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]
Alas, the voice of reason. Thanks Jen.
The article in the Post about Scarano is a little misleading. Don’t get me wrong -as an architect, guys like Scarano give us all a bad name and I think his work sucks. But the architect is not responsible for what goes on at a construction site -the contractor is. The Post article was incorrect to say that Scarano was issued a fine or a stop-work order, in fact it was the contractor that was fined. In addition, the architect is not always responsible for which contractor the owner hires. We can make a recommendation and determine a bidders list, but ultimately the owner hires the contractor and has a contract with them directly. The architect does not have a contract with the contractor and only functions as a representative of the owner in dealing with the contractor.
However, since so many of Scarano’s projects have problems he may be knowingly recommending slip-shod contractors to the owners, which is professional negligence.
What’s up with all the indignation? It’s the freaking STYLE section of the NY Times. I don’t think it that section is meant to be approached with a critical eye to the journalistic prowess of its contributors or the topics they cover. In fact, I sometimes think that section is like an on-giong joke; it seems to intentionally piss people off with its vapidness.
Can anyone identify any other articles from that section this weekend that are marked by journalistic integrity or seriousness and import of content?
Sheesh. Take it easy.
that article will only make more people want to live in brooklyn. that’s the funny thing.
it will make the celeb haters think brooklyn is cool.
it will make the celebs think it’s cool (some of them, anyway)
and it will make those of us who live here and like it better than manhattan think it’s cool (even if we never admit it outloud)
brooklyn is the new portland.
uh. . . BoCoCa and NoGo?????
and further proof that Rosalind Huebner will say anything, regardless of how stupid, to be quoted
metro
NYT is beginning to suck and WSJ has been taken over by Murdock. What else am I supposed to read? Any suggestions?
-sg
11:57–it’s not the celebrity mention that is lame; it’s the premise/thesis of the whole article that is extremely weak. The writer was trying way too hard and it reads like a tabloid piece.
“Egosystem” article further proof that the New York Times is on its way out.