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Originally posted by kid nyce maybe she's 80 yrs old and don't have a job? and 100K to buy out [aka bribe] is a bit much...as a property owner in manhattan, I can say 20-40K at max. although it is a 3br i wouldn't think it'd break 75K.

No, she's in her mid to late 30s (maybe early 40s). Also, even if she were 80, wouldn't it make more economic sense not to have RS and make people buy their places if they want guaranteed rates.

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Originally posted by verndogs i'll take the current form of alphabet city over what I had to grow up next to back in the 80s and early 90s: squatters, abandoned buildings, knowing i can't play in Tompkins Square Park at all because it was nothing more than a homeless shanty town as for the lower east side, I never thought I'd live to see the day I can hang out in that area during daytime without fearing for my life

i'm certainly not romanticizing the way the city used to be: back in the day, i spent plenty of time in lower manhattan (specifically the l.e.s. where my boy's family used to own a pizzeria on 11th & A), washington heights (where i played hoops for a league), the bronx (where i went to h.s.), and large chunks of brooklyn, where i grew up and roamed, so i'm keenly aware that the halcyon days of the '80s and early '90s weren't roses and sunshine -- things like having a gun put to my head on the 4 train in '92, or catching various levels of beef would certainly disabuse me of those notions.

the current incarnation of nyc undoubtedly has tons of positives, most notably in safety, crime reduction and the availability of sushi and starbucks on every corner, but i'd take the warts-and-all nyc in which i grew up in a heartbeat -- it was an infinitely more interesting place.

[and i'm sorry to say, but if you grew up in alphabet city and were afraid to venture around your own neighborhood during the day you must've been a herb]

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Originally posted by Konijn [and i'm sorry to say, but if you grew up in alphabet city and were afraid to venture around your own neighborhood during the day you must've been a herb]

I wasn't afraid to venture around alphabet city at all growing up. (I actually lived on the outskirts) My grade school was between 1st ave and Ave A so I spent a great amount of time there as a child.


There is still some character left in alphabet city though. All the gardens that Giuliani wanted to do away with still stand thanks to Bette Midler

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Originally posted by fotoaddict Exactly.. and why should a set of grandparents stay in a 3 bedroom apt for 1400 a month many years after the kids moved out (and they no longer need that much space) while I'm splitting the same 3br for 3x as much with 4 people. We end up overpaying for the same space they're underpaying for simply because we're younger. and considering younger folks generally make less than their older counterparts (not retired..) how does that make sense? gentrification isn't great.. but the rules which try (poorly) to prevent it are worse. -Peter

I completely agree, and regarding the many retired folks... why do we have to foot the bill for their senior citizen center and special programs? They occupy space that could go to those who actually work in the city. Instead, you have people commuting from the outskirts b/c hundreds maybe thousands of senior citizens in the RS apts won't budge!

So guess who just defaulted on their loan today and announced that they're handing the keys over to the creditors and walking away?

Serves Tishman right for fighting so hard to beat out the tenant's group that would have also overpaid, but not by nearly as much.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/n.../26stuy.html?hp

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Originally posted by avikonen I'm surprised how little press this has gotten:

well damn, i have seen this all over the news

Buying rent-control apartments and transforming them into expensive higher-end luxury apartments for moneybags... Yeah, the idea was going to fail...

Sounds like the buying of Crobar and transformation into Mansion (with the same outcome: FAIL)...

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