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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The New York State Assembly continues to be the place where good housing policy goes to die www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This was also wild for a different reason

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

NYC’s new development market is so hot that this narrow ass site next to the Franklin Avenue shuttle that’s been stalled for as long as I can remember is seemingly finally getting built.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Another Midtown South rezoning site just hit the market and it’s so large that it will serve as another good test of whether 485x’s large project construction wage and/or affordability requirements need to be tweaked to make projects viable

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

“I think that during the period from the middle 1970s through the 2008 financial crisis, we, the professional class made a rather catastrophic error in judgment.”

The consensus among our class - which I shared! - was that our society was imperfectly but sufficiently a meritocracy, and that the basic frame of what came to be called "neoliberalism" was correct. A heavily marketized society was a society we-the-merited could succeed within, and it was also the form of society that would maximize all of our prosperity. The fact that our successes might be generously remunerated was not just a matter of private enjoyment, but reflected genuine social virtue. We had achieved a society in which one did well by doing
good.
This was never accurate. But journalists, think-tankers, and academic social scientists who were willing to advance this perspective in their work could count on career success. Which contributed to a consensus (not least but not only within the discipline of economics) that this suspiciously self-flattering perspective was in fact true. It was "science". The people at the top of many fields embraced it. Dissidence became hard to distinguish from sour-grapes conspiracism.
['Liberal professionals" had been recruited into what John Kenneth Galbraith describes as the role of the modern conservative. They were "engaged...in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Happy to report that Betty Draper is supporting the right candidate for mayor of LA

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Just spotted a v rare nyc housing typology: the newly converted pre-war walk-up condo building. Given the low price point, I bet they sell quickly.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

New York’s YIMBY movement, led by @opennewyork.org, is set to rack up another big win with the reform of SEQRA, which has been delaying if not outright destroying housing projects all over the state.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

they're making a movie about the rise and fall of AIG?!

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Just popped over to X and quickly found myself sympathizing with an Yggy take, time to log off for a while

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

feel like this neighbor of mine is almost certainly a bluesky user

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

the first private application for an FAR 18 rezoning is on the Upper East Side! zap.planning.nyc.gov/projects/202...

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

lol Brooklyn NIMBYs are opposing a family shelter on the basis that it’s too close to services for families nypost.com/2026/03/31/u...

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The cover of this NIMBY’s book depicts a tower that is literally in their backyard lol

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Look at my progressives dawg 😭

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

oh so now Hell Gate believes more supply drives down prices

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The new Taylor Sheridan show has the most rancid anti-NYC/anti-cycling propaganda this side of the New York Post.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Ben Max may be right, the 12k new homes could be Sunnyside Yards, much of which is controlled by Amtrak IIRC. x.com/TweetBenMax/...

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Seemingly yet another YIMBY victory. The fake newspaper headline reads Trump delivers 12k+ homes - where in NYC could that be? Floyd Bennet Field? NYCHA campuses? Feel like it’s gotta be site specific rather than just a pile of capital money - Trump’s gotta be able to slap his name on it.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Insane story on the Upper West Side: As a child was speaking about not losing her school, an adult cut her off, unaware that the whole meeting could hear them: “They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school. If you train a Black person well enough, they’ll know to use the back." t.co/h0uH80AfF2

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I love this project on the Upper East Sude and we need to figure out how to encourage developers to build more projects on densely zoned ~25 foot wide sides like this, many of which remain underbuilt. newyorkyimby.com/2026/02/1477...

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

New York’s housing crisis is getting so dire that the Satmar are expanding to Arizona.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Touring a rent stabilized apartment building 😞

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

the comments section of this article is insane!

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Watching The Way We Were (1973) for the first time, which is excellent, and spotted the Department of Education building that’s a major part of the recently approved Long Island City rezoning. This whole part of the waterfront has barely changed in over 50 years!

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Someone needs to do a thoughtful profile of this guy who walks around Prospect Park all the time with a sign saying to contact him on Facebook.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

In perhaps the best example yet of real estate brokers saying things about Mamdani’s election that are totally detached from market reality and just trying to drum up brokerage business for themselves, this guy is claiming it’s both a great buying opportunity AND a great selling opportunity.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Imagine how crazy you have to be to send this to all of your colleagues in response to an email from your boss calling for unity.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The most interesting section of the map of NYC's pro-housing ballot measure results is Southeast Queens, which has mostly NIMBY politicians but voted for all the pro-housing ballot props with pretty big margins.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

but Elizabeth Street Garden voted *for* the pro-housing ballot measures!

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

lmao basically the entire SoHo/NoHo rezoning area voted against the pro-housing ballot propositions www.atlasizer.com?s=USA,New_Yo...

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Total YIMBY victory, the upzonings commence at once!

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Since Mamdani won the primary, brokers and developers have been playing the press like a fiddle with tales of exodus in a transparent attempt to drum up business from reactionary real estate buyers/sellers. Props to the FT for deciding to call bullshit! on.ft.com/47DSu5G

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

And now @shaunabreu.bsky.social is the third councilmember to demonstrate their commitment to affordable housing by openly supporting ballot measures 2-5!

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Shocked that this pollster managed to survey 77 rent controlled tenants given that they represent just 1% of all rental units in the city. I bet many of them are in fact rent-stabilized.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

It didn't have to be this way, here's a more handsome building of similar scale and vintage in outer Queens, where rents were/are way lower than North Brooklyn.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I'm very glad this housing was built but I must admit that a lot of the low/mid-rise multifamily built in North Brooklyn in the 2000s continues to be quite unattractive.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Cuomo's so close to getting it here but to do so would shatter him www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

the councilmember is kind of doing this on twitter right now x.com/SandyforCoun...

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

rereading this 2019 op-ed as the LIC rezoning and the charter amendments to speed housing production verge on passage reminds me of how far we've come.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The vision laid out by @caseyberk.bsky.social and @kynakwado.bsky.social in the wake of Amazon HQ2’s collapse is finally being realized nearly 7 years later! www.nydailynews.com/2019/02/17/a...

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

My email advocating for the ballot proposals that would speed up housing production included nothing about Mamdani, democrats, or the like and yet still elicited this response, which possibly suggests that housing affordability has become democrat-coded?

"Please stop emailing me. I'm voting for Curtis and if he loses I'm moving out of NY"

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