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    Image of MoeGolden MoeGolden
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    Well, you knew it would increase the value of your property.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    Wait till the homeless eat the daisies.
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    Image of LeeMarvinsPants LeeMarvinsPants
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    I would go there, and bring my Miller High-Life.
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    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    It's not even that fun - it's a 10 minute stroll with a lot of people. I could just ride the LIRR to Jamaica and walk up & down the platform.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    If Central Park can get the majority of its funding from the rich (and it's a skillion times bigger with more benches/statues/water/castles to maintain), then surely the High Line people can twist a few well-toned arms into paying.
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    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    This is my nabe - thanks Kevin Bacon, Amanda Burden, DVF, Barry Diller and Ethan fucking Hawke for the crowds - now with extra taxes!

    I mean they could JUST WRITE A CHECK.

    Nail on the head, HN
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    I haven't been to New York since the park opened, but what I've read about all the shagging in hotel and apartment windows suggests that setting up pay telescopes and binoculars in the park would cover the money troubles right quick.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    Oh, the richers and their weekend hobbies.

    I'm guessing taking bread from the mouths of indigent settlers and smacking babies with diamond pinkie rings are only weekday obligations.
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    Image of maddoxhair maddoxhair
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    why don't they just lock out the poors?
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    07/30/09

    @maddoxhair: That's the way they do it in the free beach Golden State, with Geffen's locked gates to all that pristine Malibu sand the public owns.
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    Image of MoeGolden MoeGolden
    07/30/09

    @maddoxhair: Because the entrance points already seem to do that by de-facto.
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    Image of noonecaresowen noonecaresowen
    07/30/09

    @Tremonius: I'm almost positive he lost that battle.
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    Tremonius promoted this comment noonecaresowen was starred noonecaresowen was unstarred
    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    07/31/09

    @noonecaresowen: Yes, but only after Doonsebury took it up!
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    Image of HouseBunnny HouseBunnny
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    They could plant vast tracts of cotton, which the neighbors could hoe, harvest and sell, thereby paying for its upkeep -and- making cultural reparations, simultaneously.
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    Image of Fry_Bread_Power Fry_Bread_Power
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    But how, pray tell, am I to stay rich if I have to keep paying for stuff??
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    Image of flossy flossy
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    Sad as it is, the first thing I thought when I saw the renovated High Line was how much of a pain in the ass it would be to maintain. The problem with all the beautiful Diller Scofidio-designed doodads is that every custom-made driking fountain, light fixture, bench and rolling chaise is that much more expensive to fix or replace than the standard-issue equivalent.

    Not that that's any excuse. This is the sexiest park to open in New York in decades, and it's smack dab in the middle of a very posh part of town. Get a better development dept. and start shaking down those rich neighbors in style.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    They should put down some tracks and run a train line through that park. It would pay for itself.
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    Image of HenryLovesFonzie HenryLovesFonzie
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    "The annual fee for the owner of a 1,000-square-foot apartment would range from $30 to $90, depending on where they live."

    I live at 20th & 9th in about 450 square feet. What would be my annual fee? Or would you just like to give me money instead since you feel sorry I'm living in less than 1,000 square feet? (SERIOUSLY, WHO HAS THAT MUCH SPACE IN THE CITY??) Let me know, I'm willing to take donations.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    07/30/09

    @HenryLovesFonzie: I remember one of those hard-hitting broadcast news "reports" which detailed the life of a poor secretary who was shut out of a tax refund project. She was seen to be properly cute and black and she whined, oh, it's like a kick in the teeth. And just off-screen some realist was exasperating, "But she pays no taxes! The percentage of refunds calculated on zero is properly zilch!"
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    Image of Queen of the Passive Aggressives Queen of the Passive Aggressives
    07/30/09

    In reply to Ed Norton, The Furstenburgs Want Neighbors to Pay For Their Park
    I will pay $20 to see Ed Norton sunbath.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    07/30/09

    @Queen of the Passive Aggressives:

    AMERICAN HISTORY X Edward Norton sunbathing could probably generate a decent income for their overrated little park.
    Edward Norton as he customarily looks these days? Probably not.
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