“T” intersections in Bay Ridge means Shore Road, which is already designed to expressway speeds and has very few crossings for people to get to the many attractions along the shore like the Zen gardens, the baseball fields and the pier.

I asked on that thread why there are curb cuts with no crosswalks–it’s obvious the city meant for people to cross there whether they bothered to paint crosswalks or not, so for this idiot to swoop in and score points with drivers is the height of hypocrisy.

[paragraph] 110. Crosswalk. (a) That part of a roadway at an intersection
included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on
opposite sides of the highway between the curbs or, in the absence of
curbs, between the edges of the traversable roadway.

In other words, a crosswalk exists, whether there is paint or not, wherever there are sidewalks that connect on either side of a road.

So, saying that you can park in a crosswalk because there is no paint there is probably illegal.

It’s also leaving fewer options for dropping off people from cars or taxis

Having to walk long distance around obstacles like blocked streets kills pedestrian traffic. Any businesses, schools, senior centers, medical offices, and local residents should be opposed to these measures. It will make these streets even more dangerous, less neighborly and less inviting to those who need to most help in getting around. All so another 50 (probably young healthy) drivers use their cars more.

The bottom line is that vacancy is a function of price as well as demand. Due to a longstanding shortage, landlords had hiked up commercial rents to ridiculous heights, to the point where you had to charge $4 for a cup of coffee to make money. So before one assumes that higher vacancy is a bad thing, ask the question “bad for whom?” Not bad for someone who wants to start a business.

Just as the political class thinks they and theirs own New York and the rest of us are here to be milked with nothing in between, so the real estate portion of the executive class needs to be take down a peg. It’s the end of the housing bubble as we know it and I feel fine, despite the reduction in the fake value of my house.