Wednesday Links
Victims’ Roommate Charged with Setting Bensonhurst Fire [NY Times] M.T.A. Fails to Honestly Rate Contractors’ Work [NY Times] Trash Slashing Problem on Clinton Avenue [NY Times] River Cafe Rent Is Only $5,536 [NY Post] Affordable Housing Scammer Claims Divine Inspiration [NY Daily News] Sitt Wants to Build College Housing in Red Hook [Brooklyn Paper] Fire…
Victims’ Roommate Charged with Setting Bensonhurst Fire [NY Times]
M.T.A. Fails to Honestly Rate Contractors’ Work [NY Times]
Trash Slashing Problem on Clinton Avenue [NY Times]
River Cafe Rent Is Only $5,536 [NY Post]
Affordable Housing Scammer Claims Divine Inspiration [NY Daily News]
Sitt Wants to Build College Housing in Red Hook [Brooklyn Paper]
Fire Sale to Save the City Reliquary [Brooklyn Paper]
Charter School Hits Snag in Gowanus [Brooklyn Eagle]
8 Pool Parties Confirmed for East River State Park [Brooklyn Vegan]
The Little Room Fights to Stay Open [CHB]
Photo by Tokyo Tanenhaus
I’m not sure about ’77 but I think Bargemusic was there then and I wouldn’t have considered the area ‘fringe’. By ’83 the area was a magnet. There was a nice Italian restaurant where Pete’s is now that had been there a number of years, the Ferrybank restaurant(in the big white Ferry Bank building just up the hill a bit from Grimaldi’s) was great. There seems to be a a lot of thinking that certain neighborhoods were dumps until the last 10 years. They didn’t have the glitz they have now, but they were hardly marginal.
Read this for a little perspective:
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1977.html
dibs, you’re too high. A very good friend of mine, older than me, bought a brownstone on Cambridge Place (that’s ‘prime’ CH, right) for 35k in 1972 or so. It was original and not reno’d or chopped up.
down by the waterfront in ’77? nobody went there. I’m guessing is probably the land is leased for that amt…The building is probably something they did (also the boat which is big part of the place) and all the structural work. They are the ones that brought people down there.
Nobody was interested.
And your house was probably less than $40k in 1977.
The housing scam is hardly typical. The defendant is accused of ripping off his own community, by taking loans out on properties other people in his community thought they had bought from him. Worse yet, he cloaked it in religion and altruistic motives. Some of the people he ripped off still think he’s a nice guy, which amazes me.
DIBS, I might have to wager on the “UNDER” on the 40k
I bet my house was worth $40,000 in 1977.
“affordable housing scammer”
typical
*rob*
If you think job market is bad now, you shoulda been around in ’77.