Whoever asks me a question about city policies gets a fat lip. The High Line Park, New York, N.Y. NY Daily News: Mayor de Blasio finally visits the High Line eight years after opening Mayor de "Faustio", still on his city hall reality tour, had his massive crack team of aides arranged a trip on … Continue reading Mayor De Blasio Irritably Tells Student Reporter He’s Not Doing Affordable Housing Right Now
Gentrification
Wrath Of The Scumlords: NYCHA Reneges On Recent City Funding With Shitty Roof Renovation And Secret Water Toxicity.
The Lafayette Houses. Storm resilient roofs not included. Brooklyn, N.Y. NY Daily News: NYCHA signs off on botched Brooklyn roof repairs that allowed water pooling A major rehab effort failed to fix the roof of a building at a Brooklyn housing development, but NYCHA still signed off on the job as complete — just … Continue reading Wrath Of The Scumlords: NYCHA Reneges On Recent City Funding With Shitty Roof Renovation And Secret Water Toxicity.
The Gentrification Of A Beach And Federal Park Part II And III: It’s Failure And The Ludicrous New Effort
The screen and seating areas. Pathetic. Riis Park, Gateway National Park, Rockaway Beach, Queens, N.Y., U.S.A. Here is part one Rockaway Beach, the biggest beach in the greater N.Y. area and arguably the east coast, immortalized in song, and thanks to moneyed interests whom are persistent, oblivious and crass, ripe for picking. There they go … Continue reading The Gentrification Of A Beach And Federal Park Part II And III: It’s Failure And The Ludicrous New Effort
A Tale Of Two Brooklyn Park Houses: One Getting Renovated, The Other One Going Away
The Tennis House In Prospect Park The Park House In Bensonhurst Park (Geoffery Croft photo) Park Slope and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, N.Y. DNAinfo: 107-Year-Old Prospect Park Tennis House to Get $5.1 Million Makeover The long-shuttered Prospect Park Tennis House is getting a $5.1 million facelift to revamp the dilapidated architectural gem. "It's a much loved … Continue reading A Tale Of Two Brooklyn Park Houses: One Getting Renovated, The Other One Going Away
The Grenfell Tower In London: Gentrification’s 9/11
Kensington And Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom The Grenfell Tower's torching was absolutely and undoubtedly preventable. The tenants there have been complaining for years about it's negligence, even with an excellent and thoroughly detailed community blog about the terrible building managers and the willful indifference of city and parliamentary officials. This horrific disaster was brought … Continue reading The Grenfell Tower In London: Gentrification’s 9/11
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