yuppies hipsters thanks alot!
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Subject: gentrification/nasty attitudes!!!!!!!!!!!!
You yuppies have some nerve. You are so worried about dog parades and being animal lovers yet you let your dogs crap all over the place. But if you see someone else do it, omg- what an impact on the environment! You are all for social programs and helping the poor yet you are the biggest NIMBY's around (eg. battered women's shelter in Carroll Gardens). You once shunned Fifth Ave. south of Ninth Street because the guys at Timboos bar really wore bowling shirts to bowl in and there were too many nail salons, but now that the rents are too high on your side, you've made it "cool" to live/ have a business there. I laugh when you yuppies get misplaced by the real money people of Manhattan. Then you start freaking out about "your neighborhood". Then there's a difference.eh? Good!!!!!!!!!! Now you know how it feels. BTW, I am a home owner in Park Slope (for over 30 years). I made an investment. I hate when you people consider yourselves to be "PIONEERS" as if no one lived here before you or the people here were just worthless human beings! -
Subject: give me a break!
Livetotravel wrote: The regularly scheduled anger management class for long-term Park Slope residents will be held this Tues at Starbucks where mochafrapachinos will be served free of charge.
:shock: :shock: :shock:
Ok man, I’m Assuming your silly sarcasm is a sign of disagreement with my opinion. I am utterly amazed that you seem to be such a big fan of Che Guevara. Naming your dog after him, your forum icon and you no doubt, have a closet full of t-shirts with his face on it. Now hear is the million dollar question.. Do you even know what this man stood for and what he believed in??!! do you know what drove him to formulate his beliefs? DO YOU? if you do know..well congratulations, because you have just become a big hypocrite and the poster boy for every thing that is wrong with the people coming into this community. You talk about “anger management†HA! Maybe Che should have taken anger management course before voicing HIS OPINION ABOUT THE UNFAIR TREATMENT OF THE POOR AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY! Anger management..yeah! That way he wouldn’t have started all of those little revolutions the killed thousands to defend the working class and poor..Your a fan of a socialist icon yet you mock my statements about these upper middle class snobs moving into the neighborhood and screwing over the old hard working blue collar people who established this nab in the first place. Or maybe you’re just on of those dorks who like the Che t-shirts cuz his face looks cool and trendy.. which is not unlike the jackasses that move here from the upper east side and prance over to Brooklyn industries to buy a Brooklyn hooded sweatshirt to match with your Brooklyn socks after living in Brooklyn for all of 2 weeks..and you say in your head: “finally, im cool I live in Brooklyn!†If Che met you face to face he would probably puke on your Brooklyn t-shirt, shoot you in the foot with an AK47 and grind your little poodle into hamburger meat! Am I a communist? no. but symbols have meanings, and you should know what they are before you open your mouth. -
armchair_warrior wrote: any city or neighborhood that doesnt change with the times usually starts to decay and die out. thanks to all these new comers. park slope blossom and renewal itself. you have alot more stores and shops now days. then before.
but there is a tipping point when a neighborhood changes too quickly and rents rise too high too fast. Take the Upper West side as an example--once was like Park Slope but rents got so high that all the mom and pop type shops were replaced with chain stores and restaurants. That neighborhood is not better for the gentrification and high real estate prices. Soon the rents on 7th and then 5th will be too high to support new creative businesses and there will be more cell phone stores, and who knows what else. (I mean if you want a bunch of GAPs, then you might as well not live in New York? ). Growth is one thing--an explosion fed by greedy real estate development is another.
Cat I think you are right that a neighborhood is more interesting when it is mixed with newcomers and old timers. And I do think some of the entitled new comers do act like the privleged cheerleaders in a suburban school. -
Wow, so much anger.
Without the yuppies, Grups and guppies, north slope would have nowhere near as many chi-chi bars, boutiques and doggie bakeries and that would be such a great shame.
So, you really should be thanking us for having too much disposable income and not enough common sense because we are creating jobs and business opportunities in the area. You should even love our little dogs and our overpriced jeans. 
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pitu, that's a very good point. i guess my thinking is a little sloppy in there somewhere. is the birthrate for college educated women above the replacement rate? and what about children of not-college educated women who then have the gall to go and become college educated themselves?
but clearly something is going on, and not just in nyc. i mean, i am the college educated child of college educated parents, and i would be thrilled to dodge the gentrifier label by living in a already gentrified place, but i can't afford to, even sharing an apartment with my similarly degreed and pedigreed gf. i know nyc and other cities are experiencing a reversal of years of monied folks leaving for the suburbs. and people are living longer.
so should it be:
if you don't like gentrification, fight lipitor ?
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Subject: Re: um... wait a minute here...
cat wrote: The charm of this area once it is 'white-washed' is not so great.
FIrst off, I've lived here since 96, and while that doesn't make me an oldtimer, I remember this neighborhood looking a bit different. Anyhow, is white-washed supposed to imply that the neighborhood is whiter than it used to be? This neighborhood was largely italian and irish for the 70's and 80's and further back to the best of my knowledge. I have no stats to back this up, though I 'd love to see some. -
Subject: Re: give me a break!
PKslope OG wrote: [quote=Livetotravel]The regularly scheduled anger management class for long-term Park Slope residents will be held this Tues at Starbucks where mochafrapachinos will be served free of charge.
:shock: :shock: :shock:
Ok man, I’m Assuming your silly sarcasm is a sign of disagreement with my opinion. I am utterly amazed that you seem to be such a big fan of Che Guevara. Naming your dog after him, your forum icon and you no doubt, have a closet full of t-shirts with his face on it. Now hear is the million dollar question.. Do you even know what this man stood for and what he believed in??!! do you know what drove him to formulate his beliefs? DO YOU? if you do know..well congratulations, because you have just become a big hypocrite and the poster boy for every thing that is wrong with the people coming into this community. You talk about “anger management†HA! Maybe Che should have taken anger management course before voicing HIS OPINION ABOUT THE UNFAIR TREATMENT OF THE POOR AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY! Anger management..yeah! That way he wouldn’t have started all of those little revolutions the killed thousands to defend the working class and poor..Your a fan of a socialist icon yet you mock my statements about these upper middle class snobs moving into the neighborhood and screwing over the old hard working blue collar people who established this nab in the first place. Or maybe you’re just on of those dorks who like the Che t-shirts cuz his face looks cool and trendy.. which is not unlike the jackasses that move here from the upper east side and prance over to Brooklyn industries to buy a Brooklyn hooded sweatshirt to match with your Brooklyn socks after living in Brooklyn for all of 2 weeks..and you say in your head: “finally, im cool I live in Brooklyn!†If Che met you face to face he would probably puke on your Brooklyn t-shirt, shoot you in the foot with an AK47 and grind your little poodle into hamburger meat! Am I a communist? no. but symbols have meanings, and you should know what they are before you open your mouth.
Well first of all never assume - it makes you look sound an ass, as does all your yelling and screamimg. You're acting out man, fucking grow up! You'll live a lot longer if you learn to laugh at things. At least Che had a sense of humor.
I don't own a poodle, I own two Pekes. I don't own a Brooklyn T-shirt either, in fact I don't own any t-shirts with words or pictures on them.
And I've already been shot once, so I'll pass on this latest opportunity.
If you knew anything at all about Che you would know that he had a cool head, he didn't go around screaming and yelling like some little needy wimp.
I rent here, I'm about to be displaced by a landlord lusting for money. I hate Gaps, Starbucks, SUV's and double wide strollers - but that doesn't mean I agree with you. So kiss my ass.
You want agreement? Pay for therapy. -
sweet tea wrote: if you don't like gentrification, support white flight ?
that's something to think about
I just heard on the radio that NYC's Black population is down for the first time since the civil war.
Check out the blip of a story on wnyc.orgLivetotravel wrote: I don't own a poodle, I own two Pekes
what's a peke?
Steve -- I'd like to know too.
But I know lower Slope...you know, below the fold, below the Landmark,
had plenty of Black/Latino working class house owners from at least the '60's/70's, and prolly a good bit before.
My understanding is that the energy crisis of the '70's made nobody want to buy drafty high-ceilinged brownstones. That, from my almost-50 friend whose dad wouldn't let her mom buy on what is now the gold coast way back then . . .
I LOVE how a trolly flamin' post has turned out a pretty interesting discussion. This board, superbueno! -
pitu - a Peke is a Pekingese. For centuries the Pekingese was worshipped in the temples of China, but in Brooklyn worshipped by my wife in our apartment.
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Subject: Re: give me a break!
Well first of all never assume - it makes you look sound an ass, as does all your yelling and screamimg. You're acting out man, fucking grow up! You'll live a lot longer if you learn to laugh at things. At least Che had a sense of humor.
I don't own a poodle, I own two Pekes. I don't own a Brooklyn T-shirt either, in fact I don't own any t-shirts with words or pictures on them.
And I've already been shot once, so I'll pass on this latest opportunity.
If you knew anything at all about Che you would know that he had a cool head, he didn't go around screaming and yelling like some little needy wimp.
I rent here, I'm about to be displaced by a landlord lusting for money. I hate Gaps, Starbucks, SUV's and double wide strollers - but that doesn't mean I agree with you. So kiss my ass.
You want agreement? Pay for therapy.
Hey jerk, did you mean "ass out of you and me" cause you're certainly acting like one. Acting out is something you yuppies should know alot about too! Try and look at some of your brat kids at daycare, play group, or nannydom. They are the rudest, nastiest, little tykes I have ever seen. I guess its because there is no parental involvement there. Are you a product of this system? Sounds like it to me! So tell me, did you know Che personally or did you find out he had a cool head while you were in a stupor after drinking too many Brooklyn Beers! OOOOH and aren't we proud that we own two Pekes (not one, but count 'em-two). What a snob! This is exactly what I hate about yuppies! However, since you hate all those symbols of obnoxious yuppiedom, there may be hope for you after all! -
Chill, and enough with the bold type.
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doldrums wrote: Chill, and enough with the bold type.
Why? Are you in the Doldrums? -
"Anonymous wrote:
Where is this place, the Doldrums?? Is that where all the local stores are being bought out by the Gap?[/b]
Why? Are you in the Doldrums? -
GRAMMAR POLICE wrote: [quote="Anonymous]
Where is this place, the Doldrums?? Is that where all the local stores are being bought out by the Gap?[/b]
Why? Are you in the Doldrums?
TeeHee! Yuppie humor. Bite me! -
Anonymous wrote: [quote=doldrums]Chill, and enough with the bold type.
Why? Are you in the Doldrums?
on the bright side, no one in The Doldrums in close enough to park slope to befoul it....
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doldrums">
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Because im not a paper pushing stockbroker who makes over 100k a year. Fvck off!! I know you jerks will sleep well because despite all your fake concerns for the environment and neighborhood, you really don’t care who you step on in the end.
Step on?
Buying a home you barely scraped together a down payment for in a neighborhood you like cannot possibly be construed as "stepping on" anyone. It is not a moral choice.
What is a moral choice is who you vote for and what action you take personally to address the very real problem of affordable housing. You can vote for people who advocate higher taxes, a minimum wage that is a living wage, bringing back the state and federal housing programs that have been gutted over the past two decades. You can ask for progressive zoning. You can demand local oversight and enforceable affordable housing quotas for new developments.
But boycott homes in neighborhoods that have increasing property values?
What's next, refusing to buy food from grocery chains who raise their prices?
Get a clue.
It's the system that's perverse, not your neighbors, no matter how obnoxious you find their conspicuous consumption and bratty children.
As for displacing "pioneers," well that problem is centuries old. The reason it's so pernicious for neighborhoods in cities with limited housing stock is that renters are in no position to secure their interests. As someone who rented for 30 years, I can appreciate the frustration. I have never been eligible for rent control status, but it still hurts when the asshole landlord would increase my rent by what I deemed to be ridiculous amounts.
I'm relatively new to this area, but from what I understand, the rent controls that existed have been systematically dismantled by the last several mayoral administrations so that the amount of "controlled" housing stock is perpetually shrinking.
So what do we have:
1) Stagnating wages for several years running for everyone but the investor or CEO class. Even doctors, engineers, accountants and attorneys are feeling wage pressure in a global market.
2) No new industry to provide upward mobility for the non-professional class. People are fighting for an ever decreasing piece of the pie. Don't even think about job security, retirement or health care.
3) Global pressure to reduce consumer prices and therefore wages. This is an inevitable property of a connected system that has huge disparities to began with. The U.S. can't expect to consume more than it's fair share forever just because we're "special."
4) Consolidation of corporations and a huge entitlement apparatus to support the big guys. Entrepreneurs are left to duke it out at the frontiers until they get the notice of the corporations, who either put them out of business or assimilate them.
5) Virutally no state or federal housing funds.
6) Rent controls severely reduced and on their way to extinction.
7) Limited housing stock.
All of this spells less "affordable" housing. Seems to me we have a couple of choices:
1) Examine the root causes and try to address them systemically. This takes a lot of time, but should eventually produce results. Unfortunately, human and especially Western nature is geared toward instant gratification.
2) Kill all of the gentrifying yuppies only to discover you are now a bunch of serfs in the thrall of well connected real estate developers and megacorporations who enlisted you to kill the upper middle class so that slavery would be so much easier to implement with no one to stand in their way. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
3) Try to raise the awareness of the gentrifying yuppies and get them to vote or act or throw molotov cocktails in such a way that it's a win win for everyone but the evil overlords.
Seems like you prefer option 2.
Good luck. -
All this gentrification wouldn't be possible if so many "old-timers" hadn't cashed in and sold their brownstones for a windfall.
I've been here for 12 years and though there are certainly more obnoxious people with too much money than there used to be, most of the changes are for the better. Fifth Avenue was pretty desolate when I moved here -- lots of vacant storefronts, drug-dealing in the park next to MS 51, and so on. The only good restaurant in all of Park Slope was Cucina; there were no good restaurants on 7th Ave (actually I guess that is still kind of true); 7th Ave south of 9th Street also had a lot of empty storefronts. The neighborhood feels safer now; the park feels safer now.
I do feel for people who are forced out of their neighborhood by rising rents. On the other hand, a lot of people moved to Park Slope because they got priced out of Manhattan. That was the case for me -- though I love it here now and wouldn't move back to Manhattan. -
I work my ass off to afford a nice apt in a nice neighborhood. I don't own a BMW....I'm not a member at any private clubs....I don't have a summer rental in the Hamptons. The idea that everyone who lives in Park Slope is a rich yuppie is a joke.
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Maybe try talking to some of the perceived yuppies and hipsters.
All the hiding in cyberspace makes it easy to spout off your wayward anger.
Sure some of them will be jerks. But jerks come in all types.
Old timers, newbies, natives, and transplants.
It just sounds so easy to generalize.
Be more specific about those who annoy you and DO something about them.
Dont label everyone. It's unfair and makes you look as bad as the people you so incessantly bitch about.
BB- (Native New Yorker who realizes that maybe there are bigger isues out there that will effect your life a lot more than yuppies AND hipsters. How easily we forget.) -
Subject: Yuppies go home!
Let's see....What makes my stomach turn? Hm! I know....YUPPIES! Specifically the yuppies that have inundated Park Slope "South". First off, let's start with the actual name of the neighborhood. Just a few years ago, about five to be exact, NO yuppie would even dare to cross 6th avenue and venture on into the unknowns of 5th avenue tand below. Yes, thats right folks, just a few years ago shit rolled down the slope and MY neighborhood was considered tacky and trashy. Now we have been declared Park Slope "south", when before yuppies did not want to extend the name outside of their sheltered realm. Well boy oh boy has that changed! Now there are discreet little bars popping up here and there, and little dinky (classy to you fools of course) cafes appearing all along 5th avenue. The part that cracks me up the most however, is that these Yuppie morons want to "gentrify" 4th avenue too. I'm sorry...what are you gentrifying? A neighborhood thats been in existence long before you decided to come from Nebraska and Wisconsin to get a cute appartment in affordable Brooklyn? Brooklyn is not even affordable anymore because of you!!! I'm tired of watching you idiots push your babies (who have the dumbest names like Cody and Dakota) around in those carriages with bicycle wheels. I am SICK of your "say no to the bush agenda signs." I am sick of your New York Times reading, latte sipping asses that parade around this goddamn neighborhood. GO BACK TO 7th AVENUE! And take your nannies and Volvos with you, you ignorant fools! This neighborhood existed before you ever set foot in this borough. Now all of a sudden you want to "culture the heathens"!?! Tough shit. This is not your neighborhood and you have no right to bring a "renaissance" to it. One last thought to add to my tirade. The one thing I love the most is seeing Yuppies in Coney Island. I love how they just lounge around eating hot dogs while they give hispanics and other minorities around them dirty looks as if they are the ones who don't belong there. ARE YOU SERIOUS? Nathans has existed since 1916, and sadly enough, you NIMBY jerks are not the ones who discovered it, though I'm sure you'd all like to think so. Let me conclude this with final thought. Brooklyn is NOT trendy, It is NOT hip, and you are NOT wanted...nor are you welcome! YUPPIES GO HOME. Your spray paint anti Bush art and 5.00 coffees are not wanted around these parts. -
Subject: Re: Yuppies go home!
SICK OF YUPPIES wrote: Your $5.00 coffees are not wanted around these parts.
wouldn't this line be great in a western?
maybe it could be a pirate western, set on a ship adrift in the doldrums....
i'll figure out how the ninjas fit in later. -
I'm one of your gentrifying yuppies from the midwest. I've lived in Park Slope 13 years.
I wasn't born with any more advantages than you were. Probably less. My dad drove a delivery truck. My mom was an immigrant and a maid. We rented our house. I went to college on a scholarship.
If anything, I was probably born lower on the economic ladder than you. If my family had been in NYC when I was a kid, we'd have been lucky to live in Park Slope, north, south or otherwise.
I was lucky enough to have abilities that got me a well-paying job. But I also didn't sashay in here with a trust fund and money from mommy and daddy for a down payment, and I'm not apologizing for a damn thing. This is not a feudal country. No one is entitled to keep their status or remain in a neighborhood just by virtue of being born there.
I feel bad for you, but that's not the same as feeling guilty. The reason New York is New York, and not some coastal fishing village is its willingness always to take on all comers. That made it great, but it also means people have been screwed over by change since the Indians. You don't get to decide that change stops the moment you're born. -
You're talking about SW Slope and stop using the word "yuppie". This is not 1985. The people who are moving to that area are doing so because that is where they can afford to live....I assume that is why you live there. And for the record, a large part of SW Slope is still a little "tacky" and "trashy". However, the problem that you should be concerned about is developers building those ugly ass cheap apt buildings all over that section of PS. Now this is only happening because old timers cashed out and sold their homes to developers instead of people who would actually live there. So really, you should be mad at them.
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Subject: Re: Yuppies go home!
sweet tea wrote: [quote=SICK OF YUPPIES]Your $5.00 coffees are not wanted around these parts.
wouldn't this line be great in a western?
Standing ovation to all of you managing to make serious and cogent replies to the gnashing and howling. Scanning this thread, I was sure I had gushed too soon . . . -
Subject: Re: give me a break!
Livetotravel wrote: I am utterly amazed that you seem to be such a big fan of Che Guevara. Naming your dog after him
Well, to be fair, my brother had a pig named Qaddafi once. So perhaps it's no compliment. I've taken shots at livetotravel for his avatar, etc. before, but I now operate under the assumption that the guy is engaged in some sort of satire. I mean, think about it - spewing revolutionary left-wing nonsense on the one hand and bitching about the service at high-priced restaurants on the other. The incongruity is hilarious. Might be a comment on the Park Slope mentality in general, you know real friend of the working man until it comes to paying your nanny a decent wage and covering health-care, etc. NOTE: I'm sure YOU do, whoever you are, so don't come and respond with your tales of virtue. YOU are fine. But I know a lot of people who aren't, that's all. Anyway, that's what I reckon he's up to. livetotravel, no need to respond one way or another - It's better if your intentions are ambiguous. -
Subject: 'old timers'...
I agree with directing the anger *also* at the 'old-timers' who sold out to the highest bidder. if a person is in that situation, they want to get the most $ but then at what cost...? well they've left the area so what do they care? seems to be the attitude.
my landlord sold his building for 1.7 million. he didn't care who bought it. he didn't have any loyalty to the neighborhood in that way. he just wanted to look out for himself. was that wrong? i don't know.
the man who owns the pork store on 5th ave. also owned that eccentric parking 'lot' where commerce bank now sits. to me, he could have made a conscious decision to sell to someone else - but he didn't. did he really even have to sell?
i agree that regulation needs to be in place. there is new building everywhere you look between brooklyn and manhattan. do any of the signs say 'affordable housing?' NO. They all tout themselves as offering "luxury rentals." where are all these people coming from? however, i don't agree that we should vote people in to 'change' things. we need to be the ones changing things. if we wait for the electoral system and politicians to do something well we'll all be displaced.
if the person who buys my building can't afford his mortgage and needs to rent the place out for an insane amount of money thus displacing me... to rent it out for twice as much as corporate housing because he can't afford it otherwise... well should he even be buying it? he now is making a conscious decision to not just buy in park slope... to not just buy in park slope and raise the rent ... but to buy in park slope and rent the apt. out as corporate housing and that *does* change the flavor of the neighborhood. there are decisions along the way that get made and money trumps everything. I don't really know what the answer is. we're so immersed in it, how can we think otherwise...? it's a predominent way of thinking.
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Subject: Re: yuppies & hipsters thanks alot!
[quote=Now i cant even afford to live in the fvcking neighborhood that i grew up in!! How sad is this! Because im not a paper pushing stockbroker who makes over 100k a year. Fvck off!! I know you jerks will sleep well because despite all your fake concerns for the environment and neighborhood, you really don’t care who you step on in the end.
:roll:
Wow I here this same story Over and Over, Once upon a Time Mark The Magnanimous rented A loft in Williamsburg. The rent was dirt cheap and well to be honest back then nobody in their right mind wanted to live their. I had a landlord who was an Hasidic Jew and all he wanted was his rent on time. He never gave promise of a lease, But when I took on the space I said. Just don’t raise the rent on me. And guess what he didn’t for 8 years I paid a ridiculous 500 bucks a month for a 7,500 SF loft with 30’ ceilings. As the Neighborhood became more appealing and more and more people moved into the hood. It became quite apparent that my party was over. My landlord approached me and told me He had sold the building. I had a year to move out. I shook his hand and moved out three months later. I never begrudged this man a penny. In fact good for him, let the man make his money, that s after all why we buy real estate, or why we invest in a business.
I hope you learn two things from this story. The first is. I don’t owe you shit. You don’t like the hood, You don’t like the rents, You feel you should be entitled to these things…you make me laugh move to Cuba you fucking communist. The second is this. If you bullshit over and over again you begin to believe your own. I grew up In NYC too, I had a friend get strung out on Crack at the age of 17. I remember how shitty 42nd street used to be. I saw a man get stabbed to death in broad daylight, as for Prospect Park and The Slope, please, You wouldn’t walk in that park alone back then. So don’t try to romanticize this hood as if it where better back then. As a parent, Home owner and local resident I have to say this. I like the neighborhood better today then back then, I like the growth and welcome any and all types of people so long as they are not violent crack heads, Hip Hop thug types or just people like yourself who are clearly too lazy and ignorant to compete in the big apple. I hate to break it to you pal, you might want to consider leaving Gotham, You don’t sound like you have what it takes.
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Subject: Re: 'old timers'...
cat wrote:
But is it really just the buyer's fault? What if the seller agreed to take a bit less in exchange for keeping the existing tenant in place at below-market rent for some period of time? Does that ever happen? I doubt it. Who has more of an obligation to the tenant? The new buyer, who is a stranger to the tenant and most likely will be struggling to make the mortgage payments even while charging market-rate rent, or the seller, who bought the place for $50,000 back in the day and is now selling it for $2,000,000?
if the person who buys my building can't afford his mortgage and needs to rent the place out for an insane amount of money thus displacing me... to rent it out for twice as much as corporate housing because he can't afford it otherwise... well should he even be buying it? -
Heh, Mark ain't the most diplomatic guy, but he makes some good points.
There is a lot of nostalgia for a past that never was. -
My post-ratner-like-development vision of all of NYC is that it will become a city of the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor. All in the vast and unequal middle will have found their way to others places. And the extremely wealthy will pay large sums of money for security in an attempt to keep the extremely poor away for their front stoops and eventually their pantries.
POLITICAL BELIEFS ASSESSMENT TEST - To test if you're an Archconservative, Leftwing Wacko, Antigovernment Libertine or a Commie Sympathizer
What is your solution to the lack of affordable housing?
Conservative:
- Eliminate labor unions from the building trades.
- Repeal requiring Environmental Impact Reports.
- Repeal the Endangered Species Act.
Liberal:
- Force developers to build affordable housing units in exchange for getting building permits.
- Fight urban sprawl by protesting against all new housing projects.
- Tax rich people to finance government funded housing developments to provide shelter for high school dropouts, derelicts, alcoholics, drug addicts, and the chronically unemployed.
- Rent Control.
Liberterian:
- Ban zoning regulations.
- Repeal building codes.
- Eliminate requiring building permits and building inspections.
- Repeal laws governing contractor licensing.
Commie/Pinko:
- Force owners of large, spacious co-ops to share their homes with high school dropouts, derelicts, alcoholics, drug addicts, and the chronically unemployed.
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