Showing posts with label Community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Community. Show all posts
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Monday, October 6, 2014
Hedge Funds, The Rich, and the Social Cleansing of Vibrant Neighborhoods
The Rich, Hedge Funds, and Real Estate Developers engaged in "Social Cleansing" of neighborhoods in London. Same thing here in New York, and in San Francisco.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Sometimes The Little Guy Wins
This is a post from the blog Scouting New York
http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=6495
http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=6495
www.scoutingny.com
Friday, March 29, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Tenant Association Meeting
Are you or do you know someone who lives in one of the buildings that Ben Shaoul sold to Jared Kushner? The Tenants Associations of 118 and 120 East 4th Street are looking to get together with other tenants in the same parcel of buildings for a Super Tenants Association Meeting. The idea is to meet, connect, talk about our past experiences, and consider what we may expect in the future. Our goal is to establish a network of support and information sharing.
Please email Claire at:
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Rich vs Poor
While our landlord, building code violator Ben Shaoul, has (along with Magnum Real Estate partner Marc Ravner) turned one townhouse into a $10.7M six-bedroom, nine-bath home for one family, Mayor Bloomberg wants to change current regulations in order to squeeze the non-wealthy, non-celebrity tenants into tiny 275 square foot "micro" units. It is so obscene. And maybe this is why there is a shortage of housing in New York City.
RICH vs POOR
Monday, July 23, 2012
Call to oppose NYU Expansion Plan
There are many reasons to oppose the NYU expansion plan for Greenwich Village. Councilmember Margaret Chin is key to this; she must be told to back down and oppose the plan. Call her at 212-587-3159 or 212-788-7259. Also, City Council Speaker Quinn at 212-564-7757 or 212-788-7210.
(from the website of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/nyu/nyu-07-19-12.htm):
(from the website of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/nyu/nyu-07-19-12.htm):
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The 8 Rs outside the former Cabrini Center
The EV Grieve blog carries this photo of the former Cabrini Nursing Home, which is undergoing renovation to rentals by our landlord Ben Shaoul. His market-rate rentals subsidize his "luxury" developments.
photo credit: EV Grieve
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Monstrous Development: NYU Ethos Mirrors Rampant City Real Estate
What do these remind you of? asked Mark Crispin Miller, NYU professor of media studies, holding up a story from the New York Times entitled "Back In Business": A familiar gesture, the middle finger, the 1%, he said of the photographs of tall condo towers sticking up high above their city neighborhoods.
The rapacious real estate interests which run rampant throughout the city are now threatening to destroy the beloved character of Greenwich Village.
photo credit: McNally Jackson
Miller's remarks were made to more than 80 people packed into Little Italy bookstore McNally Jackson [http://mcnallyjackson.com/] yesterday evening to hear readings from While We Were Sleeping. A compilation of essays by long-time denizens of Greenwich Village, proceeds from its sale will support opposition to "the Sexton Plan", as Mark Crispin Miller calls NYU president John Sexton's "2031 Plan". It's not an NYU plan, Miller said, pointing out that a majority of NYU faculty, departments, and divisions is against it. While NYU recruiters are still using the gardens and parks of Greenwich Village to rope in new students, the "2031 plan" would destroy those and the very charm of Greenwich Village that attracts students there in the first place.
The 2.2 million square feet planned by Sexton for 2 blocks in Greenwich Village (millions of square feet more is planned for elsewhere in the city) is irrational and gratuitous, said Miller, as it is not needed. He warned against a predicted "compromise plan" which would be still be extremely destructive.
Reading from his essay, Peter Carey, NYU creative writing teacher, said it doesn't make one a Luddite to recognize that unnecessary growth is killing the planet and the very thing that one is caring for. Kevin Baker, writer, asked Why must we apologize for the beauty we cherish before the powerful and the greedy, who look only to build bigger and taller meaningless buildings. Poet Eileen Myles, in an essay read by actor Jefferson May, decried NYU's belief that the NYC neighborhood is their campus. Fran Lebowitz, social-political critic and biting humorist, spoke off the cuff in a wide-ranging diatribe that brought thundering applause and whoops of appreciation. With billionaire Mayor Bloomberg, she said, words have disappeared from our language: no-one speaks anymore of "money-grubbing" and "dirty money". But there is no "clean money", she said. People don't "earn" a billion dollars, they steal it. She criticized Bloomberg for his intention of lowering the mandated minimum square footage for city apartments in order to force people to live in shoeboxes. Laws show the values of the country, she remarked.
The book, While We Were Sleeping, is available at McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street, where proprietor Sarah McNally is producing it. Priced at $10, purchasers are encouraged to contribute more to support the cause against NYU's Sexton Plan. Contributions to NYU FACULTY SAY NO TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE VILLAGE can be made at http://nyufasp.com/
The rapacious real estate interests which run rampant throughout the city are now threatening to destroy the beloved character of Greenwich Village.
photo credit: McNally Jackson
Miller's remarks were made to more than 80 people packed into Little Italy bookstore McNally Jackson [http://mcnallyjackson.com/] yesterday evening to hear readings from While We Were Sleeping. A compilation of essays by long-time denizens of Greenwich Village, proceeds from its sale will support opposition to "the Sexton Plan", as Mark Crispin Miller calls NYU president John Sexton's "2031 Plan". It's not an NYU plan, Miller said, pointing out that a majority of NYU faculty, departments, and divisions is against it. While NYU recruiters are still using the gardens and parks of Greenwich Village to rope in new students, the "2031 plan" would destroy those and the very charm of Greenwich Village that attracts students there in the first place. The 2.2 million square feet planned by Sexton for 2 blocks in Greenwich Village (millions of square feet more is planned for elsewhere in the city) is irrational and gratuitous, said Miller, as it is not needed. He warned against a predicted "compromise plan" which would be still be extremely destructive.
Reading from his essay, Peter Carey, NYU creative writing teacher, said it doesn't make one a Luddite to recognize that unnecessary growth is killing the planet and the very thing that one is caring for. Kevin Baker, writer, asked Why must we apologize for the beauty we cherish before the powerful and the greedy, who look only to build bigger and taller meaningless buildings. Poet Eileen Myles, in an essay read by actor Jefferson May, decried NYU's belief that the NYC neighborhood is their campus. Fran Lebowitz, social-political critic and biting humorist, spoke off the cuff in a wide-ranging diatribe that brought thundering applause and whoops of appreciation. With billionaire Mayor Bloomberg, she said, words have disappeared from our language: no-one speaks anymore of "money-grubbing" and "dirty money". But there is no "clean money", she said. People don't "earn" a billion dollars, they steal it. She criticized Bloomberg for his intention of lowering the mandated minimum square footage for city apartments in order to force people to live in shoeboxes. Laws show the values of the country, she remarked.
The book, While We Were Sleeping, is available at McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street, where proprietor Sarah McNally is producing it. Priced at $10, purchasers are encouraged to contribute more to support the cause against NYU's Sexton Plan. Contributions to NYU FACULTY SAY NO TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE VILLAGE can be made at http://nyufasp.com/
Friday, July 13, 2012
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Jane Says
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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