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De Blasio's Keynesian Utopia: Giant Sinkhole Devours Brooklyn Intersection
Forget the broke window fallacy, meet the broken Brooklyn utopia. We are sure Mayor De Blasio will be cock-a-hoop this morning that a giant sinkhole has appeared in one of his boroughs - swallowing an entire intersection - as what is better for the economy than filling in holes created by a total lack of infrastructure spend with other people's money...
A giant sinkhole opened up in a Brooklyn intersection Tuesday morning, halting traffic on the busy roadway.
The sinkhole swallowed up most of the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 64th Street in Sunset Park at about 8 a.m., according to the Office of Emergency Management.
Traffic on Fifth Avenue, one of Sunset Park's busiest roadways, has been diverted while crews work to repair the gaping hole.
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Welcome to De Blasio's New York... with 19 shot in Brooklyn this weekend along with an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease.
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just fill it with water so that the homeless could bathe in it instead of bathing in public fountains
But it's a gun free, diverse, loving, inclusive city, from which even Bloomberg is fleeing to London.
Things be good
Disclosure. I worked in NYC for 10+ years and hated every fucking minute of the place with the exception of Great Food.
The giant hole: Proof that NYC sucks.
typical zerohedge...sinkhole appears and it's the current mayor's fault. gee tyler you didn't say anything about the non stop sink hole problem in florida while his royal highness bush the third was governor.....good grief....so phony
Yeah but sinkholes in Florida (and Bowling Green KY - The Corvette Museum) are due to the karst limestone geology (dissolution of rock by groundwater) while that's not the case in NYC since it's underlain by granite and schist bedrock.
This NYC sinkhole is probably due to lack of maintenance of the infrastructure and a leaking sewer or water main eroding away the backfill.
You might want to take a Geology 101 class before you open your De Blasio lovin' piehole again.
Most of NYC is underlain with sheist actually. Similar to other large urban centers with liberal mayors.
Throw His Honor in the hole, invite folks to do their business and lets see how fast it fills up...
Did a new public restroom just open up?
yep the union is holding a meeting to discuss the design of the moon door. should have a door by 2040, then we just gotta find 182 union employees to hang it.
Most of NYC is underain with Shysters.
Will NYC be the center of deadly interracial skirmishes in the near future?
I hope not, but the dominoes are lining up.
Actually, most of New York is underlain with Scheiße.
I thot they just paved over the hookers
>> is probably due to
Well there's conclusive evidence.
After a century and change of tunneling out the bedrock, Manhattan is no more solid nor sound than the karst under Florida.
It's as if teredos have gotten into the granite.
That area doesn't have much (or any) bedrock. It's southern Brooklyn, aka southern Long Island, which is a big glacial moraine. Mostly sand and loose rock that piled up at the end of the ice age, forming Long Island. There have been a few sinkholes in the general area in the last few years, though yes, leaking sewer systems have been among the reasons. (Source: I live near where this happened)
Simply deflecting. We all know it's really Bush's fault.
Actually: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-12/monday-humor-gappiest-place-earth
Well you have a point, he should be blaming people who are still stuck in left/right ruts.
Hey retard how far back should we go for the blame?
You must be the slow one in the family.
DI Blasio has the over population problem solved as he stopped the police from doing "stop and frisk" and he was therefore able to lower the population with increased murders! What a genius!
Stop and frisk is blatantly against the American Constitution. I am at a loss as to understand why interested parties did not file charges of treason in public office against Bloomberg and all who conspired to take the peoples' protected (fat chance) rights without warrants being issued.
But did it fall at free fall speed?
Were there any planes near by?
It was a giant hedgehog named "Spiny Norman!" :>D
Is that the same Office of Emergency Management that used to be in Bldg7?
just fill it with water
Nah! Just a simple bridge will do.
Who is going to maintain the bridge ? /s
Hmmm...I wonder how many false titles I could sell...
Paint a rainbow over it and all will be well. #LoveWins
Come on sinkhole, don't stop with one intersection, there is a whole city to devour. Imagine how much better off we would be without NYC.
Greenskeeper Carl for President!
Without us you'd be nothing.
Without us you'd be nothing.
It's worth putting it to the test.
i'd pay to see that
I'm not seriously advocating for NYC to 'disappear' nor do I want anything bad to happen to all the people there. I refer to the parasitic Wall Street crowd that exists in it's present form entirely due to fed policies. And NYC politicians, from whom nothing but had ideas originate. Gun control, stop and frisk, and a city where a shocking amount of people work in made up, make work govt jobs. The arrogance and mentality of most who come from there is off putting as well. I've seen that city once and never care to go back. It's hard to imagine a more 'pro big govt' crowd in America than what exists in NYC.
Without those things I listed above, we'd all be better off.
Typical arrogant NYC response
Boy, I'd bet it'll cost a fortune and take some time to repair those fiber optic lines.
DeBlasio: "We created some jobs for some folks." (All union, of course).
So does this qualify as "shovel ready"?
The Onion Money Pit comes to mind...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ
I think Tyler has a sinkhole in a news-able stories.
Legionnaire's? Really?
The story is not yet told. The hole is really the business end of the new tunnel that El Chapo dug to go after Trump.
Sinkhole in Brooklyn?
When one opens in Manhattan and swallows Wall Street, you can stop being an agnostic or an atheist
Sinkhole on Wall Street?
Big Deal... The Markets have already been swallowed by HFT''s!
The sequel to "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"... "A Shithole Grows in Brooklyn".
Need to print maps for all future rioters to get the best route to Manhattan......
There's an App for that.
Too bad there isn't a giant sinkhole in Washington DC.
There is. It has just been papered over with fiat glued together with bullshit.
If the sinkhole is deep enough to China, we can rip up the Baltic Dry Index and just build a super-duper expressway with tollbooths every 10 miles to get there. /heh
Conceptually the rest is downhill.
Let it sit there, and fix the BQE, Cross-Bronx Expwy, and many others first.
The dissonance between the money in NY and the condition of infrastructure is as jarring as any I've experienced. They've been "repairing" the Whitestone bridge for about twenty years now.
That ain't nothing compared to PA.
There are bridges that have been worked on by 3 generations of craftsmen. And forget I-81 through Scranton. That is an annunity for several construction companies.
pods
I think that PennDOT gave up working on US 22 in Bethlehem just to move up to Scranton.
The amazing thing is after decades of work in both places, the roads Have. No. Improvement.
The Whitestone Bridge is racist.
Like AmeriKa's foreign wars, the construction in NYC is maintained. It never ends.
When I read there was a sink hole in New York I thought the first wookie was in for a shopping spree.
Where are all the environmentalists claiming it's a bi-product of fracking. /sarc
More unrelated derogitory buzz phrases thrown in! I'm awed by insightful comments such as these.
Leftists cannot run anything properly, they are clueless no matter where in the world you find them. The same reason the infrastructure is going to hell in cesspool NYC is the same reason that Venezuela's largest oil refinery can barely operate at 50% capacity. When you have someone who is only educated in radical marxism, this is the result every time, decade after decade.
Not sure why this has only gotten the two downvotes. Nothing you said is inaccurate. Drive to your nearest big city anywhere in America and you see the exact same thing. First the city is taken over by black people , who then elect (mostly black) leftist 'progressives' to rule them, then you get the so called 'white flight' as the middle class and above who can afford to choose to leave the city, and what you get is the modern day leftist run utopia.
The sink hole is because they hate black people.
#sinkholesmatter
Michael Bloomberg and Rudi Giuliani are leftists?
Yes.
Did you see how much better NYC got under Giuliani??
Now, under the uber leftist DeBlasio, NYC is hurtling back to where it was during the last idiot leftist. And Bloomberg is no conservative, that is for sure...
The last idiot leftest mayor of NYC was David Dinkins and DeBlasio is making Dinkins look like the best mayor ever.
More like Affirmative Action.
Let's see... de Blasio(D) has been in office for approximately 19 months. Before him was Michael Bloomberg(R/I) for 12 years, preceded by Rudi Giuliani(R) for 8 years.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I'm kinda doubtful that Bloomberg and Giuliani were "only educated in radical Marxism".
Oh, wait! I'm bringing up disagreeable points. My bad...
The fauxification of ZH continues apace. An what's really funny is that in a day or two, there will be an article licking Putin's balls.
The cognitive dissonance is mind-boggling.
Sigh, And prior to the Bloomberg and Giuliani administrations, a series of leftist Dems like Beame, Dinkins, & Koch ran the city into the ground. NYC was an open sewer with a porno shop on every corner & an out of control murder rate during those administrations
DeBlasio has barely been in office and he already has bums taking baths in the public fountains. The downhill slide back into the depths of depravity is happening quite quickly under this leftist communist piece of dog shit.
Will the last guy in NY who can actually do things please report to work.
But your words, like silent raindrops fell
Read more: Simon And Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence Lyrics | MetroLyricsAnd echoed in the wells of silence
This hole will take years to repair.
it will take years to analyze. Environmental studies, climate warming impact studies, anchovies depletion studies, the long term effects of sinkholes on the cockroach populations, redo of the shrimp on a treadmill in a pot hole study, effects of potholes on aids victims. effects of sinkholes on the LGBT population, effects of sinkholes and ongoing murder rates......I have many more to list but it's lunch time. Time to feed the sinkhole.
still shouting from the top of his very short tree-stump demanding a federal bailout of puerto rico
They'll call when they get hungry.
The Money Pit is a great movie classic that was based in New York shitty in the 80s. The Money Pit Part II 'The Revenge of The Broken Water Mains' should prove to be entertaining IMHO. Frankly, we had a sink hole form in Ottawa and our Mayor filled it in with 5000psi cement at a cost to taxpayers of about $100k hen theycould have just used 4" minus crushed stone instead.
Just wait until more and more giant holes rupture around the country...
When bridges and railroad trussles start to collapse frequently...
When roads become pot-holed strewn obstacle courses...
When traffic lights aren't repaired or don't work in general...
When many routes that people generally take are now condensed into half or a third of possible routes...
It's going to happen and THE SHIT WILL TOTALLY HIT THE FAN!
OK, lemme see if I've got the ZH slant on this story straight: We have a "total lack of infrastructure spending" that is somehow related to a "Keynsian Utopia". And this oxymoronic combination is somehow related to spending "other peoples' money".
I guess if you throw in enough derogitory buzz phrases, it all makes sense to a certain mindset no matter how ridiculous the combination of talking points.
#PuertoRicansMatter.
Does it lead the the JPM/fed vaults?
Bingo!
Keynesianism in action. Except in this case the govt only needs to pay to fill the hole up not dig it. Brilliant economic plan. Can't see how this fails.
The infrastructure decay in New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, etc., are the logical conclusion of Affirmative Action. It is a major factor in the overall decay of these cities.
A Giant Stink Hole!
Is Obozo in the city with the first wookie?
Did it swallow any hipsters?
please?
The sinkhole happened south of the line on this map, the official front line in Brooklyn which no hipsters are permitted south of
https://twitter.com/HipsterBeatings/status/550328910437941248/photo/1
I don't understand why anyone would voluntarily live with the FSA in that open air slit trench of a city or any other decaying city.
I sentence thee to watching the opening credits of 'That Girl' 20 times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoh1LGADKI8
I'm thinking of a book: "A Sinkhole Grows in Brooklyn"
Did they wait for the Union guy to hold the tape, while the other five walked it around the perimeter through ten work breaks? Oh and the Union scissors guy to cut the tape too!
I think they are just going to stretch black tape across it and call it a day. With such a tight multi billion dollar budget it's all they can afford.
Duct tape, the Handyman's secret weapon! Luv ya, Red Green!
Higher taxes should fix this.
carbon taxes, fill the hole with carbon.
Convoy from West Virginia on the way.
Everyone knows this was caused by fracking....or no, its climate change shrinking the core of the planet...actually its Trump's fault...I don't what he did or said, but its most definitely his fault.
More unrelated talking points dragged in. The cognitive dissonance is staggering.
But, hey! The whole story was an exercise in cognitive dissonance. So why stop there!
it was that mexican drug lord digging another escape tunnel.
I see a community swimming pool
In DeBlasio's NYC, only conservative groundhogs make sinkholes
All part of the plan. When Bloomberg changed (paid for) the laws to be changed so he could run (pay for) a 3rd term, it was going to be all down hill from there.
Blomberg was such a power crazed mayor (midget), he left the cupboard bare for effective successors. Nobody who could be a good mayor would work for Bloomberg.
The gap left by Bloomberg was so wide that Anthony (tiny) Weiner was intially tipped (no pun intended) to become Mayor by the DEM party machine in NYC. Weiner was found to be showing his Weiner to nderage girls via the Internet and subsequently sent to the side lines. lesbian City Council person Quin was next up, but she proved to be too "butch" for the neo Bolsheviks with some "mothers and their babies" sarcasm and was shunted by the DEM party. That really only left De Blasio who only real claim to fame was to be Hillary Clinton's campaign manager for her NY State Senate run.
De Blasio back ended his way to Mayor. He is an affable, low brow moron who is an avowed socialist. he can not manage himslef out of a feckin' pizza box. Very limited skill set... pretty much only knows how to take someone ele's money and misspend it. I mean c'mon ... he was an undergrad at NYU in Urban Development (how to take a bribe as a city official) and then a Master's degree in a similar bull shit curriculum at Columbia.
He is so incompetent as to make Obama look like an engineer.
Re: "... an affable low-brow moron"?
I was not aware that Columbia University admitted morons.
Columbia does so every year. C'mon...Obama supposedly attended Columbia. They have their special acceptance policies.
"[Schools] have their special acceptance policies."
True, but in the case of schools like Columbia, those "special acceptance policies" generally apply at the undergraduate level rather than at the graduate level. Also, such policies are generally reserved either for students whose families have a "special relationship" with the school, or are there to support other goals such as student body diversity. I don't think de Blasio fell into either of those categories.
But DeBlasio has such an "All American" family - a Negress Lesbian wife, couple of hi yaller mixed pickaninneys - even the governor of Maine is jealous.
Are you sure you aren't jealous yourself? You seem to be trying desperately hard to pack your post with as many slurs as possible. Is this a case of protesting too much?
Ghostbusters was on TV last night. Did someone shut down the containment field??
NYC: a great place to be FROM!!!
I bet NY consumers paid to replace that pipe in fees that broke 10X, now they'll just replace the broken part and spend 10X as much as a private contractor could do it.
This notion of "other people's money" bugs me.
By definition urban living entails sharing services--community wise--outside one's own private estate--that require building and maintaining--the commons. As those services in infrastructure and buildings in principle serve all living there, generation after generation, it goes without saying that those community members pay for it with their money in form of taxes; aka putting it in a common pot given to the "elected" whose expenditure they are accountable for to their constituants.
Given that, we can debate about such and such expenditure and its efficiency like in all human systems, but we cannot say that those expenditures were made with "other people's money".
They were made with the COMMUNITY's money paid out as taxes (voted for) for shared capital expenditures and operational services. And that is normal.
The only other solution is : there are NO COMMONS. Land is taken by the most powerful and its a neo-feudal MAFIA type governance system.
"Other people's money" is the price you pay for not living in a "stand and deliver" MAFIA economy.
That the commons are now managed by the crooks, is like Greece today; the state or municipality as a PUBLIC service has de facto ceased to exist!
The OLigarchs own all infrastructure and now we are serfs. The notion of other people's money has ALSO ceased to exist as the other people, aka the 99% are destitute.
Those who talk about "other people's money " in the current context are false noses for the Oligarchs.
We need it so that "other people's money" work for all, not for the few!
Grow up ZH posters!
your problem lies in the fact that all the common money put up for "the commons" has fallen into the giant sinkhole called government. It goes to their salaries, perks, and pensions.
Somehow our grandparents put up money and the "commons" were built. Now the government takes many times the amount of our money and nothing gets built. With billions and billions and billions collected we can't even repair what our prior generations were able to build.
Never got to vote for any of the major taxes... ooops,,, community money. No one paying taxes today got to vote for the 16th amendment,,, got to vote for the Federal Reserve,,, got to vote for property taxes (the tax itself,,, not increases or decreases),,, the sales taxes,,, etc, etc.
The deductions on my check don't mention community,,, I don't even have the right to touch the money,,, it's taken out before I am paid. If I don't pay my community property tax the man with a gun, (that the community paid for), comes and kicks me off "my property" and/or takes me to jail and fines the shit out of me.
Then I see the recipients of my community money driving around in brand new F250's, Chargers and GM Escalades,,, some in Limo's earning more than me,,, fully funded 100% health insurance,,, Retirement at 55 with full pay I get this sinking feeling that maybe my community money is being wasted? ,,, especially after paying for front end repair after hitting a pot hole.
Of course I tend to lean towards the cynical side so,,, maybe it is all wonderful...
Now THERE'S a voice crying in the wilderness.
"Wait. This just in. De Blasio was seen cheering when he realized the sink hole got an Uber driver with their passenger."
Good idea! NY needs more sink holes.
How to create more roadwork jobs? Follow NYC's methods [sarc]
Yawn....wake me up when a giant sinkhole sucks in the entire reeking, worthless state...
Sinkholes? That's just one of your many potholes in NYC after winter.
that's a shovel ready pothole. It will surely improve the economy now.
What if the whole B disapears into a sinkhole?
Obama should be there soon. Tee up a block away and shoot for a hole in one.
This is why New York had to ban fracking....it is all the oil industrys fault.
I'm still trying to figure out how this statement makes any sense. Of course, given that it's a comment on an article that didn't make any sense either -- not to mention being written in broken English -- I guess it's hardly surprising.
Perhaps you should open up yer own blog, maybe literary reviews of post-modern literature is right up your alley.
SUNSET PARK IS PRETTY FUCKING NICE YOU FUCKTARDS.
and you know who made it nice and (also expensive) ?
CHINESE IMMIGRANTS.
eat some dick you zerohedge complainers.
I know that area well. When I was a kid it was all Italian and Irish.
My parents live close to that sinkhole.
The area is mostly Asian now. Great food. Good hard working people.
Overall the city sucks and it will be one Detroit if the Democommies stay in charge.
Is this like a sign of end-times, or like Ghostbusters when Gozer or his gatekeeper Zuul arrives ?
Mammon sightings in Wall Street ?
If Sigourney Weaver shows up at the intersection...run !!
Oh, my father grew up and learned how to run in Brooklyn...when you cross the wrong streets (truth).