What If...
What if you were a wealthy philanthropist who could write a $100 million check to fund any infrastructure or public project in Brooklyn? What would it be? A selective high school to rival Stuyvesant in Manhattan? Hundreds more patrol officers on the police force? A monorail above Atlantic Avenue? Let your imagination run wild.
What if you were a wealthy philanthropist who could write a $100 million check to fund any infrastructure or public project in Brooklyn? What would it be? A selective high school to rival Stuyvesant in Manhattan? Hundreds more patrol officers on the police force? A monorail above Atlantic Avenue? Let your imagination run wild.
I’d use the money to bring a lot more involvement in areas that are still struggling with crime, poverty, etc. such as East New York and some areas of Flatbush, etc. These neighborhoods are the ones that need better schools — the idea of one good school is so much less powerful than small improvements to 10 really bad ones. And I’d do a lot more to give them better opportunities for jobs — anyone recall the insane line to work at Hershey’s or something just bc it paid $10.75/hr and had benefits? En bref, I don’t think the people who need help could care about a bike lane (though I bike and would love it) or better transportation (though I’d love that too). They don’t need newly renovated brownstones either. They need opportunities to make a living, police their own neighborhoods, and then they can help themselves.
Gentrify Bed Stuy, Crown Heights and Sunset Park
Yes, Brooklyn Tech is a great school, but it’s HUGE and that doesn’t work for lot of kids. How about some excellent small schools like the ones in Manhattan (many of which EXCLUDE Brooklyn kids) — don’t Brooklyn kids deserve some small, selective schools like Baruch, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Lab School?
brooklyn tech is great, but let’s have another one too — this is all a what if thing, so what if we had another one? nice, eh? why you gotta be so mean, people?
pietro: you’d have to sell them way below cost for the average resident of bed-stuy to be able to afford them.
i’d buy up all the bed stuy brownstones i could, renovate them and sell them at cost or finance at a very, very low rate to residents of the neighborhood. set up some sort of home ownership program for poorer folks in the boro.
Day care centers and more social workers administering $ to those who really need it. Those stories in the NY Times Neediest Cases Fund are so heartbreaking. There are so many poor people who really need help. Why don’t we start a fund through this website to help one of those Bklyn charities now that the holidays are coming and everybody is feeling like giving (or should be!) I challenge you Brownstoner to do this! Enough of the rich guy scenario. Let’s get some $ to those who need it now.
bulldoze all the projects in Boerum Hill – Happy Thanksgiving!
Brooklyn Tech totally off most Brownstoner’s radars because it’s mostly Asian. We can’t send Johnny Trustfund to a school where he can’t compete.