tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post3346218079960309556..comments2024-02-19T05:18:27.849-05:00Comments on <center>the Q at Parkside</center>: New Retail Plans Announced for NeighborhoodClarkson FlatBedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13463744536115119388noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-57842150660423981402014-04-11T06:32:27.471-04:002014-04-11T06:32:27.471-04:00Very interesting post..Thanks for sharing :)
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A real way to make the r...NYC: Not crowded enough? <br />A real way to make the rent less damn high<br /><br />NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<br />Wednesday, April 2, 2014<br /><br />Growing up in New York, you don’t realize different things are elsewhere. <br /><br />In the last couple of years, seeing cities in other countries, I’ve had another belated realization: how unlikely it is that in by far the biggest and the densest city in the U.S., so many people, including me, live in houses. Think about what that means the next time you swear about how the rent, or mortgage, is too damn high.<br /><br />In São Paolo, Brazil, the biggest city in South America, skyscrapers shoot up like weeds. In Buenos Aires, basically everyone lives in apartments.<br /><br />Compare that to here, where even in Midtown, three-, four- and five-story buildings remain the norm on the streets (though not the avenues). Much of the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and even Brooklyn are populated by far-from-rich homeowners.<br /><br />Which is great for those of us who live in them, but their ubiquity and human scale mean that there’s little room left to build up and add more housing, even as the population, and rents, continue their 30-year surge to record highs. <br /><br />Mayor de Blasio has promised 200,000 and, unless interest rates surge and the economy goes south, expect prices to keep rising.<br /><br />Bloomberg also rezoned huge swaths of the city — 40% of it over 12 years — upzoning main streets, little-use industrial patches and parts of the waterfront to allow bigger buildings while downzoning many neighborhoods and side streets to protect them from outsize developments. Those changes protected neighborhood character, but did so at the expense of new housing. <br /><br />They also mean many of the easiest opportunities to allow bigger development have already been claimed. The simple way out of this Chinese finger trap is allowing more density — an approach largely favored by an unlikely coalition of developers, trade unionists and affordable housing advocates.<br /><br />But there are serious obstacles. The cost of building up in the city is obscenely high. New people need new infrastructure — more trains and schools and police precincts and on and on. Assembling parcels of land for big projects is an expensive, risky enterprise. <br /><br />Mostly though, building up is opposed by basically anyone who already lives anywhere that’s humanly scaled. <br /><br />In every neighborhood, the watchword is the same: character. New Yorkers are invested in their homes, and they don’t take changes to the nature of them lightly.<br /><br />Affordability and character are, finally, competing interests. Where big buildings have gone up outside Manhattan — on Park Slope, Brooklyn’s Fourth Ave., for instance — they’ve been characterized by ugly, boxy designs, often cut off from and out of scale with their environment.<br /><br />Finally, adding anything like enough units to bring supply in line with demand (in a city where there’s been an official “housing emergency” continually since the end of World War II) means betting that the good times, at least for owners, will go on. That’s a huge gamble: Arrows rarely just keep rising.<br /><br />Bottom line: If de Blasio is serious about making housing more affordable, not just extracting a bit more from developers and at best treading water, he’s going to need to ruffle the sensibilities of existing neighborhoods, to give us a denser, taller city.<br />no_slappzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04207475509053402475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-28860688797718098912014-04-01T21:34:26.838-04:002014-04-01T21:34:26.838-04:00Very good. You got me - lock, stock and barrel.Very good. You got me - lock, stock and barrel.Eagle-Eye Mr. M.S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06933147456139856101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-73410398998685488032014-04-01T21:14:40.627-04:002014-04-01T21:14:40.627-04:00Oh, almost had me...Oh, almost had me...ElizabethChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18316599865446371061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-1892859072323537052014-04-01T19:28:15.922-04:002014-04-01T19:28:15.922-04:00Little birdie told me there will also be a neighbo...Little birdie told me there will also be a neighboring Babbage's and B. Dalton Booksellers.Win Rogstrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03927143653183379072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-5990325448564006062014-04-01T19:27:28.849-04:002014-04-01T19:27:28.849-04:00April fools me please!!April fools me please!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-46619469053613657662014-04-01T17:43:28.152-04:002014-04-01T17:43:28.152-04:00I'm sure it's a joke, but, when I worked i...I'm sure it's a joke, but, when I worked in Kew Gardens Queens, ann Olive Garden,the Italian restaurant for people who've never had Italian food, opened across Queens Blvd. from Borough Hall. Amazingly, the damn thing actually remained in business for a couple of yearsBob Marvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12734112800580467028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-42235305775448991172014-04-01T16:01:18.236-04:002014-04-01T16:01:18.236-04:00Please let this be a joke (at least the Outback pa...Please let this be a joke (at least the Outback part)Carmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05481946288605904033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-22117564970345312732014-04-01T13:53:32.915-04:002014-04-01T13:53:32.915-04:00April Fools I suppose.
And hope.April Fools I suppose.<br /><br />And hope.Maximushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11411989761047206803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-42680904779282438332014-04-01T13:50:43.925-04:002014-04-01T13:50:43.925-04:00I love April 1.I love April 1.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com