Coney Island opens! Perhaps for the final season of Astroland. [BIB]
Rundowns of recent construction accidents as the rush to super-gentrification continues. [Gothamist] [Lost City]
These days, many of us live anxiously in the shadow of teetering cranes. [City Room] [EVG]
Others tremble in the shadow of cell-phone towers. [PMFA]
I wrote about Extra Place in January--more recently, the Real Deal revealed the developers' dream for a "park-like environment that fosters a sense of community with lots of small retail shops and cafés." Whose sense of community will it foster? Just take a look at the cream-of-wheat folks in the rendering below. And here's the prediction: "It's like what Jeffrey did to the Meatpacking District." Couldn't be more prescient! [RD]
P.S. Both Curbed and Eater picked up my coverage of this debacle, and their readers' comments are worth checking out--for once, most are in agreement this plan is putrid.
Panic sets in as Brooklyn liquor store changes hands. [Brklynometry]
Miss Heather invents a fun new game: Gentrification Bingo! This is good stuff--send her your contributions. [NYShitty]
Ronald McDonald gets on stage at The Apollo--and a small note tells us that the Apollo is 1 in a total of only 4 landmarked buildings in Harlem, a neighborhood on the brink of being plucked clean by super-gentrification. [NYO]
Since Fontana's officially closed, Angelo has been going in to the shop every morning. I've seen him sitting by the window, reading an Italian newspaper, and I thought, Maybe he's holding out for a possible reprieve, maybe there's hope. Then I saw this sign:
2 comments:
What's happening on 8th St., making business so bad? Does everyone wear those cheap flip-flops, even in winter? The shops got a lot of the B&T crowd as customers. Are gas prices having a corrosive effect on shoe shopping? The frankfurter stand on 8th at Sixth? What does it charge for famous Recession Special these days? Think Poppy Bush was prez when it was created. Condos on 8th St.? Bloomberg steamroller coming???
There is so much (appropraite) critique of the "new" New York, but no one seems to mention Bloomberg. Isn't he to blame? His super pro-business policies are behind the demise of the "real" NY. When can we vote him OUT?
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