Monday Links
Long Island City Comes Into Its Own [NY Times] A Former Apartment-Sharer Goes Solo [NY Times] For Mortgage Shoppers, Less Can Be More [NY Times] Demand Grows for F.H.A. Mortgages [NY Times] Crown Heights Shop Busy Making Subway Signs [NY Times] Last Holdouts to Nets’ Arena Project Move Out [NY Post] Red Hook Mom Helps…
Long Island City Comes Into Its Own [NY Times]
A Former Apartment-Sharer Goes Solo [NY Times]
For Mortgage Shoppers, Less Can Be More [NY Times]
Demand Grows for F.H.A. Mortgages [NY Times]
Crown Heights Shop Busy Making Subway Signs [NY Times]
Last Holdouts to Nets’ Arena Project Move Out [NY Post]
Red Hook Mom Helps Troubled Youth [NY Daily News]
Pratt P.O. To Be Closed for a Year [Brooklyn Paper]
Bed-Stuy Multi-Family Sells for $1.658 Million [Brooklyn Eagle]
Deputy Mayor Hedges on Arena Opening Date [AY Report]
Meeting to Select Community Rep for Gowanus Clean-Up [PMFA]
Photo by BasikKD
Two things… $1600 in East Williamsburg/Bushwick is the best he could come up with?! And public school music teachers (working 9 months) make enough much money to afford that?! Or does he have freelance stuff he’s counting… either way. Uggh.
Good morning everyone. Jeeesh.
“Long Island City Comes Into Its Own”
I didn’t read this article but, um, last I checked LIC is in Queens.
And I refuse to read any articles that aren’t related to Brooklyn, dammit!
Is there at least a mention of Brooklyn in the article? May read it then.
Cemex, Vulcan Call Turn in U.S. Building as Sales Start to Rise
May 10 (Bloomberg) — A four-year slump in construction may be nearing an end, with the biggest U.S. building-material makers reporting higher monthly sales that have yet to spread industrywide.
Cemex SAB, the largest U.S. cement producer, and Vulcan Materials Co., the top gravel supplier, just reported monthly volume increases for March and April, their first since 2006.
The results exceeded estimates and may lead the Portland Cement Association to increase its growth forecast this year, said Ed Sullivan, chief economist for the trade association.
“This upturn, even though it’s still based on limited data, is to be believed,†Sullivan said in an interview. “From what I’m hearing, it’s a significant uptick in April and I think we’re going to see a very good May as well.â€
Increases in housing starts and rail shipments of crushed rock, sand and gravel indicate a rebound in construction, which shed about 1.9 million jobs in the worst economic recession since the 1930s. Year-over-year housing starts rose for a fourth month to an annual rate of 626,000 in March, the highest since November 2008, the latest Commerce Department figures show.
“Goldman Sachs has first perfect trading quarter without any daily trading losses”
77 Gold Street, had a feature he had never before seen — an iPod docking station. “Little things like that, you find really impressive,†he said.”
That’s what impresses people?!?!?!?
He’s a renter.
Mmmmmmmuuuuuhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaa!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
“A Former Apartment-Sharer Goes Solo”
I couldn’t finish the article. I got as far as:
77 Gold Street, had a feature he had never before seen — an iPod docking station. “Little things like that, you find really impressive,†he said.”
That’s what impresses people?!?!?!?
I can now honestly say: I hate people like that.
“A small vinyl M decal, newly orange, may cost the agency about $25 to produce. ”
The management at the MTA sign shop should be fired if it costs them $25 to make a small vinyl decal.
I bet all these signs could be made in the private sector, HERE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, for a fraction of the cost.
Make them in China and they’d be cheaper yet and they’d have nice lead paint on them that would last forever.
Insane.
I hope that NY Times story about the 30 year-old “going solo” is only on the internet version of the NY Times and embarrassingly not in the print version. How lame is that???