If NYC Class 1 homes paid the SAME rate as Class 2 condos: Every single-family home would pay 5.5x more The average home: +$23,500/year A Park Slope mansion: +$195,000/year Citywide? $13.5 BILLION in additional revenue.

Sounds like they are setting off mortars or a large cannon across the street 🎆 Had windows open now am deaf

A UK extreme heat conference was canceled by extreme heat weather.com/2026/06/23/n...

Toddlers really need to take some personal responsibility here. If you're not tall enough to make eye contact with me above the hood, maybe don't walk in front of my 7‑foot pickup truck? Strollers are basically speed bumps with handles at this point. Grow faster, kids, or stay at home

This was almost a waterfront highway. Brooklyn at 10pm

July 4 in Brooklyn #skytok

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Cars act as "thermal batteries," absorbing solar radiation and releasing it as heat. A study in Lisbon (applicable to any dense city) found a black car can raise the surrounding air temperature by 2°C (3.6°F) compared to a white car Now add 3 million cars to a city …

Fans use 99% less electricity than air conditioners

[new, convenient, innovative thing] is one of the worst things that’s happened to [my state/city]

A $5.3M Park Slope mansion in NYC pays $10,437/year in taxes. A $846K 1-bedroom condo down the street pays $17,231. The ONE-BEDROOM pays $6,794 MORE in actual property taxes than the 5,500 sq ft mansion. A condo owner is heavily subsidizing a mansion owner.

This $9.7M Lower East Side 6,600 sq ft mansion pays $16,169/year in property taxes. A $701k studio condo across the street pays $8,169/year. The mansion is worth 14× more but pays only 2× the taxes. A middle class studio owner is subsidizing a mansion owner

with no free car parking here nobody can do anything… Another open street driving away customers. Just look at what can happen if you open street for people, not cars. It’s so bad I had to wait twenty minutes to buy bagels.

Most of us were never taught how to deal w a heat wave. Close the curtains. Put cardboard on the outside of windows to block sunlight. Use a fan + a mister. Turn off the AC and spend the day at a museum, library, or movie theatre. Stay in the shade, wear white☀️🏛️🎥

NYC closed its libraries in a heat emergency. If neighborhood libraries had stayed open as cooling centers today, the city likely would have: • Cut peak electricity demand by 50–100 MW • Saved residents hundreds of thousands of dollars in AC costs

#skytok #heatwave

This is beyond bad in 100F heat waves: gothamist.com/news/nycs-st...

It’s 100° outside, so of course NYC city hall closed all of the libraries to save money. They are cooling centers. You just can’t use them.

NYC is in a heat wave today with rolling blackouts. Batteries (big ones for the grid) are saving us right now and we need more. A network of iron-air batteries across the five boroughs could store days of backup power for hospitals, subways, and water pumps. The technology exists

Stopped by a friend's place today. AC blasting. Curtains wide open. Windows be like a greenhouse. They're complaining about a $500 utility bill and I'm like... close the curtains. It's FREE. Blocks radiant heat instantly. Better yet? Put cardboard OUTSIDE the glass, reflects sun

stop collecting the sun INSIDE your glass in this heat wave. Put cardboard OUTSIDE the glass. 📦 Prop it up so it doesn’t blow away, close the window, and watch the radiant heat bounce off. Dropped my indoor temp by 6°. Wrap it in tin foil facing out if you want to get fancy. Cost:free

In NYC, a person living in a $5.5 million brownstone (4,300 sq feet) pays LESS in property taxes than a $804k one bedroom condo (640 sq feet). Live in a condo pay $12k, brownstone is $11k

The NYC subway in July is a portal to hell. 🥵 The MTA is finally testing geothermal cooling to pump trapped platform heat deep underground at 168th & 181st St. It can drop temps to a manageable 82-85°F, relief from the usual subway sauna. 🚇❄️ secretnyc.co/mta-test-geo...

with an older air conditioner, turning the thermostat up from 68°F to 78°F can save about $10-30 a day on a 100°F day (and more if the home is leaky/sunny) And avoid blackouts that shut off everyone’s AC at the same time

The oculus today

Why do Brooklyn brownstones get tax-cap protections while a $550k one bedroom condo gets slammed with higher Class 2 rates and soaring "rental-equivalent" valuations? Is there a fix for NYC’s regressive property tax system? I’d pay way less in taxes in a single family home ☠️

The DSA opposed the 2023 NY Housing Compact. If it passed NYC metro could have ~180,000 more homes by 2029. That would lower market-rate median rents by about 5%, about $120/month, by reducing the housing shortage. building more market rate homes puts downward pressure on rents.

New York City is seeing more single adults living in homeless shelters this summer compared to last year. At the same time, more people are living on the streets than last year.

SoHo today

The people who can con themselves make the best con artists

Why does it feel like NYC’s DSA is taking existing social assistance, affordable housing, healthcare, fare fares, etc, meant for low-income families born here and handing it to upper-middle-class college graduates from wealthy suburbs?

is reading training a wetware LLM to run a virtual reality avatar of the author in your brain for querying

There is no justice in NIMBYism

Just watched 4 cyclists blow a red light while pedestrians had the walk signal on my ride home over the Brooklyn bridge. NYC: start fining bikers who do this. The right of way belongs to people on foot, not bikes. Enforce the laws. Now.

tax the rich by rezoning for tall skyscrapers and forcing their private capital to build dense new market rate homes. That wave of supply shatters the landlord's monopoly on pricing. Vacancies climb, rents drop for our neighbors, and the new property tax dollars pour into school budgets and transit.

Low vacancies + no new residential towers = a bidding war for old apartments. That bidding war pushes out families who’ve lived there for decades. Building more new market rate homes takes the heat off

Benches in direct sun: empty. Benches in shadow: packed. NIMBYs fight against tall buildings for casting shade, yet we clearly prefer shade in parks. So is the real issue the shade itself, or just who controls the sky that creates it? 🤔

Would you rather pay $9,100 for 5 years of unlimited NYC subway rides (weekly cap) or $109,500 for a $30 Uber twice daily? That’s a $100k difference. What’s your pick? 🚇🚗 (asking for a friend)

If fossil fuel companies had to pay for the AC & grid infrastructure to save billions from lethal heat, the climate change bill to them would be about $2.5 TRILLION. Give or take

200,000 "affordable" homes at $700K each = $140 billion, more than NYC's entire annual budget. Where's that money coming from? Meanwhile, 200,000 market-rate units cost taxpayers $0 and actually lower rents through filtering. Which plan is more realistic? 🤔

The law: rent-stabilized tenants can't sublet for more than 2 yrs or profit. Reality: thousands do it for years, pocketing market rates. Landlords can't afford eviction fights, courts are slow, and subtenants don’t snitch. It's just unenforced NYC city hall needs a crackdown

Honestly, if Base Set Charizard is going for $12k, the city should just cap resale margins and force every Pokémon card shop to set aside 20% of their rarest pulls for affordable lotteries. Stabilize the holographic market. What could possibly go wrong when we treat luxury collectibles like this?

NYC City Hall is the ultimate rent-hike machine: Block market-rate skyscrapers → strangle supply. Refuse to expand congestion pricing/transit → trap demand in the same 5 walkable neighborhoods. Restrict where you can live AND how you get there = bidding wars for scraps. 🏗️🚇💸

Annual heatwave twitter meltdown incoming. City Hall mandates A/C but won't let rents fund fixing pre-war buildings. So tenants fry, landlords insolvent, and both blame each other. The system's designed to fail, enjoy your 100°F stalemate, courtesy of your favorite bureaucrats

Cities can greatly reduce traffic and save money if google and Apple swap two icons in their maps in areas w mass transit

Sitting in a park next to the east river is illuminating. People don’t understand: What a barge is How tides work What the UN is That it’s cooler in the shade What steam vents are How to use the subway Why skyscrapers exist That ice displaces coffee