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  1. Read the Spiderman review. So will future ads for the show include this quote (only one I could find that could be taken and used out of context in a positive way)?

    “signature Taymor touches like airborne puppets, elaborate masks and perspective-skewing sets (George Tsypin is the scenic designer) are all on hand”

  2. M4L, I’m not looking to save money. My priority is to find a reliable service to replace Time Warner, which has been horrific since I moved to BK Heights (never had issues with them on the UES).

  3. Playing the water scarcity investment game is tough. And if there really is a scarcity, all bets are off anyway as the strongman wins. But there are several ETFs that invest in water technologies. Here are three:

    PHO
    PIO
    CGW

    PIO has the most interesting one year chart.

  4. biff, cable is actually pretty attractive pricing right now $33/month, no contract. they say it’s 33 for 1st yr then 45 afterwards. comptetition is getting so stiff, I suspect the 33 to be the going rate in a yr.

  5. Studios available at $1,449 per month
    permitted income range $49,680 – $97,125

    One Bedrooms available at $1,819 per month
    permitted income range $$62,366 – $110,950

    “and let me guess!!! they allow people to combine couple incomes. UNFAIR! i remember there was an ad for that developedment that also contained cheaper apartments and were allowing people in with lower incomes. it looks like the bumped up the incomes and the rents. those arent that far off market rate. so annoying. and most people dont even make those salaries… well no, im sure a lot do. but it’s either highish ones like that or super super super super low income ranges of like 15K – 17K. those housing lotteries sare scams that only benefit developers, developers friends and families and local polititians extended families who are on community boards.”

    *rob*

    When the developers are forced to provide “affordable” housing as part of their rights to develop I think they always use the same simplistic and annoying calculation:
    Income range; the low range should be what a single nurse working for a city hospital makes and the high range to equal what a nurse married to a fireman make together. At least that seems to be what they add up to. (not including all the benefits and “overtime” of course, since that would qualify them for admission to a Hamptons private tennis club).
    What happened to the housing that a guy running a hot dog stand in Queens could afford at $13,000 per year?
    Why not housing for a guy living “off the books”, he could show them his car and weekend home in the Poconos as proof. Why not housing for the entrepeneur making zero dollars due to LLC deductions but actually making a decent living running a donut shop, she could show her Schedule E’s as proof.

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