I think thats because, for all the progress NYC has made in installing bike infrastructure, they've done basically nothing to reduce the number of cars on our streets.
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Your opinion isn't in agreement with the research.
And before you come tell us that electric cars are quieter (they are, for the occupants), the great majority of automobile noise is from friction between the tires and the road.
Roads require materials & energy to maintain. They also take up a LOT of space and slice up the natural world in a way that wrecks ecosystems.
Personal autos as the default method of transportation requires sprawly, inefficient land use. When every destination is build to accomodate the car, every errand comes to require the car. This is a bad thing, even if your car isn't directly burning gasoline.
this is why rent is so cheap in manhattan, san fransisco, london, etc
It seemed perfectly fine. I never went in, but the outside was clean, well lit, and well maintained. My neighbors there were just like my neighbors anywhere else on the block.
There's certainly a lot of bad public housing in the us, but that's not an immutable quality of public housing, that's a policy choice made by politicians.
Venue isn't the defining difference, no. Some combination of intent and skill are. At least thats what I think.
Even if the "agreement" was "voluntary" for the parties who entered it, it can still affect third parties.
And for context, the average US household owns about 1.9 cars. Not an apples-to-apples comparison, but its easy to see that NYC car ownership is MUCH lower than the nation on average. [https://www.bts.gov/archive/publications/highlights_of_the_2...]
In the US alone, we literally import seasonal workers to prop up our agriculture industry. We pay them just enough to survive, give them few rights and little stability, and generally tread them as an underclass.
People like this undergird the whole of the modern global economy.
There are another 3000 hunter-gatherers who have hoarded 90% of the resources. If we split up the resources more equally we could support everyone easily.
Social housing is a different story. Where I live, it's notoriously hard to get into (waitlists of 8 years or more), has strict income requirements (get a raise? lose your home!) and is often poorly maintained because anti-poor city politicians wont make the investments necessary to improve and expand it.
Most other programs that we're told exist to help the poor are similar. They're limited, means-tested, complex to apply for, and often still short of what's needed.
It is a moral failure of our society - where there IS so much wealth - that so many struggle so hard just to put a roof of their heads. It's a worse failure still that anyone goes homeless.
"Guns" is still a good read, as long as you don't stop there.