[Ericson2314]

You don't need a car to have a family in NYC. You might in every other city in America but you do not here.

[logicalmonster]

How do you know everybody's needs?

Some people do need a car for work, healthcare, education, living with disabilities, or many other reasons not mentioned.

[Ericson2314]

How do you? Why the assumption that public transit cannot fulfill the needs of the vast majority of people?

Perhaps there is some tiny fraction that needs a care. Well, there would be enough on-street parking left for them.

What is far more common is the a bunch of people that don't need cars hide behind the mythical empathetic car-dependent person.

[logicalmonster]

First you said "You don't need a car to have a family in NYC" and now you're talking about "the vast majority of people". Which is it? Your thesis is changing.