Erik Engquist

NYC's subway is actually safer than your car (Newsday) “The problem on the subway is the same as it is aboveground in New York City, where felony assaults are much more common than before the pandemic and not declining at the pace of other violent crime.” newsday.com/opinion/commen…

If ⁦@amazon⁩ is trying to use less material for shipping, why send a huge box for these two little bottles? ⁦@AmazonHelp⁩

“It is antisocial to tell residents that rents will remain permanently affordable at low levels, without a realistic plan for how the building will continue to operate… Deferred maintenance and capital upgrades are pushed off onto future generations” citylimits.org/opinion-nycs-a…

The math ain’t mathing, as the kids say. Good piece by ⁦@erik_engquist⁩ therealdeal.com/new-york/2025/…

Fact check: Did Adams really out-build Bloomberg and de Blasio combined? therealdeal.com/new-york/2025/…

The cost of building nonprofit housing in @ZohranKMamdani's world (built by unions, he says): $500,000 per unit The cost in the real world (non-union construction): $921,000. And these are studios and 1-bedrooms only. therealdeal.com/new-york/2025/…

Is this $2.5B White Plains project the return of the "poor door" or just the most efficient way to build affordable housing? therealdeal.com/new-york/trist…

Every day we see a project filing cut off at 99 units to avoid the wage floor put into 485x by unions. They are not getting the work and the city is not getting the housing. Everyone loses. > The largest new building application filed was for a 99-unit project at 67 4th Ave.

In announcing the deal, Hudson declared, “Our new floor is 35%. We can ask all developers, at a minimum, to do the same thing moving forward.” No, she can’t. That percentage of affordable units is no longer feasible because 421a has been replaced by 485x. therealdeal.com/new-york/2025/…

This is not a new observation, but it's still vexing that projects designed to help the environment are stymied by laws designed to help the environment. nysfocus.com/2025/07/11/tru…

Q. How do you, Mayor Adams, regain public trust? Adams: "Encourage people to read the indictment, because we're in an atmosphere where people just read headlines. Read the indictment." I read the indictment. It's pretty damning, especially the texts about illegal donations.

Occupational hazard: Mistaken for a Mamdani fan My column about what happens when a real estate publication writes anything positive about @ZohranKMamdani therealdeal.com/new-york/2025/…

Handy study to cite when encountering housing-supply deniers: >from 2015-2024, markets with higher levels of supply tended to record lower rates of rent growth among 1- and 2-Star apartments, even after controlling for demand and metro-level differences. nmhc.org/research-insig…