Tuesday Links

So, let me see if I follow this, the affordable rent is some sort of charity and doesn’t go to maintaining the building and conceivably the pool? I don’t know why anybody would want to go swimming with a bunch of tight ass rich people anyway. Obviously poor people like that free loading city worker and his family would probably just piss in the pool.

Neil, please define “as socially progressive as the next guy” so I can show you how you aren’t.

““We knew full well what it was, and you don’t want to complain,” one tenant of 20 North Fifth Street said, as he and his two children returned from a bicycle excursion. Like a few other tenants, he did not give his name for fear of appearing ungrateful.

“But we joke it’s like the projects,” he said. “It’s just, you see them, they’re right there, in their balconies, their decks and the pool.”

Jeffrey Wilson, 45, who works in the city’s records department and lives at 20 North Fifth with his fiancée and two daughters, says that he, too, should have access to Northside Piers amenities.

“I’m not complaining,” he said. “But the landlord gets a huge tax break. The money comes from taxpayers. And I’m a taxpayer.”

Karen Pilligua, 24, moved into Edge Community Apartments with her husband, who is a stockbroker, and their daughter, who is now 5.

They had been living in Ridgewood, Queens, and were overjoyed at the move. Yet they expected access to the Edge’s billiard room and pool. Now they are thinking of saving to try to buy an apartment at the Edge.

Still, tenants at both 20 North Fifth and Edge Community Apartments said they were largely delighted at their housing luck. They did win lotteries after all, and ended up in one of the most trendy Brooklyn neighborhoods, in new and clean homes, paying a fraction of the going rental rates. ”

No one is whining. No one is not expressing gratitude for their luck- the only attitude I see here is yours, neil.

Actually, everybody in that article sounded like a whiny douchenozzle.

No, what your taxes paid for was for a greedy developer to get his hands on land so that he could buy luxury condos for rich people. He couldn’t get that land unless he promised to build some segregated affordable rental housing. Your tax money actually went to a private developer to build a benefit for spoiled brats who say things like “We’re not that rich” and who believe that if the renters used their gym, it would be too messy. That private developer also made a tidy profit off this deal. The affordable housing, as is always the case, was a throw in so that a few people from the middle class could participate in a lotter to get a nice apartment with low rent. But go ahead, throw your contempt at the renters. Seriously, where do you think the class warfare actually comes from?