'Slumlike Conditions' in Foreclosed Slope Building
The Daily News had an article on a group of tenants who live in 294 Fifth Avenue in the Slope and say conditions in the rent-controlled building have deteriorated since the property went into foreclosure a couple years ago and a receiver was appointed to take care of it. The building’s boiler, for example, didn’t…
The Daily News had an article on a group of tenants who live in 294 Fifth Avenue in the Slope and say conditions in the rent-controlled building have deteriorated since the property went into foreclosure a couple years ago and a receiver was appointed to take care of it. The building’s boiler, for example, didn’t work for three weeks this winter, and the front-door lock is broken. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio held a news conference yesterday to support the tenants in seeking a court order that would force the receiver to make repairs. According to the article: “The slumlike conditions at 294 Fifth Ave. spotlight a growing concern: smaller apartment buildings that fall into disrepair in part because the building is overleveraged. ‘We think this is a growing problem around the city that the banks and lenders are not taking responsibility for,’ said de Blasio.”
Park Slope Tenants, de Blasio Team Up to Force Building Repairs [NY Daily News]
for anyone who wants the cliffs notes version of this thread:
there’s some rich people bitching about poor people
then some slightly less rich people bitching about richer people bitching about poor people.
i also learned most rent controlled people are actually rich, except for the ones who become complacent working crummy jobs, because they never need to advance because they pay low rent.
i liked that whitey’s on the moon poem. it really spoke to me on a very deep and visceral level. whenever a moonface gets gets on my nerve, from now im im not going to get angry and sad im just going to reply to them that they are on the moon. what is that from?
*rob*
“By Jaguar on May 10, 2011 6:05 PM
Damn straight I dismissed that hedgefund motherfucker. The nerve of somebody who works on hedge funds bitching about rent control. ”
Jaguar;
Could you help me make sure I got your lesson straight: we aren’t supposed to generalize about someone because of their economic status. Is that right?
Damn right. I worked hard all my life to get where I am. I didn’t come from wealthy family and basically put myself through school.
Rent control just about tops the list of moronic economic policies.
And regarding colonization, it’s not always bad. Even under the Italians, Ethiopia never starved.
Damn straight I dismissed that hedgefund motherfucker. The nerve of somebody who works on hedge funds bitching about rent control.
DIBS – you just got dismissed. Please see the principal at once.
There you go again DIBS suggesting that she shouldn’t complain and take what you consider to be personal responsibility because she’s getting something for practically nothing. You have the typical attitude of a colonizer and I think you are, frankly, beneath my contempt. Accordingly, I will no longer have any comment to anything you say other than a blanket disagreement.
Khadafi
Quaddafi
The other day I mentioned to a few people, a teacher and a lawyer among them, how Beijing and Peking are the same city, only spelled differently phonetically to our Western ears. They’d never noticed that.
I want you to get mad. I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot. I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crying in the streets. All I know is first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say, “I’m a human being. God Dammit, my life has value.” So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”