Tuesday Links
View from Prospect Park. Photo by @ndyk. New York Pitches ‘Congestion Pricing’ to Feds [NY Times] Some Subways Found Packed Past Capacity [NY Times] Hotels Finding Demand for Green [NY Times] More Service for the C, D, and L Trains [NY Post] Housing Board Set To Raise Rents by 2%, to 7.5% [NY Sun] Mayor…
View from Prospect Park. Photo by @ndyk.
New York Pitches ‘Congestion Pricing’ to Feds [NY Times]
Some Subways Found Packed Past Capacity [NY Times]
Hotels Finding Demand for Green [NY Times]
More Service for the C, D, and L Trains [NY Post]
Housing Board Set To Raise Rents by 2%, to 7.5% [NY Sun]
Mayor Advises Residents on Green Living [NY Sun]
City Makes $12 Million Asbestos Payout [NY Daily News]
Lock Out Jail, Residents Cry [NY Daily News]
Where Can I Find Zebrawood Tables? [Apartment Therapy]
CG’ers Continue Fighting New Development [Gowanus Lounge]
Flashback to Bruce Ratner Interview [AY Report]
Repainting the Exterior [Our Victorian House]
RE: Pitching Congestion pricing and crowded Subway articles.
So rush hour trains are crowded beyond capacity (this is news?) and Bloomberg want to institute congestion pricing and make it more impossible for the city residents who live more than an hour from work by public transportation
to take the subway during rush hour.
Meanwhile – all during the mid-day when there is plenty of capacity on buses and trains around midtown- the limo and taxi riders won’t have to pay a dime extra to ride in the polluting congestion-producing gas-guzzlers.
Hmmm. Does it sound like force the ‘bridge and tunnel’ class onto overcrowded public transport and try to make riding around in cabs/TownCars easier for another demographic?
I love the Victorian House blog. I’ve been reading it for years, before Brownstoner, even. I don’t care that it’s not in NY. NJ is at least on this coast, and their house renovation is the similar to what many people in Ditmas Park would go through.
What I like best is their do it yourself restoration, which has taken years. Watching someone put this much time, talent and obsessiveness into their home makes me marvel at what a great love for a home can do to you, and wonder if they ever get a chance to get away. Their home is too high Victorian for me, but I’ve learned a great deal about many different restoring restoring techniques, a couple of which I have put to use myself. It’s great to see the befores and afters of a project. Plus the site is fun to read.
There are lots of people like them out there, and I try to keep up with their blogs, as the old house club is a great club to be a part of.
Q: how many articles (& blog links to said articles) have there been about this should be non-issue? while ya’ll count to a pretty high # …
i respect the comment, so Anonynous–
the “new Brooklyn” that you bemoan is true to the original spirit of what Brooklyn…
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would you care to expand upon this? it is an interesting notion, & i think i understand what you suggest except…
that the radical class/ethnic shift is– or seems to me– antithetical to 400 years of Brooklyn history. (we’ve had radical ethnic shifts before but there was always a lot of flexibility wrt where a wide-range of newcomers ** could ** settle.) we can go thru the old Eagles & see how many “upscale” baby boutiques there were in ye olden dayes.
re: a 50 year decline, please– if we want to talk “history,” you must need take a longer view than that. i can & will scorn “Cadman Plaza,” if you sing a lament for Sands St with me. you can no more pick out what you consider the “peak” years (Honeymooners! Dodgers!) than i can say no no– leave it there. which i hope nobody thinks i do (that Atlantic Center Mall is & always was loathesome doesn’t mean i think that site should have lain fallow.)
Pete: in case there’s any mistake (& i know in quick internet postings there can be), i– & presumably you, & most others here– wouldn’t BOTHER if we did not have a keen interest in ** all ** of Brooklyn, & that does not mean only that of any race/class/ethnicity/sex. that makes things complicated but also very interesting.
that these “controversies” tend to be radically skewed in favor or big $$$ & real estate interest– to the exclusion of other, concurrrent activities– is my primary objection.
i KNOW the opinions expressed do NOT reflect those of everyone; likewise, i very well know “history” may be total bullshit, i.e. the truth is with those who have the $$$ to create it. i don’t mean that sarcastically at all– it’s just how things often are, & Brooklyn did not, in the past, attract enough diverse attentions that the competing, or at least complementary, versions of history are out there.
thanks,
wwib
p/s: my use of “excited” rhetoric was an intentionally heated expression of DISrespect to the Daily News’ lousy Brooklyn “reporting” of at least the last ten years. not that it was great before but…
yeah, don’t get so excited , WWIB.
You often seem to jump to conclusions/critical opinions as quickly as all the whiners do.
Anything but anything new or any change, and easy to find mouthy detractors/critics come out of nowhere and the news media will gladly cover , get quotes..to show a controversy.
Its more sensational.
But to judge all people in the area, or even just segment of them (newcomers..”new brooklyn”) and whine about how things were so much better in the olden days – is just as kneejerk/rush to judgement (and revisionist history) as these NIMBYs.
Re: Last item. Okay, nice Victorian House, but not in NYC, let alone Brooklyn. What gives?
Calm down wwib. The “new brooklyn” that you bemoan is true to the original spirit of what Brooklyn was before it went down the crapper starting in the 1950s when all the services stared to leave and many areas fell into disrepair and neglect (often due to biaised redlining decisions). I agree it is silly to be surprised about the BHOD being reopened, but the vitriol is misplaced.
Tower in the photo is indeed in Prospect Park — the one in Minneapolis.
Who should trust a study done by the MTA? It’s like the airlines doing a study and the results say that 95% of flights are on time. In particular the maligned F train – who in their right mind said that 93% of F trains are on time?
laughing to the bank (laughing at you)!
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