Monday Links
Mary Poppins in the Heights. (Contributed.) Muggings Stir Memories of Clinton Hill’s Bad Old Days [NY Times] NYCHA’s Payments to the City Are Scrutinized [NY Times] Art Among the Wrenches in Burg Store [NY Times] Airplane Noise Peeves Some Slopers [NY Times] Another Delay for Kosciuszko Rehab [NY Daily News] New Bike Lanes Abound in…
Mary Poppins in the Heights. (Contributed.)
Muggings Stir Memories of Clinton Hill’s Bad Old Days [NY Times]
NYCHA’s Payments to the City Are Scrutinized [NY Times]
Art Among the Wrenches in Burg Store [NY Times]
Airplane Noise Peeves Some Slopers [NY Times]
Another Delay for Kosciuszko Rehab [NY Daily News]
New Bike Lanes Abound in Brooklyn [Eagle]
Bklyn Animal Rescuer Talks About Pit Bulls [GL]
Real Estate TV Thrives [NY Mag]
Are you serious…Have you ever stepped foot inside the Staten Island Mall because it is definitely not carpeted!!!
Plus, everyone from Brooklyn goes to the SI Mall, since all you have is crappy Kings Plaza.
the staten island mall is carpeted.
need i say more??
I recall from the time there was some talk of extending the R over the VN Br but it was ultmately nixed. Why I don’t recall. You may be right it was to deny access to poorer wouldbe Staten islanders. About the lack of easy public access to LaG AP it prob has more to do with keeping the taxi owners happy.
Newer light rail projects undertaken in other cities usually don’t go to the airport for the same reason.
i do see an almost constant line of low flying planes go over PS every day from my place in cobble hill. Over here in CH we used to have those aweful traffic helecopters idling over the BQE at 6am every other day. Thank god that has seemed to have stopped, fingers crossed.
The bridge was explicitly designed to make a subway connection impossible. To preserve the purity of the suburban experience or something like that. Much the same reason that there is no proper mass transit access to LAG
“Nice! Much better than those minority-owned hovels in Bed-Stuy (irony intended).”
It just so happened that whites wanting more space had the capacity to opt for someplace other than the Brooklyn in which they grew up, unlike blacks who for whatever reason, racism etc. could not. SI’s advantage was its proximity to the old neighborhood, (even before the VN Br there was the Brooklyn-SI Ferry…anyone else remember that?). SI wound up primarily Italian (we were Irish)and exhibited an admirable pride in home ownership this group tends to have (although I could do without the combination shrines to the Blessed Virgin and birdbaths.) Each to his own taste.
That’s all I meant..no putdown of Bed Stuy.
did you know it’s still 1997 in SI?
maybe brooklyn feels guilty but won’t admit it since it’s largely responsible for staten island?
Relax, 1:25. It’s ok man…
serious question: why is there no subway line (maybe like a spur off the R train) connecting brooklyn to staten island via the Verrazano Narrows bridge?
if you don’t have a car, going to SI is like, fugghed it.