Wednesday Links
Hail Got Our Attention, Could Have Been Worse [City Room] Parking Violators Could Lose Break [NY Post] Shop Owner Calls Pawn Shop a Golden Frame-Up [NY Post] Tight Market Sparks Increase in Rental Scams [WSJ] Brooklyn’s Angry Man: Norman Oder Keeps Up Fight [Observer] Curtains in Coney Island [Observer] Residents Evacuated From Sackett Street Building…
Hail Got Our Attention, Could Have Been Worse [City Room]
Parking Violators Could Lose Break [NY Post]
Shop Owner Calls Pawn Shop a Golden Frame-Up [NY Post]
Tight Market Sparks Increase in Rental Scams [WSJ]
Brooklyn’s Angry Man: Norman Oder Keeps Up Fight [Observer]
Curtains in Coney Island [Observer]
Residents Evacuated From Sackett Street Building [Brooklyn Paper]
Senior Center Used as Vito Lopez’s Club House [Brooklyn Paper]
Prokhorov Introduces Nets to Moscow [BK Eagle]
Tishman Speyer Co-Founder Robert Tishman Dies at 94 [TRD]
More Move Ins @schermerhorn, Edge Willing to Chop 10%? [Curbed]
To repeat from Sept. 22
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2010/09/wednesday_links_247.php#comments
Big Jugs = scurrilous
As for Brownstoner’s comments policy, well, consider:
http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4878
The practice of allowing anonymous comments on online news sites has always been problematic. For years newspapers have insisted that letters to the editor be accompanied by the actual name of the actual person who wrote them. The thinking was that if you want to make some bold statements, you ought to be willing to take responsibility for them.
Similarly, many news outlets have codes and policies barring blind attack quotes in their news columns.
But when they embraced the freewheeling world of the Internet, news organizations switched gears. Want to take some shots while wearing a cloak of confidentiality? No problem.
I’m not sure why the Observer is wasting space on Norman “OCD” Oder. Even more confusing is why Oder quit a stable job to write a book that few people will buy, let alone read (assuming that he ever finds a publisher willing to print it).
Any reason for this particular picture on the links post? I’m pretty sure that’s my childhood home.
What a ridiculous article on hail. I NEVER — in my longer than I will admit NY life — saw this before. Hail that size in a warm weather storm in NYC.
Interesting article on hail. I didn’t realize we were all being too dramatic about it – I was definitely glad I was indoors, though.