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.
Hmm, got a big delay here, sorry for almost identical post twice. I thought the first one didn’t go through.
Bomber, I guess we’ve arrived when we have our very own idiot fringe. Being a troll knows no race or creed, although in this case, I have a feeling we got one who’s “passing”. At any rate, whoever or whatever he is, besides an idiot, he will probably succeed in having Mr.B. shut us down, and thus he has achieved his purpose in silencing a healthy discourse. Too bad.
Brown Bomber I agree with most of what you said, however in America it usually about race before class. No matter how rich you are in NYC that won’t stop the police from going up side your held for the slightest perceived infraction. It won’t stop some white store clerk who you can buy many times over from following you up and down the store.
White skin privledge is so very real. It’s what this country is built on (after Capitilism of course).
Bomber, you know we’ve arrived when idiots have no specific race or creed. I actually have my doubts in this case, I think we have a troll “passing”. In any case, home grown or imported, a jerk is a jerk and can’t be taken seriously. If we ignore it, it may go away, although I doubt it. More than likely he will cause Mr. B. to shut us down, which is too bad.
1. As far as population. NYC and NY state have been again loosing population. That was a short lived phenomenon. But I’m not sure you could use that to prove anything one way or another.
2. As far as the success of “trickle-down” policy. You are engaging in forced amnesia if you try to pretend that the pre tax reduction years were in any way better for the vast majority of Americans. Go to BLS and go through the stats. Most of us can’t remember anymore 9% unemployment, or the idea that people really did go hungry in the US on a regular basis. The very idea that type II diabetes would plague the poor would have been inconceivable then.
3. As far as:
“Even if one or two high end buildings has[sic] to slightly drop their rates a bit in order to sell, that means only that an apartment dropped from 2 mil down to 1.5. Hardly trickle down, and hardly a blip on the statistical radar.”
If you can comprehend that a modest increase in supply can cause a 25% drop in price, then how can you pretend not to understand that a 200% increase in construction would create an even more significant drop in price. Follow this logic through yourself. Imagine if the supply was increased 1000%. How would that affect prices?
That’s just simple supply and demand. And to agrue against it is, well, pretty impressive. I guess you and the “tenants of communism” guy can smoke up a few and come up with some other creative stuff.
“‘Even if one or two high end buildings has[sic] to slightly drop their rates a bit in order to sell, that means only that an apartment dropped from 2 mil down to 1.5. Hardly trickle down, and hardly a blip on the statistical radar.’
If you can comprehend that a modest increase in supply can cause a 25% drop in price, then how can you pretend not to understand that a 200% increase in construction would create an even more significant drop in price.”
But Josh, my hypothetical apartment example was to prove the point that a drop from 2 to 1.5 mil means absolutely nothing to the person looking for an apartment for around 200K. It may be a great deal for the guy in the corner office, it’s not getting down to the guy who brings him his coffee. Somehow I’m cynical enough to think that even if we built on every last lot in this city, there would still be plenty of people left out. It’s not whether or not you build, it’s who you build for. If everyone leaves the Dakota for DUMBO, they still aren’t going to let me move there.
And I’m not a tenant of communism, whatever that means. I’d just like some consideration for the vast majority of New Yorkers who are not in the top earning brackets, but without whom this fair city could not run.
BrownBomber you just sound like a run of the mill old House Nigga.
Sorry about the double post….
It’s about class not race. I’m African-American and I’m all for affordable housing but I have to agree with the previous post: “if you are priced out of a certain area, you can either work harder to afford it or move somewhere more affordable.”
And “Poor Black Man…”, stop with the name calling and scapeqoating, you’re an embarrassment to the race! Like I’ve said previously on this blogsite, America is the greatest country on this earth and is the land of opportunity. The reason why some of us fail to take advantage of the many opportunities that this nation provides is because opportunity is often disguised as hard work. Don’t complain and COMPETE! To you self loathers, get off you lazy butts, get an education, get a solid job, marry, raise your children right, support your communities and stop with the freak’n whining! Life is tough and it’s even tougher for black folks but so what?!?!? Suck it up, handle it and work hard to carve out a better future for yourself and your family!! Must we always play the role of perpetual victim!!?!? I’m sick and tired of it! Stop begging and demanding! You must TAKE, TAKE, TAKE through self-help! If you don’t want to help yourself than no one is going to help you! Period! That’s the world we live in!
All the black people I know get this but there is a certain segment of the underclass that does not. They’re living in a fantasy world!
There is a reason why our people remain at the bottom of every socio-economic indicator and it’s not all because of racism and discrimination. For the most part, the fault lies at our foot step and we as a people need to start looking in the mirror. There is something in our culture that needs to be changed. When we no longer value the institution of family, no longer respect the rule of law, no longer value education as a means of social ascendancy, then there is something seriously wrong WITH US.
I apologize in advance for the tirade but I’m sick and tired of all the BS on this thread today.