^^ No, I haven’t had the pleasure but I googled the place and we definitely should have zone like that in the city! It would take sightseeing to another level in NYC!!
This is an incredible photo!
Female nudity below the age of 35 seems like it would be a great idea, it would almost certainly double the number of tourists coming to the city and encourage additional hotel construction. Of course, you know that Ivanka is 34 and so would be required to adhere to this rule. In her speech last night she implied that her father was responsible for the NYC’s return from disrepair and bankruptcy and she also seemed to give him credit for creating the NYC skyline. She clearly loves her father.
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I would like to see Ivanka naked, and hot women over 35, like Melania, should also participate.
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- Remove the vast majority of construction sheds in the city by rewriting the law to include a reasonable standard of what constitutes an actual danger to pedestrians by facades.
- Fix NYC’s trash-on-the-street abomination by recessing trash containers into the sidewalk where possible, into the road where possible, and putting above ground collectors elsewhere.
- Tear down MSG and Penn Plaza (including 1Penn) and rebuild the original station plus a modern office tower.
- Fix the damn subway!
- Tear down the FDR from the Manhattan Bridge to the Battery and create park space and a boardwalk (can I get 375 Pearl taken down in the process?)
- Pave the roads and be vigilant about repainting road markings. Reconstruct roads where feasible.
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While the following are not within a mayor’s power, I would:
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Dramatically reduce Welfare, Medicaid,Foodstamps, and other New York largesse.
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Introduce work requirements for Welfare, Medicaid, and Foodstamp recipients, and introduce stringent residency verification to ensure that the recipients of New York largesse actually live here and not in NC, SC, Ga, the DR, or PR.
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Abolish unions
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Dramatically reduce police pensions.
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A. Redevelop all public housing
1) Restoring the grid
2) Doubling density (or whatever the numbers would show) to give developers an
incentive to build modern apartment buildings
3) of course current residents would be relocated into the new apartments
otherwise the socialists would have a field trip
B. Put a moratorium on razing all pre-war buildings
1) This would require to reform the landmarks commission
2) Significantly increasing their budgets because you wouldn’t want new
development to ground to a halt, but the presumption would be that all prewar
buildings need to be reviewed to err on the side of saving
C. Increase density throughout most of the city except historic or purely residential
neighborhoods
D. Create some sort of “aesthetics” panel to ensure that Sam Changs of the world
can’t desecrate this great city like that anymore
1) Allow greater flexibility for air rights transfers
2) “Work” with developers or advise so we don’t get situations where PS remains
standing while landmark worthy buildings are razed (often on the same block)
just because that’s what developers own
3) Overall more planning needs to happen and not haphazard development
borne out of jungle capitalism
4) In order to ensure that development doesn’t skyrocket in costs, a compensatory mechanism needs to be put in place (ie giving out additional air rights etc.)
E. Do something with the damn subways, a whole new vision is needed there (and of
course billions and billions in investment)
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Would need state and NJ buy-in, but combine path, mta and port authority, clean house at all three. Call the new entity the Gotham Transit Authority, Gotham would then be considered ‘the seven cities’, (5 boros + Hudson County and Newark).
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If I were mayor?
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Build a statue of myself at the forefront of Battery Park for young kin of tomorrow to aspire to greatness and for the legacy to be remembered for whats to come in the following points.
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Remove FAR requirements South of 125th Street
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With #2 stated, with the relaxed zoning and almost unlimited potential, I would have a design review board that only strives for excellence. As anything over 1000 ft has the potential to stain the skyline, designs would be reviewed for aesthetics.
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Unlimited zoning potential for Manhattan South of 125th Street, but developers must include 30% affordable housing. Tax breaks would be given for the 5 years if they up it to 40%.
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Replace Gale Brewer with a pro development visionary.
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Expand the side walks on Park Avenue.
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Rezone DoBro (cap of 1200 ft) and LIC (cap it at 1000 ft for LIC). No FAR requirement for DoBro within 1 sq-mile of where 9 Dekalb currently is situated.
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Reduce the latency for environmental studies, to get transit projects quicker.
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Joint NYC - Jersey City agreement where resources are shared between the two cities.
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Implement double decker buses within the city (like in London, but with higher capacity).
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Rezone large swaths of the Bronx and Northern Queen to focus on unit density within midrises and highrises (12-24 floors ideally).
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Reduce community input on projects. (thats why #3 is in place)
The central goal of my administration would be to provide a city that is affordable to all. I think if developers have the right conditions and parameters to make a profit, they will build. Zoning is the biggest hindrance. I’d aim to build 800,000 units within 10 years along with encouraging growth for business in Queens and inland in Brooklyn. Make NYC into a truly multi-nodal city.