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February 11, 2008
Monday Links
Limbs on Livingston. Photo by Paul Fugelsang.
Spitzer Reduces Revenue Projections by $384 Million [NY Times]
Caribbean Market in the Burg is Endangered [NY Times]
Legislators Renew Push to Raise Their Pay [NY Times]
Look Who’s Getting Rolled Out of the Bar [NY Times]
In the Land of Fischer, Dismay and Awe [NY Times]
Craigslist Scams Target Desperate Renters [NY Daily News]
Grant Keeps Business Sidewalks Clean [NY Daily News]
New Yorkers Google 'Heath,' 'Subprime' [NY Post]
Cameras Coming to Public Parks [NY Post]
Qns Pol Rips Condo 'Con Jobs' [NY Post]
Brooklyn's Great Prospect...in 1968 [NY Mag]
Real Estate Tax Revenues to Drop [NY Sun]
Q&A With Jennifer Egan [Brooklyn Eagle]
A Glimpse Inside Playland [GL]
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I recently encountered another common Craiglist apartment scam in which an apartment is listed for a great deal (i.e. 1 bedroom in Park Slope for $900)and when you e-mail the poster, they say they need your salary and credit score. They post a link to a credit score website that may or may not be legit. Not sure if it is a Phishing scam or just spam for the credit scoring website, but either way the person will never e-mail you back after that.
The one I encountered was from "Melinda Grady" and the website was http://www.check-my-credit-score.com/
Avoid anyone that asks you to go to a website to enter personal info!
Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 8:11 AM
Im a landlord and find Craigslist to be a great resource. However, everytime I post an ad I get more scam emails than real requests.
Here is some basic advice:
1) If someone wants to conduct business site-unseen then simply walk away. None of this send me the check I will send you the keys BS.
You can put a stop payment on the check and then discover that your check has been duplicated and people are your checks taking advantage of bank rules which allow banks to clear the checks overnight and then take several days to process a deposited check.
2) Someone wants you to accept a bank check- don't do it. Banks will hold you responsible WHEN the check turns out to be fake. It is actually better these days to take personal checks with ID. At least then you can try to get the city or state to prosecute.
3) Ask a lot of questions. All of these scammers have a narrow story to tell. Ask them something that gets them off script and then go back and ask related questions to what they have already told you and see if the story changes. The story changes walk away.
Posted by: albany at February 11, 2008 10:04 AM
Man! Don't mess with Albany; s/he don't play.
Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 10:28 AM
Brownstoner:
Readers should check out New York Magazine's piece on Park Slope in 1968.
"...way short on shops and places to eat...a mix of poorer residents...crime is a worry...vacant lots have been abandoned...rumor has it banks are redlining."
This is the Park Slope I remember. (My grandparents sold their house on a "name" street in the 1930's because the neighborhood was "changing," although other family members held on, making us a fourth-generation Slope family.)
And it sounds a lot like bloggers' characterization of today's Crown Heights, the neighborhood where I grew up in the 1950s.
The lesson: People with vision made a difference in the Slope, as they'll do in Crown Heights now.
New York will grow by a million people over the next decade or so. Atlantic Yards will be a couple of stops from the neighborhood. They just don't build houses like Crown Heights' anymore.
Buy and hold.
Nostalgic on Park Avenue
(BCHM: Back to Crown Heights Movement)
Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 10:31 AM
Wish people would stop repeating that NYC growth figure.
Most analysis concludes that is a very generous optimistic figure - with very little reality behind it.
Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 10:59 AM
10:28
He. I have known people hwo have been burned and just trying to offer some very simple and effective advice. Thanks for the sarcasm.
Posted by: albany at February 11, 2008 11:17 AM
10:59:
Thanks. I checked. The City's Planning Department projects 8.7 million people in NYC by 2020, up from 8 million in 2000. Not quite a million, but close enough. (A very different state of affairs from the 1960's when Park Slope was "discovered" and the city's population was declining.)
NOP
Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 11:32 AM
10:59:
Thanks. I checked. The City's Planning Department projects 8.7 million people in NYC by 2020, up from 8 million in 2000. Not quite a million, but close enough. (A very different state of affairs from the 1960's when Park Slope was "discovered" and the city's population was declining.)
NOP
Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 11:32 AM
That's what I love about my adopted home of almost three decades: you do something like pay somebody a compliment, but when you have some fun with how you phrase it, people assume you're making fun of them -- 10:28
Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 11:33 AM
even the 700K increase is most unlikely.
Very recent increases are extremely small.
Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 11:36 AM
Suburbia is dying. The cities are going to be the last refuge when gas is $8.00+ a gallon and paying to live in 4,000 sq foot McMansion is no longer economically or environmentally feasible.
700K will be a pimple compared to the influx of people we will see in the next 5-10 years.
Posted by: newsouthsloper at February 11, 2008 11:43 AM
10:28 Sorry, I had just got of the phone with someone from your neck when I read the reply.
For the record: We do not have Indians camped outside of our city gates looking to trade beads.
We do not have cows within the city limits and not everyone drives a pickup truck- although I do own one.
I did, however, convince one of the NYC reporters I had living here that we do play rooster calls from our city hall at 6AM because we miss the chickens so much.
Posted by: albany at February 11, 2008 12:21 PM
"700K will be a pimple compared to the influx of people we will see in the next 5-10 years."
And they will come here to work where?
That is the missing piece of your Mad Max scenario.
Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 8:57 PM
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