Friday Links
Kings Highway, Gravesend. Photo by Lisanne! Red Hook Vendors Divided Over Future [NY Times] Nat’l Home Sales and Prices Fall Sharply [NY Times] SWO Lifted at Burg’s Finger Building [NY Post] Subway Riders Give L Train Mixed Grades [NY Daily News] Newton Creek Nature Walk Opens Saturday [Newsday] Housing Agency Misses $750,000 in Payments [NY…
Kings Highway, Gravesend. Photo by Lisanne!
Red Hook Vendors Divided Over Future [NY Times]
Nat’l Home Sales and Prices Fall Sharply [NY Times]
SWO Lifted at Burg’s Finger Building [NY Post]
Subway Riders Give L Train Mixed Grades [NY Daily News]
Newton Creek Nature Walk Opens Saturday [Newsday]
Housing Agency Misses $750,000 in Payments [NY Sun]
Real Estate Board Launches New Website [NY1]
Foxtons Shuts All U.S. Operations [Bloomberg]
Two Tenants Bail On Eminent Domain Lawsuit [Brooklyn Paper]
OHNY Sites That Require Reservations [Newyorkology]
How Should I Deal With My Low Ceilings? [Apartment Therapy]
(Slowly) Finishing Shower Tiling [Bed Stuy Reno]
New-home Sales Hit Lowest Level Since 2000 [Inman]
Crack Pros [New York Shitty]
11:28,
Just because the project has not followed the original timeline does not mean that this is due solely to the efforts of the opponents.
What proof do you have that citywide sentiment has turned against the project? I’m sure it’s about as much proof as you have that anyone who posts in favor of AY is an employee of Ratner.
If opponents fail to block the project, then I don’t see what they will have accomplished. Delaying something per se seems like a silly goal.
The SWO for the Finger Building has NOT been lifted – the Post article is about the Modern, which is east of Driggs on North 7th. (Yes, both projects have had “issues” with the subway tunnel that runs beneath them.)
The (current) SWO on the Finger Building is related to its old permit having expired and not being renewable under the existing (new) zoning. They have applied to BSA to renew the permit.
Looks like the Ratner crew is out in force today.
I don’t really know what you’re talking about in terms of badly organized. It’s held things up for at least 3 years, now, and Ratner’s hemmoraging 4M a month, not counting what he’s losing with the Nets, which is several mil a month. Sentiment in the city has largely turned against the development. It’s been pretty successful. Whether or not their ultimate goal of stopping it will win, who knows, but Ratner and Markowitz have both been damaged by this, and it’s changed the way the city conducts itself.
Agreed, 10:55. This goes to show that community organizing requires a definite set of skills, first among them an ability to negotiate with other human beings. Sarcasm, splitting hairs, and endless correcting hardly make the grade.
since ay is being built either way, it makes sense that the opposition would crumble.
they were poorly organized and absolutely lacked any rational behavior from the start.
The title of the article really should be “Rent Stabilized Tenants win the Lottery.”
Very interesting article on the eminent domain case of AY. It seems that the opposition is slowly crumbling.