Lowest Manhattan

Manhattan Bottom

@@ryanleethomas rock bottom Manhattan

Dwarfmanhattan

Manflatten cause it’s so low

Yeah Wall Street....the place that keep you being able to focus on iphones and starbucks.

@@ChrisDodges123yeah part of the problem is people focusing on iPhones and starbucks

@@mcloughlinguy4127lol to think of Starbucks and iPhones as privilege 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 people can’t be that dumb.. anti tech revolution now 🫡

​@@mcloughlinguy4127 Not on their lives

@@ChrisDodges123Wall Street is useless in our current economic situation

Sir, this joke had to be made and you delivered. The internet applauds you

Name the City Gotham, and i'll give greenlight to the whole project

@@SebbDahl well thank you , i just noticed there was over i hundred likes and a few comments on my comment. Feels good to see people have joy over a joke i said .

​@@SebbDahlhell yeah..that joke was the BOMB

@@SebbDahlthis joke was so simple even a little boy could understand it

Yes Bernie, yes it is

They probably have to come to us if they actually want this to happen too

Doesnt sound like a good idea tho because it leaves the river less room so even tho it would lie higher other areas of the city would be even more likely to flood.

Actual top tier comment 👌🏻

very good observation

😂 aah gee.

​@@billberg2002 i prefer Operation 3k wasn't enough

And right when they commence ‘Operation Human Shield’… all the poor people duck and all the Wall Street guys get shot at! “Operation Human Shield, my a**!”

​@@srezno-ivan2006 that's nice

For real

I belivr that is if they are single suburb housing and and smaller apartment complexes so a conservative estimate. More could and likely would be done with more then 2 story apartments. If they are smart you could fit more. And mind you if only 250,000 that would be alot of the rich forcing other apartments to lower rent a bit. Mind you a large part of NYC housing crisis is do to way rent control basically fucking every one over. It originally helped renters for a very short period, then apartment owners who could justify higher rent for shitty apartments. Now Its fucking every one over due to how it is. It should be noted different parts of NYC can have different reasons to primarily suck. Still the way rent control is, it bankrupts companys and consumers. Which in turn leaves derelict apartments. 250k could so a fair bit keep in mind thats that's 3% of the city which sounds small but the city is so big that putting housing on the outskirts is harder to be profitable, NYC is the largest city in square area, so 250k being pulled to the center would be beneficial. This housing preposal would presumably see some where on lower side but not 250k people anyways. Probably 1 million with these 2 things considere. Over 10% of the population. With more typical NYC density maybe 1.5 or 2 million+. Tokyo, we could probably fit a fair few million, amd hongkong much more, that is if rent could actually be cheap enough to justify it for these

It’s not a attempt at getting rid of housing crisis. It a attempt to create higher luxury apartment. Increase the rents on sorounfing areas and increase the homeless population

Such a crisis! There are no houses for sale.

​@hellogoodbye. No. The illegals are the problem

there is no housing crisis only a drug crisis

This went over a lot of people’s heads 😂

Just a crumb of Manhattan.

Couldn’t resist not being the 666th like

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It will fixing housing. Trust me

Reminds me of the rdr2 video from rigamarole

It will sink!

​@@-Nathan87-Yeah, after it capsizes!

It is real!!!! I just watched this KZfaq video!!!! OMG scary

@@-Nathan87- only after the human race ends lol

Netherhattan

I kept thinking, did I hear FURVER? 😂

Please respect his accent. He bothered to learn your language

@@LordJimsworthit’s AI. We have to be sensitive and supportive to Asian AI now too? Lol

​@Npc138 It has nothing to do with the accent, nor it has anything to do with issues in speach - he can pronounce "This" correctly...

​@@LordJimsworthThat's a lisp or some kind of sh*t, tf are you talking about.

Hardly Manhattan

Forgotten Manhattan.

Not Manhattan.

Maybe Manhattan?

Idk about that Manhattan.

How’ a that a con if Wall Street crashes u will be eating spam

@@Toeso_Loso wall street is full of criminals.

​@@Toeso_Loso protect the fake money!

The waffle house has found it's new host [dont forget this]

Not even more space, it's the same space as now but for longer. Congestion will not change

You’d be homeless

@@cm-15 Homes existed before Wall Street

Technically, it came very close during 9/11 as it was less than 4000 feet from the twin towers.

@@WiggyWamWam No shit. Economic and political systems change.

@@WiggyWamWam It’s like saying: „humans once didn’t have electricity and were a functioning society. So if electricity were to fail on earth now, the society wouldn’t collapse.“ Systems just change.

Wall St. ain't nothing.

Right lmao

Cause nobody is concerned about the people living down there. They're protected by God 😂

​@@51OAKLANDER510u implying that every living thing is protected by god?

😂as soon as I heard that, my first thought was "so whoever goes to live there is basically living there under the assumption that they're going to take the brunt of major storms and such for Wall St's sake? Ha"

Exactly what I was gonna say. Not a city planner, and protecting “vulnerable areas”, like Wall Street. I didn’t think Wall Street was vulnerable, or would consider it important when thinking of nyc, but once I heard “economics professor” it clicked.

​​@@SamuraiBonesieWall Street has the lowest elevation in Manhattan. It's the first place to flood after the subway tunnels. Also there is more to Wall Street than just the stock market.

@@iwontliveinfearfuck wall street let it flood

yea nothing worth anything of true value other than value of useless green paper with no true inherit value.@@iwontliveinfear

Ferver?

😊q

😂 lmao

Yea that did sound messed up when he mentioned that ideal. “Ain’t never going to happen ,no real estate guru would ever do this .

😂

Peasants wouldn’t be able to afford the buildings on this new made land. This is a multi-billion dollar project to create more high-value real estate. Nothing the narrator says can change that.

Lower lower manhattan DLC and a classic manhattan DLC

I had a similar idea

the devs are like damn overtime. lol

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

That's going to be Spider-Man 3 on the ps6 😅

Literal meatshield

We all know that if the project is build at the end there will not be any social housing in the new area

It’s clear which one the rich funding the dumb project would prioritise

I lol’ed at that, but he said the new land would be at higher elevation to prevent flooding. Wall Street won’t give up its views of the harbor tho 😅

most polite "youre my meatshield"

yeah like other people are not that important

Well, the Wall Street area is where original NYC started. There are great museums and the area is historic.

@@tommymas1 so put some sacrificial lambs in the way of storms to protect the “history”

@@231TheNeon Your comment made little sense. Please expound on your comment.

I mean it’s all electronic now anyways so your business bad mindset doesn’t make sense

*more vulnerable

Ask the dutch it will be safe

Is this an actual quote?

Least stupid internet user

​@@mooiman. lol

In fact they did that !!!

Did you even watch the video?

@@Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa369 did you?

Economic Professor, am i right

​​@@yoyojosephIt's actually a brilliant engineering solution from a structural standpoint. You don't have to worry about the residents there, the elevation above the flood level will work magic.

😂😂😂👍🏻

Well the new land would be considered part of New Jersey so you’re not wrong.

😂😂😂

This is hilarious!!!! Haha

😂😂😂

😂😂😂😂😂

Economics needs to be dispassionate to be effective.

​@@somethinglikethat2176 humans also killed each other to survive the fittest yadda yadda... except they didnt really. The most "dispassionate and logical" decisions are more than often made based on the psychotic whims of owners and CEOs and you will know this if you spent a single day as someone above a simple manager in any company ever.

Really has "kill all the poor people" vibes to it

Its unethical to make housing

How is that unethical

The only thing NYC lacks is supervillains. =9[.]9=

​@Raycheetah the government are the supervillians

Sounds expensive

​@@Raycheetahthey have villains, just lacking the super.

@@heyviper1238 Truth! ='[.]'=

Exactly what I was thinking.

Accurate.

where did i hear that line befofe

​@@mememanfresh lord farquaad in shrek

@@chriscooke9621 (our) Lord Farquaad

True and it funny

Beats being an annoying redditor tbh

Not just an economics professor, most customers requests are not that great

No it's not. It should actually look easy if he's or she's a real good one.. unless the demands are non realistic.

Piece of cake for the Dutch

Lol just protect wall street and have the poors act as a buffer

What do you want them to do? You're the one asking for "low income housing" in the financial and corporate capital of the f*cking world, go live somewhere else.

​@@TheDKing67 isn't that what we did in 2008 when the housing market crashed?

If it means apartments will be under 1700 for a one bedroom, they could put my building under sea level and aid be fine.

Yeahhhhhh it'll like the only way we'll get it because theres totally not like a bunch of massive skyscrapers in New York that are sitting empty because rich people buy them as investment properties lol

It would probably decrease the prices to be honest

@@johnseppethe2nd2 naw, the banks will always artificially inflate the price, cus New York is corrupt af

@@Eric_X citation needed

Ya but think about how many sick ass old apartments would free up in old Manhattan

@@johnseppethe2nd2 half right. Economically speaking it would lower prices. The reality is business moguls would buy up the land and charge exaggerated prices

For real. Protect Wall Street by putting people in danger.

Wall street was built on the wall that protected new Amsterdam after they decided to expand the city There's a good reason the Dutch built a wall there and decided this is the limit of the city but dumb Americans didn't understand

It's like planning a monarch's castle protected by pool peasents surrounding it.

The meatshields- erm peasants-...lovely Residents are gonna love it

@@SuperSayianMessi10 The new land can be on a higher elevation, dummy. Can't raise developed land can you?

Epic

🤣 I'm done for the night!

@OwO ok.

Oh shit...oh shit oh shit

Actually Gotham City is in Connecticut lol

My grandfather bought a house on an island made of mostly reclaimed land. He often joked that if a hurricane ever came through, he’d have waterfront property.

They chose to live in a city that grows and evolves. The same people you’re bemoaning for likely live in a building that blocked an earlier structure’s view.

@@cbgreiwe hes funny

@@benfrastructure Nah america is just HORRIBLE at designing cities, roads and architecture, never seen such a dull and no-sense-making country

In San Fransisco they sold plots of water that were later filled in. So you would stake out your little patch of water and wait for them to dump gravel and whatnot into it.

Your eyes are wide and your on the good side!!

No let the storms ravage that hive of corruption and cruelty

​@@thepokeystormtrooper3585yes.

💀

@@thepokeystormtrooper3585 agreed, let them feel the wrath of the World and the old Gods.

Exactly what i was thinking

​@@dashadow1817They can build new things at higher elevations, come on guys, be nice 😂.

Yes! They can even add a few canals. 🙂

That's a disgrace to the real Amsterdam.

Istanbul was Constantinoble, why they changed it I can't say...

​@@austinhernandez2716 mom i want Amsterdam Mom: we got Amsterdam at home Amsterdam at home👆

@@Floedekage I don’t think Turks liked Constantine

Where do you live that people can't afford housing? Almost everyone can afford anything they want. If not you can consult your government to make sure everyone has what they need

@@AutoRauto Are u aware of the situation in NY? The homeless situation is insane"Consult you goverment" Ha! You think they give a shit?

@@AutoRauto Los angeles

I was about to comment this exact same thing lmao

@@drewlueck7145los ángeles beyond saving

That's exactly what I thought when they said that😂

Yep all the blacks

Are poor people busy with anything more important?

@@myphonyaccount is wall street?

@@Ranger_James38yes

They’d make that back in rent in 6 months😂😂😂

3 Trillion and about 100 years to build😂

It will turn into another "big dig" project. Whatever they say the time line is multiple by 50 and then blow the budget out to 20 trillion dollars. This will never be built.

@@nicholask2627probably 1 to fill in the area, and then another 5 to build everything

Bruh this is nothing compared to flevoland

That's Governor's island

@@markeschen6272 way to ruin the line. But thanks

😂

That would be sick

Liberty Notisland National Park

how many times do econ, management, marketting, etc. have to make stupid ass ideas happen and fail before people realize they should ask engineers and researchers before

Gives new meaning to, "Trickle Down."

I’d say the key word is "professor". This is a very bad economic idea lmao. Considering New York (especially city) is bleeding out population at a rapid rate, you’d have to be a really kind of special to think that adding 250k "low income" logging would be a smart idea.

Explain that because I cant see how that would work

Trump quote?

​@@Mr.219I think they are saying since the plan is to protect wall street, those buildings would be for housing for the poor on this expansion of Manhattan. Hence meat shield. Though the video never said who the housing would be for. Considering what I know of NYC it would probably be just expensive as anywhere else in NYC, even if the intent was to build cheap housing.

HAHAHAHAHAHA😂😂 that was funny. Truly

@greenknight421 I got that part. I was wondering, after it destroys the poor neighborhood, who's going to turn the natural disaster off? I mean, it already reaches so far inland. Building further out is just bonus destruction 🤣🤣🤣. Am I missing something??

I love how they don't even try and hide that it's to protect wall Street

Works though, because they're build with more flood protection. Source: I'm Dutch

Do you have a 401k? Then don’t complain about Wall Street. Plus a lot of those men are pulling 80+ hours a week. Don’t be brainwashed by social media and socialist politicians.

@@youtubeaccount7089 Oh boohoo poor them. I think they can manage to catch a little flak now and again

it already happens every time they crash the economy

Jesus loves you!!!

exactly what I thought.

That makes no sense, the physical location doesn't have that much value, and they could very easily move if they need to, the resons for this project were explained in this video, but that didn't satisfy your conspiracy brain

Right? Use a meat shield and protect wallstreet

​@@tiberiuskurisake you didn't even read the comment above you smh

Especially considering who proposed this in the first place

Maybe they will be a bit more pissed off by being underwater

​@@danielperegrina8118Underwaterhattan

And this is why human vanity will eventually end us all.

@@TheDoorspook11camen

You could always split it possibly? Maintaining their view and giving them another city to look at.

then build housing for the poor they cannot afford in a buffer zone Genius!

That’s what I thought too.

​@@psilocybicacid7667 looks like someone is anti-Semitic

​@@psilocybicacid7667Shut it down

Laughed at that part. “We will protect vulnerable areas by creating buffers, of new vulnerable areas!”. Also hopelessly ironic you’d want to protect an area from climate change that so greatly contributes to it.

All hail Lord Farquad.

Ah, the man who was compensating... I think Shi Huangdi would approve.

Hahaha.

Predatory capitalism prevails.

He literally said it would be built at higher elevation to prevent flooding

Water always makes it's way to the lowest point

​@@4473021so the idea is to build a funnel that drains into the parts that already flood?

It's going to be higher in elevation and have a modern drainage system

​@@jhawk1912 nah that shit got done by the netherlands in the 50's on a massive scale. And the dutch have already done small projects like those for centuries so it's fine only problem you will face is the land drying up in parts of manhattan

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Technically, he never said that. Raising the elevation of the reclaimed land raises the ground with which the new properties are built on. The land will be above water making flooding less likely.

Right let them take the brunt of the storm. 😒🙄

❤❤❤CAPITALISM ❤❤❤ /s

​​@@Sevenfold120 Nobody would say that, but that doesn't mean nobody would do that. And raised land prevents only flooding, not other disasters like damages and deaths from harsh storms. That if, and only if, land of actually raised, because raising land would be a lot more expensive that just leveling it up.

No? I believe the land will be made of dirt and rocks, not corpses.

@@MattM-oe6qs and stacked with buildings containing people.

@@MattM-oe6qs I mean, they did sign in a human composting bill so who’s to say whether that’s human in there or not.

Hello fellow pepe profile picture user

I mean he literally said that they'd build the land up higher, plus seawalls are pretty much standard at this point. The point is that this land would be harder to flood, making the rest of Manhattan harder to flood as a result, no human shielding required.

Don't forget the "contain irony" stamp

Unironically, yeah. More density isn't impossible, and frankly it is the only solution that worked anywhere else that developed into a livable and affordable metropolis; more housing, closer to the center, if not in the center. It's the peripheral infrastructure like cleaning, plumbing, and busing/trains that makes it seem like Manhattan has too many people, which it really doesn't. What it actually has is that it has transportation bottleneck which has not been resolved.

​@@chochootrain or- and hear me out- we don't expand the capitalist hellscape of Manhattan?

@@defective7340 what do you mean Manhattan is a capitalist hellscape? Every city is a place that people live in. No matter how fucked up that city's relationship with capitalism is, it doesn't make it any less of someone's home. Improving the city by building more housing, which I assume is what you're referring to when you say expand Manhattan, is simply going to benefit those who are suffering from those effects of capitalist hellscape that you're concerned with.

@@chochootrain And who pays for it?

​@@defective7340 taxes

Exactly

Maybe it's because people don't want to cramped up with millions of other people in one city

​@@V3LOC1TYFTW Or maybe the rent's too damn high.

​@@V3LOC1TYFTW lol please don't come here.... But in Florida you get no income tax, country tax, you get great weather year round, southern Hospitality, beaches, palm trees blue sky's. At half the cost. Please stay this is a racist conservative state.

@@V3LOC1TYFTW the other guy said the true reason but, what makes you think people don’t wanna live near others? If the apartments are built well enough you shouldn’t be able to hear your neighbors. Also New York City isn’t even in the top 10 most populous city

I wouldn’t be

Well i would imagine you would like it since your more protected from storms now and less chance of property damage

​@@Earthlybeing396you should because instantly your property value goes down

@@EddiXP you're still right next to wall street, so i don't think that value dip would be too bad, and to reiterate what the video says, it reduces your risk of property damage, so it's actually a conditional value add

Wall Street literally deals with the global economy. It's more important than most places in America. It was closed for 4 days after 9/11 and literally helped put us in a recession

Wall street collapsing will literally damage the world not even kidding. It works in a very large magnitude.

​@@sicc_playboys_1383 wow. It is very rare for someone to believe that bullshit more than 20 years after the fact. Thats amazingly stubborn

​@@sicc_playboys_1383Wallstreet is a place of fraud and theft. It represents very little of the actual economic health and its success much of the time adversely correlates with the heath of the economy.

@@sicc_playboys_1383the proposed housing puts real people in danger to protect wall street. Doesnt matter how much money wall street is worth. People could die.

They need it. NYC is #1 in population loss since 2020.

​@@thebabbler8867oh noes

Manhattan's Population actually peaked in 1910 at 2.3 Million. By 1950 it had dropped to 1.9 million. I think it's only 1.7 or 1.8 million today.

Yeah that incentive me to move there…not!

@@thebabbler8867 well yeah the reason they’re losing people is because they elect terrible leaders who have run the place down the shitter.