Friday Links
Cumberland and Lafayette. Photo by Dalton Rooney. Some Cities Are Spared the Slide in Housing [NY Times] Mitchell-Lama Not Dead Yet [NY Times] McCarren Pool to Rise From Deep [NY Daily News] Mortgages Get More Costly [NY Sun] Bklyn for Under $600K [Reclaimed Home] NYC Database Online [AMNY]
Cumberland and Lafayette. Photo by Dalton Rooney.
Some Cities Are Spared the Slide in Housing [NY Times]
Mitchell-Lama Not Dead Yet [NY Times]
McCarren Pool to Rise From Deep [NY Daily News]
Mortgages Get More Costly [NY Sun]
Bklyn for Under $600K [Reclaimed Home]
NYC Database Online [AMNY]
Actually, I took that photograph. Some dunce on Flickr “borrowed” it.
http://www.seriouslyexcited.net/2007/06/12/lafayette-grocery-dairy-fort-greene/
Well I suggest you read more than this blog, 3:01. If you knew anything about the topic you’d know subsidized housing for artists is supported by almost nobody in city government anymore. Because it’s politically incorrect and it doesn’t get support among low income voters. And that’s what I was ranting about.
Thanks 10:58. I do recognize (in the article) that “it’s my own little issue”. The cross we bear for growing up in disco 70’s Brooklyn.
rh, I really like your blog. Though Brookyn is my home, I think it’s healthy to like other places outside of the city. I may visit your blog more often!
The article you linked to and wrote totally resonates with me. I too hated Bay Ridge growing up there. It is a little hard to get Tony Manero out of my head, but it’s definitely changing.
The Tony Maneros and the Archie Bunker types have left. I guess they don’t want to live with the new influx of immigrants. Those who have stayed are the “cool ones” (as labeled by my friends)
In addition, on the Bay Ridge parent boards, there a few familes each week introducing themselves saying they’ve sold their apt in Park Slope/Cobble Hill/Fort Green/other brownstone neighborhoods/etc and have bought a house in Bay Ridge. They all say they love it here. And there is definitely a vibe amongst the online parents of wanting to start food co-ops or use a CSA, practice attachment parenting, encourage recycling and clean up of the neighborhood, and all that other stuff you wouldn’t normally think of Bay Ridge as being into.
Actually there was one parent who posted something so completley racist about arabs and Muslims and she was just so flamed. I never thought I would ever see the day that would happen from Bay Ridge residents. It was heartening actually.
I know, it’s only an online parenting group, but it’s quite active and sizeable and perhaps a slight indication of how things are going there.
Bay Ridge @ 9:51, I was the one who wrote the article. I didn’t find anything in Bay Ridge this time around. I did feature BR back in October. Personally, I have mixed feelings about the neighborhood, but I think it’s a great place to live now.
http://reclaimedhome.com/2007/10/12/affordable-nyc-bay-ridge/
FYI, 10:29 has nothing to do with me.
Im not anti-artists, I don’t know why anyone would be, but your “Who do you think championed the poor and exposed their plight for centuries, a lot of times when they were the only ones doing so?” is just tripe.
I suggest you get the education.
The whole anti-artist is so retarded. Who do you think championed the poor and exposed their plight for centuries, a lot of times when they were the only ones doing so?
Artists. Artists have done way more for the poor than any of you ever have. Now all artists get from the poor is jealousy. What, if it’s not hip hop it’s not authentic? Are novels and paintings not keepin’ it real?
And then there’s the job market and economy. Just watch what NYC becomes if there are no artists living here anymore, because all affordable housing goes to everybody else but artists because it’s not politically correct to support the arts. It’s the arts and culture of NYC that brings tourism, the tourism that provides oh, about ALL the hospitality and service industry jobs here. Affordable housing is not only about handouts for those who are officially recognized as “poor” in some political, mass-marketed way.
Jeez. Get an education. It’s free, you know. So are libraries. You just have to show up and actually care about becoming intelligent and well-rounded. The only cultures throughout history who have hated artists and writers were fascist dictatorships. Like the Nazis.
Have a heart 8:53 and 9:51. Do either of you make $49,625 or less a year? If so, apply for an apartment! If not, give thanks for your good health (that allowed you to work hard) and good fortune (surely someone gave you a hand on your way up the ladder?) and don’t worry about the fact that a private school teacher and aspiring writer managed to snag a tiny apartment that had no stove. His good fortune takes nothing away from you, and he is exactly the kind of person affordable housing was meant for. This hard-working middle-income girl raises a styrofoam cup of wine to him.
if that shack is 20 feet wide, I’m Hillary Rodham Clinton.