From the Queens Courier:During the next few months, visitors to the Queens Museum of Art (QMA) in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park will notice a new addition to the famous Panorama of the City of New York.
Hundreds of pink plastic triangles, symbolizing blocks that had three or more foreclosure filings in 2008, have been added to the 9,335 square foot model of the city as part of the Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center installation by artist Damon Rich.
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Why? The diorama, fascinating and historical in its own right, now has to be used for some agenda? To what end? To make people aware of what we already know? What is it Mr. Red Lines hopes to acheive? That we bail out people who agreed to loans they could not sustain?
The dubious merits of this presentation aside, why is he being permitted to hijack our museum?
Better pink triangles than rotted buildings. Let's keep this issue in the forefront of our minds until it is dealt with.
Of course, pink triangles have another significance for those familiar with World War II history--another Holocaust for America's middle class? Let's remember the cost of arrogance.
Why dont they reprsent illegal conversins with red paint, and then turn on the fire hose over Queens?
No enough money in the budget for red paint.
When are they going to draw the red line that's been around Queens for decades?
When are they going to draw the red line that's been around Queens for decades?
Was that supposed to make sense? No wonder your readers don't understand the concept of redlining... even you, Crappy, misuse the term!
I haven't misused the term. I redefined it to fit the Queens of today.
Someone took offense to the use of the term redlining before on this blog because it didn't have to do with blacks being denied mortgages. Hey pal, all of Queens is being denied services with the developers being given everything. Actually, you didn't redefine the term, Crappy, Bloomberg did.
I had no trouble understanding the "redlining" comment. Queens has been significantly deprived of resources compared to all-mighty Manhattan. Our most beautiful neighborhoods and buildings have been raped and pillaged and the entire borough has become someone's cash cow.
So far as Black people go, they have been worse than redlined. Many of the poorest of the poor in Jamaica have had their little houses swindled out from under them by thieves who I hope to see in jail soon.
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