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Blog Archive
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2009
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September
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- Chinatown tells Bloomberg to go to hell
- Dry erase board message has MTA in a tizzy
- Is the WFP the 21st Century's Tammany Hall?
- Bowne House funds available again
- The joke's on the GOP, part 4
- Paterson picks a real winner
- Dutch Kills ecstatic over residential move-in
- Developer wants to brick up 10 windows
- Rockrose split finalized
- Eminent domain debate on WNYC
- Developer turns LIC home into hellhole
- More Bloombergian hypocrisy
- More proof that zoning is a joke
- Liu and DeBlasio win handily
- How not to publish a newspaper... Photoshop edition
- Bloomberg's SCA made dirty deal with developer
- Investigating Bloomberg's "Dark Knight"
- $35B for HFA mortgages
- 947 units on old brewery site
- It's White by 4 votes
- Someone's finally telling the truth about Bloomberg
- Are runoffs a waste of time and money?
- Letters to the Queens Tribune in response to Hallo...
- Illegal signs littering streets
- Johnny the poster boy
- More on Bloomberg's phony crime stats
- The Trib: serious journal or intolerant political ...
- 2nd Ave subway construction setback
- Mike saving jobs left and right
- Dr. not buying Bloomberg's anti-soda campaign
- Push to beautify Ridgewood MTA eyesore
- Police car hit by bullet
- Quinn counting on Queens
- 50 Cent finally has his Jamaica concert
- Bloomberg's latest ticket scam
- More dirty dealings in Council District 19 race
- In a nutshell, Queens is screwed
- Voters should demand R-E-S-P-E-C-T
- Ridgewood el station is worst in the city
- Queens history treated like trash
- Bloomberg's DOB picking on disabled elderly man
- Police seek Woodside gas station robbers
- The Queens vista
- Carolyn Maloney's husband dies
- Well, John?
- What happened to Toby's nose?
- Painting the top of the town
- Quaker Meeting House still needs more $$$
- Another welfare program for developers
- Purse pilfered after push
- Bicyclists and pedestrians should not mix
- Buttkiss refuses to kick the bucket
- Group says Willets Point raids were suspicious
- More Brooklyn hipsters kicked to the curb
- Our "great green mayor" takes helicopter to NJ con...
- Bloomberg: Mayor for life?
- Paul Vallone gives up
- Please sign the petition against MORE Queens traffic
- This house will soon be crap
- When is a school like a rush hour subway car?
- CUNY hid crime stats
- Republicans feel the time is ripe
- More wasteful street light spending
- Bloomberg running against his own record
- Civic tells LPC not to landmark Vanderbilt mansion
- Woman raped in Forest Park
- D'OH!!!!
- Bloomberg tells pollster to lie
- Newtown Creek recommended for Superfund status
- "Do what I say, not what I do"
- At least he's honest about it...
- Concern over siting of transfer stations
- Queens Tribune's hatchet job
- Claire's getting more and more confused
- Money for nothing
- A garden grows at Rikers
- He's just like one of us! (Part 6)
- Doubting the "Bloomberg Education Miracle"
- Hey Bloomberg: There are ditches in Queens, too
- Protest to shut down abusive boss
- The future of Carroll Gardens
- YouTube restores Suzannah B Troy's videos
- Vibrant and diverse Corona is a dump
- Construction costs take a dive
- What's next for Tony Avella?
- South Ozone Park tree killer on the loose
- The LEED conspiracy
- The truth about ACORN
- Maspeth residents request park at CB5 meeting
- More construction accidents than before
- Another Maspeth tree massacre
- Hiram video is extremely incriminating
- 1ST AMENDMENT TRASHED YET AGAIN
- FBI still seeking more terrorists
- Hiram blames his victim; supporters lobby judge
- Suzannah catches Yassky volunteer red-handed
- He's just like one of us! (Part 5)
- City can't assess property tax
- Ticket blitz gets even dumber
- From row house to rooming house
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11 comments:
Years ago a car with a smashed window had an "I love New York" bag taped over it to keep out the rain.
Gotta love the irony.
They got that right. Way too expensive to live here anymore. Taxes, utilities, transit, rent, everything keeps going up. We are in a recession for pete's sake! Stop the increases for a while.
Bloomberg is intent on squeezing the middle class out of NYC like toothpaste from a tube!
Why?
Because they are his most vociferous critics.
The poorer working class "slobs" (as he sees them) have no spare time to attend rallies and such to criticize hizzoner's poor performance because they're holding down at least 2 jobs and need their beauty sleep.
http://mayorbloombergkingofnewyork.blogspot.com/2009/09/mayor-king-mike-bloomberg-being-there.html
The above link is to comparing Mike Bloomberg to "Being There" but the movie would be a comedy horror flick more horror than comedy about how nothing he does wrong or any scandal like the Steve Rattner money manger pension fund scandal seems to actually touch him.
Regarding that image -- I had one years ago written in to the end of this poem as a t-shirt
"I love NY, I just can't afford it anymore t-shirt"
http://www.suzannahbtroyartist.com/stytown_poem.html
I had a verbal battle with Amanda Burden on the phone about St. Ann's 120 East 12th and that made it into the poem along with the mayor's cigarette campaign contrasted with him closing our firehouses.
Thanks Queens Crap,
Suzannah B. Troy
How about my new song.. Toot tootsie Goodbye... New York mayors always lie.
Where's my agent?
Love the poem Suzzanah.
Everybody else gets poorer while Bloombucks gets richer! Go figure!
"All thanks to Bloomberg"
Hmmmmmmm.....I remember it being a pretty pricy town under Giuliani. And Dinkins. And Kotch, although I was only here for the last few months of Kotch. I don't know if it's ever been a cheap city to live in; it certainly hasn't been for the twenty years I've been here. Maybe the mayor bears some responsibility but I don't think you can blame it entirely on him.
Houses in my neighborhood were $200,000 under Giuliani. Under Bloomberg, they went up to $750,000. Yet the salaries of people living here didn't go up along with the home values.
Under Koch, Dinkins and Giuliani, there were many low and middle income people living in Manhattan. Today, there are maybe a third of that population left.
When Bloomberg took office, the subway was $1.50. Now it's $2.25.
Property taxes have gone through the roof as well as water and sewer charges. Soon he'll tax the air we breathe, but offer a tax break to those living above the 20th floor.
Let's not forget the ticket blitzes.
It's true. Under all previous mayors most could afford to buy a home in the neighborhood they grew up in. Today that's rarely the case unless you are willing to get in over your head, which is why we have so many foreclosures.
It's also why they dumped residency requirements for many city jobs like police. They could not have it both ways--pay a rookie under 30K and have him pay several hundred thousand for a home or over a thousand a month for an apartment at the same time.
It was relatively cheaper "Ridgewoodian" with more resources available and far less over development straining our infrastructure.
And it's "KOCH" not "KOTCH".
Any real New Yorker would know that.
But I must confess that I prefer your spelling because it sounds like crotch.
And what a dick Mayor Ed was...connected to the Donald Manes scandal, etc. !
I recommend reading "City For Sale" for a vivid view of the Koch years.
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