...Then North Fork, which never came, morphed into Capital One, which is still "coming soon." Today, it's nice to see this location remains a favorite target for folks fed up with banks:
"The enduring narrative of New York real estate has been for at least a decade, of course, about the transformation spawned by gentrification. But what happens to gentrification when the market slows down?" [NYO]
More info about the second coming of Chelsea's Antiques Garage, recently snatched from the jaws of death. [CN]
"If NYC residents could hope for anything good to come out of this economic crisis, it would be this: the rollback of gentrification." See the map. [Gawker]
Abel Ferrara is making a documentary about Little Italy and its threatened San Gennaro Feast, "an elegy for a neighborhood eroded by gentrification." [Times]
Senior citizen to be evicted by elite Park Slope school, draws ire from blog readers for being a "retard." [Curbed]
Tavern on the Green is being circled by sharks while the owner tries to stay alive and kicking. [Gothamist]
Mental health professionals doing okay in New York's new age of anxiety--Wall Streeters not so much. [NYO]
Gay Talese wonders why so many people, in supposedly broke New York, would wait in line for $50 jeans. [DB]
Stuyvesant Polyclinic's new tenants to ask the weirdly punctuated "?What If!" in the almost Mansion of Death. [EVG]
I don't hate everything new, really, but I am not happy to hear about these new F trains. I like the nice, citrusy insides of the existing ones. Besides, the lighting on the new cars is too bright and I have a grudge against them since they replaced the old Redbirds. To think of my F at the bottom of the sea is painful. [LC]
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Tavern on the Green is overrated and overpriced in the first place , AND a tourist trap. Service and food are horrible. I wouldn't mind Nobu or another luxe restaurant taking over that place.
Gothamist sucks! they are just a re-blogger of news.
Curbed and browntoner readers are notoriously hostile toward renters; gawker and gothamist readers are notoriously hostile.
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>>>Besides, the lighting on the new cars is too bright and I have a grudge against them since they replaced the old Redbirds. <<<
Nope, the Redbirds (R33-R36) were IRT cars and didn't run on the F, and IND/BMT line.
The new cars on the F replaced the R46 (orange seats) and R32 (corrugated outsides, icebox AC in summer)
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i mean the same car type replaced the redbirds that used to be the 6 trains. i think that's when these bright, shiny ones were first introduced--maybe you know...?
I've been leaving my 'deposits' in front of those hideous impending banks at 8th/Uni for months now.
As a resident of Flushing I'm still nostalgic for the old redbirds that ran on the 7 line up until about five years ago. The R33 was a little reminder of New York's golden age of the early 1960s - nothing fancy, just solid, practical cars. I must admit however that I do not share your affinity for the R46 cars that currently run on the F line. While the Redbirds had a more or less timeless interior, the R46s just scream 70s (in a bad way). I'm not a fan of the pale yellow lighting or the hideous yellow and orange seats (seats being the key word, I much prefer a long, uninterrupted bench for a seat), nor am I too fond of the severe mechanical pitfalls of the train itself. As much as I like to wax nostalgic here the R46 is one train I won't mind seeing go. Call me a sellout and a yuppie but I kind of like the sleek new trains that run under Lexington Avenue.
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