The General Assembly has been held in Midtown today in an emergency special session, only the 11th ever held.
Also speaking of the UN
Reminds me of my favorite âOligarchâ commercial⌠
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I found this pretty cool.
Keeping the lights on in New York City is no easy task. New Yorkers demand billions of watts of electricity per day, much more than the city itself can produce. As New York moves towards a greener future, generating this vast amount of electricity will require rethinking how the city generates its energy.
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I really have to get Nebula and Curiosity stream. Thereâs just too much good stuff on there.
Also yeah, itâs really impressive that any major city can do this. I wouldnât even want to know how many singular wires are around the city.
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This isnât really news but Iâm not sure where to post this. Do we have âportrayals in mediaâ thread?
Iâm hoping this doesnât spoil anything. I saw The Batman this weekend and I just want to say it was the best film depiction of Gotham Iâve seen in a while. It was the perfect intersection of NYC, Chicago, and Gothic architecture. There are references to famous landmarks and transit from both cities. Gotham feels like itâs own antagonist in this film. More so than Nolanâs basically Chicago Gotham.
Iâm mostly a Marvel fan but love it when DC gets it right with their films.
Push your local reps to include the bill to scrap the residential FAR cap in the state budget. The city needs more housing that the current residential density doesnât provide.
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I sure hope the sky isnât the limit! And while theyâre at it, get rid of exclusive single family housing zoning! We need more, lots more, and we need them dense!
At least south of 59th street, residential density needs to shoot up. What these folks are afraid of is a massive spurt of residents, which would require new, large expressways to be built and many of those historic districts in the city to be significantly modernized at the lowest levels of intervention, even with investments in mass transit. They want to avoid that situation.
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^I think thatâs going to be way tougher to do on a large scale than people anticipate. There are so many hulking mid-century office towers with very deep floor plates that would make for poor apartment buildings due to lack of light, forests of structural columns, etc. The problem is, office tenants donât want to be in those buildings either. The best candidates for resi conversion would be pre-war office towers, which usually have slimmer floor plates, or the smaller âwedding cakeâ mid-century towers.
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Something like the Lever house or 430 Park Avenue would be perfect for residential pockets. Anything with a floorplate less than 10,000 square feet would be golden for residential conversion. Anything above that and youâre talking commercial space all over again.
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I would love to see lever house as apartments. One of the few postwar towers that wouldnât look hostile for living in.
I also think some of those narrow prewar midtown building should be converted, theyâre absolute junk as office space.
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You wouldnât even have to change the name or branding of that tower either. Just white box the interiors and go from there.
And that doesnât even get started on the massive cost of retrofitting these into residential buildings.
Letâs start with something simple, how many restrooms do you think there are in the average office building? 4 per floor? Residential needs a working bathroom in every single apartment. That alone is a massive jump in the amount of infrastructure needed.
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So you do 4-bedroom units with bathrooms en suite or 3-beds with same en suites and powder rooms? Use the rest of the space for amenities and perks? Oh thatâs right, they would quickly turn into luxe pied a terres.
well this is no good
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