New York’s First Electric Skyscraper Promises Luxury With Lower Emissions
www.bloomberg.com
An apartment tower in downtown Brooklyn has ditched fossil fuel heating and appliances as new city rules on energy efficiency are phased in.
    • huginn@feddit.it
      61·
      3 months ago

      If you don’t build shitty apartments for the rich they’ll just gentrify poor areas.

      More housing is more housing.

        • huginn@feddit.it
          61·
          3 months ago

          This is downtown Brooklyn - NYC. Building the apartments in your image would lower density where this skyscraper is being built.

          Luxury buildings in downtown Brooklyn are not for the super rich - they’re for the 1%ers who work at banks downtown, and will almost certainly be rental units which are pretty constantly booked.

          You don’t get how housing constrained NYC is.

            • huginn@feddit.it
              71·
              3 months ago

              We’re talking about Brooklyn NY

              Do you know a single thing about Brooklyn NY?

              Cause you don’t sound like you know a single thing about Brooklyn NY. Or about what it means to be housing constrained.

                • huginn@feddit.it
                  51·
                  3 months ago

                  Ok so you don’t know what you’re talking about.

                  I live in Brooklyn. While the transit could use some expansions it’s not only the best transit system in the USA it also has the most subway stations of any transit system on earth.

                  If that hasn’t fixed housing affordability what’s your proposed solution?

                  What’s that? Oh density? Ok cool glad we agree. Let’s build skyscrapers.