Bravo Amy Zimmer!!!!!!!!
Amy was brillant reporting on the impending eviction of Filomena Silvestri and her son Peter of Whole Earth Bakery and I believe her article "Vegan Bakery Dead Meat?" with the huge out pouring of people signing the petition part of the miracle that motivated the landlord not to throw Filomena at age 94 -- her woman owned ground breaking health food bakery and kitchen out on the street!!!!!!!! Filomena Silvestri died at 94 knowing her mother earth health food oasis was not evicted although the battle goes on.
Amy Zimmer is a young news reporter and she represents the people of this great city. I wish I could say the same for so many in positions of power that should be representing but it seems they represent the developers and NYU and Columbia University. Yes, it doesn't seem like the mayor and city planner work for us but they seem like the mayor and city planner for NYU and Columbia U. as evictions continue to rise like the mega condos and luxury hotels that leave us all wondering who will move in or worse when will we have the next giant infrastructure collaspes so horrifying they look like terror attacks and the crane accidents and why -- all this mega development was done in a mega rush and why?
Back to Stuy Town, bye, bye affordable housing and Stuy Town was meant to be affordable housing not NYU student housing...
Also note: The New York Times metro section makes a reference as did The New York Post a couple of weeks ago to the fact Stuy Town will no longer allow "pressurized walls" to convert living rooms in to bedrooms --- dude it is a fire hazard and MY SOURCES HAVE BEEN TELLING ME FOR YEARS -- IT IS NYU!!!!!!!!! NYU who sits like vultures waiting for any housing to be emptied by landlords so they can grab it like any and all real estate and turn in to NYU student housing.
No article touches on the what my sources have told me -- for years now NYU is the one going in to Stuy Town building walls to cram more students in which is what they do. I am told that students that graduate also manage to remain on there and continue living mean while the people of New York City continued to be forced out in any way possible making the Mafia look classy because at least they are clear about who they are and the way they operate. Feels like NYU had murdered our communities ripping down historic buildings, filling up buildings that once were affording housing in to supersized NYU-megadomination. These are my feelings and many of us know first hand including myself that they want us out, they want to shut us up, silence us, shut us down.
Question: Has the city and managing agents for Stuy Town and Cooper Union made NYU remove the pressurized walls in all their student housing there and also the graduates that manage to stay on....???? Or just like the powers that be faciliated all this and ignored it -- they will let NYU and gang get away this like they get away with everything -- they have not tried murder yet but everything else...that is my feeling having watched them get free passes from the city to tear down St. Ann's at a record setting pace build a supersized mega dorm.
You can find my very long poem "Buy Town Stuy Town affordable housing, oxymoron" on itunes or my mac website.
My poem covers this, the tear down of St. Ann's, NYU's mega destruction tear down of history, the closing of our firehouses and more written a couple of years ago.....
ends with a t shirt that says I love NYC but I can't afford to live here no more
click here, go to the top and click on podcasts and you can find "Buy Town Stuy Town"
Bottom line is I believe the world is our witness and people that should are not stepping in and protecting us but the world will look back and the will be a lot more on what has been going down. You can silence us in every way possible, you can push us out of the city in every possible but there is a trail of documentation thank God.
Yes that includes the illegal air sale by the USPS over St. Ann's where in fact the USPS said we don't have to notify the State of New York because we are federal but in fact they did and it is of great concern infrastructure and environmental concerns that were never looked in to by the State of New York and look at my postings of the bowels of the subway at Union Square with the rusted ceiling and water coming through the ceiling on to the floor on a scorching day, days.
http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2008/07/subway-ceiling-continue-to-leak.html
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