Tuesday Linkage
Greenwood Cemetary. Photo by Magnetomotive. Brooklyn #2 in Conversion Complaints [NY Times] Crime Down, Shootings Up [NY Post] 4 Hasidim Guilty in Synagogue Brawl [NY Daily News] Tenants Rip Landlord Advocate [NY Daily News] Park Slope Holiday Shopping Guide [OTBKB] Finding a Folding Ceiling Fan [Apartment Therapy] Oznot’s Dish RIP [Curbed]
Greenwood Cemetary. Photo by Magnetomotive.
Brooklyn #2 in Conversion Complaints [NY Times]
Crime Down, Shootings Up [NY Post]
4 Hasidim Guilty in Synagogue Brawl [NY Daily News]
Tenants Rip Landlord Advocate [NY Daily News]
Park Slope Holiday Shopping Guide [OTBKB]
Finding a Folding Ceiling Fan [Apartment Therapy]
Oznot’s Dish RIP [Curbed]
Why do you insist that I care about Ferrer? If I chose the tagline Nixon72 would my comments have more validity with you? The issues are, is the NYPD beginning to fudge the crime stats, a possibility in light of the shooting data and a concern to all New Yorkers. Secondly, is Bloomberg doing enough about the transit strike? Yes the MTA is a state agency, but the fact that the strike will cripple the City, it is kind of important for the Mayor to be involved. Not that complicated.
OK, Al Sharpton! Any idiot knows that the MTA is a state agency and the mayor does not control it or its contract negotiations. What planet do you live on? It seems to me that the city is taking some smart steps to prepare for the strike. Now go back to crying over Ferrer’s 30 point drubbing at the polls. Loser.
These guys are asking for a 26% pay hike over 3 years, and aren’t comprising on retirement age.. if cities cave in to demands like this, this country will be bankrupt before long. There is no way in hell to sustain the implied pension liabilities.
And what about the last transit strike, under Koch? Is that because he was out of touch, or expected everyone to take limos to work? Or maybe is this strike more justified and therefore should be taken more seriously? (I honestly don’t know the answer here, I’m just asking; I do remember him shaking everone’s hands as they crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, with his usual, “How’m I doin’?” spiel).
If Bloomberg weren’t so cozily in bed with the MTA he’d realize that their employees work with out-of-date, decrepit equipment, in unsafe and unsanitary conditions, for poor wages and insulting benefits, while the fat cat executives roll in their dough and sell the MTA’s property at below market rates.
A strike in the winter is going to hurt more than it did in the summer, for sure…
Hey Sean Hannity, when you are walking to work on Friday because of the transit strike be sure to thank Bloomie.
A real New Yorker, like Guiliani or Ferrer, would take the threat of a strike seriously. Bloomberg assumes that most people will just take their limosines to work. Bloomberg is so removed from the real lives of most New Yorkers that he will cost the economy of this City dearly. His half cocked Jets Stadium deal and the Olympic boondoggle are just a tip of the iceberg.
Glad that we have a businessman mayor.
Since you signed your idiotic initial post about crime statistics with Ferrer05, I think my response was at least as “on topic” as yours. Anyway – Ferrer was grossly outspent, but other billionaire candidates run, spend a ton of money, and lose. It’s everyone else’s fault except for the fact that Ferrer was a terrible candidate. He had no ideas (actually – he did have some BAD ideas). That is the way to disect an ass whupping. New Yorkers are not idiots, they elected the right person and the fact that he spent too much money does not change that fact.
Ferrer is a moron.
I agree — the amount of money Bloomberg spent was obscene and totally unnecessary. However, I think most people (rightly or wrongly) did think he was doing a good job, due to the fact that he’s able to manipulate everything with his money. Ferrer doesn’t impress me, never has, but I voted for him in the same spirit (and acronym)that I voted for Kerry for president – ABB.
Hey, Anonymous 09:51…the truth is that *plenty* of people wanted Ferrer as mayor but he got hugely outspent. In the last election Bloomberg spent almost $100 for every vote that he got, I’m not suure what the figures were this time around. But nobody can compete when a billionaire is spending his own money to buy an office.
So chill out and let’s try to keep the posts at least somewhat on-topic.