Month: September, 2006

Home is where the mind is

22 September, 2006 (09:33) | Uncategorized |

Our home is not just where we park our body at night or on the weekends, it is also where our mind relaxes and our soul unwinds.  So it should be no surprise that the quality of our home life directly influences our health, not just physical but also mental, as revealed in this New […]

Rent control: fairness be damned

21 September, 2006 (09:42) | Uncategorized |

Do a favor once, runs the adage, and your beneficiary is grateful. 
 

Once is okay!
 
Do it twice and it has become an obligation.
 

Twice isn’t so good.
 
Nowhere is this more true that in the sense of animated, near-hysterical entitlement that rests righteously in the hearts of those who benefit from New York City rent control […]

Eye spy with my little eye

20 September, 2006 (10:30) | Uncategorized |

Every now and then one hears of an innovation so incisively nifty one simply stops and applauds:
 

That’s worth mashing a cupcake for!
 
Such as this technological innovation brought to the knotty problem of fair real estate tax assessments, as featured in the New York Times:
 
THERE are about 300,000 row houses in Philadelphia, which means there are […]

Billion-dollar battle: Part 5, must the public pay?

19 September, 2006 (12:22) | Uncategorized |

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 4. Previous Stuy Town posts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.]
 

In yesterday’s Part 4 we heard both the city and Stuy Town’s city councilor expressing strong verbal support for finding a resident-oriented co-operative purchase. Now … how much public money will it take to translate those hopeful […]

Billion-dollar battle: Part 4, paging the cavalry?

18 September, 2006 (09:53) | Uncategorized |

[Previous Stuy Town posts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.]
 

Last week’s three-part post opened our coverage of a billion-dollar battle that will be a huge story in New York City for many months and years: the potential sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village (collectively “Stuy Town”) and its likely consequent recapitalization, […]