Of course no one is happy about cuts to vital services like the library. But people are also unhappy with a 3% minimum city income tax and a $5 billion budget shortfall.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
https://twitter.com/MarketUrbanism/status/118704548054032384...
NYC has a ton of people at the top of their fields in a really dense setting. I wonder what city services cause such a big shortfall! On paper it should be easier to finance NYC than any other big city, so I wonder where the money goes.
Or an I incorrect and the city is poorer than I think? Perhaps Long Island sucks more incomes away from the city than I thought?
[0] https://www.nyc.gov/assets/omb/downloads/pdf/fp11-23.pdf
It's shocking for me as a German that this seems to have been a consistent fact of life that's just accepted by everyone and nothing is being done - no new prisons are built to offer more space for prisoners, and nothing is being done to reduce the amount of people heading towards prison.
[1] https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/prison-a...
[2] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/new-york-post-photos...
But Library management wants to host cool friends AND generate angry voters.
I see this pattern often in government budget showdowns; the tiniest cuts produce outsized service impacts.
That's less than half a percent of the overall budget.
[0] https://www.nyc.gov/site/omb/publications/agency-budgets-pro... [1] https://www.nyc.gov/assets/omb/downloads/pdf/fp11-23.pdf
[1]: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/nypd-overspending-on-ov...
In their own words:
City needs to actually get its act together to become more efficient.
Careful.
Don't fuck over the transient or temporarily (permanently!) displaced with these broad strokes.