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Parkchester management does not own the Parkchester buildings (two condo associations own them, North and South, per usual condo regulations), and it probably by now owns under 50% of units (they have sold a lot of units to private owners like me). So, I would say Parkchester probably owns less than 50% units, private investors own and rent out more than 30%, and 19% are owner occupied. It is possible that the lesser than 50% ownership of common condo interest in the buildings exempts Parkchester management from the laws you are talking about.
Thanks for the info.
Funny that we were just talking about Jane Jacobs - I wonder what she thought about Parkchester since she frowned upon Corbusier-type development, which you said Parkchester was modeled on.
A lot of landlords don't take or try not to take Section 8. How does Parkchester management legally do that though? It's illegal for buildings of a certain size to consider source of income for tenants isn't it? We're small landlords and don't take Section 8, but legally we can say no because of the building size.
Exactly. It's illegal to discriminate a potential tenant due to the source of income.
I don't have just EE roots, I have a very thick EE accent (which people consider the same or more "different" than skin color). Okay folks, I won't participate in this any more. You can have your porn-fest of racially prurient stuff without me.
No, sorry, an Eastern European accent is NOT equally stigmatized in the U.S./NYC as non-white skin color.
What planet are you living on?
The overwhelming majority of my Parkchester neighbors know and enjoy the fact that Parkchester is better than most of the Bronx, are proud of it, and would be offended by YOUR suggestion of a possible interpretation of "civilized". My neighbors are equally or more as concerned about safety and quality of life as I am, evidenced by the fact that half of our condo fees goes on the security (the 24 hour security crew, cameras etc), and another substantial part on landscaping.
I am sure your statistics will show overall correlation between higher education and liberalism (although even that might be changing), but a subset of highly educated people (from my personal acquaintance with hundreds of them) tend to be predominantly conservative, and I already told you what this subset is.
The subset of educated people who are conservative tend to be...Eastern European immigrants.
Which is ironic since a significant percentage of them are on SSI, Medicaid, food stamps, or a combination of the three (I know, I used to live in a Russian neighborhood and saw them flash their Medicaid/EBT cards in the stores)...
I am a South American immigrant, brown and indigenous looking, who has been in NYC almost 3 decades. I immigrated by gaining admission and a stipend from a PhD program in Computer Science. I have been making well into 6 figures for quite a while.
Though I don’t live in Parkchester –I live in Brooklyn Heights- it seems like I would be one of those considered by elnrgby as a civilized minority. In my experience when you *qualify* some group with a positive adjective it does indicate, like yodel said somewhere before, that it insinuates the usual status for that group is something negative. When you talk about ‘civilized minorities’, the insinuation is that minorities are usually uncivilized. That is certainly what it sounds like to me, and throughout this topic, elnrgby’s discourse *has* sounded condescending towards minorities. Just thought it would be useful to have input from one of those ‘civilized minority’ individuals.
I will disagree again. Jane Jacobs wanted integrated development that encouraged walkability. New Urbanism is known for pedestrian friendly and environmentally friendly development - really generally not a conservative priority.
Conservative government is all for personal choice and states rights until they disagree-example California and the legalization of marijuana vs. the Trump administration. And conservatives aren't necessarily known as the power to the people party - Citizen's United for example.
Walking is as conservative of a means of transportation as one can find. New urbanism doesn't sound all that different than old urbanism that cities were built upon. I think there is some confusion as to what conservatism is. Republican does not necessarily mean conservative, it's just that true conservatives find the Republican party to be the lesser or the evils.
"She" would be me, I assume :-). I don't see a typical Parkchesterite as a taker at all, just the opposite (which is why I bought in that neighborhood, which is not affluent but has solid goals). While the takers have been largely replaced with a solid population (ie, civilized poor and minorities),
You really have no idea why it's offensive when you refer to "civilized" poor and minorities, do you?
As for me, I prefer not to live in a primarily Eastern European neighborhood, but if a few of the "civilized" Eastern Europeans live in my neighborhood, then that's ok with me...
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