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SalmanRushdie
07/13/09

In reply to Williamsburg: The New Epicenter of the Housing Crisis
Two people mentioned in this article, Jamie Wiseman and Jacob Sacks, are actually scumbag Bushwick slumlords who buy up whole blocks and evict the Hispanic families who have been there for 20 years. This is the capital that laid the foundation for their Williamsburg purchases. I can't believe he passes himself off as poor in this article. What a dirtbag.
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hamburgerhotdog
07/13/09

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Anyone notice a new upcropping of nasty crusty punks sitting on the corners of W-burg. Guess where they'll be squatting!
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Perhaps Not
07/13/09

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"All of these vacant new developments" oughtta be the tag on any story about W.burg.
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PerinealFavorite
07/13/09

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This is good news. I watched all these buildings start construction over the last couple years and wondered "How the hell do they think all these extra people are going to fit on the train?" The L is already bursting at the seams every morning. Not everyone can be a free-lance web designer working from home.
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rockandhardPL
07/13/09

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I think the biggest problem too is that there are no schools in Williamburg worth anything. That is the saviour of places like Park Slope and Carroll Gardens. Williamsburg relied on hipsters with trust funds and d'bags with big time incomes. Unfortunately those two groups are now anxiously wondering what happens when the fund runs out, or when the umemployment expires, or both.
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gawkimo
07/13/09

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On the bright side, the downturn has also halted a considerable amount of mustache development. . . and cheap, shitty beer is now being drunk unironically.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
07/13/09

In reply to Williamsburg: The New Epicenter of the Housing Crisis
hud apartments? rent control? government affordable housing programs? the rebirth of mitchell-lama?

srsly, if those developers made a deal with the city to convert to affordable housing, it would be so full of win

why not add these doomed buildings to the list of affordable units?

http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/apartment/mitchell-lama.shtml

What is Mitchell-Lama?

Created in 1955, the Mitchell-Lama program provides affordable rental and cooperative housing to moderate- and middle-income families.

Mitchell-Lama Building in Manhattan

There are 101 City-sponsored, moderate- and middle-income rental and limited-equity cooperative developments in New York City, almost 46,000 units. HPD supervises waiting lists, management issues, and has other oversight responsibilities for 80 Mitchell-Lama developments; an additional 21 developments have shared supervision by HPD and the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Iron Gossett Jr.
07/13/09

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: Yeah, I'm sure the neighbors would love the effect it would have on their property values.
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momof3wildkids
07/13/09

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: I'd also like to add Habitat for Humanity as an organization that should look into this.
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Solomon Grundy
07/13/09

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: Rent control? In a city and state ruled by our Big Real Estate overlords?

One of the biggest scams in real estate involves developers renting failed properties to the City's Department of Homeless Services at way-above-market rents (such as $2700 a month for a small place in the shittiest part of Crown Heights). So it's actually often in the financial interests of these greed-blind speculators to convert failed condos to housing for the homeless, rather than affordable housing for the lower middle class or working poor. Luckily, the working poor are swiftly swelling the ranks of the homeless, thus becoming eligible for the chrome monstrosities that displaced them. And everybody wins. By losing.
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BadUncle
07/13/09

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: A sensible solution. I toast you with a Michelada:

12 oz beer

juice of 1 lemons

2 dashes Worcestershire sauce

1 dash soy sauce

1 dash Tabasco® sauce

1 pinch black peppers

salt
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
07/13/09

@BadUncle: yum. thnx!
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
07/13/09

@momof3wildkids: habitat is an awesome org. yes. definitely. have them come and help make these abandoned wrecks into homes for people who need homes.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
07/13/09

@RealTomatoKetchup: some of the most stable and desirable neighborhoods and developments in the city are anchored by mitchell lama buildings and other developments built for the middle class to, u know, have homes and raise families. the people who are the backbone of a community, the people who are there for generations, and have a stake in the place ... the people that places like hoboken, which used to be like bburg in bars per capita after the manufacturing bust there turned it into hipsterville west, are struggling to attract and keep

the lack of affordable middle class housing for working people and families and the jobs that go with them are the biggest structural weaknesses in the nyc economy. wall st is a gaping black hole now, metaphorically and financially. the 50k support jobs underlying all that are gone now too

if ny is going to be more than a frat house for traders, the city needs housing at all economic levels: for the young and just starting (non trust funded) for the old and independent, for the teachers, cops ... all the people in those kids' books about "my town" ... the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker.

they all need jobs and homes. and thin crust coal oven pizza with fresh basil too
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
07/13/09

@Solomon Grundy: that unfortunately is all true and isn't as out of control scam and stealing as it used to be in the days when the martinique in herald square was charging thousands to house the homeless and providing squalid conditions

better housing for more people = better nyc
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allyzay
07/13/09

@RealTomatoKetchup: what do you think the vacancies are doing to their property values? raising them?
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Iron Gossett Jr.
07/13/09

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: I wasn't trying to say that your idea was without heart or merit. I'm just guessing that "Adjacent to HUD housing!!!" isn't something you're going to start seeing on apartment ads.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
07/13/09

In reply to Williamsburg: The New Epicenter of the Housing Crisis
"Waiter, there's a lot of really bad hair in my soup."
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Fishnets and Cigarettes
07/13/09

In reply to Williamsburg: The New Epicenter of the Housing Crisis
that guy in the picture is a douche
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Private Hangnail
07/13/09

In reply to Williamsburg: The New Epicenter of the Housing Crisis
To quote Auntie Entity (as played by Tina Turner) in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, "...but how the world turns! One day cock of the walk, next, feather duster."
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Solomon Grundy
07/13/09

@Private Hangnail: Hahaha I love you for immediately Tina Turnerizing this thread.
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Foster Kamer
06/17/09

In reply to Senatorial Affair Revealed Thanks to Housing Crisis
And the place I laid my hat for the first 18 years. Get this: I've actually been to an Ensign fundraiser (not by choice); it was for his first senatorial campaign, and it was at this really shady Vegas contractor's extraordinarily gauche house. I think he wanted it to be kind of like a farm, or something, but that's hard to do when you live fifteen minutes from the strip. Anyway: They had good BBQ! I imagine it's gotten better.
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bytememehard
06/17/09

In reply to Senatorial Affair Revealed Thanks to Housing Crisis
She did alright for herself: [www.nhatky.in]
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FormerEnglishMajor
06/17/09

In reply to Senatorial Affair Revealed Thanks to Housing Crisis
You know this is the guy who was all over Bill Clinton and calling on him to resign after the M. Lewinsky stuff, and same thing with Mr. Wide Stance Larry Craig. So now he will have to call on himself to resign.
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everfade
12/31/08

In reply to Obamas Find Home!
I wonder if Bush will get his full security deposit back?
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Baroness
12/31/08

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I like to imagine Michelle smashing in a tv with an electric guitar, or driving a Rolls-Royce into the swimming pool. This probably won't happen.
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Dr. Nick
12/31/08

@Baroness:

this is how I picture Bush by the end of January:

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Baroness
12/31/08

@Dr. Nick: Classic. Barbara Bush certainly is an indulgent mommy, no?
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