My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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whatever i do ... imma do on the low.
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Nah they moved Shadow Lounge its now called http://www.avapgh.net/avapgh/Home.html I noticed the professional older Black folks rock their PITT and CMU gear heavy just to let these white folks know "I aint no fukking menial worker"But some of these becky's out here especially the student athletes
I know AVA. I actually know the owners (Justin and Tim) for a while. I used to DJ there back from 2007-2009. Fun times at AVA....fun times at Shadow.
Shadow Lounge and AVA are two different places. They leased the same space and made two clubs in the same complex. Shadow Lounge's opening was first, AVA came second in 2007. The blue room was the connecting element. I miss parties there...
I honestly think Pittsburgh girls are wack. The majority of them are conceited princesses who have unrealistically high standards in men but really they have the worst tastes imaginable (most of them dress like I Love Pink casualties).
When I was at Pitt, I never messed with the student athletes. Besides not being an athlete, most of their attitudes and demeanors suck.
Well, compared to the hotties I see in NY on a daily basis...no Pittsburgh girls come close. It actually makes me sad coming from this cornucopia of diverse women from all over back to Pittsburgh.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/class_doorfare_ZIEobiEylc8G1uQAcLZn1O
Upper West Side condo has separate entrances for rich and poor
By KATE BRIQUELET
Last Updated: 12:20 PM, August 18, 2013
Posted: 1:27 AM, August 18, 2013
This is rich!
The poor will use a separate door under plans for a new Upper West Side luxury tower — where affordable housing will be segregated from ritzy waterfront condos despite being in the same building.
Manhattan developer Extell is seeking millions in air rights and tax breaks for building 55 low-income units at 40 Riverside Boulevard, but the company is sequestering the cash-poor tenants who make the lucrative incentives possible.
Five floors of affordable housing will face away from the Hudson River and have a separate entrance, elevator and maintenance company, while 219 market-rate condominiums will overlook the waterfront.
“You know that show ‘Downton Abbey’? Where the servants have to come and go through separate entrances and bow their heads when they see a noble?” wrote the author behind the blog West Side Rag. “Well, there could soon be a version right here on the Upper West Side!”
Extell broke ground on the building between West 61st and West 62nd streets last year as part of the 15-tower Riverside South residential complex stretching to West 72nd Street.
Now the company is applying for the city’s Inclusionary Housing Program, which gives developers more floor area in exchange for building on- or off-site affordable housing.
But instead of building a larger condo, Extell plans to sell the bonus floor area to another building within a half-mile of the site. Real-estate attorneys say such a sale could be worth millions.
Extell is also seeking a controversial 421a exemption — a tax break given to developers who include affordable housing in their market-rate buildings.
In October, The Post reported that five of the luxury firm’s towers cost the city $21.8 million in tax revenue in their first year alone.
Together, the buildings paid just $567,337 in annual taxes. Without the 421a program, they would have paid the city $22 million, according to appraisal firm Miller Samuel Inc.
Extell declined to comment.
A spokesman for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development said Extell’s application is still under review.
Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, a Democrat who represents the Upper West Side, told The Post that Extell’s plans “smack of classism,” and feared they could set a dangerous precedent for other developers.
“It’s a blatant attempt to segregate people,” fumed Rosenthal, who is demanding that HPD deny Extell’s request for tax breaks. “It’s just not a good thing for the city of New York to be supporting.”“I hate the visual of market-rate tenants going in one door and affordable tenants going in another, but that’s a visceral reaction,” Diller said.
Community Board Chair Mark Diller sent a letter to HPD last month asking for safeguards to protect low-income residents, who are relegated to floors two to six.
Under Extell’s plans for the low-income units, a studio will go for $845 a month, a one-bedroom for $908, and two-bedrooms for $1,099.
Households with incomes below 60 percent of the city’s area median income qualify for the units.
A family of four, for example, would need to make less than $51,540; an individual would need to earn less than $36,120.
Fat cats living in the condos will pay more than $1,000 per square foot. At The Aldyn, Extell’s 40-story luxury building next door, one-bedrooms sell for a whopping $1.3 million. A six-bedroom, eight-bath pad goes for $15.9 million.
Upper West Side condo has separate entrances for rich and poor
By KATE BRIQUELET
Last Updated: 12:20 PM, August 18, 2013
Posted: 1:27 AM, August 18, 2013
This is rich!
The poor will use a separate door under plans for a new Upper West Side luxury tower — where affordable housing will be segregated from ritzy waterfront condos despite being in the same building.
Manhattan developer Extell is seeking millions in air rights and tax breaks for building 55 low-income units at 40 Riverside Boulevard, but the company is sequestering the cash-poor tenants who make the lucrative incentives possible.
Five floors of affordable housing will face away from the Hudson River and have a separate entrance, elevator and maintenance company, while 219 market-rate condominiums will overlook the waterfront.
“You know that show ‘Downton Abbey’? Where the servants have to come and go through separate entrances and bow their heads when they see a noble?” wrote the author behind the blog West Side Rag. “Well, there could soon be a version right here on the Upper West Side!”
Extell broke ground on the building between West 61st and West 62nd streets last year as part of the 15-tower Riverside South residential complex stretching to West 72nd Street.
Now the company is applying for the city’s Inclusionary Housing Program, which gives developers more floor area in exchange for building on- or off-site affordable housing.
But instead of building a larger condo, Extell plans to sell the bonus floor area to another building within a half-mile of the site. Real-estate attorneys say such a sale could be worth millions.
Extell is also seeking a controversial 421a exemption — a tax break given to developers who include affordable housing in their market-rate buildings.
In October, The Post reported that five of the luxury firm’s towers cost the city $21.8 million in tax revenue in their first year alone.
Together, the buildings paid just $567,337 in annual taxes. Without the 421a program, they would have paid the city $22 million, according to appraisal firm Miller Samuel Inc.
Extell declined to comment.
A spokesman for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development said Extell’s application is still under review.
Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, a Democrat who represents the Upper West Side, told The Post that Extell’s plans “smack of classism,” and feared they could set a dangerous precedent for other developers.
“It’s a blatant attempt to segregate people,” fumed Rosenthal, who is demanding that HPD deny Extell’s request for tax breaks. “It’s just not a good thing for the city of New York to be supporting.”“I hate the visual of market-rate tenants going in one door and affordable tenants going in another, but that’s a visceral reaction,” Diller said.
Community Board Chair Mark Diller sent a letter to HPD last month asking for safeguards to protect low-income residents, who are relegated to floors two to six.
Under Extell’s plans for the low-income units, a studio will go for $845 a month, a one-bedroom for $908, and two-bedrooms for $1,099.
Households with incomes below 60 percent of the city’s area median income qualify for the units.
A family of four, for example, would need to make less than $51,540; an individual would need to earn less than $36,120.
Fat cats living in the condos will pay more than $1,000 per square foot. At The Aldyn, Extell’s 40-story luxury building next door, one-bedrooms sell for a whopping $1.3 million. A six-bedroom, eight-bath pad goes for $15.9 million.
http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/201...t-retail/?ic_source=ic-featured-frontpage-top
You should go there and just stand around like you own the place. Give them the
when they scoff.
You should go there and just stand around like you own the place. Give them the
when they scoff.
http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/201...t-retail/?ic_source=ic-featured-frontpage-top
You should go there and just stand around like you own the place. Give them the
I got one better...
I'm going to go there asking for directions to shyt long time residents would know...
Word.. can't even dap my post b...
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Done.
I got one better...
I'm going to go there asking for directions to shyt long time residents would know...
You should ask them where they went to grade school and high school at...
You should ask them what neighborhood they grew up in and on what street...
You should ask them if they know what a subway token is...
They'll probably just cave in and say their from Iowa, Montana, or some dumb fukk hick ass state no one cares about and are ashamed to claim.
Those type of people are the types that have lived in (gentrified) Brooklyn since 2008 when it was "still gritty" and claim themselves as "native new yorkers"
But but this area was white before it was blackYou should ask them where they went to grade school and high school at...
You should ask them what neighborhood they grew up in and on what street...
You should ask them if they know what a subway token is...
They'll probably just cave in and say their from Iowa, Montana, or some dumb fukk hick ass state no one cares about and are ashamed to claim.
Those type of people are the types that have lived in (gentrified) Brooklyn since 2008 when it was "still gritty" and claim themselves as "native new yorkers"
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That's what irks me. They moved here and they're looking at you like you don't belong.http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/201...t-retail/?ic_source=ic-featured-frontpage-top
You should go there and just stand around like you own the place. Give them the
King Crimson
Member of a very exclusive gang
They have no fair anymore... I can't front though. I do wanna check out "The Pulp and the Bean" on Franklin btw President and Union.
