ACORN Protesters Storm The Beacon Tower
The anti-gentrification movement stepped it up a notch yesterday with ACORN protesters storming the open house at the Beacon Tower, Shaya Boymelgreen’s 23-story condo development at 85 Adams in Dumbo. What a shame! What a pity! We can’t live in New York City, the 50-odd protesters chanted while blanketing the sales office with flyers that…
The anti-gentrification movement stepped it up a notch yesterday with ACORN protesters storming the open house at the Beacon Tower, Shaya Boymelgreen’s 23-story condo development at 85 Adams in Dumbo. What a shame! What a pity! We can’t live in New York City, the 50-odd protesters chanted while blanketing the sales office with flyers that read, Beacon Tower developers get rich off the backs of working families.” The protesters main gripe? That luxury projects like the Beacon still receive tax breaks in a holdover from a program started in the 1970s to stimulated development. The ambushed Corcoran agents manning the open house called in the cops who removed the protesters. Prospective buyers didn’t appear to be too sympathetic to the cause. “Tell them to get jobs and go live in the projects,” said Jenny Malone, who was there checking out apartments. “People just want something for nothing.”
Activists Protest Dumbo Condos [Metro]
More coverage in the print edition.
Boymelgreen-Beacon Tower
Check out exterior defects on building, dented metal, and chipped brickwork.
Where is the quality control?
What is going on?
people are just lazy bastards. love blaming instead of doing. there are still tons of areas that is cheap and working class families can afford.
You’re right anon. These assholes need to learn the meaning of “property rights”. We ought to send them all off to internment camps…then maybe the projects wouldn’t seem so bad. We should also take their kids away from them and turn them into a force of young, durable slave labor. That way we’d no longer be forced to outsource so many jobs to the despicable laboring classes of other countries.
These losers who mask as protestors are the one’s that rape our society’s wealth. I bet you everyone of them are on welfare. Let’s say beacon tower did save 30% for these losers. They would probably tip the concierge in food stamps when he helped them with their government cheese.
All the pathetic losers from the projects participate in this bafoonery. Instead of panhandling on subways or asking for change on the street they launch protests like this for luxurious condos. Do these ingrates know they need to work for this? Any notice everyone was a minority?
Wait a second. I’m confused.
Who is Bill Gates?
I give each post just as much attention as it deserves–no more, no less.
Anon 7:20- thank you for that very intelligent contribution to the conversation. You’re free to not read the posts if you’re bored.
Yeah yeah. We’ve all heard this crap before. “A rising tide raises all ships.” The problem is, a sinking ship drowns all passengers, INCLUDING THE ONES IN FIRST CLASS. I suggest you think about this.