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    Priest Uses Children as Ideological Pawns

    I love the New York Times' David Gonzalez for his over-the-top use of metaphorical language -- my first notice was in an article about the tenants of 64 Troutman (note the MLK ref), and now we're really treated to a doozy today in an article about 208 Evergreen. A long intro marries a child's geometry homework and the shapes reminiscent in the terrible conditions in which the residents of the building live. I also am impressed with his access to Monsignor ...

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    • Quinn: Appeal Itself Breaks Tenant Law

      The very "independent" tenants of 64 Troutman are suing their landlord under the new Tenant Protection Act which forbids the kind of harassment the tenants ...

    • Vito Lopez's Grab to Retain Power Intensifies

      The curve on that chart is so high I can fit a pic of Vito under it!(Chart from Federal Reserve paper on demographic shifts in ...

    • Where's the Independence?

      Getting some air, by for the love of BROOKLYN The Bushwick Housing Independence Project -- another brainchild of Father Powis, former chief of St. Barbara's Catholic ...

    • Bushwick Initiative: An (Irrelevant) Insult

      Residents finally moved into the gut-renovated Bushwick Initiative buildings across the street from me this weekend, four months after they were completed. Oh, the ...
    • Agitating for Affordable... Parking?
      New York City Councilman Tony Avella hearts parking lots. New Yorkers never fail to set my eyes rolling. Their reverse-provincial, insulated expectations of what life is and more importantly, what the government should do for them, just keeps on amusing. Take this Queens Ledger (or is it the Brooklyn Downtown Star?) article about Graham Avenue business owners complaining that the City ...
    • City Throws Loft-Dwellers Into the Streets
      It's about to get cold, but why should that stop the city from booting some 220 people out of their apartments without allowing them to retrieve much more than a few handfuls of clothing? Apparently the building at 1717 Troutman (home of Allen Supply, my favorite bazaar-like Chinese hardware store) is "imminently perilous to life." Inspectors said they found various fire ...
    • Daily News On Gentrification; Also, I'm a Liar
      In today's Daily News, Metro section columnist Albor Ruiz covers gentrification in Bushwick with some insights from Wednesday's Make the Road by Walking rally. The article opinion piece doesn't really delve into anything new, rather it just regurgitates the same old "gentrification is bad" statement. The one good point that Ruiz makes is that for all their anti-gentrification bluster, Make ...
    • More Bushwick Rumors
      None of this is verified, so I can't give any more detail, but there are several rumors floating around that I figured I'd share with you here, just all in one post. Around the corner from me is a collapsed house, which a tipster told me was recently bought by a guy who is busily buying up neighbors' air rights so ...
    • Voice Landlord Smear Piece Falls Flat
      New York Daily News, 1977, from the Up From Flames exhibit Last week's Village Voice doom-and-gloom piece on gentrification and heavy-handed landlords in Bushwick was not the tour de force I thought it would be, and that the interviewer on the accompanying audio clip made it out to be. It has some interesting anecdotes, but that's really all it turns out ...
    • Habitat Condos for Brownsville
      Once again, I find myself envious of another neighborhood's ability to get noticed by Habitat for Humanity. It seems Habitat (and 15,000 others!) is to build 41-unit green condominium in Brownsville, south of Bed-Stuy. This is in addition to the multifamily project they did in Bed-Stuy. All the "affordable housing" Bushwick seems to be getting are the monstrosities built by ...
    • Bed-Stuy's Habitat Coops
      This is the first I have heard of Habitat for Humanity building multifamily homes, and I have to say it's pretty cool. Housing subsidies and projects only perpetuate the cycle of poverty -- 70 years of public housing and are there any less people on assistance?...and for that matter, how many generations of the same family get assistance? Usually when ...