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Your potholes are deadass worse than your noisy neighbors

Your potholes are deadass worse than your noisy neighbors

So look—we all got something to complain about in this city, right? The MTA is broken, right? Rent is too high, right? But here's the thing, according to the latest 311 data, what's really grinding our gears more than anything else? Potholes. Deadass.

There were 3,222 requests for "Street Condition / Pothole" in the last period. That's more than any other issue. More than "Illegal Parking / Blocked Hydrant" (2,783 requests), more than "Noise - Residential / Loud Music/Party" (2,760 requests). Your car, your bike, your ankles, they're all suffering out there. We’re swerving around craters big enough to swallow a whole chopped cheese sandwich, and it's taking a toll.

Meanwhile, on the lobbyist front, you got Barnard College getting Bolton-St. Johns, LLC to work for them through 2025. What's a fancy college need a lobbyist for, you ask? To keep their slice of the pie in Manhattan, most likely. That’s New York — if you can’t keep up, take the bus.

Watch if the pothole numbers keep climbing. If they do, maybe the city's gotta rethink its priorities, 'cause right now, our streets are lookin' like the moon.

Rachel Kwon-Gutierrez, MiTL Sports Desk, Queens.

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