Wednesday Links
Bed-Stuy. Photo by Photo by bonechilling. Census: More Blacks Leaving New York and Other Cities [NY Times] A Warning From Bernanke, but No Hint of a Rate Cut [NY Times] Ex-Jet Eyes $7.25M Pad at 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park [NY Post] NYC’s Low Homeownership Rate [NY Post] Council Bill to Regulate Air Conditioners [NY Sun]…
Bed-Stuy. Photo by Photo by bonechilling.
Census: More Blacks Leaving New York and Other Cities [NY Times]
A Warning From Bernanke, but No Hint of a Rate Cut [NY Times]
Ex-Jet Eyes $7.25M Pad at 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park [NY Post]
NYC’s Low Homeownership Rate [NY Post]
Council Bill to Regulate Air Conditioners [NY Sun]
New IHOP Coming to Downtown [NY Daily News]
Problems at 166 Montague [Brooklyn Eagle]
AY Lawsuits Over by ’08? [AY Report]
the world is moving towards urbanism.
if you’d like to be left in the dust, move to the outskirts of atlanta.
enjoy.
Atlanta CITY schools might suck, but most people migrating there are choosing the smaller towns around Atlanta. Atlanta is a commuter city. Downtown just about died completely in the 90’s there were so few people living inside the city. They only worked there, then went back home in the suburbs at night.
i never understand why park slope still gets shit on by people when its obvious it not even the most expensive place in brooklyn (Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Cobble Hill) and parts of Manhattan (Tribeca, West Village, UES) have WAAAAAAAAY more strollers.
kinda lame.
@ 10:20 your statement is absolutely ridiculous…..
I own in Bed-Stuy and the whites that you are talking about moving in are actually renting, So are you implying that if whtes move in that
it would be better??? Get a clue when white move in it helps diversity.
hahaha
where are these modern cities and towns????
10:20, it may only be how you phrased it, but I am disturbed by your assertion that African Americans will find better lives in more modern and affordable cities and towns.
Are you asserting that we can’t be comfortable in old cities, or that a majority of us can’t afford to have good lives here, and will somehow cede Bed Stuy back to the white bourgeoise?
History may not be predictable, but neither of those options apply here. Bed Stuy will certainly become a more racially mixed neighborhood, as time goes by, but I don’t think it will ever become mostly white again, nor does it need to be in order to be a desirable neighborhood.
The restoration of the Alhambra Apartments was a miracle.
Now, as African Americans move out of Brooklyn to more affordable and modern cities and towns (and they will surely find better lives there) Bed Stuy may turn full circle and become a mostly white bourgeoise neighborhood once again. History is unpredictable.
If you think having a maid throw out your trash is tantamount to slavery, what do you thimk of how thousands of PS stroller moms treat their babies nannies? Like mammies! If you think that slavery is alive and well in Atlanta, then there are slave auctions going on everyday in Park Slope. That’s weird and scary.
Slave like attitudes then.
My ex girlfriend’s parents have a maid that they pay horribly and so did everyone else in their town in Georgia.
They couldn’t even throw their own garbage out. The maid did it for them.
It was weird.
And scary.