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Besides the Yankee Stadium thing, which is questionable for numerous reasons, what, exactly, is bad about the activities being described in that article, Tad? I haven't heard/seen much of a Harlem-scale "Let's destroy any local culture and move in an H&M" "rebuilding" of that area and I fail to see how historical restoration (yeah, including the park areas) and fixing up, like, the courthouse is some sign of "ruining" a neighborhood. Everyone I know who lives in that area has been dying for this to finally go underway.

Do you know anyone who lives in the Bronx?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm honestly not trying to be a bitch but that's just horseshit, the implication from your post is that neighborhood improvement and restoration should not occur because of some weird vendetta you have towards yuppies, the vast majority of which still wouldn't consider the Bronx a place to live in a hundred years (it's a place to rush out of, top speed, after the game is over, amirite etc).

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

But but but...the GRAND CONCOURSE! I'm all for the preservation of sunken living rooms and art deco/moderne linoleum, people. Bring it on.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

man, i wish h&m would move into one of the ugly abandoned buildings on the next block over from my apartment.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

H&M can go fuck itself recently, every time I go in there all of the clothing, EVERY SINGLE PIECE LITERALLY, is size 10. WTF? No offense to size 10s or anything but seriously you guys apparently aren't shopping at H&M, maybe they should expand their "Other Sizes Besides 10" division. Maybe it's just the shitty one in Downtown DC.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I personally think neighborhood restoration is awesome when done appropriately, you run the risk of NYC repeating the basic demolition of wholesale parts of Harlem but I don't see anything here that indicates they're doing something like that on the Concourse. I would hope that the city planners wised up a little bit, at least in some vague way, from the problems that erupted when they UMEZ poured money into outsider corporations and building demolition companies (basically) to "restore" Harlem. Maybe I'm freaking naive.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS CHANGED SOOOO MUCH! WHEN I MOVED HERE...

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

the worst was living in williamsburg in '99, all these 40 year old gentrifiers yapping yer ear off with "IT USED TO BE SO DIFFERENT". i always wanted to go "FUCK OFF GRAMPS", fortunately, they had no idea what was later in store for them.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

it would actually be better if they knocked down the projects across the street and put in an h&m, barnes & noble, trader joes, a record store, a marc jacobs, a cupcake shop, a soba shop, a korean bbq, a vietnamese sandwich maker, and a gay bar. oh!!!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

WHEN I MOVED TO FT GREENE IN 2000 THERE WERE ONLY LIKE THREE FRENCH RESTAURANTS THIS SHIT IS REALLY GETTING OUT OF CONTROL AROUND HERE!!!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

http://www.ofthesky.net/bb_files/captures/alive/BEASTIE_BOYS2-41.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 July 2006 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

we even complain better than you do

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 July 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

three years pass...

so what date do the landlords have to turn the heat on? is it Oct 15?

fucking premature 40-degree weather (you coldies can stifle yourselves).

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

Feb 2014: get me the FUCK outta here!

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link

maybe we can make Super Bowl weekend the occasion of our first Cranky Politics Thread Regulars cruise to the Bahamas

― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link

subterranean homesick cruise

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link

I don't understand, what about Feb 2014?

― the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link

NB: I don't watch the news so....

― the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link

The Super Bowl is coming to Giants Stadium.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link

Rent out your flat and make $$$.

― Excelsior the Facebook (kkvgz), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link

YOU GUYS THE SUPER BOWL IS COMING TO THE GREATEST CITY ON EARTH. NEW YORK SUPER BOWL. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS IT'S COMING TO NEW YORK CITY! NEW YORK! NEW YORK!

― iatee, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link

oh wait it's in new jersey nvm

― iatee, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link

this is a thinly veiled attempt at getting lebron to sign with nyk/njn, yeah?

― Face Book (dyao), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link

why would NFL owners want that? if anything, the NY football industry probably benefits from fewer basketball fans.

― iatee, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link

dyao w/ non sequitur gag of the week.

I don't know whether this news is heavier on Roman Empire-style elitism or terror-baiting stupidity.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Our time has come, apparently via an asshole Yankee fan.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ACJqCecCUPE/U1FHqw4f-SI/AAAAAAAC0OM/U-v12MWGsAU/s1600/JudgementalMaps.jpg

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link

'bagels' is not otm

― mookieproof, Friday, 18 April 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

Now endangered in NYC: grocery stores.

http://ny.curbed.com/maps/map-nyc-grocery-stores-disappearing

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 March 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link

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