NYC Mayor de Blasio: ‘We Are Going to Ban’ Glass and Steel Skyscrapers
Mediaite,
by
Aidan McLaughlin
Original Article
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino,
4/22/2019 12:35:01 PM
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said on MSNBC Monday morning his city will ban “inefficient” steel and glass skyscrapers as part of their Green New Deal. While Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal sputtered in Washington D.C., her home city of New York has embraced key pillars of the plan. When asked about it on Morning Joe, de Blasio outlined the proposal. “We are making the Green New Deal come alive here in New York City,” he said. “It’s three very basic ideas. One, the biggest source of emissions in New York City is buildings.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
john56 4/22/2019 12:37:31 PM (No. 41756)
So what? You must be an idiot to think you can build a commerically viable building in New York City anymore.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 4/22/2019 12:38:17 PM (No. 41772)
Didn´t the towers fail due to some green fire retardant?
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Sure, now ban them after every square inch of NYC is covered in steel and glass buildings. yap yap yap!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/22/2019 12:51:50 PM (No. 41777)
Progressives doing what they do best: regress.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Alice 4/22/2019 12:52:53 PM (No. 41784)
I live in Texas and have no idea how 8 million residents of New York City, i.e., the mayor´s constituency, feel about glass and steel skyscrapers. So maybe he is sure of a positive reaction from grateful New Yorkers.
But the first thought that came to my mind seeing the headline was ´Osama bin Laden already tried that and Islamists agree with the mayor but for different reasons,´ and it made me sad.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Historybuff 4/22/2019 12:57:23 PM (No. 41763)
Please show cause and effect.
Show your work.
Now explain why a glacier no longer covers Manhattan Island.
Want to diminish pollution? Take a look at Rockefeller Center, built in the 1930´s. Yo never see a dumpster, garbage can, or double parked delivery truck. Why? Because it is all under ground. Got a delivery for the building on 48th and fifth? Enter at the delivery entrance on 50th street. Even with a 55´ tractor trailer. It will be delivered to 48th st, and the truck will be turned around on the turntable and sent back to the street.
Instead you allow towers to the sky, with no delivery entrance.
Spot the idiot.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Smart11344 4/22/2019 12:57:52 PM (No. 41746)
I would hope New Yorkers would ban idiots such as de Blasio. I know, wishful thinking.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/22/2019 1:01:18 PM (No. 41750)
#2 makes an excellent point. The towers fell due to the fact that the fire retardant failed. IIRC, that was also due to the Clinton administration´s own EPA regulations at the time.
The architect of the Towers also called for cement around the elevator shaft, which would have prevented most of the deaths that happened above the point of impact. Cement would have protected them, and not have turned the shaft into a huge chimney inferno.
Environmentalists are responsible for more destruction of the environment than the rest of us are.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/22/2019 1:04:13 PM (No. 41752)
Right, Bill… Never mind that when there is little or no property left in a specific area, there is a tendency to go upward.
(Don’t confuse him with the facts.)
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 4/22/2019 1:15:15 PM (No. 41755)
DeBlasio is a monumentally stupid man. He wants to ban glass and steel skyscrapers because they’re not green enough? This is the same moron who tried to ban horse drawn carriages because it was cruel to horses! Christ what an imbecile.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jacksin5 4/22/2019 1:20:32 PM (No. 41765)
So we are going back to Stone buildings with Flying Buttresses ?
But won´t quarrying Stone hurt Mother Gaia?
And Wood kills forests,and orphans animals.
And Plastic....
I think you get my drift.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bobn.t 4/22/2019 1:22:31 PM (No. 41773)
The only difference between New York and Hollywood is 3,000 miles.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/22/2019 1:24:37 PM (No. 41749)
Better yet - tear them all down and let grass and forest reclaim the city. Love to see AOC return to her career as a country tavern wench.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/22/2019 1:29:24 PM (No. 41786)
Communists totalitarians want to control everything, all that is not banned is mandatory.
Evil people, and voted in by the geniuses who live in NYC.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Nimby 4/22/2019 1:29:27 PM (No. 41769)
Use concrete! Or live in grass huts
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
IowaDad 4/22/2019 1:33:52 PM (No. 41770)
Ban farting in high rises. Problem solved!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 4/22/2019 2:01:21 PM (No. 41785)
Way to go, New York. You elected this moron; now, live with it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/22/2019 2:08:58 PM (No. 41762)
Maybe those little houses Hobbits live in will be OK in Utopia New York. There´s not much room to stand up though.
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Lefties literally destroy everything they touch, including what was once far and away the greatest place on Earth, NYC. Sad.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Tennman 4/22/2019 2:29:29 PM (No. 41748)
Guess we´ll soon find out how tall New Yorkers can stack sh*t.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/22/2019 2:29:43 PM (No. 41766)
Just remember, these are rules for you, not them. They will live the high life while everyone else will be reduced to nothing. These people are evil.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mary Ellen 4/22/2019 2:30:57 PM (No. 41780)
Good grief. What a useless idiot!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Phantomll 4/22/2019 2:37:26 PM (No. 41776)
These "green" idiots keep getting wackier and wackier! If they ban all carbon emissions, we will no longer have green plants. Duh!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
hershey 4/22/2019 2:40:12 PM (No. 41779)
No, the biggest source of ´emissions´ is your mouth....shut it and ´global warming´ will go away.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 4/22/2019 2:41:42 PM (No. 41781)
Howard Roark could not be reached for comment.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 4/22/2019 2:44:07 PM (No. 41760)
It´s time for them to get closer to their Master. Dig down! Subterranean is the new Green future! Thermal efficiency is fantastic. And the closer to Hell they get, the cheaper the winter heating bill!!!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 4/22/2019 2:47:47 PM (No. 41764)
I think houses of straw are much better than houses of brick.....ask the pigs.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
skacmar 4/22/2019 2:48:21 PM (No. 41744)
Now NYC will just have a bunch of Soviet communist era concrete block buildings.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Donna M 4/22/2019 3:29:03 PM (No. 41782)
There are LEED-certified energy efficient buildings. Quite a few NYC and buildings all over the country have been modified to meet these standards.
Warren Wilhelm (his real name) is both ignorant and corrupt. He´s posturing for his already-failed run for president, which even his corrupt wife has already put down. NYC is essentially operating without a mayor, while homeless and trash pile up on the streets. Weenie Jerk.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Ben Around 4/22/2019 3:34:00 PM (No. 41757)
I hereby volunteer to go in to NYC and blow up every glass and steel skyscraper.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
GOPinTN 4/22/2019 3:43:07 PM (No. 41761)
Sorry Mayor, you´re about 3 weeks late with that one, but still a good chuckle.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/22/2019 4:02:22 PM (No. 41774)
This man has no clue what it takes to put up a building.
The long term effects..... no new construction and ever higher tents for aging dumps.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon 4/22/2019 5:45:53 PM (No. 41768)
"inefficient"?
compared to what??
Leed Certified "Green" buildings?
"...average energy consumption by LEED certified buildings is actually higher than the corresponding average for the US
commercial building stock..."
http://www2.oberlin.edu/physics/Scofield/pdf_files/Scofield%20IEPEC%20paper.pdf
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 4/22/2019 6:30:10 PM (No. 41771)
What a bunch of idiots in NY City government.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
curious1 4/22/2019 6:52:57 PM (No. 41751)
I´d be curious to know the legal theory that allows government there to do pretty much anything it wants. Were NYer´s stupid enough to vote in a state constitution that granted the government such power over them? Or the city´s charter/constitution? What maroons!!!
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Uhhhhhh...... just what are skyscrapers supposed to be built with then? or is the point NO skyscrapers?
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/22/2019 7:02:15 PM (No. 41783)
Make it retroactive... waiting...
s/o
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 4/22/2019 7:34:30 PM (No. 41747)
Regarding deBlasio´s name change from Walter Wilhelm:
https://www.wnyc.org/story/between-wwii-and-his-suicide-de-blasios-father-cold-warrior/
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/22/2019 8:19:09 PM (No. 41753)
You people are missing an important point here.
In the olden days, (pre-computer, pre-fax, pre-teleconferencing and the like) Big Business had to be in NYC, in order to do big business.
Now big business can be done in a farming community. No need for couriers on bicycles, crummy environment, rude new yorkers, skyrocketing taxes, rent controls, and a mayor with a fake name and a black lesbian for a wife.
Avoid the need for skyscrapers in New York, Big Business! Avoid the crime, uncleanliness from poop on the sidewalks by homeless mental cases, avoid the hideous traffic jams.
Anywhere but NYC should be a national business slogan.
And to add icing on the cake, you will avoid being represented by the NY freaks in Congress, misrepresenting you.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 4/22/2019 8:26:10 PM (No. 41758)
No glass - no steel - exactly what is his alternate plan. First explain what will be done before banning what is being done.
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Hey! Recycled straws and other plastic that is killing the ocean (we read about daily from some panicked liberal)! Plastic would be excellent, no? Wood? Get to clear cutting´ boys! Umm...what else could possibly be used? 2x4´s and plywoood/sheetrock on a 50 story building? Laughable!
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