I remember when I was assured that Bloomberg's smoking ban in bars and restaurants would destroy the city. — J on Congestion pricing plan will charge $15 to drive Downtown

I agree with K. I also think that we should expand the CBD to 96th Street, Roosevelt Island, downtown Brooklyn and parts of Queens. Why should government officials who voted for the CBD in our area not be affected too? There is a lot of congestion between 60th street and 96th street. We should also reduce the number of Ubers by half. It's easy if you only set rules like allowing their cars on the street 4 days a week, based on their license plate numbers. End with an even number, drive on even number days, etc. — LB on Congestion pricing plan will charge $15 to drive Downtown

Spot on, K. — Lisa on Congestion pricing plan will charge $15 to drive Downtown

If you are a sex offender it will pop up on your email if you are registered to receive such emails. AND if you were a sex offender you will have to register no making you eligible to live in such proximity to a school. These shelter bring so many unwanted nuisances to the neighborhood. — Sandra on City plans homeless shelter for Beekman and William

Very good point. And don't forget all the food delivery apps that cause chaos on the streets and sometimes on the sidewalks with e-bikes and mopeds, I have witnessed a pack of delivery riders of mopeds( motorcycles?) racing down the street. all this is part of the Covid reset phenomenon. — R. on Congestion pricing plan will charge $15 to drive Downtown

Any idea which local restaurants are serving brunch/dinner on Christmas day? — Jack on 2025 Shop-Local Gift Guide: Good Eats

A wrinkle on the trade/Clarkson question: I live downtown and park at Pier 40. I pay to enter zone when I return to city to my apartment, drop off stuff and then go park on the pier. Am I charged a second time when I retrieve my car, go to house to pick up stuff and then exit city? — Tess on Congestion pricing plan will charge $15 to drive Downtown

Lyft & Uber cause 43% of the congestion on midtown streets; as well as taking ridership from the MTA. Residents with cars use their vehicles to leave Manhattan not to drive around midtown as these app for hire vehicles do. What are these companies paying to the city for the hundreds of vehicles from their fleets clogging our streets? — K on Congestion pricing plan will charge $15 to drive Downtown

Spruce street school has predominant population from tribeca. Look at the eschool zone map, only 3 streets in FiDi are zoned for this. I would expect more tribecans w kids at this school to be up in arms. Does tribeca even have many of these shelters? Why so many in FiDi?? — NYCMom on City plans homeless shelter for Beekman and William

Vote Republican governor in next election. President Biden agreed wit the congestion pricing thus vote him out. — Monica Georges on Clarity — finally — on one angle of congestion pricing for Downtown residents

I thought that was covered in this post: https://tribecacitizen.com/2023/08/14/clarity-finally-on-one-angle-of-congestion-pricing-for-downtown-residents/ Which said that trips that entered and departed the WSH from within the CBD wouldn't be charged? — Niels on Congestion pricing plan will charge $15 to drive Downtown

want to solve the homeless problem? stop pouring Billions into the progressive activist homeless complex that has no intention of solving the problem, just want more$ to "manage" it. get tough and real solutions. get people off the streets (no tents) and direct and fund to services. Hotel owners are making a fortune on tax payer $. use $ to build home complexes with services. Progressives will call racism, equity etc.. all they're really saying is don't mess with my cash cow. let them go find a comparable salary in the private sector. Good Luck with that — S on City plans homeless shelter for Beekman and William

I have another update I just came off the Ed Koch bridge coming into Manhattan and I’m going uptown I go on york ave north bound about to hop on the FDR north bound and they got toll cameras set up on both sides of the road the lanes going southbound below 61st and the lanes going uptown as well ?? So how is this “congestion pricing “ and what’s the way around coming from queens and strictly going uptown ??? — John on The Latest: Congestion pricing clears another hurdle

I welcome a shelter or permanent supportive housing across the park here - the fewer men and women sleeping on the street the better for society. I have two kids at Spruce so I’d say I have a little skin in the game. Volunteer at a shelter and talk to the folks re how they landed in their current situation, join a board attempting to solve to the issue, talk to people outside your own socioeconomic circle. Learning is cute. — Chambers Resi on City plans homeless shelter for Beekman and William

Opposing the siting of 170 men right next to a pre-K/elementary school is not NIMBY it’s common sense. DSS should abandon this idea now before wasting time and resources on a project that will never open. Even an NYC bureaucracy will eventually realize this is an abhorrent idea. If you support this inanity you are also responsible for the inevitable awful consequences involving local children. Think hard about that when you virtue signal-post about ‘helping people’ to support a morally reprehensible cause. — KEB on City plans homeless shelter for Beekman and William

I try not to generalize, but I've lived here long enough and it's always the same story. Yes, if a garage was proposed, there would be opposition. It's a bad use of space in a neighborhood that should have fewer cars to begin with. Conversely, supporting housing is something we have too little of. — malcolm on City plans homeless shelter for Beekman and William

There are plenty of homeless folks semi-permanently living on Reade and Chambers. I’d much rather they have permanent supportive housing on our street than the current situation. We get it: very few people want housing for the homeless near them. But until our country decided to invest serious money/resources in national health care, mental health services and affordable housing, our options for dealing with chronic homelessness are unfortunately quite limited. — Reader on Reade on City plans homeless shelter for Beekman and William

In theory no, since the highways are exempt and driving WITHIN the CBD is not tolled. But I see the issue, since you will go through a detection point when you cross back at Clarkson. So I think this is a wait and see... — Tribeca Citizen on Congestion pricing plan will charge $15 to drive Downtown

That's what the DSS rep said. I think it is now empty in fact. — Tribeca Citizen on City plans homeless shelter for Beekman and William

Malcolm, With respect…think it is not useful to make broad brush categories like NIMBY or whatever. Should you be dubbed a suburban transplant gentrifier? Or let’s say a garage was to be built - no doubt there’d be opposition to that. Etc — Sam on City plans homeless shelter for Beekman and William

Would it be possible to detail the reference to building being emptied of current tenants? Sounds like current residents are losing their housing? — Sam on City plans homeless shelter for Beekman and William

Has anyone counted the number of times the entrance to 26 Federal Plaza has been altered. Every alteration resulted in the sidewalk on Broadway between Worth and Duane Streets to be closed. — Sandy Hodges on Sidewalks revealed (!) at 26 Federal Plaza

I hope so. But if the WSH and FDR are exempt, but you then enter the zone below 60th St, you should be charged, assuming you entered above 60th or from BBT or the East river crossings. — DWNTWN on Congestion pricing plan will charge $15 to drive Downtown

Yes, why not? I grew up in a wealthy suburban New York town, and even then I bemoaned the lack of socioeconomic and racial diversity. I had to go to college in a city and then move to Manhattan to get it. The suburbs would be better off if they weren't so closed off, but they're usually too short-sighted and selfish to see it. — malcolm on City plans homeless shelter for Beekman and William

It doesn't seem like you would under this scheme. Only if you went north of 60th street and came back. — MJ on Congestion pricing plan will charge $15 to drive Downtown