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
It is not anti-Semetic to hate fugly buildings.
I’m not-antisemetic in the least, 1:28. I am simply anti anyone who feels the need to continue to overpopulate the earth for their own selfish reasons, religious or otherwise. The same applies to all creeds, ethnicities, and races. This is not dust bowl era Nebraska where you need ten children to help run the farm. This is modern, urban America and some traditions just need to evolve to meet the times.
1:04, popping out offspring–as many as is humanly possible–is these folks’ raison d’etre. I recently read in the Times that many Hasidim are dismayed these days because the average output per family has plunged–to six.
On the lighter side, while these folks’ facial expressions generally range from dour to scowling, it’s fun to realize that they are boinking bareback like bunnies, day-in, day-out.
I wonder if, under their crazy, strict rules, they are allowed to enjoy it? 🙂
1:04 a truely classy comment, anti semitism is a lovely thing. we will stop trying to “shoot” these things out, if it sickens you so much. you can go to the middle east, they have done a pretty good job of wiping out the jewish populations that have existed there for thousands of years, or perhaps mississippi where there are more dumbf**ks as yourself
The cages are also often littered with junk. I saw a plastic Playskool type tricycle hanging out of one last year. These people need to stop shooting out 8 kids per household and putting up this crap to house them. Regardless of your religious beliefs that behavior is sickening and these places suck.
“the cages are to prevent the young from escaping.”
Interesting metaphor for their culture…
the cages are to prevent the young from escaping.
A friend suggested that the cages are to prevent little kids from falling out of the windows. Every family has a bunch of kids and I guess they’re concerned about safety. Also, I’ve seen little kids sitting in the cages reading or hanging out, so maybe it doubles as a place to stick a kid when you want it to get fresh air but you don’t have time to go the park.
Yet these buildings are nicer then the older buildings surrounding them – seems like we are moving in the right direction.