Monday Links
Murray Handwerker, 89, Dies; Made Nathan’s More Famous [NY Times] Demolished Coney Arcade to Rise Again [BK Paper] Blaze in Illegal Bushwick Hotel Kills 2 [NY Daily News] ‘Brooklyn’ 34th-Most-Popular Girls’ Name [NY Post] Debate Over P.S. 9 Co-Location Plan [PH Patch] Hotels Check Into Boroughs [Crain’s] 44 Berry Sells for $27M [TRD]
Murray Handwerker, 89, Dies; Made Nathan’s More Famous [NY Times]
Demolished Coney Arcade to Rise Again [BK Paper]
Blaze in Illegal Bushwick Hotel Kills 2 [NY Daily News]
‘Brooklyn’ 34th-Most-Popular Girls’ Name [NY Post]
Debate Over P.S. 9 Co-Location Plan [PH Patch]
Hotels Check Into Boroughs [Crain’s]
44 Berry Sells for $27M [TRD]
idisagree, I think we are all somewhat hypocrites for our children. I can speak against A&L all I want — had the DoE opened a different school in PS 20 (as was their original plan), I might very well be sending the moppet there.
But, as you said, their basic operating method does seem to be a forced sharing of resources — I have a lot of mixed feelings about it all myself, but on this basis alone it sucks. The parents of PS 20 fought against the expansion too — and got half the press of PS 9. Where were their “teams of lawyers” lining up to defend them? Where was their outrage?
Heather – I get what you are saying, but respectfully I think that it’s not that simple. First, the A&L/PS20 proposal was the first that came on my radar screen, so I wasn’t as educated (about charters, co-locations, D13 and our needs, etc.) then as I am now. (I don’t have kids at any school yet, but am zoned for PS9.) If it came up today, I would be more educated on the particulars. Now these are only my views, of course, and I don’t view them as necessarily inconsistent, despite that I admit to not having all the facts concerning PS20. I think you’d find a bunch of PS9 parents whose views are perfectly consistent.
Second, I understand that balancing has to be done in order to encompass the actual challenges facing urban education. The disadvantaged kids who are supposed to be the beneficiaries of the charter law are faced with failing schools and as much as I have political problems with charter schools, I can accept that they are necessary in some cases. But the DOE’s strategy of choice appears to be premised on undercutting local schools in preference of any charter, and for me that amounts to having to take each proposal on its own and try to assess what the proposed school/expansion is going to bring to the community (local community, district, taxpayers, whatever) versus what it is going to take away, both short and long term.
In my view, PS9’s situation is different (3 schools at once, vastly inequitable space allocation, charter (not unzoned) middle school established for and in different districts, not targeted toward a cross-section of PH children, etc.), and that made it an easier decision for me. BECCS is doing its job, can continue to do its job, and can do a better job, elsewhere. PS9 cannot do its job as well without the resources it would lose, and the community isn’t getting enough in return. The balance, for me, came out differently for A&L/PS 20. Obviously, I have a greater stake in PS9, and, as I said, might conclude differently about PS20 if it were presented today.
ch renter- actually you don’t get it at all. Completely over your head.
@MM I think your racism cry is ridiculous. Adopting African babies is trendy; Bushwick is trendy. Get it?
I have a relative in the Midwest who named her daughter Brooklynn. Not sure what the second n is for.
“It was a parody….”
It was a very poor choice of words, at best. Not buying it.
Oh come on, Montrose!!!! It was a parody of Hollywood types and their trendiness, such as: flying to Africa with cameras in tow to adopt a baby and naming their kids weird, hip names.
Ya know, Benson, it’s really amazing how you can stick your foot in your mouth. I found your comment tasteless, distinctly non-funny, and frankly, racist.
Why African babies, why Bushwick? Why together?
You’ve reached a new low.
“imagine being named after bensonhurst.”
I hear that it gives one the power to get under the skin of certain folks!