And New York is continuing to be purged of it's blue collar workers
with the rent-controlled districts of Stuyvesant Town and Cooper
Village being removed from the rent-control regime and "privatised" if
that's the right word. Doncha just love the free-market?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1861562,00.html
"New York, New York it's a helluva town:
The Bronx is up and the Battery's down"[1]
Roger
"helluva" was changed to wonderful at the behest of the Production Code Office.
On 8/31/06, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Oh yeah, Ken, I get it. On New York & what happened, Samuel R Delany's
> Times Square Red Times Square Blue has much to say.
>
> In the latest Harper's ex-editor Lapham has a little satiric piece on
> how in fact the war is working just fine for Big Business (ie,
> Halibuirton etc), & in fact is capitalism at its best (following right
> through from Medieval knights & their followers...
>
> But sadly all we can do is laugh at these japes in order not to cry at
> the destruction wreaked by those in power...
>
> Doug
> On 31-Aug-06, at 1:11 PM, Ken Wolman wrote:
>
> > What next? New Orleans will become the city its masters wish. Where
> > do those masters reside? Duh. Hint: it's not New Orleans.
> >
> > New Orleans will follow the fate of New York's Times Square and 42nd
> > Street areas. Both the Square and areas of New Orleans were notorious
> > for their "sinfulness." I never felt unsafe among grifters and
> > hookers in the Square or on 42nd Street. Yes, you watched your wallet
> > but that's the rule in any big city. I'm dismayed by the glitzorama
> > atmosphere of New York since the "renovations" begain in the early
> > '90s. The bordello make-over suggests inflatable people of both
> > sexes.
> >
> > Is it true Halliburton got a no-bid contract to rebuild the city? I'm
> > only half-joking.
> >
> > I have a good friend whose son survived the 9th Ward by being dragged
> > out bodily by a friend. He didn't want to leave his home even though
> > there was rampant mayhem in the streets. Now he has no intention of
> > returning and has reopened his graphic arts business in a town in East
> > Texas. His take on the future of New Orleans sounds remarkably like
> > what New York has become: "Disney and whores."
> >
> > Ken
> >
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> surely when they fell
> it was into grace
>
> bpNichol
>
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