Monday Links
Mayor and Bishop Propose a Plan to Save Schools [NY Times] New York City Losing Its Vintage Diners [NY Times] Special-Needs School Wants to Stay in Dumbo [NY Times] You Try to Live on 500K in This Town [NY Times] Utility Scammers on the Prowl in Brooklyn [NY Post] City Eyes Ban on Toxic Turf…
Mayor and Bishop Propose a Plan to Save Schools [NY Times]
New York City Losing Its Vintage Diners [NY Times]
Special-Needs School Wants to Stay in Dumbo [NY Times]
You Try to Live on 500K in This Town [NY Times]
Utility Scammers on the Prowl in Brooklyn [NY Post]
City Eyes Ban on Toxic Turf [NY Post]
Cuozzo Bashes Anti-Dock Streeters [NY Post]
B46 Line Gets Security Cameras [NY Post]
Three Run Over Twice in E. Flatbush [NYDN]
Bike Lanes Run into Opposition [Gotham Gazette]
Brooklyn Residents Want Jailbreak [Crain’s]
Section 8 Expiring at Parkview Apartments [Brooklyn Eagle]
Photo by Eugene Gannon in the Brownstoner Flickr Pool
And YES, to ‘head on pikes’ Snark. I’m eagerly awaiting the perp walks…
““People inherently understand that if they are going to get ahead in whatever corporate culture they are involved in, they need to take on the appurtenances of what defines that culture,†she said. “So if you are in a culture where spending a lot of money is a sign of success, it’s like the same thing that goes back to high school peer pressure. It’s about fitting in.â€
Sounds like a piss-poor idea for a culture. I suggest moving to a petri dish if you want to be a hi-living fungus. But the last lline, about the frozen chocolate seems to me a rather sarcastic end line. I got the feeling the reporter was presenting the article more in sarcasm than seriousness. That and the title. Candace Bushnell, (and I never watched Sex in the City because it was so fake) is hardly someone I would turn to for intelligent social analysis.
“Actually- didn’t a group protest outside some CEO’s house in CT this weekend?”
Yes, I saw that bxgrl – two of them, I think…the revolution has begun! [I’m only be half facetious.]
Actually- didn’t a group protest outside some CEO’s house in CT this weekend?
I just re-read the article to see if the author was being facetious. I’m really thinking no, that he was serious.
Grrr…
“Does this money buy a chief executive stockholders might prize, a well-to-do man with a certain sureness of stride, something that might be lost if the executive were crowding onto the PATH train every morning at Journal Square, his newspaper splayed against the back of a stranger’s head?
The man would certainly not feel like himself on that train, said Candace Bushnell, the author of “Sex and the City†and other books chronicling New York social mores.”
I beg your pardon MS. Bushnell. MY husband does that very thing every morning and I have news for you he’s more of a man for it. He doesn’t need exorbitant wealth in order to create a persona. He’ll hold you in rapt conversation without mention of recent jet-setting getaways, gallery purchases, his staff or his never ending lust for possessions. My husband will feel (and act) like himself in any situation. Maybe because he’s never had the need to be anything but himself and his wife doesn’t measure his manhood by the size of his wallet.
I envison the villagers storming the Frankenstein (er….Fronkenstain) Castle with torches and staffs at the ready. Add me to the boiling blood list. I wonder don’t these people even read a paper because some of them seem so insulated from reality they live on Mars. Can we storm Mars or are we still waiting on NASA?
Indeed. Nice one, cobble.
Heads on pikes, anybody?
Well said, cobblehiller.
Yes, THL, I my blood is boiling, too. I found that section of the article that you quoted especially ridiculous. So, these MEN simply NEED to live this way as it is a part of their desired identity? Give me an effin’ break! The whole thing made me want to roll up the newspaper and smack the author on the nose like a dog who pissed on the new Persian rug.