quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

Serious suggestion: people who inherit that level of wealth, instead of worrying about having v. not having jobs, should just start some kind of vanity business and employ people. Best case scenario it might even be profitable.

You mean like the Trump family? :)

Or Jared Kushner, or dubya, I guess

'the only thing that makes me unhappier than having all this money is the thought of someone else having it'

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/nyregion/more-apartments-are-empty-yet-rented-or-owned-census-finds.html?_r=1&hp

Slightly lateral to topic, but this (old) story indicates there's a lot of vacant residences in Sydney too.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/empty-dwellings-in-a-city-desperate-for-places-to-live/2008/05/25/1211653847174.html

"He described the part-timers as 'skim-milk New Yorkers — only 2 percent.'"

No offense to the author and keen urban observer Gay Talese, but skim milk and 2% milk are two different things.

Ha i thought the exact same thing.

“This is not the kind of neighborhood people like us move into,” said Zayd Brewer, known to friends as Spaceman

you know, that's not really a quiddities one; that's more like a buncha young kids getting fucked up and in over their heads and is generally redeemed for me by the last line.

poor kids!

tho

P.M.E.R. — a “psychedelic punk-rap” outfit that stands for Power.Music.Electric.Revival.

b.o.b. has been moved down to #2 on the list of "worst band/artist name derived from the outkast song 'b.o.b'"

its sad, they were a psychedelic punk-rap outfit

poor kids!

― ☂ (max), Thursday, July 7, 2011 11:10 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah srsly, theyre just like unlucky, or maybe their neighbors just h8 them idk, i had friends who lived around the corner from there for years w/o incident for year

years

actually it was like ten blocks and one subway stop away

also that neighborhood being east of stuyvesant ave is known as stuyvesant heights

feel like if you're gonna be playin bass guitar 24/7 someone's gonna notice

god why wont they just stfu w/that gdamn bass

we could just take it from them

someone should tell P.M.E.R. "don't pull the thang outlive in bedford-stuyvesant unless you plan to bang"

I am listening to B.O.B. in their honor, though, but fwiw I always heard it as "pop music electrical revival" I guess that was maybe their mistake??

"pop cult music electrical revival" I meant I guess I'm gonna be robbed now too

That's...weird. I only live a few blocks from that corner and it doesn't feel like that to me at all.

someone should tell P.M.E.R. "don't pull the thang outlive in bedford-stuyvesant unless you plan to bang"

― dayo, Thursday, July 7, 2011 11:27 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also that neighborhood being east of stuyvesant ave is known as stuyvesant heights

― ice cr?m, Thursday, July 7, 2011 11:23 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what part of BETWEEN BEDFORD AND STUYVESANT AVES DOES EVERYONE NOT UNDERSTAND

quiddities and agonies of neighborhood boundary pedants

the quality of being a neighborhood boundary pedant only comes from transplants to that area fyi

like I was very confused when I would meet people 'from philly' and they'd be like 'oh yeah I live in the no-libs"

shut up

Also I'm still wondering what "people like us" means when the person who's quoted as saying it is black. People not from the ghetto, I guess? It's not not a ghetto though: every building on my street for blocks in either direction is a well-kept brownstone with nice gardens or potted plants out front and kids riding bikes and scooters. I wouldn't say it's solidly middle-class or anything but it's a neighborhood with stuff going on. I've left my bike outside every night for a month and it's never been so much as knocked down.

*still not a ghetto!

like I was very confused when I would meet people 'from philly' and they'd be like 'oh yeah I live in the no-libs"

shut up

― dayo, Thursday, July 7, 2011

lol

yeah the only bad incident me and my gf had over a year of living there was when this 14 year old girl kind of shoved this other girl into ari so she stepped in a puddle, but 14 yr olds, what are you going to do

they need to go to saraghina and chill out w/ some pizza n wine

I'm sorry, I take that back: one of them says in a photo caption, "The house was like a muse"; also they described themselves as "street-wise". So apparently "people like us" means total idiots.

it is generally more killy over there than most of ny but ny is p safe altogether so idk http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map

once the bodega next door burned down

oh hmm and the week we moved out some guy got shot in front of our apartment while we were home

there was a p bonkers incent that happened on my friends corner where there was a shootout between two guys in broad daylight then a cop rolled up and started shooting at them from his car - i read abt it in the nytimes and sent it along to my friends, they had no idea loll

so I'm wondering if losing your $300 security deposit + losing a bass guitar + getting braces is a good exchange for free publicity from the times + street-cred for having been robbed

hmm

the quality of being a neighborhood boundary pedant only comes from transplants to that area fyi

― dayo, Thursday, July 7, 2011 11:33 AM Bookmark

This isn't true.

kinda amazed that there have been no reported murders between 24th and 29th and 6th and 9th ave since before 2003

that map is p fascinating, wish it was up to date

no snitchin

also, it seems like being asian means you're only about a third as likely to get killed as a white boy so i am converting

A little ammonia would wash off that fingerprint powder, and maybe they could lock the doors next time? I wonder how much the rent was....

whole buncha asian murders in the LES tho

you know, that's not really a quiddities one; that's more like a buncha young kids getting fucked up and in over their heads and is generally redeemed for me by the last line.

― brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Thursday, July 7, 2011 10:59 AM Bookmark

This is my reaction too. Sucks for those kids and they didn't do anything to deserve it -- it's not like they were buying up brownstones to evict people, they were just trying to bring peace and love vibes and alittle naive about the block they were moving to. Plus they met at Brooklyn College -- not exactly ruling class.

i remember when some guy got killed outside your apartment in a bar dispute hurting

a guy got killed outside of my friends apt in chinatown while i was there

a guy got killed in a salon across the street from my old apt, i was out of town tho iirc

You mean on Coles? I don't remember a murder, but there was a time a drunk off-duty cop shot some dude in the leg at Lucky 7's. There was also a shooting at that club on Newark Ave the night we moved in (again, in the leg! Six times in the leg!) and we could hear it from our window. My car got broken into a couple times. Home invasion robberies are some extra fucked up shit though.