Monday Links: DOB on Notice Edition
Sunset Park. Photo by Paul. GL Analysis: The Manhattan Crane Collapse Horror [GL] Avella Calls for Patricia Lancaster’s Resignation [NY Sun] Department of Disaster’s ’08 Track Record [Lost City] Cringing in the Shadows Cast by Cranes [NY Times] Behind Tragic Site’s Various Violations [NY Post] Unrelated to the Crane Tragedy: Studying the Footprints of a…
Sunset Park. Photo by Paul.
GL Analysis: The Manhattan Crane Collapse Horror [GL]
Avella Calls for Patricia Lancaster’s Resignation [NY Sun]
Department of Disaster’s ’08 Track Record [Lost City]
Cringing in the Shadows Cast by Cranes [NY Times]
Behind Tragic Site’s Various Violations [NY Post]
Unrelated to the Crane Tragedy:
Studying the Footprints of a Governor-to-Be [NY Times]
The Edge: A Barometer in Williamsburg [NY Times]
Fed Acts to Rescue Financial Markets [NY Times]
St. Saviour’s Neighbor Threatened [Queens Crap]
Church Row on Lafayette? [General Greene]
The Brooklyn Hamptons? [Ditmas Park Blog]
Auden in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]
Let’s hope so. A gradual adjustment would be much less painful.
For the next year, any day a major financial institution doesn’t fail/get bailed out is a good day. For junior Trumps, a year of good days will feel like the apocolypse.
this is bad news for the what. the fed just cut off your best chance at an apocolypse.
1:37 – I’m with you. Was going to write an outraged post to that comment, but then just moved on since it seemed so racist I thought I might be missing something!
I love the casual, stupid racism of this board: because he quotes Schopenhauer, The What is a white guy? Is this Brooklyn, or Jo-burg? The last time I checked, blacks were allowed to read. In fact, it may come as a stunning surprise, but they even (gasp) own Brownstones. And not just in Bed-Stuy. Some of them (not just Obama) EVEN went to Ivy League schools. Kind of a lot, actually–you can look it up. And there, like their white brethren, they (we) read Schopenhauer, Heidegger, and even–C. Wright Mills, and Jane Jacobs. I mean, they do have the Booker T. Washington Fellowships in Brownstone Renovation and Nannying, but most of us–skip that…so…WHAT?
What – you are really crazy. There is really no reason to jump up and down so hysterically. And by the way, although i also have been expecting big real estate collapse since the fist glimmer of subprime crisis I stand by my first reaction to you that since MONEY ISN’T EVERYTHING you can stop ranting about the apocolypse. Let me know where there’s a dirty bomb attack on this city and THEN your tone will be appropriate.
guest 11:23 – thanks for your reply. but I don’t understand your last paragraph. could you explain?
Well well… The fucktards are putting down the crack pipes. Wall Street is in serious trouble! I said months ago that Citi, WAMU and Wacovia are insolvent! No no The What is a moron (true ; ^ P). The What is a bitter renter (not true). The What doesn’t know anything (It’s unfolding in real time).
I guess the Bear Sterns employees will put in offers for the ORO or Forte, NOT! LMMFAO! Ya’ll are fucking finished and the asshole Brokers who pumped this shit up will get assraped!
Oh Brownstoner, You are a fucking Hypocrite! You take down the 6 months ago house sales when, It doesn’t fit your agenda and I point out the discrepancies and lies in the post. And now you block my IP so I cant post on your site. I have multiple IP address stupid. The What knows he got you Brownie, Gabby and any other Brownnstoner assfuck. You are making me a martyr and showing everyone I was right!!!!!
Real Estate is fucking over!!!!! Real Estate is fucking over!!!!! Real Estate is fucking over!!!!! Real Estate is fucking over!!!!! Real Estate is fucking over!!!!! Real Estate is fucking over!!!!! Real Estate is fucking over!!!!!
People get this into your heads, it’s about survival. If you are over your head in a house or condo, WALK AWAY!! Stop paying your mortgage!!! Stop being a debt slave, live your live debt free. That asset is worth shit now. Long live The What (Giving myself props)! I stood my ground and never wafted for one second!
RIP Mutant Real Estate Bubble. This is just the beginning!
The What (Reporting from the Eastern Front)
Someday this war is gonna end…
Brownie so help me GOD I will carpet bomb this site if you fuck with this post!!!!!!
Didn’t Bloomberg supposedly clean up the DOB? I mean — how bad was it before? Anyone know about this?
Lancaster should get the heave-ho. Her rolling-eyes remark about sometimes a high number of complaints just means the neighbors are opposed to the building is telling. You’re entrusted with the public safety, lady. Who cares if it’s a hassle? Each complaint should be responded to with utmost seriousness.
I hope someone sues the DOB over this latest travesty. Rich irony in the name of the demolished bar.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/16/cngold116.xml
Goldman Sachs to reveal $3bn hit
By Mark Kleinman and Louise Armitstead
Last Updated: 12:07am GMT 16/03/2008
Goldman Sachs, Wall Street’s most powerful investment bank, will this week announce asset writedowns worth about $3bn (£1.5bn), its biggest jolt to date from the crisis threatening to engulf the world’s financial markets.
Why does the city/DOB still issue 86,000+ permits per year to build/renovate if they clearly cannot adequately inspect all of the work? Yes, I know, money. At what point will they start to limit this until they can do their jobs well?
Maybe NOW?