Tuesday Links
Greenpoint Houses. Photo by bondidwhat. Bloomberg Pushes NYC Green Plan in Albany [NY Times] Green Apple Hosts City Enviro Meeting [NY Post] City Home Prices Up 20% Since 2006 [NY Sun] City Water Board Approves 11.5% Rate Hike [NY1] ‘Prime’ Retail Spaces in Downtown Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle] 99 Gold 20 Percent Rented Already [HuntGrunt via…
Greenpoint Houses. Photo by bondidwhat.
Bloomberg Pushes NYC Green Plan in Albany [NY Times]
Green Apple Hosts City Enviro Meeting [NY Post]
City Home Prices Up 20% Since 2006 [NY Sun]
City Water Board Approves 11.5% Rate Hike [NY1]
‘Prime’ Retail Spaces in Downtown Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]
99 Gold 20 Percent Rented Already [HuntGrunt via Curbed]
Construction Site Du Jour: 77 Berry [Gowanus Lounge]
NYC’s Dirtiest Neighborhood? Bed Stuy [Gothamist]
Call It Diversification not Gentrification [Kensington Blog]
Building Affordable Homes on Halsey [Bed Stuy Blog]
Tips for Stabilizing Brownstone Front Doors? [Forum]
This conversation is the perfect example of why some kind of name identifier would be really helpful. Good points have actually been made, but with all of the anonmi, it’s impossible to tell who is saying what. Call yourself A, B, and C. Who cares? It would just help the flow.
It’s not naivety, it;s basic human nature that, when multiplied by herd mentality, creates all sorts of social ills and inequality. That’s why it’s encumbant on us all to combat it.
It’s realy quite destructive (this kind of exclusionary attitude) so your thinking that this is a naive way of thinking is simplistic.
Out of the simple minds of ordinary folk can come quite destructive repucussions.
The initial post at 8:35 suggests that the event at Ici was posted on some sort of “whites only” site, that black people aren’t welcome at Ici or even that Ici & brownstoner are hostile to “people of color” But where is that coming from? As a black woman who owns property in Brooklyn, reads Brownstoner avidly, but doesn’t frequent Ici (for no particular reason really), this whole thing seems inane and what does it have to do with REAL ESTATE? We don’t have to all get along, but can’t we stick to the real estate?
I brought up the tribeca playground example because you can see everyday a whole bunch of white ppl chatting amongst themselves ignoring any new white person that comes along.
It doesn’t just happen to black people.
To extrapolte racism in a bstoner event when the reason (if it really did happen) is likely to be far more prosaic (ppl are resistant to change) is ridiculous.
“It was your extended monologue on Ft. Greene that created confusion because no one had been talking about Ft. Greene and the nature of the community in Ft Greene was in no way relevant to the thread. That’s all.”
Actually, the liberal-minded racist nature (ie. those who ‘love all people as equals’ yet still manage to compartmentalize the population by category of race and not as individuals) of some of the responses to your question made my, admittedly long-winded, response relevant. This was my perspective. It may not be the same, or in line with your experience, but that does not negate it’s relevancy. Just as my experience/perspective does not negate yours.
This one may have run its course…
Geez Mr. B, don’t hate me because I’m right about the ip address thing (assuming I am right).
Hate me because I’m good lookin’ 🙂
“And I’m a person of color that was not in attendance for the reasons I’ve already stated. So, where’s the confusion?”
It was your extended monologue on Ft. Greene that created confusion because no one had been talking about Ft. Greene and the nature of the community in Ft Greene was in no way relevant to the thread. That’s all.
“I don’t have to read the beginning of the thread. I wrote it.”
And I’m a person of color that was not in attendance for the reasons I’ve already stated. So, where’s the confusion?