Monday Links
Bye-Bye, Burg. Photo by gogo et chunk. Celebs and Brooklyn’s Fragile Celeb Eco-System [NY Times] Foreclosure Pickings Are Plentiful, but Not Easy [NY Times] Six Fingers of Blame in the Mortgage Mess [NY Times] Stocks Soar Back Near Summer Highs [NY Times] Getting Barred From Public Housing [NY Times] Want a Bargain? Head to Flatbush….
Bye-Bye, Burg. Photo by gogo et chunk.
Celebs and Brooklyn’s Fragile Celeb Eco-System [NY Times]
Foreclosure Pickings Are Plentiful, but Not Easy [NY Times]
Six Fingers of Blame in the Mortgage Mess [NY Times]
Stocks Soar Back Near Summer Highs [NY Times]
Getting Barred From Public Housing [NY Times]
Want a Bargain? Head to Flatbush. [NY Times]
Trouble Keeps Building for Scarano [NY Post]
Ray Kelly Decries Anti-Semitic Attacks [NY Sun]
Colleges Look to Text Systems [NY Daily News]
Pols Blast Con Ed ‘Chutzpah’ [AM New York]
Video: Dondi Does Dumbo [Gowanus Lounge]
is this a new writer? it’s okay for a young up and coming go getter to sometimes pitch a dumb story where there’s no story, but what were the editors thinking? that’s some serious fluff, people…
From the NYT:
“The dark secret of Brooklyn is that many of the people who are going there are going there because they can’t afford Manhattan… There is a tension between people who are in Brooklyn for Brooklyn’s sake, for the diversity and the quality of life, and people who are pushed to Brooklyn unwillingly.â€
–dark secret… as of what year, 1907?
Someone on another board said that the Times has gone downhill in the last 10 years. I’m apt to agree.
anon 9:44 – why does it matter either way. most of the people listed just seem to be trying to do a job like the rest of us – some are better compensated to be sure – but really, who cares either way? now if paris hilton suddenly decided to be here, then I can see your point, but c’mon, this group?
it really is a joke – don’t the time reporters have anything better to write about? I’ve lived here only a few years and it certainly had NOTHING to do with celebrities – if in ANY way related to that phenomenon, it was to get away from the ridiculous culture that has taken over lower manhattan. this reporter should be moved, and fast, to the post. that was just embarrassing. And I thought bob morris was bad…
I hope the celebrities stay out of Brooklyn. We’ve done fine without them for this long, so why do we need them now?
I literally have never heard anyone say that Brooklyn is great because celebrities are moving here. Not to mention the fact that at least a few of the celebrities they mentioned, like Jennifer Connelly, are actually from Brooklyn in the first place, so it’s not like they’re moving here because it’s hip.
agreed, that times piece was ridiculous.
that times piece about celebs is possibly the stupidest piece if journalism i have ever read. it’s like a complete fishing expedition – WHO CARES???? the style section has officially crossed over and become US magazine.