Thursday, January 17, 2008
Visit to the Transit Museum and the old advertisements and other aspects evoked all kinds of feelings.
Jane Fonda in Barbarella ...way back when...
The old subway cars had the old advertisements -- times have changed....The Birds? How about Attack of the mega dorms?
In constrast to the sign in the photo above, w/development for the "new" hideous New York, businesses are displaced...long term community members and small businesses are no longer welcome; gentrification becomes supersification in away never before seen under the Bloomberg administration's tsunami of development .
I am always asking friends to visit the Morgan (Van Gogh letters stunningly moving), the Met so it was so wonderful to have a friend invite me to visit a museum...Thanks John!
Maybe that will be NYU's student population in a few years....?
It feels like the city has still not responded to concerns about safety and I am not talking about terrorism but the city can't seem to do enough to get these community crushing developments of mega dorms, expanded college campuses, luxury condos and hotels pushed through fast enough.....Yes, I am worried about infrastructure, DOB, construction concerns but even just getting caps on the fire hydrants that are missing and there are so many. I am talking about all kinds of concerns & city wide activists continue to ask for a slow down. Here is just one example of re: fire hydrants missing caps. Kids use them as garbage cans for soda cans...It feels like two New Yorks and for one -- the New Hideous New York, there is unlimited money for the development of mega dorms, university expansion and massive development. NYC lost too many firefighters and I don't want their dangerous job to be made anymore dangerous...always feel bad when I see so many fire hydrants like this.
The old subway cars had the old advertisements -- times have changed....The Birds? How about Attack of the mega dorms?
In constrast to the sign in the photo above, w/development for the "new" hideous New York, businesses are displaced...long term community members and small businesses are no longer welcome; gentrification becomes supersification in away never before seen under the Bloomberg administration's tsunami of development .
I am always asking friends to visit the Morgan (Van Gogh letters stunningly moving), the Met so it was so wonderful to have a friend invite me to visit a museum...Thanks John!
Maybe that will be NYU's student population in a few years....?
It feels like the city has still not responded to concerns about safety and I am not talking about terrorism but the city can't seem to do enough to get these community crushing developments of mega dorms, expanded college campuses, luxury condos and hotels pushed through fast enough.....Yes, I am worried about infrastructure, DOB, construction concerns but even just getting caps on the fire hydrants that are missing and there are so many. I am talking about all kinds of concerns & city wide activists continue to ask for a slow down. Here is just one example of re: fire hydrants missing caps. Kids use them as garbage cans for soda cans...It feels like two New Yorks and for one -- the New Hideous New York, there is unlimited money for the development of mega dorms, university expansion and massive development. NYC lost too many firefighters and I don't want their dangerous job to be made anymore dangerous...always feel bad when I see so many fire hydrants like this.
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