Monday Linkage
Industry City, Sunset Park. Photo by Frank Lynch Is Prewar Losing to Glass? [NY Times] Rumbling Trucks in South Slope [NY Times] Should Co-ops Disclose Reasoning? [NY Times] Restoration Not Condos for Synagogue [NY Times] Tale of a $65 Table [NY Times] Cop Shot on Myrtle [NY Post] Fears of Section 8 Fading [NY Daily…
Industry City, Sunset Park. Photo by Frank Lynch
Is Prewar Losing to Glass? [NY Times]
Rumbling Trucks in South Slope [NY Times]
Should Co-ops Disclose Reasoning? [NY Times]
Restoration Not Condos for Synagogue [NY Times]
Tale of a $65 Table [NY Times]
Cop Shot on Myrtle [NY Post]
Fears of Section 8 Fading [NY Daily News]
New York: Blog City [AM NY]
DIY Day at Cooper Hewitt [Unbeige]
PreFabulous Houses [B2Day]
Of Burgers and Donuts [A Brooklyn Life]
New Prospect Heights Sports Bar [Daily Heights]
no one is making local deliveries on 20th street. These are 18-wheeler tractor trailers and semis that are carrying crushed cars. No one is pulling over one of these trucks to stock Bar BQ. Just because there are pre-existing conditions, doesn’t mean that people can’t try to improve their surroundings. Inertia is a poor excuse.
clearly havn’t been to 20th street. i lived on 18th street between 4/5 aves for 5 years plus my friend owns the restaurant on 6th and 20th. if you want to call it residential fine, but it is the least residential of all the blocks in greenwood heights by far. thats why the prices are cheaper there. your point that real people live here and should not live in dangerous conditions has some merit but real people live on fourth avenue and i don’t think trucks are leaving there anytime soon. the point i’m trying to make is this couple bought on 20th street with this condition preexisting and feel now that they moved in it should be changed for them . and yes the prospect expressway exists but there still has to be local deliveries. i have zero empathy for them.
Muletrain — you have clearly never been to 20th street if you can say that it’s never been residential and is dirty and commercial. Real people live on this street and have for years. They don’t deserve to be living in dangerous conditions as much as people who live in richer neighborhoods. You want alternatives … how about the Prospect Expressway, which is a Highway that already carries truck traffic.
map of truck routes in Brooklyn
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/pdf/bktruckroute.pdf
Totally agree. The headline should have been, “GENTRIFYING YUPPIES MILDLY INCONVENIENCED!!!” This is only “news” because it involves someone in the NYT’s demographic.
I had exactly the same reaction to that article. Next time I drive that way, I should look to see if there are any “Truck Route” signs posted.
The article rumbling trucks in the south slope has two great issues in it. one is it under the title “south slope” which it isn’t . the other is almost laughable. my comments are in parenthesis.
“Mr. Bellows, a computer consultant, and Mrs. Weiner, a theater director ( new gentrifying residents), moved to their narrow, residential block (20th street has never been residential it has always been dirty and commercial) a year and a half ago, and they soon discovered that their house sat along one of the city’s designated traffic routes ( this is unbelievable, they buy a house on 20th street and only after they buy it they realize it’s a truck route! they then want the city to change the status of the street so they can have peace and quiet and move it in front of someone elses house. talk about a sense of entitlement. these people make me sick!!!!!!. its like buying a house near an airport and expecting no airplanes or in their case not knowing the airport was even there. you bought a house that everybody knows is a truck route you idiot, it’s not like you were living there before and then they changed it).
it should be noted in a borough with few highways that 20th street connects mcdonald avenue to fourth avenue. there are no other options, no other roads are wide enough to go through and you would have to change their status to truck routes. how do these people get an audience?
back to mr. bellows and mrs. weiner, in real estate it is always location, location, location. you bought a house on a known truck route and probably got a discounted price because of it. my brother when looking for a house had only one stipulation, not on 20th street. i don’t believe you didn’t know it was a truck route, nobody is that stupid. live with the consequences of your purchase or sell.