Catching Up on the Bedford Avenue Building Boom
In recent years, the Orthodox community that has traditionally lived in South Williamsburg has expanded south into parts of Bed Stuy and Clinton Hill. Nowhere is this building boom more obvious than on Bedford Avenue between Willoughby and Flushing, where eight buildings (by our count) are currently under construction or reaching completion. And, by and…
In recent years, the Orthodox community that has traditionally lived in South Williamsburg has expanded south into parts of Bed Stuy and Clinton Hill. Nowhere is this building boom more obvious than on Bedford Avenue between Willoughby and Flushing, where eight buildings (by our count) are currently under construction or reaching completion. And, by and large, they’re pretty fugly. GMAP
Not only does the hassidic community receive welfare on a large scale, but also subsidized housing and preferrential treatment in medicaid programs. You can get those perks too if you can make 30 thousand or so people vote like clones at the wave of a hand. People, ironically, who have no particular allegiance to this nation whatsoever.
So…a Satmar can think a non-Hared Israeli Jew should be killed, and can even go so far as to fund/support the Palestinian groups who do that. Yet, it is anti-Semitic to criticize the Satmar community. I think people are confused today about what tolerance really means. And some Jews are too sensitive about criticism of any Jew, even members of a ridiculous and, in terms of modern standards of morality, despicable community.
I almost hate to sully myself with this whole thread, but just for the record, when I became a cop in 1982, we were given stats to show how many of us had preconceived biases that had no basis in reality. One of the things that came up was that the orthodox Jewish community in 1982 had the highest per capita rate of being on public assistance. No one in the class had guessed that, instead focusing on Blacks or Hispanics. I can’t speak for stats later than that, nor could I even prove the city’s figures at the time, but that is the figure that the city was providing. It is also interesting to note that if you check the voter rolls, many of the dorms for local Yeshivas list literally hundreds of occupants for small two or three story houses. As in any insular community, the potential for fraud is enormous. The community is going to bond together and stonewall any outsiders who they perceive as going after one of their own.
Bottom line, some Hasidics Jews are scumbuckets, but then again, so are some Italians, Irish, Blacks, Asians, etc. As far as ugly architecture, They certainly don’t hold exclusive rights. Drive through Bensonhurst someday.
4:11 I spent years in every welfare office in NYC including those that service the Williamsburg zip codes, processed thousands of housing applications, made countless home visits to welfare recipients throughout the city. I know the population and the city very well. There are no checks, but electronic payments for entire households. Beleive me, a very small percentage of these people that are being disparaged receive welfare. Let me add, that dispite the popular misconception – illegal aliens receive no benefits other than emergency medical care.
Retired welfare worker
lol “I know deep down you hate jews” lol
Dont try and group us ” blacks and Hispanics” into your mess.
The structures are butt fucking ugly period
BTW I don’t even care that your racist or anti-semitic; I just can’t stand the TOTAL B.S. pseudo enlightened liberalism that pervades Brownstoner and the condescending and arrogant way in which it is expressed on virtually every topic – I already knew deep down you hated the Jews (and really way down past the guilt – the Blacks and Hispanics too)
4:11, How do you know how many and what kinds of people in any given hood are receiving welfare? Are you at every single location at all times? Did you scan welfare rolls looking for data on ethnicity? Though more whites nationally are on welfare and a large number welfare recipients in NYC are of people of color, I don’t knwo how you would know that most hasids do not collect welfare. btw: one one person in the family would collect. Their kids don’t get a check.
4:23 – WHICH ethnic group?? – why are you shy? apparently its okay and not racist to discuss your issues with various ethnic groups here…..
I’m the one who told you anti-semitic losers to STFU yet I’m not even Jewish but you got to love 4:13s post – wonder if you make jokes about Blacks loving Watermelon too.