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]
You have zero interest in arguments, be it reading the arguments of others or presenting your own. You have an agenda to promote here, but lack the guts to be upfront about that fact.
I don’t know why you bother either. It’s only too easy to see through you.
I’m one of the few people actually presenting an argument, 7:41. Why don’t you try reading them? But then, I guess someone saying “I think Crown Heights is a good place for a shelter.” is construed in your book as a decent argument. Figures, since you wrote it, and all the rest of like pronouncements, as well.
I don’t know why I bother.
Have a nice weekend.
MM
It’s easier to dream up half-baked conspiracy theories than to actually support one’s position with ARGUMENTS, huh Montrose. That is so “you”.
5:55, that is the most obvious fake post I’ve seen in this thread’s multitude of “caring and concerned” fake posts. Do you write those political ads on the radio that start out, “Gee, honey, I just read that our Congressman, Whatshisname, supports closing our hospitals and sending our grandparents into the streets! What can we do?”
Those are usually better than your drivel. Try again.
Montrose Morris
That’s funny. It seems to me that Crown Heights has a lot of homeless. In fact, my husband and I were talking about this last night, as we were unaware of what measures were/were not being taken to address it. I think having this shelter in Crown Heights would be a positive. I welcome it.
If you were to come to Crown Heights 4:11, you would see that there is NOT a need for additional homeless facilities in Crown Heights. In fact there are very few homeless on the streets of Crown Heights because those folks go to the shelter at night.
Where the IS a need for shelter is in Manhattan, which has the largest number of homeless people of all of the boroughs. Moving the intake facility to Crown Heights will do nothing to help a homeless person who is sleeping under the West Side Highway or the FDR.
I have seen a great deal of complaining on the web about folks panhandling in Park Slope over on 7th Avenue near the Citibank. The fact that Crown Heights is predominately a Black and Jewish community does not make it “perfect” for the homeless. As the chart posted yesterday shows, the Crown Heights community is carrying the burden for social services that should be evenly distributed throughout the borough.
CH residents pay taxes the same as folks in Bay Ridge, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Windsor Terrace. The burden for caring for the less fortunante should be evenly distributed as well.
“Bashing” Crown Heights? I don’t think that’s a fair assessment of what has happened in this thread. Surely people can disagree about something without its constituting the “bashing” of a neighborhood.
i truly dont understand the crown heights bashing. this is a neighborhood trying to turn a corner. we are hard working individuals who made a conscious decision to raise our families here. why would we need a homeless shelter more than any other neighborhood?
I give up. Really someone else needs to take over.