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- Thank you Brian, we need to hear this kind of opinion without having to listen to Fox or Rush Limbaugh. We can't live in a bubble. Meanwhile, I wonder if this guy still has his permit: http://gothamist.com/2012/11/22/billionaire_loses_weapons_gains_psy.php
- ladyjay114, what's going on in Brooklyn is gentrification. It's also happening in Harlem, the Lower East Side and Queens. The public housing is not being built next to those multi-million dollar condos. The condos are being built in convenient neighborhoods where there is opportunity for improvement. The same gentrification is going on in all major cities. Look at Washington D.C. What used to be some of the city's toughest neighborhoods are now home to upwardly mobile young people. Years ago, Capital Hill was dangerous to live near. What happened to the former residents who couldn't keep up with the cost of gentrification? They moved to Prince George's County, Maryland. Money talks. Unfortunately everybody else has to move.
- And when Secretary of State Clinton and President Clinton purchased their home in Westchester County, they didn't buy in the estate area of Yonkers or even one of the large, lovely homes in the economically and racially diverse city of New Rochelle, they chose Chappaqua.
- Deputy secretary Jones had a comment about people being able to live "where they are making a contribution". What exactly does that mean? Does it have to do with where people work, where they have friends, where they attend worship services?
And re: home values, it's absurd to think that location doesn't affect home values. Look at the prices of homes in Bronxville vs. those in the next-door estate area of Yonkers. You would pay double for the same size house and property in the same condition. And your taxes would be triple. It's all about the schools.
Providing reasonably priced housing is a good and noble thing but the way this is being handled is wasting millions of dollars trying to put affordable apartment buildings in Chappaqua and Scarsdale.
- Men will be men? That's the excuse to be held to a lower standard or to have a lack of self control? Do what you want to do when you are not on a business trip representing our country. Go to Las Vegas on your own dime. Maybe what you do in Vegas will stay in Vegas. But I sincerely hope that you are honest with your spouse or significant other if you have one. That's REALLY being a man.
- People will pay big bucks for a prestigious education and a chance to have an iconic Greenwich Village life experience no matter where they end up living and working. NYU wants to make more of this available to sell to people willing to fork over the money. This is the nature of capitalism. Maximum return on investment, minimum concern for the quality of life for the people of NY. No different from Citibank, Duane Reade, Home Depot, Apple selling iPads, Olive Garden, Goldman Sachs. Residents have to fight back HARD if they want their quality of life taken into consideration at all.
- >Yawn< yesterday on The Takeaway we had nineteen-year-old Victoria Buchholz, daughter of hedge fund,famous writer privilege, lecturing us on why young people should move to another state to find a job. Today we have another well-connected young woman, Nona Willis Aronowitz, talking about our crappy jobs. Please try to find people to put on your show who haven't started out with a major leg up by riding on their family's coat tails. It would be more interesting and would probably be much better received.
- So are we to assume that Victoria supports herself, pays her own tuition and for those transoceanic flights? Where are these twenty somethings supposed to find a place to live in another state/city without rent deposits and a job? Yes, lots of young people could use a kick-start and some direction but for a 19 year old to assume she knows best when she has obviously been the recipient of substantial advantages is obnoxious.
- When did the word "choice" become a dirty word? Do we have to give all of our choices away to monopolistic corporations? What's next? Getting our prescriptions from vending machines like Blockbuster DVDs?
- I heard a fertility doctor describe his philosophy on age of potential mothers this way, "as a doctor, my job is to treat "disease" which is defined as an abnormal medical condition." Menopause is not an abnormal condition for women in their mid 40s and later. That is why the patients I treat fall into the normal range of childbearing years."
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