Tuesday Links
City Toughening Rules for Rent Subsidies [NY Times] Average, or Even Median, Is a Lot of Money [NY Times] Need a Mortgage? Don’t Get Pregnant [NY Times] W’burg Scam Turns Loft-y Dream to Nightmare [NY Post] Cable Reconstruction Project at Manhattan Bridge [Brooklyn Paper] Police Shoot-Out Wounds Two in Brownsville [NY1] City Shuts Water Tunnel…
City Toughening Rules for Rent Subsidies [NY Times]
Average, or Even Median, Is a Lot of Money [NY Times]
Need a Mortgage? Don’t Get Pregnant [NY Times]
W’burg Scam Turns Loft-y Dream to Nightmare [NY Post]
Cable Reconstruction Project at Manhattan Bridge [Brooklyn Paper]
Police Shoot-Out Wounds Two in Brownsville [NY1]
City Shuts Water Tunnel to Gowanus Canal [WNYC]
What If There’d Been Citywide Planning [AYR]
Jodi Arnold Opens Atlantic Ave Boutique [CHB]
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and the bike lanes of course.
not saying better place…just saying when have no money, and no support system somewhere else —moving is really not an option. Costs money to move. Cost more start-up money to resettle. Unless you have good friends, relatives that are willing to put you up until get on your feet.
Maly and Pete —
Perhaps you could plan ahead a little (save for 2 or 3 years for an “escape.”
Maybe you could move to a city that has public transportation. Maybe every city has libraries, pools and most have free clinics.
Maybe you wouldn’t move to one of the most economically depressed towns such as Binghamton.
Perhaps its not as difficult as you portray because that $600 apartment in East New York is $300 (and A LOT NICER) most other places.
Perhaps a lot of the poor in NYC actually OWN cars because (like everyone else) they need a car from time to time and $90 a month for MetroCard is basically the same cost as maintaining and insuring a car!
But, yes… the quality of life that is available in NYC is amazing for those that have limited means. Moving shouldn’t even be considered.
I agree with Maly – there’s a lot of freely available stuff funded by taxpayers and taxpaying businesses in NYC that can make it attractive to live here even if its a continual struggle to make ends meet day-to-day, and the pretty decent public transportation is also an asset.
So are we trying to suggest that NYC is a better place for the working poor to live than somewhere else with a much lower cost of living?
Y’all drinkin the kool-aid this morn.
so- after you arrive in Binghamton – penniless—-how are you going to get an apt(security/1st months rent)? how are you going to get a job a JCPenny(since you don’t even know where it is and you don’t have a car ? And even if you did, how are you going to get to that job? You sound like you think those jobs go begging up there.
Not to glorify poverty in NYC, because being poor anywhere in America sucks, but at least here there is reliable public transportation. How do you buy a car (and keep it running) on $270/wk?
In NYC, there are free clinics, libraries, pools that are readily accessible via public transportation.
I agree DIBS — human “inertia” is amazing and baffling to me sometimes. You have a job that is like a job available *anywhere* in the country (retail, service, restaurant, etc.), but you persist on staying in one of the most difficult cities to make a go of it with almost no money.
You live in a neighborhood that is filthy, your apartment is similar, chances are you don’t have a park or even a healthy tree nearby… you don’t have enough money to pay for food, never mind any of the “cultural attractions” of NYC.
How is saving $29 for a Greyhound bus to ANYWHERE not more attractive than staying in NYC?
I too feel sorry for people like that woman stuck here in shithole parts of NYC when they could have a much better life anywhere else in the country.
I’m also saddened by the fact that the officers in Brownsville didn’t actually kill those cretins involved in the shootout.