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.
Hey Bx2Bklyn, here is something i’d like you to address..i posted earlier but people like you have failed to rebut.
How come people dont protest the affordability of Beverly Hills or Malibu or Miami Beach or Nob Hill? I mean, I certainly dont like the fact that things are so expensive but at the same time, I dont feel that it is my right to live here. If I can afford it, fine but if i cant, then i look else where…. why do other people feel that this is a right and privildge rather than a sacrifice and financial decision…
Awwwww, new yorker. I loved what you said at 11:32- it was right on.
all social issues aside Bx2Bklyn, your smiley face is quite impressive.
Look.
These subsidies are going to go away for manhattan close in outer boroughs. It’s a matter of time. They are handouts to developers by and large, and serve no particular public policy goal at the margin. That’s just reality. If you want to preserve them, elect a city council that will. I don’t see that happening.
If ACORN wants to embarrass some brokers and buyers who benefit from the corporate welfare, good. There are plenty of other unsubsidized apartments to buy and sell, if you find the protest unpleasant.
An adult? You? Really? At least you aren’t visually challenged. Although why you would comment on my last post instead of one all the issues being discussed leads me to believe that as mature as you think you are, you are not capable of adding anything constructive to the forum.
Thanks for complimenting my artwork.
Josh, please! In this housing market, which is so extreme, as in high cost, low cost and not much in the middle, how you can say that someone leaving a high end building to move to another high end building is opening up a spot for anyone other than another high end buyer? How does that serve to make adjustments in the housing pool? I stand by my remarks. The top tiers may be shuffling around, that has nothing to do with anyone else. Trickle down ecomomics didn’t work, neither does this.
VDH, who determines what is an undesirable spot, and for what reason, and for whom? Seems to me that for all the wrong reasons, that should lead to the building of affordable housing. I say wrong reasons only because “undesirable” in this case means undesirable for the luxury market, ie: outer borough spots such as East New York, East Flatbush, most of the Bronx, etc, which are not “good enough” for the wealthy, but are seen as just fine for everyone else. I hope the programs you cited in your links are pushed through, although it raises many other issues and mindfields that I’m not about to go into today. I’ve been jumped on enough for one day.
Santa – if you can’t get my name right, let alone your absurd statements, then go polish your sleigh runners or something. Maybe Rudolph or one of his friends will kick you in the head and knock some sense and intelligence into you.
Bx2Bklyn – how old are you? nice smiley face..you sure your parents know you are commenting on these blogs
newyorker- (:->
hey i have an idea!!!!
why dont these people with all the money move to the moon?!?! i hear there is lots of property available there and they can build all they want and drive the prices up as much as they possibly can and no one will complain about it. i’m sure these pesky, smelly poor plebs wont follow.