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LESS $$ COMING BACK TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Crain’s reports that workers are spending $4600 less each year in city neighborhoods since the pandemic, based on a report released Sunday by WFH Research. “That amounts to at least $12.4 billion a year in losses for the city, according to a data analysis by Bloomberg, which first reported on the study. The outlet arrived at that figure by multiplying each worker’s spending drop by the estimated 2.7 million people who worked in Manhattan in 2019.”
TOP RESTAURANTS IN TRIBECA
Eater lists the 17 top places to eat in the neighborhood, updated just a few days ago, and it includes Grandaisy, Frenchette, Batard, Puffy’s, File Gumbo Bar, Square Diner, Zutto, the Odeon, Tara Kitchen, Pepolino, Khe-Yo, Fonda, Nish Nush, Smyth Tavern and Chambers. There were also a few surprises: the Cuban sandwich at Westside Coffee Shop; the goat curry at Fresh Curry on Church.
FAMILIES WILL HAVE TO LEAVE HOTEL
The City reports that 70 families, displaced a year and a half by Hurricane Ida, will have to leave the Millennium Downtown at Church and Fulton at the end of the month as city aid ends. They received letters under their door on Jan. 17, following the end of FEMA funding. “Most of the families have bounced around among three or four hotels since the storm on Sept. 1, 2021, brought record rainfall and flooding to the New York region. As of the storm’s one-year anniversary in September, 109 families were still living in emergency hotels.”
REP. GOLDMAN RACKS UP A PILE OF TICKETS
The Post reports that Tribeca Congressman Dan Goldman has amassed 84 parking tickets and traffic violations on his two cars — a Lincoln Navigator Reserve and a Range Rover — in the past six years, including 18 camera-issued speeding tickets. From The Post: “The road citations run the gamut from run-of-the mill infractions like double parking and expired registration tickets to more dangerous violations like parking at fire hydrants and speeding in school zones. Records in Nassau County show an additional trio of violations, which included two violations for running a red light and one for blocking a driveway. Goldman plead guilty to all three.”
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Great; we’ve elected a Congressman whose car choices and driving habits are more appropriate for an exurb than the most urban, transit-oriented neighborhood in the United States. Ugh.
Parking tickets are a cost of owning a car in NYC, so I don’t see that as a big deal. No parking 8:00-6:00, and you take a chance at 5:30, you get a ticket. The size of his cars? Really? What about a large loft? Is that exurb? Let’s stop all this, please.
If you think that a history of excessive speeding (including in school zones) and running red lights, in cars that are the size/weight of an average military-grade vehicle, is not a “big deal”, the we have very different value systems w/r/t endangering the life of fellow residents, most of whom walk/bike/transit everyday.
99% of this country is (purposefully) designed for folks who want to drive everywhere; for those of us that want a truly urban, walkable lifestyle, there is really only NYC. I’d like my Congressman to reflect those same values and priorities.
Rep. Goldman surely drives at excessive speed including through school zones, more than the times ticketed. Hope he and his cars stay away from my kids.
I could care less what kind of car someone prefers to drive but 84 tickets in a span of 6 years is very excessive. It’s a combination of bad driving and blatant disregard for anyone else in the community.
The tickets for speeding in a school zone are given 12 months of the year and on weekends when school is clearly not in session. I drove on Eighth Avenue past a school building at 33 miles an hour on a Saturday in August and received a ticket. I had no idea that there were cameras in effect and that school zones were in operation 24/7. Not saying these speed limits should not been in effect but the DOT should inform residents of traffic rules that are not black & white and may cause confusion.
Sorry for your loss. The extension of speed-cam hours to 24-7 as of last August 1 was covered by local TV news including CBS, NBC and ABC, as well as a slew of print media (google speed cameras nyc 24/7, as I just did, and see), some of whom pointed out the rationale: that driver-speeding in NYC is most rampant in evenings, at night and on weekends. Anyway, now you know. Btw, the threshold speed for ticketing is the applicable speed limit + 11, so you were doing at least 36 mph when you got dinged.
The problem with the school zone tickets?? There is NO visible signage and the schools themselves are often not directly in a view… It’s just another revenue raising stunt. Someone with time on their hands should sue the city..
Westside was my secret…curse you, eater!!!
FYI – There’s a speed camera near Pier 40 near West St because the Trapeze School constitutes a school zone for speeding. We need to elect officials that don’t run on expanding these ridiculous government revenue generating speed cameras!
The speed limit on West St is 30 mph. The speed cams kick in at 11 mph above the limit. Your comment suggests you’re fine with drivers going at least 41 mph there and not being summonsed. Thank goodness a majority of legislators differ with you.
I’m all for far more speed cameras (and noise cameras too, for that matter), and that they should ticket at any speed above the speed limit, not the 11mph above. Otherwise what is the meaning of a “limit”?
Marcus … I’m sorry.. but have you TRIED driving at 25mph?? That’s a joke.. on a highway?
Our city government is more concerned about people going 36 mph on what is still considered to be a “Highway” while at the same time promoting drug use (MTA Pot Car?! anyone see that?) and willfully neglecting most important quality of life crimes that Real New Yorker’s consider important. NYC Let’s spend our attention on fixing this disparate mess that lies before us post Covid and not tax your citizens additionally with this BS. I think most of us would prefer being able to get to work and back in the subway. Thank you!
@Rohin:
West Street is a designated street, not highway, from the Battery to 59th Street or perhaps a little further north, at which point it becomes the Joe DiMaggio Highway. Nevertheless, reflecting its boulevard design, NYC DOT assigns West Street a 30 mph speed limit, rather than the standard 25. As I noted in my Feb 16 note in this thread, this means that a vehicle’s speed must reach at least 41 mph to trigger a speed cam violation.
That said, I’m puzzled that you suggest that speed-camera enforcement may interfere with other law enforcement. Part of the point of speed cams is that they require essentially no personnel involvement.
Both the 25 mph citywide street speed limit (with some exceptions to 30 mph as just noted) and the 2022 extension of speed-camera operation to 24/7 were enacted by the state legislature and signed into law by the governor, after extensive study and years of campaigning by advocates led by Families for Safe Streets, which represents parents and others afflicted by reckless driving including speeding. I would be happy to arrange a meeting with them for you to air your concerns.
Most accidents and deaths are not caused by people going 41 mph in a 30 mph zone. I suggest you study your facts please.
Frankly It’s all part of the big brother culture that some people seem willing to accept.
What I am saying is rather than focus on jamming these remote revenue raisers on its denizens, the city should maintain more of its focus on improving our lives by actually addressing the larger problems they chose to willfully ignore.
I hope that clarifies things better.
A couple of years ago, during the pandemic, I got ticketed by a speed cam on West Street. I paid my fine. Lesson learned, no sequel.
I’m happy to debate traffic-safety fictions and facts. Google my name to get my email, where we can talk facts. While you’re there, google my classic monograph, “Killed By Automobile,” that helped broaden public understanding that reckless driving (not reckless walking or reckless bicycling) causes most NYC road fatalities.
I outgrew speeding and the broader entitled driving mindset a long time ago. How I, once a suburban teen, did that, might be of interest to you.
I don’t know what a Real New Yorker is, but I live here, and I consider all these problems important. I see no reason why they cannot be addressed simultaneously. If this ticketing makes the streets safer, I’m all for it. If it also raises revenue for the city, which thus allows it to address other problems better, that sounds like a win-win.
Supposedly: “Speeding declined 72 percent citywide at camera locations, and each 1-mile-per-hour reduction in speed reduces fatal crashes by 17 percent.”
https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/464-22/mayor-adams-turn-new-york-city-s-speed-cameras-24-7-august-1-following-month-long-public
Most of the city is not highway, and there is plenty of dangerous driving, night and day, on our neighborhood streets: distracted driving, speeding, red-light running. Especially on Canal Street where I’ve nearly been run over more than once by speeding red-light runners. It seems to have gotten worse through the pandemic and remains so. Now I see also increasing # of incidents of e-bikes and even motorcycles going the wrong way down streets, and e-bikes speeding down sidewalks. I’ve narrowly avoided being hit by those when stepping outside our building door as well. And yes, there are bicyclists who are also problematic in their disregard for safety and courtesy as well. All related to general sense of lawlessness on our streets (and sidewalks).
(Appropriate that the catchpa thing made me identify traffic lights. I like traffic lights, no matter where they’ve been.)