Dan Gilbert Gets $1 Million State Loan for Capitol Park Redevelopment
I think the articles are now being written by someone who isn’t even in the City of Detroit. Lately I have noticed several incorrect neighborhood references. This time it’s "Midtown". Last week it was the "Cass Corridor" incorrectly referenced. Around the same time, a home on Hamilton Ave that backed up to the golf course, was reported to be in Highland Park rather than Detroit. Let’s hope they find that new person quickly.
Suburban Avalon Regaled as 'Urban' Project of the Year
@kirby : So, I’m an idiot for maligning Cobb for refusing MARTA to the new stadium, while David Hamilton is an idiot for trying to say that Turner Field had some useful transit options?
If I’m ever looking to lose a court battle, I’ll be sure to hire you as my lawyer.
Meet 'The Hole,' Rugged Brooklyn/Queens Border Town
I used to live in Lindenwood and for many years this area looked like it was in a time warp. Unpaved streets with homes that looked like they could be in anywhere USA. If you blinked your eye you could imagine that you were in Ohio. Another similar area was Hamilton Beach which wasn’t to far from the hole. They also had dirt roads until the 90’s.
- too early -sure there will be bagel joints in the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill area in 10 years but go look at the restaurants on 138th and Broadway – once you see the nice renovations and the empty chairs – you’ll realize that the first retail stores into a neighborhood generally go bankrupt – be part of the second phase – those are the guys who make the cash.
Harlem Takes Another Step Toward Becoming Park Slope
If strollers filled with toddlers inside the Starbucks on 145th is any indication, Harlem hit this milestone a couple of years ago. The playgrounds around Hamilton Heights are the locations of Mom Meet-Ups now.
It is also odd to also see tons of nannies in the playgrounds. At first it looks like Harlem women have adopted lots of white babies. Not yet Park Slope but getting there quick.
The Tenenbaum house is Beautiful. Saw the inside during a house tour 4 years ago (a dentist owns it). The house the couple in the article bougt is not so nice, but the Hamilton Heights neighborhood and the architeture found there is like nothing else in Manhattan. It blows the West Village away. Definitely "the neighborhood" to buy into now. No one, but multi-millionaires will be able to touch it in 5 years.
Bronx Residents Disrupt Tour of Proposed 'New Neighborhood'
The thing is, that corridor isn’t even a neighborhood right now. There is no residential there, as the area is zoned for manufacturing. So nobody is being displaced. And millionaires aren’t moving to the South Bronx. The people who will move there would most likely be middle-class people, many of them Latinos and Blacks, displaced from Harlem, Hamilton Heights, and Washington Heights.
New York's Fairy-Tale Gingerbread House Can't Find a Buyer
I think the reason the owners are having trouble moving it is because it sits next to Fort Hamilton High School. Although fairly well regarded, the Fort and its 4,200 students inevitably generate noise and chaos. And that’s not even accounting for the possibility of a young Hansel or Gretel getting arson ideas. At 10 Extra Large, I’d take a West Village townhouse instead.