Tuesday Links
McCarren Pool. Photo by A Test of Will. Condos Lead Rise in Manhattan Apartment Prices [NY Times] Deal Will Open 290 School Playgrounds to the Public [NY Times] Section 8 Landlords Can’t Quit [NY Post] Domino Sugar Factory Fight Turning Bitter [NY Daily News] Branding a Building to Sell Condos [Print] Fisher Paykel Fridge, Thumbs…
McCarren Pool. Photo by A Test of Will.
Condos Lead Rise in Manhattan Apartment Prices [NY Times]
Deal Will Open 290 School Playgrounds to the Public [NY Times]
Section 8 Landlords Can’t Quit [NY Post]
Domino Sugar Factory Fight Turning Bitter [NY Daily News]
Branding a Building to Sell Condos [Print]
Fisher Paykel Fridge, Thumbs Up? [Apartment Therapy]
Tips for Keeping Rodents Out [Charles & Hudson]
Noise annoys: Builders face new code [The Real Deal]
Only 5 Units Left at Parkville Promenade [Kensington Blog]
The lights will be out around here tomorrow in observance of the July 4th holiday; Thursday and Friday we’ll be operating at about half-speed.
Re: New noise control regs. Does anyone know for sure about the garbage truck language. It say something about not within 50′ of residential between 11P and 7Am. How does that apply to streets that are commercial – say 5th Ave. in Pk SLope that have residential above commercial. Are they banned from pickup at night there?
For what it’s worth, I think the people pressing for the preservation of the entire Domino Sugar plant are wrong. There has to be a balance between sensible preservation, paired with inventive reuse, and giving in to the larger issues of much needed housing. Not to mention that the newer parts of the factory are not significant enough to preserve.
If the preservation movement wants to win the hearts and minds of the people, we need to pick our battles. Let’s preserve the 3 historically significant buildings in the complex, consider that a great victory – which it is, and let the rest go.
Opening school yards to neighborhood kids is long overdue. On my street, people just climb the fence, usually onto the bags of garbage where the fence is lowest. Opening the gate will spare all those poor parents who hoist themselves, their kids, bikes, balls, etc.
Re: NY Post section 8 article –
This may preserve current section 8 housing, but it guarantees that few new landlords will opt to participate in the program.
And I guess this means that St. Johns and Lincoln Places in Prospect Heights will never gentrify.