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December 16, 2008
It Came from the Blogosphere...
Curbed, Dennis Hopper Can't Afford Chupi
We're just now sorting through New York's massive year-ender, "Reasons to Love New York," and worthy of a chuckle is Julian Schnabel's Palazzo Chupi being billed as the anti-Atlantic Yards, an "immense, gratuitous, noncontextual act of real-estate ego" that actually panned out.
Brownstoner, Atlantic Yards: Beneficiary or Victim of Economy?
"At the moment, the old neighborhood is winning. Score two points for entropy." Is this a victory for opponents? A pit-stop on the way to development? Construction may be a while off, but demolition is long underway.
Noticing New York, Stadium Finance: Mayor, Professing to Know Numbers, Should Know He Can’t Have It Both Ways (Unless He’s Keeping Two Sets of Books)
Last Friday, (12/12), on the Live from City Hall with Mayor Mike and John Gambling radio show, Bloomberg was trying to have it both ways. He was disingenuously trying to sell the public on the idea that 1.) no substantial city tax revenues are being diverted to pay the bonds and 2.) that the bonds will still be tax-exempt.
If you listened to him he even made it sound as if he had done the calculations himself. If he did, then he did them wrong, or just wants to misrepresent the expense to the public....
Posted by eric at December 16, 2008 12:58 PM