Wednesday Links
For Tight Times, Office Space on Flexible Terms [NY Times] PS 29 Improvises to Watch Inauguration [NY Times] Obama Has No Quick Fix for Banks [NY Times] East River Bridges Hazardous for Biking, Walking [NY Post] ‘This Old House’ Makes Debut in Brooklyn [NY Daily News] City Planning Certifies Coney Island Plan [Brooklyn Eagle] Lots…
For Tight Times, Office Space on Flexible Terms [NY Times]
PS 29 Improvises to Watch Inauguration [NY Times]
Obama Has No Quick Fix for Banks [NY Times]
East River Bridges Hazardous for Biking, Walking [NY Post]
‘This Old House’ Makes Debut in Brooklyn [NY Daily News]
City Planning Certifies Coney Island Plan [Brooklyn Eagle]
Lots of Laptop Thefts in Park Slope [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by Josh Derr on Flickr
Rob:
And don’t forget those Mac geniuses that are typing away on their laptops on the subway next to the doors. I’m amazed I haven’t yet seen someone snatch a laptop and run just as the doors are closing.
IBxgrl – f you want a taste of the character of New York before it was Disneyfied, Starbuckized and Gapigated read “Up in The Old Hotel” or “Bottom of the Harbor”. Both great, may be some duplication though, I can’t remeber (they are short stories/essays).
I must admonish you – not Amazon! Use Alibris or something, its better for the independent booksellers.
bxgrl…you wouldn’t even recognize the area it has been so built up and overdeveloped. And, prices went through the roof.
No, I haven’t. Have any titles I could look for on Amazon? My aunt used to live in those huge apartment buildings right down there. They used to be considered hi-end. Don’t know what they are now but I remember whenever we drove home my sister and I used to shriek and gag at the smell from the fish market. Sorry its no longer there. I just hate when all the interesting areas are pushed out or disneyfied.
bxgrl – have you read and Joseph Mitchell? He has some great essays about the place.
in regards to the “spat of recent laptop thefts” hello people! think a little bit and stop with your heads in the clouds. i am in need a new laptop myself, and while i am not a thief, i could so EASILY walk into any starbucks or coffee shop in the city and get myself a nice shiny new one. it’s mind boggling how people just get up and leave their laptop on the table with no one watching (except thieves duh) and will go to the bathroom, go outside for a minute, go back on line. all it takes is one person with a hoodie up or even just in plain clothes it’s not like starbucks has cameras. and even if they do so what. the police have better things to do than care if some naive trustifarian got his/her laptop stolen in the middle of the day when most people are working (or stealing). stop being stupid people and your stuff won’t get stolen! you’re not back home in kansas at the local piggly wiggley!
that being said watch something get stolen of mine now hahahah
*rob*
I loved going into the main building and talking with the old sailors who used to have booths in there. They were amazing- some were old Navy guys, othes were Merchant Seamen. I think one very old guy had served on a whaler. All thrown out for a cheap fast food court.
bxgrl…I lived right in the heart of the Seaport, on Peck Slip, back in 1996-1997. It wwas a real hoot walking to work in the morning with all of the fish market activity.
Of course they could have foreseen it if they had hired real IT professionals instead of someone’s brother’s nephew’s sister-in-law’s dogwalker’s first cousin twice removed.
On anothe note, it seems the Coney Island plans ae another step toward making the city more elitist, and expensive. I wonder how all this will affect access to the beach itself? I have the sinking feeling some of the residences and the hotels will be asking for privilege, private areas on the beach- I don’t trust Bloomberg to not sell sections of the beach to private concerns. And the new amusement park will probably be unaffordable for the average person. think Disney. Everything that made Coney Island fascinating and historic and so classically Brooklyn NY will be just another South St. Seaport fake destination. Hate to sound cynical- and I am not being NIMBY. Coney Island could use lots of help and rebuilding but i used to love South St. Seaport. It was real. then they took all the life out of it. It sucks.