Lower East Side - Below Delancey

[symptomatic]

i like the way u talk saturnfan

[MeAndTheCity]

I have a bigger problem with the projects that exist in the 60's on Amsterdam Avenue..It does NOT belong there!

Also I can't wait till they gentrify the whole city right upto 110th. And push out the project and welfare trash.

[Materialism]

I can't wait until all the projects are sold and the entire Manhattan up to 181st Street becomes livable to the white-collar/professional/yuppie/middle/upper-middle class.

Funny, I was driving on Friday and I saw a large group of aged hippies who are obviously unemployed, rent-controlled, medicaid, welfare, social security subsidzed leachers holding a protest with their "Die Yuppie" signs in the EV. Hey, if you can't afford Manhattan and miss the old grit you are more than welcome to move to a slum in Newark, Bronx, leave NYC for cheap Florida or just move to Detroit if you enjoy horrid living conditions.

I love the new New York City and take joy in its rapid gentrification.

Good night!

[pattinyc510]

maybe one day she'll fall off her high horse & be in a situation where she might need to pay less that $2K a month for a place to live. i love how people make comments about regular working folks. do your research on nyc....most apartments are rentals. not everyone can afford to pay over 500K for a studio or more. this is why there are rent guidelines/rent control.

[pattinyc510]

Really though? Who made you an authority on who & who shouldn't live in Manhattan?

Originally Posted by Materialism

Well too bad for them. They should have bought instead of rented if they cared so much about their neighborhoods.

Thankfully, landlords and management are starting to harrass these rent controlled leeches.

Manhattan should be for people who can afford Manhattan and I can't wait until they are chased out of the area. Ugh, I'm happy they are starting to catch onto rent controlled thieves and kicking them out of Stuy Town for starters.

I'm so proud of what is becomming of the Lower East Side; decrepit buildings razed for luxury boutiques, luxury apartment buildings, new construction everwhere, cleaner streets, polishing up of the neighborhood, not to mention that rents and property values are now sky high on the LES.

[john_starks]

Originally Posted by Materialism

I can't wait until all the projects are sold and the entire Manhattan up to 181st Street becomes livable to the white-collar/professional/yuppie/middle/upper-middle class.

Funny, I was driving on Friday and I saw a large group of aged hippies who are obviously unemployed, rent-controlled, medicaid, welfare, social security subsidzed leachers holding a protest with their "Die Yuppie" signs in the EV. Hey, if you can't afford Manhattan and miss the old grit you are more than welcome to move to a slum in Newark, Bronx, leave NYC for cheap Florida or just move to Detroit if you enjoy horrid living conditions.

I love the new New York City and take joy in its rapid gentrification.

Good night!

here we go..

[Viralmd]

Let's please remember to keep the tone civil here.

[Carbro]

Originally Posted by MeAndTheCity

I have a bigger problem with the projects that exist in the 60's on Amsterdam Avenue..It does NOT belong there!

Why not? They were built at roughly the same time as Lincoln Center to provide better housing for the people whose homes were being bulldozed to make room for Lincoln Center. You want to see some of what was previously in that location? Rent a video of West Side Story. They were here before the ASCAP Building, the Alfred (which really doesn't belong there, but what the heck) and Lincoln Towers.

Maybe (probably) you think the Amsterdam Houses should be razed, the people sent to . . . you really don't care, do you, so why bother suggesting a place?

When I moved here in the '70s (as I've written elsewhere on this board) the neighborhood's diversity was a key attraction. Since then, it's become much more homogeneous. I'm glad that the area is so desirable, but I miss the slightly seedy, marginal, colorful atmosphere of earlier decades.

[MeAndTheCity]

Originally Posted by Carbro

Why not? They were built at roughly the same time as Lincoln Center to provide better housing for the people whose homes were being bulldozed to make room for Lincoln Center. You want to see some of what was previously in that location? Rent a video of West Side Story. They were here before the ASCAP Building, the Alfred (which really doesn't belong there, but what the heck) and Lincoln Towers.

Maybe (probably) you think the Amsterdam Houses should be razed, the people sent to . . . you really don't care, do you, so why bother suggesting a place?

When I moved here in the '70s (as I've written elsewhere on this board) the neighborhood's diversity was a key attraction. Since then, it's become much more homogeneous. I'm glad that the area is so desirable, but I miss the slightly seedy, marginal, colorful atmosphere of earlier decades.

So move to Harlem.. It is PLENTY seedy to satisfy your desires

[DjRey]

They'll never get rid of all the projects in NY.There's just to many of them.They'll probably fix them up a bit and make it look nicer for the yuppies to go explore Harlem and other gentrified areas.I'm all for bettering a neighborhood,and helping to get rid of the crime so the residents feel safe.Harlem will always be Harlem.They can only push so far,An Old Timer told me that when I was out there.