Monday Links
Local Stop: Bedford-Stuyvesant [NY Times] Redesigning a Clinton Hill Cooperative Apartment [NY Times] When Tenants Don’t Pay the Rent [NY Times] Sunday with Morgan Spurlock of Fort Greene [NY Times] Another Foreclosure Alternative [NY Times] Brooklyn Firefighters Charged with Riot and Assault [NY Post] Dyker Heights Man Killed by Falling Tree Limb [NY Post] East…
Local Stop: Bedford-Stuyvesant [NY Times]
Redesigning a Clinton Hill Cooperative Apartment [NY Times]
When Tenants Don’t Pay the Rent [NY Times]
Sunday with Morgan Spurlock of Fort Greene [NY Times]
Another Foreclosure Alternative [NY Times]
Brooklyn Firefighters Charged with Riot and Assault [NY Post]
Dyker Heights Man Killed by Falling Tree Limb [NY Post]
East Flatbush High to Build Farm, Sell Produce [NY Daily News]
Celebrating Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm [NY Daily News]
Subway Trains Strike 8 People in 13 Days [NY Daily News]
1279 Fulton Street Sells for $2.8 Million [Brooklyn Eagle]
Untangling the “Conundrum” of Carlton Avenue Bridge [AYR]
Novelist Peter Hedges Discusses The Heights [BHB]
Park Slope Woman Still Missing [OTBKB]
Thanks to Park Slope’s Good Samaritans [FIPS]
de Blasio Pushes Transparency for Government Funds [AYR]
Photo by robpurdie.
That was a positive article about Bed Stuy noting the many homegrown local African American oriented nice and interesting businesses there.
Well said, Donatella.
Suicide may be viewed differently in Japan and the US but I’ll bet the feelings of those left behind are the same. Having been through the violent suicide of a friend, it is something that affects you for years. You are torn between grieving, guilt and anger. It’s horrible.
Uh oh! Tenants not helping out with the mortgage?
Foreclosure alternative, deeds-in-lieu, only good for 5% of cases. 95% have refi’d themselves into preforeclosure.
***Bid half off peak comps***
I’m certainly glad our mental healthcare system here in the US can provide therapy for the OCD patient in the “How Many Time have You Moved” thread.
I think I understand DIBS’ point. The cultural attitudes about suicide are really different. In Japan, there is an extremely high sense of responsibility – a ridiculously high, unrealistic sense of responsibility in my humble opinion and when someone “fails”, depending on the situation, people think suicide is an honorable way out, then this happens and I think it is horrible. Our culture is steeped in the Judeo-Christian tradition where life, even screwed-up life, is valuable and redeemable. There is no honor with suicide here, only pain and shame, at best compassion.
I would say US attitudes towards mental health issues, from going to therapy to getting treated for depression, are way in advance of the majority of countries. Not at the top of the list at all, but pretty good.
Some people still think the brain, separate from all other organs in the body, is somehow miraculously protected from going wrong.
Rob makes a good point that most mainstream physicians in this country are little more than drug dealers.
Rob, While it certainly is true that people are at times over or incorrectly medicated, it is a fact that many many people with depression or related mental health issues go untreated or improperly treated [read: never get to a metal health practitioner, self-medicate or no treatment].
And it’s a fact that negative attitudes toward mental health treatment in this country need to change.