schwab002 t1_j0hdre3 wrote
Pennwisedom t1_j0hxu3m wrote
Truly an institution, closing after 8 whole years. Maybe I just pass it by at the wrong time, but the one in Astoria never seems that full to me.
RW3Bro t1_j0hlegh wrote
Yes, but at least this South Brooklyn treasure will be replaced by $3,500/mo studios made of particleboard and cheap veneers to be rented to Ohioans who will leave the city within five years of moving here. And maybe the developers will even give us a Walgreens or Blank Street!
ChrisFromLongIsland t1_j0hu7rl wrote
Thanks for gatekeeping someone's experience of only wanting to be in NYC for a few years.
Please tell me how the quintessential NYC person should live. Do I have to be born there. If my parents and grandparents were am I out if luck? What are the acceptable places to move from? What are the acceptable jobs or stores to shop at? Do I have to have a specific political viewpoint? Please tell me what it needs to be to be a real person from NYC. What neighborhood should I live in. Also I don't want to be too rich or successful and shunned so what income should I have?
I don't want to be looked at with distain for coming from the wrong place and paying too much for the wrong apartment in the wrong neighborhood.
RW3Bro t1_j0i7flg wrote
My issue isn’t with the Midwesterners who want to move to one of the crown jewels of humanity. As long as NYC is what it is, that demand will always exist on an enormous scale.
My issue is the developers that would in an instant, no matter the objections of the community and their elected representatives, build over everything that makes this city great and slap up yet another cheaply-constructed building if it’d make them a quick buck.
Tearing down neighborhoods to put up grossly overpriced gentrification buildings with a small allocation for “affordable” housing will never put a dent in this city’s housing supply-demand dynamic, much in the same way that building another lane on the highway doesn’t reduce traffic.
So yeah, I don’t blame the people who want to move here, I blame the developers who’ve bribed our past two mayors to the point of wholly owning them and shown nothing but scorn for the people who actually already live in Brooklyn, Harlem, and Queens.
ChrisFromLongIsland t1_j0izxe5 wrote
I do appreciate your detailed response.
I don't really agree with it. Very little had been built over the past 30 years especially when you compare it to the period from 1800 to about 1950. In the 90s and early 2000 most of the development was rehabbing what was burnt out or run down from the decay of the 70s and 80s.
It sounds like you want to basically stop all development. If you stop development prices will go no where but up. It's an issue the country has been grappling with amd especially CA and the northeast for 40 years. Do we move past what has been built and build up or keep the neighborhoods as they are. By and large they have been left alone but prices have zoomed higher.
schwab002 t1_j0i0kyz wrote
I'm hoping another beer garden type place will take over.
RW3Bro t1_j0i3hwf wrote
That could be nice, but I’m not sure hanging out directly on the Gowanus Canal would be too pleasant without the smell of smoked meats diluting the canal stench.
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