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]
BTW, 10:10, I have suffered from racism all through grade school and after from racial epithets to actual physical attacks with claw hammers, brass knuckles etc. (when I was in my teens), so I know what racism is. All I am saying is you can stop being a victim and make a difference.
10:10 – no not social awkwardness – surely you can’t think it’s that simple?
It’s all about ppl having established groups of friends, acquantancies etc and their resistance to allowing anyone else (no matter what skin color) in to that established group. It is hard to break into this but if you really want to, you have to be in your face about it.
Just go to any playground and you will see this mentality with the parents. Or start a new job and you will find it difficult to break into established circle unless you are aggressive about it. Even then ppl may still not acknowledge you in the corridor. How many ppl at work do you see regulalry but never say hello to? See what human nature is like?
As I said, you can’t wait for Social Justice to happen. You have to go out there and make it happen.
It could be as simple as I say. If you are black/brown/whatever force someone to say hello and start talking. Parlay that into further meetings and maybe a friendship will develop. Nurture it, make plans, etc and you have made you own contribution to social justice.
right – you are fighting apartheid at the brownstoner gatherings. It must have been becuase the invite was in the “whites-only” section of the website. Spare us the hyperbole.
and the 9.16 comment is the non-sequitur of the week.
I’m not surprised by that revelation, he/she clearly has an agenda, is clueless to the fact that different groups have different interests, and apparently only sees things through his/her bias-monomania spectacles. Of the lot, the 9.12 comment is actually the most asinine (or perhaps uninformed).
Whatever your skin color you have to just go up to a person and say hello to their face.
Even in the all white (on weekends) tribeca childrens’ playground you can’t break into established groups unless you are upfront and kinda pushy. Once you do get in someone’s face then they usually open up but they will never speak to you first. Get over whatever your hang ups are and go talk.
FWIW, the same person posted the comments at 8:35, 9:12, 9:14, and 9:16.
Anyone know why there were so few white people at the Emmanuel Baptist Church on Sunday?
Anyone care to venture a politically educated guess?