Kudos to Mark Levine and other lefties on move to finally end this NYC housing insanity

Wow: Here’s an actual ray of hope on Gotham’s housing insanity — with local lefty pols for once helping part the ꦯclouds. 🅠;

After a Post investigation shedᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ light on the issue, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and most of the borough’s City Council delegation will join Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams in pushing to kill the insane floor-area ratio (FAR) cap of 12, part of a 1961 state law that’s been a prime driver of the Big Apple’s housing crisis for decades. 

The aim is to repeal it in the state budget. Joining Levine are progressive council mem𒈔bers like Yusef Salaam, Keith Powers, Shaun Abreu and Julie Menin. 

That’s right: The madness of the rule is so apparent, even hard l🐻efᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚties are catching on.

The FAR cap requires that buildings be no bigger than 12 times the size of their lots: It’s why the city’s stopped seeing new edifices like the elegant, massive, super-stylish apartment buildings that line Central Park West.

Instead, we get🐽 plenty of “pencil” towers — ultra-𒉰skinny skyscrapers like the Steinway Tower on West 57th, more than 1,400 feet tall but containing only 60 apartments. 

The law’s cost the city an estimated 200,000 apartments since its passage, which (had they been built) would address almost 6ꦗ0% of New York’s housing def🐓icit. 

Levine & Co. will find themselves in conflict with mega-hypocrites like Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, wh🌟o selfishly protects the law while living in an inherited, rent-stabilized UWS apartment. 

But it’s a noble battle, and for all our differen൩ces with them over the years — and doubtless going forward — on t🧜his, Levine & Co. are dead right. 

Repeal the cꦛap and let🐈 New York be glorious New York. 

Not an island of soulless skyscrapers.