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January 6, 2006
What Did We Miss?
So what are the big stories that happened while we were away?
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I hope you didn't miss this:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060109ta_talk_julian
So, which rainforest did you visit?
Posted by: Hal at January 5, 2006 8:53 AM
There was an amusing spat among Curbed readers some of whom really got their knickers in a twist after Prospect Heights was voted the NYC Neighborhood of the Year. Electronic ballot box stuffing is suspected while others -- including a PH resident -- just wanted to dump on the hood.
Posted by: Anon at January 6, 2006 1:41 PM
Here are two interesting (if not big) stories you missed:
"A Fireplace Glows in Brooklyn, Inside Their Weekend Home" (New York Times, Dec. 25, 2005), about a couple who live during the week in a Murray Hill high-rise duplex and spend their weekends in Brooklyn Heights, in a parlor-floor studio in a townhouse on Remsen Street that is complete with fireplace and mahogany Murphy Bed.
Link: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE5D61430F936A15751C1A9639C8B63. See also http://parkslopewriter.blogspot.com/2005/12/home-is-where-hearth-is.html.
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"Rich Man, Poor Man: A History of Fort Greene"
An article in the New York Times on the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn reported that the real estate boom has resulted in class conflict among a majority of the area's long-time residents and its new neighbors -- middle to upper income homeowners (identified as people priced out of Manhattan who were attracted to Brooklyn's space and able to afford the high price of its brownstones). Some people interviewed for the article were homeless, or squatters, and were said to be without access to health care. When was this article published? On February 24, 1858! This fascinating story is relayed at length in "Rich Man, Poor Man: A History of Fort Greene" by Carl Hancock Rux in The Brooklyn Rail.
Link: http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/LOCAL/richmanpoorman.html.
See also http://parkslopewriter.blogspot.com/2005/12/rich-man-poor-man-history-of-fort.html.
Posted by: Park Sloper at January 6, 2006 2:19 PM
No one ever seems to talk much about Sunset Park, Brooklyn. I saw the article in the latest edition of "The New Yorker" about Brooklyn Brownstones and this website, and, just like Times articles, Sunset Park was not even mentioned. Approximately between 60th St. and 44th St. (the actual Sunset park!) and 2nd Ave. to 7th Ave. there is lots of activity in renovating the brownstones, Limestones and townhouses. In the 6 years I have been here, the housing prices are probably the most dramatic of all the changes. The changes being for the better of course !
Posted by: Frank Linnie at January 7, 2006 7:50 PM
The "New Yorker" thread went psycho!
Posted by: Caledonia at January 8, 2006 3:37 PM
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