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The Crap-O-Sphere ("Crappy")
Artwork by Jerry Rotondi
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- NYPD shoots dangerous parolee
- Afternoon fire in Woodside
- Astoria not too thrilled with state budget
- From the point of Hunters Point
- Bronx 911 call center still delayed
- Queens jobless numbers bad, but Bronx is worst
- Lobbyists not affected by recession
- Sears' window
- Con Ed "on it" at Willets Point!
- Outside CitiField
- Willets Point Cleanup Day slideshow & videos
- A $1,000,000 billboard
- New street signs are confusing Hamilton Beach
- Work drying up for film industry
- Battle over Marty's $64M potato chip
- Klein threatens teacher cuts
- What you can't do in CitiField...
- Happy Birthday, Queensboro Bridge!
- North Shore Towers concerned about antennas
- Morgan needs a home
- Ridgewood gets preservation attention
- Bloomie plays the name game
- Rego Park robber on the loose
- Leave off the last S for "strapped"
- Forest Hills crap owners threaten to move or sue
- Frank Lloyd Crap discovers Bed-Stuy
- CB13 concerned about apt building cell tower
- Shocker: Contractor cheated employees
- Victim plants kiss on Hiram in court
- The fuel of the future?
- Despite fines, NYC still full of crap
- Man wins lotto by playing Madoff's number
- A super amazing crap pile!
- Workers remove 17,000 lbs. of crap from Willets Point
- Whitestone Bridge closed both directions
- Dems may take up collection for Hiram
- Bloomberg orders 4 more firehouses closed
- Rockaway projects to get better surveillance
- If at first you don't succeed...
- Money is no object for NY State or NYC
- City has worst unemployment numbers since 1993
- We must be in bad shape...
- Budget cuts even affect the dead
- 110th Precinct looking out for us!
- Since it's (almost) Friday...
- City sends sanitation army to Willets Point
- Community group to fix Rockaway firehouse
- Council no-shows
- Ratner's architect thinks Atlantic Yards won't happen
- Close call in Whitestone
- Tuberculosis thriving in Queens
- Mets screwing Little Leaguers
- Huang House site now treacherous for pedestrians
- Willets Point cleanup this Friday at 12 noon
- Ridgewood Theatre to reopen in July
- When Manhattan had white picket fences
- City to seize Vietnam Veteran's property for devel...
- LPC's latest crock o'crap
- DOB's royal screwjob
- Former hospital staff still without jobs
- Rockaway island builder donated to pols
- The title says it all
- SCA admits Maspeth school won't cater to locals
- Flagpole is more than meets the eye
- Two-Ton Tony in more trouble
- Cyclists causing problem for walkers on bridge path
- More hotel headaches in Dutch Kills
- Addition turns into new building
- New York is not free in more ways than one
- Queens nabes among first to get new water meters
- A must read about the Crooked Clubhouse
- Multi-family home sales fell in 2008
- Die-hard Mets fan knows the score at Willets Point
- MONSERRATE INDICTED
- Sob story will get you in Section 331
- Gang leaders face death penalty for 2007 Flushing ...
- Schools not helping non-English speaking kids
- 'H To The O Double-L-I-S'
- Guarding the fort
- Homeless drop-in facility for LIC
- "We didn't realize it was landmarked."
- Fedders at Queens Plaza!
- First butterfly of Spring!
- Elephant parade tomorrow night
- The booming borough
- Possible conflict of interest for councilman
- DEP does nothing about sewage problem for a year
- Pistilli still a real pisser
- Bloomberg shocks bike riders
- Parking meter rates raised
- Photoshop gone horribly wrong
- Car crashes into Corona laundromat
- He's on his way...
- Javits Center project approved
- 400 city hospital jobs to be slashed
- Removal of street parking may affect business
- Another group home for Richmond Hill
- Idlewild is "Park of the Month"
- Diversity exhibit at Queens Center
- ROAD TRIP!!!
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17 comments:
This piece is entirely Manhattan-centric. There are plenty of good, affordable middle-class areas in the outer-boroughs. To say there are no good options for middle-class families in NYC is an insult to the middle-class neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn.
That is not the point.
A steady drumbeat of this - while we do everything to let the world know that immigrants are welcome even if they are illegal, lets the clubouse design communities to fit its fancy.
California is also losing people in droves.
I wonder why?
"To say there are no good options for middle-class families in NYC is an insult to the middle-class neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn."
FYI - The neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn are being so OVER DEVELOPED no sane person would want to live in those areas. I live in Queens near St. John's Univ our way of life has been severly impacted by the development of the college.
As soon as the housing market goes up a bit I'm outta here off to North Carolina.
That's so sad. I'm afraid this is the beginning of the end of New York City as we knew it. It'll be the city everyone runs away from instead of flocks to. What a shame.
Oh please. The area near St. John's is supported by the development of the University. Without it, the area would have substantially less business and economic activity.
The area near St. John's is a residential community.
Two posters up is
1. a Pratt student who will be a major player in city preservation movement within a decade
2. a local community board member
3. a political foamer that wants to run for office.
4. a local newspaper reporter dreaming of a City Hall job.
"The area near St. John's is a residential community."
Used to be residential, have you been there lately? It's a lot of no parking, lots of building inside and outside of the campus it's more a college town then a residential community.
We have been losing the middle class for as long as I've been alive and the city isn't dead yet. New people will always arrive.
We've survived 911, the fiscal crisis of the 70's, the racial, political and drug problems of the 60's, World War II, The Great Depression, German sabotage during the First World War, the Civil War Draft riots and the burning of the entire city during the American Revolution. We will survive this too.
"This piece is entirely Manhattan-centric. There are plenty of good, affordable middle-class areas in the outer-boroughs. To say there are no good options for middle-class families in NYC is an insult to the middle-class neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn."
Hey anonymous some middle class people would like to live in Manhattan. It shouldn't just be for the rich or well to do! The outer boroughs are nice but it's not Manhattan, it's totally different. If I wanted to live in Manhattan I shouldn't have to pay $5000 a mos. for an apt. where the same size and style of apt. in Brooklyn or Queens would go for $1500. That's insane.
It isn't up to the government to control geographical prices so you can live wherever you want. If someone else who can afford it wants to live there, why should they not be allowed because you want a place reserved for yourself?
Get serious before you try to debate a topic like this please.
"It isn't up to the government to control geographical prices so you can live wherever you want."
Who said that?
You did.
Actually, no he didn't. He said it shouldn't be that way, not that the government should control geographic prices.
But if you think about it, the government does do that by the type of zoning, landmarking and amenities (like parks) they bestow upon a neighborhood and by allowing the NYC to be a Sanctuary City. They know exactly who is going to move where. So whoever thinks the government isn't responsible for this needs to have his head forcefully removed from his posterior.
That's true crappy. Like in the past whoever lived closest to the center of the castle had a better way of life and consequently it cost more money too.
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