Wednesday Links
Bed-Stuy. Photo by Photo by bonechilling. Census: More Blacks Leaving New York and Other Cities [NY Times] A Warning From Bernanke, but No Hint of a Rate Cut [NY Times] Ex-Jet Eyes $7.25M Pad at 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park [NY Post] NYC’s Low Homeownership Rate [NY Post] Council Bill to Regulate Air Conditioners [NY Sun]…
Bed-Stuy. Photo by Photo by bonechilling.
Census: More Blacks Leaving New York and Other Cities [NY Times]
A Warning From Bernanke, but No Hint of a Rate Cut [NY Times]
Ex-Jet Eyes $7.25M Pad at 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park [NY Post]
NYC’s Low Homeownership Rate [NY Post]
Council Bill to Regulate Air Conditioners [NY Sun]
New IHOP Coming to Downtown [NY Daily News]
Problems at 166 Montague [Brooklyn Eagle]
AY Lawsuits Over by ’08? [AY Report]
Sorry, my comments are directed to 11:17.
Guest 11:47
11:27, if you bothered to read the article, instead of trying to incite a riot, you’d see that most of it isn’t only about the decline of black people in the city. It’s about the changing demographics and ethnic makeup of the city as a whole, and the decline of the black population is a part of that change. It also says that the Hispanic population is rising, among other things, and that more white people are moving back to the city. This is the constant ebb and flow of people that has been going on since the Dutch kicked the Indians out. The names of the players change with the times. As someone in the article says, we all manage to get along pretty well. Can we keep it that way?
Have you ever BEEN to Atlanta?
If your idea of heaven is living in Georgia where 30 minutes outside the city center, slavery is alive and well, please be our guest…
You think I’m joking? Go check it out.
And 11:17, if you think it’s such a big deal, why don’t you go bother the NY Times for writing the piece. It IS pertinent and interesting for most of us. Clearly you have some issues.
With the prices for houses/condos, who wants to stay in NY and tuff it out?
Atlanta has 5br houses with 2-3 baths big yard etc for 200K, sure seems tempting….
I know that this is the headline, my point is that you featured it.
The Alhambra Apartments in the picture above were designed in the 1890’s by ….Montrose Morris. He is one of the most important architects in Brooklyn history, and many of his best buildings are in Bed Stuy and Crown Heights. He also designed the Renaissance Apartments just north of this building, as well as the magnificent Imperial Apartment building on Grant Square at Bedford and Pacific. More of his residential design can be found on Hancock Street between Marcy and Thompkins.
This is his best one, in my opinion, and makes ingenious use of the open spaces where the fire escapes are. It was boarded up through most of the 80’s and was then brought back to life as affordable housing, as were the Imperial and Renaissance Apts. I would love to have seen the interiors of both in their prime. I don’t like the commercial spaces stuck on to the front, but compared to what they looked like before the renovation, this is a great improvement.
Um, that’s the exact headline from the New York Times.
Census Shows More Black Residents Are Leaving New York and Other Cities
And Brownstoner doesn’t like race wars on this blog?
NY Times had an article about this building a few months back. Great example of how rent control helped destroy this city back in the day. It was designed by a fairly well known architect, very high end, by the late 70s the landlord was getting less in from his rent stablized/controlled apartments than it cost to pay just the taxes and insurance on the building. Not surprisingly it badly deteriorated and suffered a terrible fire. They said that the interiors which were magnificent were totally lost but the exterior is still quite remarkable.