Tuesday Links
The Lake at Prospect Park. Photo by pictureinfocus. New Safety Rules at High-Rise Construction Sites [NY Times] Projects Face Loss of Community Centers [NY Times] Times Poll: Bloomberg Still Very Popular [NY Times] Waterfalls Project Starts Next Week [NY Daily News] Ikea Store Already Drawing Crowds [NY Daily News] Junior’s Cook Caught Stealing Lobsters [NY…
The Lake at Prospect Park. Photo by pictureinfocus.
New Safety Rules at High-Rise Construction Sites [NY Times]
Projects Face Loss of Community Centers [NY Times]
Times Poll: Bloomberg Still Very Popular [NY Times]
Waterfalls Project Starts Next Week [NY Daily News]
Ikea Store Already Drawing Crowds [NY Daily News]
Junior’s Cook Caught Stealing Lobsters [NY Post]
Bonds Beat Brownstones [Bloomberg]
So the way to change things is by simply closing down the community centers and throwing the kids who could be helped and might have a future to the wolves? Yeah- that’s good.
FYI- there isn’t an economic group in this city who doesn’t get something form it. Rich people get tax benefits, developers get city tax money for their projects, public parkland is given over to expensive condos, or hi-end sports facilities that no poor kid could dream of playing in. Public streets get closed off to make fancy courtyards (after rich developers ask for eminent domain)- the big difference is what the city does for the more financially well off is to make it more enjoyable and elitist. What it does for the poor is to give them the necessities to try and get them out of the projects and eventually into schools and careers.
Poor people are mostly working poor who also pay taxes. Getting work cost them the same 2 bucks per ride as you, but it’s a bigger bite out of their budget. Everything does- so while you mince around town deciding which wine goes with your meal, poor people are trying to afford orange juice.
If they need help, it isn’t free- they are WORKING poor and they PAY taxes. Some of those centers were for senior citizens- who had long working lives in which they PAID taxes.
give up – project residents are beyond criticism on account of their martyrdom in the name of poverty.
“Who are you to begrudge people some help?”
I don’t begrudge them it. Getting something for free, and then getting something else for free, and then being “outraged” that you might not get it any more, thats chutzpah. Disappointed perhpas. Upset? ok.
Outraged? Take a hike.
And don’t give me the poverty = crime crap. its cutlure that = crime. There are very poor asian, hasidic and some polish areas of this city where the majority of residents are impoverished, some below federal poverty levels (which $22K is most certainly not) and crime is virtually absent.
The culture of expectation without sacrifice is continually facilitated by this crap.
Thank god Clinton’s welfare reform stopped this getting even worse.
I know Raymundo isnt going to do any talking at his trial. His lawyer told him to clam up.
Go MM!
Exactly right. Even if it shrivels your scrooge-like heart to hear of anyone getting anything “unearned,” in your opinion, 9AM, from a standpoint of cost and practicality, preventative measures are far cheaper than incarceration. FACT.
“tenants “outraged” at free community centers closing after paying their $281 dollar rent? Thats some chutzpah”
Yeah, 9AM, because living on 22K a year with a family is SOOOOOO easy, here in NYC. The chutzpah is your assumption that they are getting over, while the article clearly states that the center programs provide day, afterschool and senior/disabled care for working parents who are working to provide for their families. Who are you to begrudge people some help? Would you rather pay more to jail their kids, or provide special ed classes, or warehouse their elderly in substandard old age homes?
The real chutzpah is in the shortsightedness of budget bean counters who are always eager to slash preventative programs, and then have to raise funding for punitive programs, while people who feel as you do, begrudge poor people whatever small pittance of help that does manage to come their way.
Chutzpah, indeed!
11.34 – You hope someone is mugged becuase they hold a different opinion than you?
I presume you’re a product of the environment you are discussing in your post. Ugh.
A lot of people on here with far more serious issues than dyslexia 1:23, my apparent stupidity notwithstanding!!!
Dave – you’d have to be a math dyslexic not to be able to calculate 4% or 5% of a given number. Be serious.