Where Spike Lived
In his lengthy New York Magazine interview this week, Spike Lee covers a wide range of Brooklyn-related topics, including revealing where he lived as a kid. After moving from Atlanta when the director was a small child, the Lee family lived at 1480 Union Street in Crown Heights before moving to 186 Warren Street in…
In his lengthy New York Magazine interview this week, Spike Lee covers a wide range of Brooklyn-related topics, including revealing where he lived as a kid. After moving from Atlanta when the director was a small child, the Lee family lived at 1480 Union Street in Crown Heights before moving to 186 Warren Street in Cobble Hill, where they were the only black family around. “As soon as the neighbors understood that there weren’t any other black families, it was not like a mass of black families moving in behind me, I was just like everybody else,” he says. “It was a great time to grow up in Cobble Hill.”
brooklynista- Spike Lee’s not just a celeb. He’s someone who’s made a career out of pointing out the disadvantages black people have in this country. So he left Brooklyn for what neighborhood? The Upper East Side? The most elite white neighborhood in the city if not the country? And sends his kids to private school. And collects fat paychecks from the white elites.
He’s not the first wealthy celebrity I’ve heard complain that nyc is only for rich people. How can he say that? Isn’t he rich? Hasn’t he contributed to the problem?
I once saw him buying his wife a fur coat on Madison Avenue that I would estimate cost at least $80,000. So yes, he is loaded. But I like what he said about schools (art, music, etc.) I am not surprised that his kids go to private school, though.
But what good does it do for him to complain about the schools? How did they get that way, from the days he fondly remembers? How has the city become what it’s become? He makes movies about the hood, but he’s not of the hood. He had nothing to say about the Barclays center, even though his studio is blocks away from it. I’m sure we’ll be seeing him courtside though.
I once saw him buying his wife a fur coat on Madison Avenue that I would estimate cost at least $80,000. So yes, he is loaded. But I like what he said about schools (art, music, etc.) I am not surprised that his kids go to private school, though.
He complains about nyc being only for the rich. But he has been paid to endorse such mega- companies as Nike and Absolut, which flow money to the top and make the rich richer. (and fill the city with corporate sameness) He says the public schools should be better so he sends his kids to private schools. He left Brooklyn for the UES. Sorry, dude. Never been a fan of his cartoonish movies either.
He complains about nyc being only for the rich. But he has been paid to endorse such mega- companies as Nike and Absolut, which flow money to the top and make the rich richer. (and fill the city with corporate sameness) He says the public schools should be better so he sends his kids to private schools. He left Brooklyn for the UES. Sorry, dude. Never been a fan of his cartoonish movies either.