Comments on: NYU Too Expensive? Move to Bushwick

By: Daniela

Daniela — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:52:43 +0000

Hi, NYU students reading this comment who are considering moving to Bushwick. My name is Daniela, no need for secrecy. I came to Bushwick from Cali in 2004 and was robbed by crust punk RNC protester roommates. A few years later after living in Washington Heights I came back here and hope to eventually buy a place near my current building.

I love Bushwick and its diversity. Part of that diversity includes students who will always be looking for ways to save money.

Lots of people enjoy Bushwick: young professionals, students, families, people who were born/raised here and expats. Many are a combination of these things. Please consider that when you move into a building in Bushwick. Don’t treat it like a dorm – it’s not.

I’ve lived next to students over the years (I am one too, part time). Some were fine, some were thoughtless assholes. I’m in my late twenties and still enjoy good times but can also appreciate a decent neighbor with home training.

Something to consider is not treating a neighborhood like it’s your undiscovered diamond in the rough to occupy, without a thought for the existing community.

Last suggestion: Hey current art school kids in Bushwick, if it’s not your wall and you’re not getting permission, you are a being wannabee Banksy/gentrifying soulless jerk who should look up cheap canvas online and spare us and the locals your sharpie angst. But if you must keep your “street” art local, give something back and teach some neighborhood kids how to stencil and make your studio apt/gallery available to everyone on the block, not just your clique of art school friends. Give love. Look around you. We all share the same streets.

By: Professional Alternative

Professional Alternative — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:47:10 +0000

We don’t want THESE students living here, genius. Bushwick is full of students.

By: CB

CB — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:15:17 +0000

Are we all so elitist that we won’t accept students trying to pay the cheap rent that we already enjoy? Afraid it’s going to ruin your life? Boo hoo to you! We are already gentrifiers so get over yourselves.

By: Dresden

Dresden — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:44:55 +0000

The official charge you get if you go, and get caught, is “trading with the enemy”. They fine you. Anyone who doesn’t pay has nothing happen to them. It’s some sort of urban myth that “can’t go”. You just can’t go directly. If you’re planning on running for some uptight office, don’t go. If you’re not, and you want to, go through Nassau, Mexico, Canada, anywhere. It’s easy.

By: ricmac01

ricmac01 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:58:06 +0000

Sending them to Cuba may violate the U.S. embargo against Cuba, no?

By: Dresden

Dresden — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:55:42 +0000

Nothing would cure them more than a trip to Cuba. Or the Middle East. I actually hung out with a terrorist before he went all the way – but I know he became a real life, honest to god terrorist. Talk about supporting solidarity with Israel! A few hours with that guy, they’d start seeing things differently. It’s enough to make a guy join the Mossad.

By: SON

SON — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:11:20 +0000

If protesters were to get ANY of ther said demands in fact, if they would’ve at least get to negotiate with the administration then that protest would’ve meant at least something. But to parade around a school cafeteria for a couple of hours without any clear effort. Just seems like a lot of noise for nothing.

Washington Square Park/Financial District Dorms are fine. Please, stay there.

By: Reglement

Reglement — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:55:10 +0000

I moved to Bushwick to NOT be exposed to these little pricks. That’s the personal joy I get when I leave work in Manhattan. I’d thank them to NOT move to Bushwick.

I don’t need my property value falling when these gits start protesting because there’s no Starbucks in Bushwick, or when the local bodega won’t accept NYU Campus Cash. Tough life, dumb asses!

These delicate flowers need to stay in Manhattan or wherever they call their hometown, with mommy and daddy and commute. They’re precious; too precious for Bushwick.

By: halsey

halsey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:26:51 +0000

A lot of NYU students already live in Bushwick.
And as someone already said, you did completely miss the point with this article. TBNYU! may have failed by trying to achieve too much, and the Gaza issue really derailed their whole protest and obscured other issues, but they are trying to make the university a better place, which is more than I can say for most of the students at NYU. It’s not simply about cost.

By: Dresden

Dresden — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:07:47 +0000

I even pissed off Ponte Vecchio.