Thursday Links
Unions to Press Chase on Modifying Additional Mortgages [NY Times] New York Congressman Resigns Over Shirtless E-Mails [NY Times] Emergency Road Work Closes Part Of Brooklyn Bridge [NY1] 15% of High School Seniors Passed an A.P. Test Last Year [City Room] State Investigating Alleged Real Estate License Violations [TRD] Activists and Engineers Work to Protect…
Unions to Press Chase on Modifying Additional Mortgages [NY Times]
New York Congressman Resigns Over Shirtless E-Mails [NY Times]
Emergency Road Work Closes Part Of Brooklyn Bridge [NY1]
15% of High School Seniors Passed an A.P. Test Last Year [City Room]
State Investigating Alleged Real Estate License Violations [TRD]
Activists and Engineers Work to Protect Plumb Beach [Daily News]
Mayor Bloomberg Says City Pothole Work is ‘Very Good’ [NY Post]
When Life Gives You Blizzards, Make a Snow Fort [NY Mag]
DEP Has Some Big Ideas For the Future [Gothamist]
The Future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac [WNYC]
City Loses Millions on Alt-Side Suspensions [MSNBC]
Boerum Hill Downzoning Moves Forward [CG Patch]
The Marketing of the Nets, via Translation [AY Report]
Know Your Bartender: Donald O’Finn, Freddy’s [HPS]
New Building Coming to Smith and Degraw [PMFA]
Is Williamsburg Back From ‘The Edge’? [BK Paper]
Now Open: Seven Hills Cafe [NYS]
Atlantic Ave. ‘Most Dangerous’ [Eagle]
thanks bxgrl and montrose morris!
And rob…the discussion is about modification, not about paying nothing at all. Why, again, are reactions so extreme so often here? It is simply about people working out an agreement that works for everybody involved.
Well, fsrg, I took my regents exams during antediluvian times, but I can give you one idea of the difference in regents exams of my day. We had an actual geometry regents. More recently, that changed to Sequential Math I, II, and II. (I taught all three courses about 15 years ago.) On none of those exams did a student have to actually do a geometry proof. In my day, however, the geometry regents required a minimum of 3 such proofs, one of which was a “required” proof (which one could memorize from a limited number of proofs), but the other two were original problems. None of today’s math regents is particularly hard. If they were, you would see a HS graduation rate of about 20% these days.
dieselfuel- that’s a discussion I have had many times with people. I know how you feel.
Homeowners get bailouts because property owners are somehow “important” unlike us renters in our messed up society.
if i dont pay my rent, i get thrown out. how is owning a house ANY different? im serious.. why dont renters get bailouts?
*rob*
oops- , denton- I meant that wasn’t the part of her post I was addressing.
That was the part of her post I was addressing.
Ishtar, I also strongly disagree with you about mortgages and foreclosure. I find your attitude unforgiving and not taking into consideration circumstances that have nothing to do with how people generally conduct their finances. Sitting on your lofty perch saying “better luck next time” is what reeks of entitlement, not to mention total lack of empathy. Being foreclosed upon is like being convicted of a crime you didn’t commit, especially for someone who has done everything right, except work in an industry that didn’t go under in this depression. Even those who planned ahead, and lived within their means were blindsided by this. Your blase attitude prompted Bxgrl’s very reasoned response, which did not deserve your comment at 2:36. You are the one who needs to get over yourself.
most modifications haven’t worked out too well, so ishtar is right. They end up right back in delinquency.