Open Thread: Do The Right Thing Edition
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later,…
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later, how much has changed and how much remains the same?
And i forgot to add, the Amtrak trip is one of the more relaxing parts of my week, which a drive in a car, given my personality, would not be, especially if it was 3-5 hours with traffic.
Why are you guys complaining? Enjoy the sun! At least it’s not raining.
I take Amtrak to Philly and get there in 1 hour and 20 minutes. You could get a real nice large townhouse in Philly for well under $1MM. My drive from Philly to Bucks Co is exactly 60 minutes from Philly. It would be 30 minutes from the Trenton, NJ stop.
DIBS: 3:15 from the slope with zero traffic. More than 5 on a Friday evening. Located in Guilford, near Brattleboro in the southeastern corner of VT. Drive Hutch –> 684 –> 84 –> 91 to get there.
denton — I lived on this farm for much of my adolescence. I have a lot of dirt under my fingernails and know what I’m doing.
There would be full-time residents on the property (a couple of wings of the farmhouse are standalone rental properties).
Property taxes would be minimal for various reasons.
And I would be paying the “friends and family” rate. 😉
i did lol reading on another board at someone saying something along the lines of “well now that brooklyn is becoming filled with sophisticated coffee drinkers, certain blocks can sustain [myriad] shops just like seattle.” – kid you not! lol
*rob*
lechacal….how long of a drive is it to where you are looking? Bucks County PA might be a much shorter drive. The taxes in Pa are pretty reasonable. I don’t know about VT. My colleague here has a place up there on a lake (don’t know which one) and he’s got a 4 hour drive.
“that new place grumpy”
It went rooftop bananas years ago Rob, when it became clear that brownstone Brooklyn could support 5,000 or so coffee shops.
Hey, L. First, the farm could be equally over-priced, but of course less on an absolute basis.
I hope you have thought about what it will take in time and money to maintain a place like that. What will you do with it in the winter? Disconnect everything? Or heat it all season?
Watch the taxes.