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?
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...
[0] https://www.nyc.gov/assets/omb/downloads/pdf/fp11-23.pdf