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Lot of hotels built in Brooklyn turned into shelters (which seemed to be the plan of the developers from the start)

Especially with major ones closing to make way for other developments like Hyatt Grand Central... But I don't think there's actually a large appetite for new hotels on the part of hoteliers given that they're ditching them.

He fucking abandoned the city at our time of need and the hotel trades cut him a check and he sells out the tourism industry for a generation. Fuck him.

I read the other day the hotel clean union members will make 100k in nyc. The cessation of new hotels must be what made that possible - more competition, higher rates, and higher union salaries.

I’m not going to hedge to death in a microblog post when the effect has been clear for over a decade. We’ve had special hotel permits in some areas since the Bloomberg admin, and citywide since the de Blasio admin. No new hotels.

...been since before the citywide special permit was enacted. IDK what this filing is about, but it's not a new hotel, so it doesn't count. That third one has had no activity in over two years, and it was reported that they're abandoning the hotel plan and doing a resi conversion: archive.ph/jejIq

Because the new hotels are budget hotels in cheaper areas that they can’t organize and who cannot afford their $100k + huge benefits contract, but they compete with already unionized hotels, which prior to the new hotel ban, had been gradually closing.

So they can't be easily built, then.

Please show me where in the article you see anybody blaming him for job numbers released up until now.

The article says he’s under pressure to do something about it, people want to see a plan, etc., it does not say that people are blaming him for the slow job growth right now.

Wow, you mean they're treating him like they did all the mayors before him? Big if true.

It's okay. We can all just stay in Jersey City and send the jobs and taxes there.

I don't get the "instead" part. The hotel ban has nothing to do with any of those policies and inasmuch as it costs tax revenue and economic activity and reduces density, it actively harms the ability to do the things you propose.

I would like my neighbors to stop being priced out of the city their family has lived in for over a century. We need housing for them, not hotels that will overwhelmingly be used for affluent tourists. Build the hotels on long island, westchester, and north jersey, not here

I think we need both! I would love for it to be easier to visit NYC without having to (a) arrange to stay in my friends' home, or (b) paying through the nose.

Yes, and thank-you.

On what planet? Because it sure ain't this one.

Given that the city’s cost to build a low-rise library in the outer boroughs now exceeds $2,000 psf, that would be a huge drain on the budget. I want more hotels, but not at the taxpayer’s expense.

Do you think Menin can be moved (on daily cleaning and more broadly on hotel restrictions)? I wonder how rigid "unless such service is declined by the guest" is, i. e. does the city turn a blind eye to the hotel requiring opt-in and consider it declining by default?

You're buying into anti-labor propaganda. Hotel housekeepers always cleaned rooms every day. That's the job. The reason hotels cut back is to cut pay and jobs, not green policy.

And ironically it encourages the disgusting practice of triple-sheeting (sandwiching a comforter, which does not get washed between every guest, in between two flat sheets, rather than putting it inside a duvet cover), since you need to conserve the labor for daily room cleaning.

Also it would help the NYC budget by more property taxes, hotel taxes, sales taxes, etc. Tourists are literal money printers.

Something tells me the Times wouldn't be running this story if the same situation happened under a Cuomo administration. Looks like AG Sulzberger's still salty that his efforts to sabotage Mamdani's campaign didn't work.