Super Monday Links

Thank you, Alison Statemen at 4:02.

Big or small and which section, who cares. It doesn’t obscure the fact you printed whatever hogwash the Nashes fed to you without looking into any of it. It should have been on a blog, not in the NY Times.

Who owns the building then? Is it some sweetheart deal 99 year lease? Is it owned by some trust?

Me again from 11:09. I should say I’ve read many times on many various blog threads Dorothy Nash has a lease, not outright ownership of the building. Coming from those who say they looked into buying the building. But I don’t know it for a fact, personally. However if the entire community believes it’s a lease and it isn’t, then a true journalist should have mentioned the controversy and rumors.

It seems the Nash’s suckered a reporter into free advertising in the NY Times to try and sell their lease. Believable, for what tightwads they are. And somehow they believe they can get more money selling their lease to a little arts nonprofit than say, a condo developer. Dream on, crazies. It’s literally like they don’t live in the same world we do. And not in a neato eccentric way like this puffery tries to sell to us.

OMG. Worst reporting EVER.

There is NO real journalism going on in Alison Stateman’s NY Times piece on the kooky greedy Nash ladies. Where did Alison Statement come from? Is she a cousin to the Nash family? Why else would she agree to do such a blatant, one-sided puff piece? Oh and not get fired for it?

That building is a menace. It is literally falling apart. A shard of glass fell and ripped through the roof of a convertible parked near it last year. Thank God the car’s owner wasn’t in it. The scaffolding around it is not because there’s been work going on. It’s to protect the pedestrians below, the building is in such bad shape.

The article wasn’t even accurate. Nash women do not “own” the building. They posess a lease that lasts for an eternity, thanks to NYC’s broken laws and dysfunctional DOB. NYC openly allows people to turn buildings into rat-infested hellholes with no penalty whatsoever.

And their loony plan for the building is laughable! Do you know how much money it will cost to do a top to bottom complete gut renovation of that building which it will now require? All because of the Nash’s CHOICE to overprice the building in their greed, to the degree nobody bought the lease from them, leaving it empty and decaying for so many years? Which well-endowed arts institution who could actually afford to do this renovation would choose to ever open a location in Park Slope? MOMA? The Metropolitan Museum of Art? Because that’s what it would take, you morons.

NO foundation is ever going to fund an arts institution in Park Slope when all the money goes to nearby BAM with its YEARS of experience and huge support and praise from the arts community. And massive facility that’s going to be expanded. You can’t even fit enough performance or gallery space in this building to make it worth the million dollars it would cost in renovations alone. I work in arts nonprofits. There is less and less and less and less money for nonprofit arts org’s every year. And now there’s a recession coming on. So try NO new money for the arts for several years.

GET REAL.