New York wants to spend at least $9 billion to build new jails in four boroughs, and it’s also spending billions of dollars to protect us from climate change.
Yet even a year into Mayor Adams’s “Get stuff done” regime, we can’t build five public toilets for less than $5.3 million, way higher than the cost other cities have spent.
The tale of the Portland Loos, first reported in The City on Monday, is particularly instructive in how much it costs to build anything — if we even can build anything — in New York.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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