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
    71·
    7 months ago

    The equivalent suburb would be 10x the emissions because people drive.

    NYC needs millions more units of housing: this is how that happens in the densest parts of the city.

    Need to density other parts: sure. But it’s good to have buildings anywhere we can get them in NYC.

      • huginn@feddit.it
        61·
        7 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·
            7 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·
                7 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·
                    7 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.