Moving on From the Wrath of a Co-op Board on the UES
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Hey, how come no one mentioned the schools in Hamilton Heights?
Right now, a rabid pack of screeching brats are barreling home from John Finley, on Convent and … 133rd ? I think. A destructive and belligerent group, every day. There are several other fun institutions nearby.
Oops … sirens. Yeah.
@guest #4: [sigh] Yet another hyper-defensive and desperate real estate professional. I am aware of Fairway, the only store for blocks around. That’s why I mentioned the projects and social service buildings.
The projects run up to 133rd Street. One complex begins around 128th. The fun both emanates from the northern point, for quite a distance, and seeps down from the southern. When this meets 135th Street, WOW. The destructive baloney pushes to Convent, where it stops before. Why ? Do not know. It has always been the case.
Attention, everyone. Fairway is far, far west, as are the restaurants. Many people drive there, so it is not as though you will encounter all of this pedestrian traffic made up of people going to Fairway. If you choose to live far west, on Broadway or even Amsterdam, be sure that you know what you are getting into. And this is not Hamilton Heights, really, in any case.
If you do live in lower HH, you must get through the projects, or else walk around them, in order to arrive at Fairway. Moreover, AGAIN, while walking to Fairway, you will encounter all kinds of ghetto crap on most of the side streets. This is also the case above City College. Convent is the best avenue, and you will find yourself staying on Convent. Be sure you want to live like that.
"The next run in real estate prices" ? Good grief.
Is Fairway "the best grocery store in the city" ? Really ? Because I have lived in the area for some time and I find it okay-ish, no more. I do like the popcorn. Not a candidate for "the best" anything, except as fodder for the hype-sters.
Embellishing will not make it so. Packaging fails. Tell the truth, and if you do not know, find out.
Michael Vick's Dog-Fighting House May Be Animal-Rights HQ
So…firstly…where will the dogs be housed? Dogs Deserve Better’s mission statement is to no chain/no lock up/ no kennel! We were told by DDB founder’s fiancee Joe Horvarts that the dogs will be in the house…where exactly…in kennels or will they be sleeping in bedrooms…lounging around on beds? Hmmmmm….we will have to see about that!!! Kennels inside…kennels outside…doesn’t matter…just pure geographics! This seems like the PERFECT scam to me! Get huge mansion with public donations…live the high life there…excuse me while I go and throw up in disgust!!!
I liked the first pic, but then I just got sicker and sicker with each progressive shot. Fun idea, but just toooo much of everything that is whatever this monstrosity is. An explosion of architectural decadence and waaaaaayyyy too much gym equipment. Just join Equinox next time and save a cool million.
They should move Hamilton’s house back to that spot. It looked great there, next to the church and the Hamilton statue.
Today, the house sits in a random area (not in the center, not really in a corner, but just in an awkward, nowhere space) of St. Nicholas Park. The house was moved there not because it was originally there, but because it was originally in a park. That’s great, but at present the house is right next to, and utterly overwhelmed by, one of the area’s ugliest buildings, the massive, blank alucobond-clad Engineering Dept. at CUNY. It is truly, magnificently hideous.
Beverly Hills Losing Cred to Brentwood, Creating 90210 Credit Card
@Chris Hamilton: I urge you to expand your understanding of Real Estate, preservation and urban planning beyond such simplistic economic Darwinism. History weighs heavily against your arguments. Preservation has had a long and significant impact on the physical and economic well being of city centers. Inspired by the great world centers of culture and commerce such as Amsterdam, Paris, London, Rome etc Great American cities such as Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, Washington DC, New York chose to preserve and limit development against the immediate economic needs of property owners. Great works of architecture; churches, railway stations, theaters etc survive not because they are worth more than any alternative development such as a strip mall but because communities have deemed the building or group of buildings as having an intrinsic value above its economic value alone. Cities which preserved the best of its historic buildings and neighborhoods soon found that people would actually pay a little extra for that coffee or bowl of soup to visit a historic site and would also pay a great deal more to live in a beautiful city or neighborhood full of preserved historic structures. America may indeed be the greatest nation on earth because of its capitalist system, but it is perhaps greater because it practices a nuanced and regulated form, not the one you describe.