the city by very roughly that same five percent 1. Which means, natch, that the housing costs for everyone in the city rise. The Donald may enjoy this, but for most people it's ugly 1 perhaps half the people, if given the choice, would commute in. But raising that number back up is that the rest of the family tends to also live in the city... for local gov'ts are education and Medicaid. Commuters into NYC don't gobble up these services in NYC. Nor, for that matter, do they use much in the way of other municipal (tax supported) functions. Hence it makse fiscal (tax) sense to support commuting... Toll Hikes, Fare Hikes, War Hikes 2051On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:51:56 +0000 (UTC), General Kireiko No, not the ones I'm referring to. I'm referring to huge blocks like the Astoria Houses, the largest... While NYC doesn't (at this time) have a commuter tax 2, the general business taxes more than support the marginal (and probably the proportional embedded) costs for these commuting workers. The Girls Can't Hack It! 2055But you see, you don't even look profound compared to ME. You can't even jump over THAT low hurdle. Well, you opened the door when you accused someone else... 2 it does, though, for gov't workers. meaning that if you're one of the "exempt" ones and live in Rockland, you do, in fact, pay a "fee" equal to the resident NYC tax. Amazingly this, and some very nasty related ones, have been repeatedly upheld by the courts. Which adds to the stupidity of requiring "residency".. In other words, a residency requirement raises costs for eveyone looking for housing in the five boroughs - not just the gov't workers. And it raises the NYC tax related expenses of education and medicaid. -- Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded
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