[jjav]

Would paving over all of Central Park to fill the area with residential skyscrapers be a good idea?

[JumpCrisscross]

> Would paving over all of Central Park to fill the area with residential skyscrapers be a good idea?

As a moderately wealthy former New Yorker? I say no. If we put it to a referendum? I’d give it even odds. If the referendum were for developing part of Central Park into public housing? I’d guess it would pass.

[bfeynman]

Eh, I would only think if its like at the top of the park where less people/tourists ever visit.

[JumpCrisscross]

> its like at the top of the park where less people/tourists ever visit

Tourists don't vote or show up to community-board meetings. The top of the park is closer to Harlem. That is why it would be easier to bulldoze.

[javanissen]

Relaxing the zoning requirements that unnaturally force huge swaths of the city to be under-built would fix this without sprawling housing into existing greenspace.

[nobodyandproud]

This is the opposite of a steel-man.