Monday Links
Lucky Numbers Add Up to Apartment Sales [NY Times] Public Housing Repairs Can’t Keep Up With Need [NY Times] Short Sales Resisted as Foreclosures Are Revived [NY Times] Columbia Street Waterfront Growing in a Family Way [NY Times] A Beach Bungalow With a Magnetic Pull [NY Times] Diver Has Blast with Historic Discovery [NY Post]…
Lucky Numbers Add Up to Apartment Sales [NY Times]
Public Housing Repairs Can’t Keep Up With Need [NY Times]
Short Sales Resisted as Foreclosures Are Revived [NY Times]
Columbia Street Waterfront Growing in a Family Way [NY Times]
A Beach Bungalow With a Magnetic Pull [NY Times]
Diver Has Blast with Historic Discovery [NY Post]
Holy Hipsters Flock to W’burg Church [NY Post]
Off-Duty Cop Foils Salon Heist [NY Daily News]
Murders Have Crown Heights Fighting Back [NY Daily News]
Kings Plaza Diner Sells Last Meal [NY Daily News]
A Red Hook Love Affair Comes to an End [Observer]
Sheepshead Bay Mosque is Back On [Brooklyn Paper]
Extreme Pumpkins in Boerum Hill [Brooklyn Eagle]
Lloyd Blankfein Goes to Bed-Stuy [Curbed]
Can Queens Be Gentrified? [Gothamist]
Montrose, if you’re still reading, BushwickBK has a story today about how people are trying to pick which buildings on Bushwick Ave. to propose for landmarking. Maybe you’d like to weigh in?
They would save more money in the long run if they HIRED A LICENSED PLUMBER.
Don’t tell me they don’t have plumbers.
Or they don’t pay them enough.
OUTRAGEOUS.
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If this story was about middle class or above tenants in some building in a better neighborhood, the comments would all be about how awful it was that people had to do DIY, and how awful the landlord was.
hmm, okay that is a good point..
*rob*
Well rob- who would know better than you? You’re poor.
Rob, are you kidding? Plenty of people in the project have become quite efficient at DIY, but certainly now everyone can fix plaster. Especially since the reason it’s coming down is a leak from somewhere else, a repair that takes a plumber, not Joe Tenant with a wrench. If this story was about middle class or above tenants in some building in a better neighborhood, the comments would all be about how awful it was that people had to do DIY, and how awful the landlord was. Well, it’s the same story. Poor people have rights too, and living in a habitable apartment is one of them.
If someone tried to repair damage and started a fire, or caused a worse leak or damage, they’d get thrown out into the street. Why should they take that chance to do repairs that the landlord is contractually obligated to do? You make it sound as if everyone in public housing is living rent free, high on the hog. That is patently not true, and MOST people in the projects are the working poor. Everyone deserves an intact roof over their head. That’s not entitlement, that’s civilization.
gross. if i had a hole in my ceiling or crumbling paint and the landlord wasnt going to come and fix it for months i’d FIX IT MYSELF! why is the DIY attitude so lacking in project culture!?
and im sorry bxgirl, i completely disagree with you. poor people DO ruin neighborhoods.
*rob*
First anecdote in story about poorly maintained city housing:
They fix the plaster but they don’t fix the leak.
What kind of clowns do they employ? What a waste.
The rich and the poor live cheek by jowl in NYC. Poor people are not a different breed of animal, rob. they are people. Poor people do not ruin neighborhoods- schmucks ruin neighborhoods. Crap building ruins neighborhoods and lack of care by the city ruins neighborhoods. Think how so many other neighborhoods could benefit if Manhattan didn’t suck the life out of everywhere else.
Oh and benson- what was that about how great new construction is as opposed to those old brownstones? The dismantling of the entitlement state? I don’t think anyone in this country feels more entitled to special privileges, tax breaks and best services than the rich.
“We’re just at the beginning of the dismantling of the entitlement state. It’s not going to be pretty.”
Until it includes tax breaks for homeowners, we’ll never dismantle the “entitlement state”.