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New York’s crackdown on Airbnb began Tuesday

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Re: New York’s crackdown on Airbnb began Tuesday

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Post by paulgb »

davewritescode wrote: post #2

> Opponents of the measure, though, claim that the new measure will do significant damage to the tourism industry in New York City — potentially driving would-be visitors to New Jersey Just LOL If you believe is that New Jersey is just waiting in the wings to take tourism from NYC I've got a bridge in Brooklyn available for a good price.

I've commuted from NYC to NJ to rent a car with Turo (the AirBnB of cars, which is not allowed to operate in NY). Granted, I probably wouldn't do it again, but I could imagine Jersey City AirBnBs being appealing to NYC visitors on a budget.

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Post by CharlieDigital »

nine_zeros wrote: post #3
davewritescode wrote: post #2

> Opponents of the measure, though, claim that the new measure will do significant damage to the tourism industry in New York City — potentially driving would-be visitors to New Jersey Just LOL If you believe is that New Jersey is just waiting in the wings to take tourism from NYC I've got a bridge in Brooklyn available for a good price.

I chuckled myself. Tourists spending thousands to visit the city aren't going to stay 2 hours away in another crap apartment in Jersey.

It's literally a 10 minute max PATH ride from Exchange Place in Jersey City.

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Post by Axsuul »

borissk wrote: post #6
davewritescode wrote: post #2

> Opponents of the measure, though, claim that the new measure will do significant damage to the tourism industry in New York City — potentially driving would-be visitors to New Jersey Just LOL If you believe is that New Jersey is just waiting in the wings to take tourism from NYC I've got a bridge in Brooklyn available for a good price.

Do you mean New Jersey won't be happy to host more tourists? Why is that?

People fly halfway across the world to visit New York, not New Jersey.

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Post by mancerayder »

davewritescode wrote: post #2

> Opponents of the measure, though, claim that the new measure will do significant damage to the tourism industry in New York City — potentially driving would-be visitors to New Jersey Just LOL If you believe is that New Jersey is just waiting in the wings to take tourism from NYC I've got a bridge in Brooklyn available for a good price.

Just think of the views from Edgewater or West New York!

Jersey City has become fairly interesting, but I don't see tourists from Sweden going to stay there so they can visit the Empire State Building.

Re: New York’s crackdown on Airbnb began Tuesday

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Post by kbos87 »

nine_zeros wrote: post #3
davewritescode wrote: post #2

> Opponents of the measure, though, claim that the new measure will do significant damage to the tourism industry in New York City — potentially driving would-be visitors to New Jersey Just LOL If you believe is that New Jersey is just waiting in the wings to take tourism from NYC I've got a bridge in Brooklyn available for a good price.

I chuckled myself. Tourists spending thousands to visit the city aren't going to stay 2 hours away in another crap apartment in Jersey.

The anti Airbnb narrative always assumes we are talking about some crappy apartment that someone was duped into staying in.

Let's entertain the idea for just a minute that you are an extended family visiting NYC. You need 2-3 bedrooms, some amount of space to spread out, and a kitchen could potentially save you some real money vs. eating out for every meal.

Hotel rooms like that really don't exist, at least for normal people. On Airbnb you could probably find a comfortable luxury condo that checks every one of those boxes and saves you thousands of dollars compared to booking 3 hotel rooms.

Re: New York’s crackdown on Airbnb began Tuesday

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Post by jmyeet »

Good. Airbnb is cancer. I just hope there's an actual enforcement mechanism.

The optimist in me hopes the housing crisis may finally start to wake people up to how most of us are being systematically exploited and we live in a society that deliberately withholds shelter, which quite literally kills people, so a tiny number of people can profit from it.

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Post by CharlieDigital »

gruez wrote: post #8
nine_zeros wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I chuckled myself. Tourists spending thousands to visit the city aren't going to stay 2 hours away in another crap apartment in Jersey.

> I chuckled myself. Tourists spending thousands to visit the city aren't going to stay 2 hours away in another crap apartment in Jersey. Isn't new jersey right across the river from new york, with rapid transit lines going into new york? Your "2 hours" estimate seems wildly inflated.

Yes it is. In fact, it's probably cheaper/easier to park in JC and take the PATH into NYC.

Re: New York’s crackdown on Airbnb began Tuesday

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Post by rcme »

mancerayder wrote: post #14
davewritescode wrote: post #2

> Opponents of the measure, though, claim that the new measure will do significant damage to the tourism industry in New York City — potentially driving would-be visitors to New Jersey Just LOL If you believe is that New Jersey is just waiting in the wings to take tourism from NYC I've got a bridge in Brooklyn available for a good price.

Just think of the views from Edgewater or West New York! Jersey City has become fairly interesting, but I don't see tourists from Sweden going to stay there so they can visit the Empire State Building.

Jersey City seems to have a lot of tourists, but they also restricted AirBnB a few years back.

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Post by mancerayder »

cardamomo wrote: post #7
nine_zeros wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I chuckled myself. Tourists spending thousands to visit the city aren't going to stay 2 hours away in another crap apartment in Jersey.

I don't know about that. They're already spending $$$ on crap apartments in deep Brooklyn. That's at least an hour to lower Manhattan, easily two hours to upper.

Fair point but deep Brooklyn is still NY, and for that matter Brooklyn has sparked curiosity in Europe a lot in the last decade. There's a ton of European tourists. And deep Brooklyn has some things to see. Prospect Park, BK Museum, and some old school ethnic enclaves that pop up in Time Out type guides.

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Post by kylecazar »

davewritescode wrote: post #2

> Opponents of the measure, though, claim that the new measure will do significant damage to the tourism industry in New York City — potentially driving would-be visitors to New Jersey Just LOL If you believe is that New Jersey is just waiting in the wings to take tourism from NYC I've got a bridge in Brooklyn available for a good price.

My commute from Paulus Hook, NJ to the World Trade Center was 7 minutes.
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