A new report rolled out by Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul is big on sweeping ideas — and way short on explaining how any of this happens. JDavidsonNYC writes
since 2007 and was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2002. He is the author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York.
And yet my despondency mounted as I read, reaching a lugubrious fortissimo when I got to the charts summarizing the health of commercial areas. Manhattan’s business core, the kernel of New York’s prosperity and growth and identity for well over a century, is depressed. It’s true that offices have emptied out before — after 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis, for example — but this time the abandonment is worse.
If this environment endures, it will inaugurate a fundamental shift in the way New York operates. Until the pandemic, the top priority in keeping the city an economic hub was luring CEOs; white-collar workers converged here because this is where the jobs were. Now, instead, the city’s future depends on making it affordable, equitable, and enjoyable enough to convince New Yorkers to stay instead of telecommuting from Montana.
In envisioning a new New York, the panel came up with 40 ideas that range from the familiar to the self-evident to the ambitious but vague. The list incorporates Adams’s recentto enable the building of 500,000 new homes over ten years, more than double the past decade’s pace. You’ve got your congestion pricing, more bus lanes, electric-vehicle charging stations, and cargo e-bikes — all good things that demand miracles of high-intensity follow-through. No.
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