Car-hater Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mamdani’s transition team for transportation, climate and infrastructure – and his agenda is a nightmare for the city’s drivers.
For one thing, they took away parking spaces, which are already extremely scarce.
Parking spaces should be scarce in NYC.
Secondly, because they are slightly raised, they made for a perfectly safe little living space for vermin under the floorboards
Lol, are you seriously trying to blame NYC’s rat problem on these? The problem has more to do with the large piles of garbage sitting on the street.
Thirdly, none of them were built with any kind of permits or regulations
Ooooh noooo, an unpermitted shed, noooo 😭
Land in a city should be put to its highest and best use. Are these little seating areas the highest and best use? Maybe, maybe not. But the highest and best use definitely isn’t parked cars.
Parking spaces should be scarce in NYC.
Lol, are you seriously trying to blame NYC’s rat problem on these? The problem has more to do with the large piles of garbage sitting on the street.
Ooooh noooo, an unpermitted shed, noooo 😭
Land in a city should be put to its highest and best use. Are these little seating areas the highest and best use? Maybe, maybe not. But the highest and best use definitely isn’t parked cars.