If you don't read German (as I don't), Google Translate offers some choice interpretations: "Bloomberg has really turned on the turbo. Since then dies every day the soul of this city a bit more."
The piece is not yet on the newspaper's site, but you can read the whole thing at Sebastian Moll's page.
4 comments:
I read German and it's an excellent article. It gives a good portrait of what you are trying to do on this blog and is very fair.
Gloria, former New Yorker now in Hamburg
thanks Gloria!
Good interview.
I still don't get why you only consider other gentrifying neighborhoods like Bushwick and Gowanus as alternatives to the East Village. You're writing off most of the city for no reason I can see.
America? What America?
What society lack is real perspectives as to what exacts existed, will exist, and the will to do something, where America has a lot of information, but has failed to act, as should be considered dead as in ???
Well you judge for yourself:
When one of my grandfathers
came to America at the end of WWII the minimum wage was approximately 35-50 cents an hour 75 cents an hour in 1953. In 1946-48 he rented a store front to have a shoe repair business on 9th Avenue in Manhattan with a twenty year lease for $50 a month. that was raised in a renewal of that lease in 1970 to a grand total of $75 a month. This is the same city where Colony Music was recently put out of business by one of these corporate extortionists when they jacked the rent from 1 million a month to 5 million. So if they burned New York City to the ground the one good thing is the rent extortionist would not be in business.
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