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The Crap-O-Sphere ("Crappy")
Artwork by Jerry Rotondi
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The Crap-O-Sphere ("Crappy")
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Blog Archive
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- Putting the cuffs on realtors
- Two ugly Queens libraries
- Astoria: more people, less cops
- AM-NY visits Glendale
- How not to publish a newspaper, part 1
- Destroying old nabes to build new ones
- Willets Point wasteland
- Commercial Crap, part 2
- Campaign contribution cap
- Crapping just got easier
- Bayside Donovan's not closing
- "Building Boom-Doggle" series concludes
- And more on condos...
- LIC industrial relic
- Spitzer open to traffic plan
- Condo, condo, condo
- Daily News tackles worker exploitation
- Bloomie booed in Little Neck
- Blue collar job list
- Big brother is watching
- Gianaris for city council?
- Forest Hills Memorial Day Parade Slideshow
- Goodbye my Coney Island baby
- Damage to public street trees
- Part 2 of Daily News report on builders
- Anniversary of repeal of Commuter Tax
- Is QW just a middle class mirage?
- Dennis the deadbeat
- Banker's revenge
- Is New York ready for this?
- The origins of Memorial Day
- Playing politics with patriotism
- Daily News exposes developer abuses
- Bright light dims once again at FMCP
- When home renovations go wrong
- St. Albans and Hollis to be rezoned
- Bayside business closings
- Leonard's of Flushing
- NYC home ownership higher than ever
- Let's play a game...part 2
- A home run for Wright
- Remember our fallen
- CB 12: Gas is good, builder is bad
- Helen sticks her 2 cents in
- Overdeveloping over breakfast
- Avella not backing down
- Jamaica Bank hearing
- Off-limits backyard
- Sailor Boy Marty
- Traffic report
- Rego Park lot building starts
- The new ugly library in Elmhurst
- The REAL Queens Crap express
- Avella's pool problem over
- Domino Sugar Factory calendared
- Calling Poland Spring
- Crap of the future
- Peregrine chicks hatch on Throgs Neck
- Village pillage
- Brooklyn Brewery being priced out
- The fleet is in
- It cost $22 million and it's ugly
- Developing Downtown Brooklyn
- Cop can't afford city living
- Quinn hires disbarred attorney
- Crap, man!
- Breaking News: City lied about UR houses
- Commuter comparison
- Johnny Liu wants to tax you
- The Green Church in peril
- Fat clown cleans house
- More green for city - as in money
- Gary & Joe: big libs in Congress
- New park for Billyburg
- Just say no to flyers
- Crap in the back
- Super-sized grid
- Hip hop history
- It's a small world after all
- L of a problem
- How to get on Bloomie's good side
- Rockaway is city's cleanest beach
- Auburndale atrocity, part 2
- Affording to be affordable
- Downtown placard abuse
- Land use battle in Bellmore
- From rags to riches?
- JFK train derailed
- Greenwich Village wants more landmarks
- 10,000 sq ft with Queens Crap potential
- Gas pipe still not protected
- City's most wanted high school
- Denied access
- Not "fore"-warned
- Inside the Corona railyard
- Low Voltage
- Ravenswood farmhouse is history
- Reservoir to become nature preserve
- Gianaris says no to gerrymandering
- You want crap with that?
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8 comments:
Here is a radical idea: if the developers need all sorts of city services to get their buildings up (you know, City Planning, our elected offiicial's time and attention, etc.) and the taxpayers to ensure that a project is profitable (you know, paying all the infrastructure bills as hospitals, schools, subways, etc) why doesn't the city pass a bill that all projects beyond a certain size must have an 'affordable' component?
A little public pressure on the polticians and no problem, right?
I still like the idea, and will say it over and over again: cut taxes and the breadwinner will have more money for rent which will make housing more affordable for 100,000s overnight.
That tired old "cut taxes" chestnut? Please spare us. The people who really need affordable housing don't pay that much in taxes, so a tax cut might pay for 1/10th of one month's rent. Meanwhile, tax cuts will mean less money for schools and other services.
Please don't "say it over and over again," without telling us exactly how much money your planned tax cut will save a family that's eligible for affordable housing.
All housing is affordable. It's just a matter of WHO can afford it.
Well, if, the entire country has embraced tax cutting ... years ago.
Besides, you would be hard pressed to find a parent that, if given the choice between paying taxes (we all know how efficient the government is, don't we?) and buying something for their kids, or affording something a little extra in housing, guess how they would vote?
If you want a cut in taxes....move to Podunk!
It's where our NYC taxes go that's a big problem!
They certainly don't go into making the quality of essential services in our city better!
This simplistic broad stroke of "cutting taxes" is as illusionary as Dorothy and the Tin Man dragging themselves to the Emerald City seeking the Wizzard to fix it all....magically!
C-mon folks...let's grow up and use our brains not our sense of anger and frustration!
Well, we have one person who likes paying taxes on this board.
As to the other 99% of us?
The point is the healthiest growth in this country, the place that people are moving to, are places that keep taxes low.
You might add, those are also the places where everthing from building to rent is a hell of a lot cheaper than NYC.
Remember, a signficant factor in the extraordinary cost of housing in this city is the tax component.
And a good deal of our taxes are wasted or used as ice cream money to tweed.
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