Friday Links
Crown Heights. Photo by stan. New York’s Coveted Public Schools Face Pupil Jam [NY Times] Homeowner Rescue Bill Passed Despite Veto Threat [NY Times] Deal to Build at Railyards on West Side Collapses [NY Times] Questions of Rent Tactics by Private Equity [NY Times] Marty: Don’t Dump Homeless in C. Hts [Daily News] Ask Babs:…
Crown Heights. Photo by stan.
New York’s Coveted Public Schools Face Pupil Jam [NY Times]
Homeowner Rescue Bill Passed Despite Veto Threat [NY Times]
Deal to Build at Railyards on West Side Collapses [NY Times]
Questions of Rent Tactics by Private Equity [NY Times]
Marty: Don’t Dump Homeless in C. Hts [Daily News]
Ask Babs: Should I Rent or Buy? [Daily News]
ESDC: Site 5 Delay Expected [AY Report]
Homeownership Rates Slipping [Matrix]
’10 Plagues of the Subway’ [AMNY]
Weekend Subway Guide [NY Post]
I don’t understand why everyone is so hostile to Montrose Morris, I’ve only ever seen intelligent & reasonable comments by her.
Also, 5:15? Way to keep the level of the discourse civil and productive!
And what the hell does what I rent my apartment(s) for matter to anyone but me, my accountant, and my bank? I don’t have to prove anything to anyone, least of all some anonymous jerk on the internet.
Yeah, duck and dodging here. Get a life.
MM
Crown Heights Revitalization Movement, a new group created in response to Crown Heights over-saturation with social service residences, has conducted a review of each of the Community Boards in Brooklyn. Based on the City’s own records there are 1,170 social service residential beds in Community Board 8 – North Crown Heights.* For every 100 acres of land in the community board, there are 112 beds. This is the highest level for any community board in Brooklyn. By contrast, Park Slope (CB6) has 19 beds per acre, Bedford-Stuyvesant (CB3) has 42 beds per acre and Crown Heights South (CB9) has 51 beds per acre. And this is BEFORE any expansion at the Bedford Armory.
Are there any other communities where the shelter system should expand into? How about just about any of them!
*Based on a review of Department of City Planning: Community District Profiles and Department of City Planning: Selected Facilities and Program Sites.
“I’m not going to indulge some anonymous heckler by doing the city’s due diligence in finding another spot. Suffice it to say, other more suitable places exist, and the city is well aware of where those places are.”
This is a classic Montrose Morris response. Whenever he/she is faced with a legitimate question, the result is bobbing, weaving, and dodging. MM reacted in a similar fashion to past questions about whether he/she rents his/her unit at the market rate (which is the case). Labeling anyone with a different view as a heckler or a troll is another common tactic.
Go stuff a sock up your c-u-n-t, b-i-t-c-h.
Longtime reader, first time poster. Many readers who post comments on this blog are so hateful about Crown Heights. What’s with the hostility: if you don’t live there (full disclosure, I do), why do you even care so much? Many of the comments in this thread clearly have been posted by people who have never set foot in Crown Heights. It has its rough patches, but come springtime, there is nothing like strolling up Eastern Parkway under a canopy of leaves. For those posters who are fearful and ignorant about Crown Heights, take this challenge (you can get together and hold hands for moral support): walk down President Street between New York and Kingston Avenues, and then come back here and try to post about how crap Crown Heights is. I defy you to do it.
Anyway, I am with Montrose Morris on this one: the Armory over on Bedford and Atlantic is already pulling more than its fair share of weight with respect to New York City’s homeless. It’s bizarre, even in New York, that the City would spend so much for the renovation of the Children’s Museum on Brooklyn Avenue (it’s the Yellow Submarine at the end of Brower Park) and also propose to double or triple the size of the area’s homeless population just a few blocks away.
–Ella Speed
F^cking c&nt
Montrose is a c*m-belching gutter sl%t.
MM is interested in hearing the sound of her own voice. And that’s all!