Monday Links
Help for First-Time Buyers [NY Times] Program Will Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss [NY Times] Teen Shot Dead at Walt Whitman Houses [NY Times] MTA Tests Clocks with Arrival Times [NY Times] Ex-Building Inspector Charged With Selling Certificates [NY Times] Maintenance Costs Through the Roof? [NY Times] Real Cops Rip New Film, ‘Brooklyn’s…
Help for First-Time Buyers [NY Times]
Program Will Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss [NY Times]
Teen Shot Dead at Walt Whitman Houses [NY Times]
MTA Tests Clocks with Arrival Times [NY Times]
Ex-Building Inspector Charged With Selling Certificates [NY Times]
Maintenance Costs Through the Roof? [NY Times]
Real Cops Rip New Film, ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’ [NY Post]
Webster Named Head of Park Conservancy [NY Post]
Nets Tout 2-Year Move to Newark [AYR]
Park Slope Business Owner Helps Dance Troupe [NY Daily News]
Williamsburg American Apparel Attacked [Gothamist]
Strong Place Church Gets New Windows [Lost City]
Rat-Squirrel House Gets Freshened Up [Curbed]
Photo by Kara
“In an effort to end the foreclosure crisis, the Obama administration has been trying to keep defaulting owners in their homes. Now it will take a new approach: paying some of them to leave.? DIBS does this mean you are leaving? Don’t forget to close the door on your way out.
Nets link is wrong.
> “Now that our apartment is two actual separate rooms,†she
> said, “we realize it is so much better living this way.â€
More insightful reporting courtesy of our friends at the NY Times. I never would have guessed that cohabitational bliss is more easily achieved in a one 1BR apartment than a studio.
Like the photo, Kara!
“If express/connecting trains DID NOT close their doors and pull out of the station as the local/connecting train pulled in.
Now that would be progress!
Posted by: Expert Textpert at March 8, 2010 8:57 AM
Actually that would be a miracle.
“Officials at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority say the clocks will revolutionize the way New Yorkers get around,”
You know what would really revolutionize the train system. If express/connecting trains DID NOT close their doors and pull out of the station as the local/connecting train pulled in.
Now that would be progress!
“first time buyers should actually just rent in Greenpoint.”
And that’s how bitter renters are born.
“Somebody threw rocks through the windows of Williamsburg’s American Apparel last night, in what looks to be a bout of “retail terrorism.”
What happened to the term vandalism? Is it no longer in the English language? Everything is now “terrorism”?
Expert – I don’t think the link is wrong, I think they’re saying first time buyers should actually just rent in Greenpoint.