Update on the Lefferts Hotel?
We spent a lot of time talking about the problem-ridden Lefferts Hotel last summer and we haven’t heard much talk in the neighborhood since. According to one commenter In last week’s discussion of the near-by Broken Angel, things have not improved: The stipulation agreement entered into by the City and the Prince Hotel Group is…
We spent a lot of time talking about the problem-ridden Lefferts Hotel last summer and we haven’t heard much talk in the neighborhood since. According to one commenter In last week’s discussion of the near-by Broken Angel, things have not improved:
The stipulation agreement entered into by the City and the Prince Hotel Group is killing the Lefferts Hotel; he can’t make any money as a legitimate business concern. The place is dead and appears on the brink of shutting down. At the same time, property values are soaring all around the hotel and this section of Clinton Hill. If there was every a good time to get Mr. Fried to sell this beautiful building it is now.
What can other residents of Lefferts Place tell us about recent problems with the hotel? Why wouldn’t the owner, Moses Fried, be dying to sell? He could make a lot of dough and free himself of numerous headaches.
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You want me to give you personal information about myself?
You can go fuck yourself.
Either back up your position with sound arguments or shut your pie hole.
“You’re the one who is long on blame. The earlier poster pointed out that what is being done with the Lefferts Hotel is utterly and thoroughly futile. Because no other positive strategy has been offered, is that then an argument in favor of continuing to do what is completely futile?”
How do you know that “no other positive strategy [have] been offered”? Are you active in this community? Are you a parent in this community? Do your kids go to school in this community? You are obviously not a member of the 88th Precinct Community Council, LPCA or any of the other neighborhood organization that’s been fighting for years to correct this problem. Please tell me your level of engagement in this community otherwise please STFU!
Are you retarded, you prick? For your information, there are many black families living beyond the boundaries of your precious little nabe. Kindly pull your head out of your ass and do something constructive for a change. Stop sweeping all the dust under someone else’s rug. Jerk.
9:09AM. Lefferts Place is 90% black and Clinton Hill is about 65% black. Dumbass! Removing the drugs from Lefferts Place is indeed helping black families on this block and should serve as a shining example for the broader community. If you are so concerned for this community then what the heck are you doing to fix the problem?!?! Do you even live in Clinton Hill?!?!
Anon 8:18AM: No one wants ANY community to get raped. We would like to clean up ALL communities. With that being said, what are your solutions? You appear to be very long on blame but very short on any credible ideas.
“So, you don’t want him to rape your community, but you don’t mind if some other community gets raped.”
Who is this guy? Is he for real?
Oh, I’m sorry. I wasn’t following your logic. I stand corrected. “Dear Mr. Pimp and Mr. Dealer please conduct your unlawful trade in front of my house so my neighbors from the next block over wil not have to bear witness to your vile and immoral acts.” WTF?!?!?
“I don’t think anyone has a problem with a black person who wants the best for his family. What people might have a problem with is a black person who wants what is best for (only) white families. If you fit this description, then yes, you’re going to encounter resistance here.”
Holy crap!! I’ve heard it all!! That must be the most stupid statement ever uttered on Brownstoner in the past two years!
First, how the hell do you infer from any of the above posts that black people on Lefferts Place are not fighting for what is best for their own families but instead white families?!?
Second, how is that the eradication of drugs, prostitution and crime from Clinton Hill can be in the best service of white families but not black families? Please explain this salient difference!
It is abundantly clear that you my friend are shamelessly schilling for the Prince Hotel Group and probably have a financial interest in this hotel. No one in their right mind would make such absurd statements!
Some of you guys are soooo tedious. I can’t believe I spent the time to type this…
I am getting the sense now that the race of many of the folks hanging out at the Lefferts Hotel is somehow relevant. It sounds to me like this has nothing to do with addressing social issues and a whole lot to do with making Lefferts whiter. Pathetic.