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20 మే, 2025
"But there was also strong social fabric in his Harlem neighborhood. It wasn’t just Ms. Brown but his downstairs neighbor, Teddy, a retired seaman..."
"... who had moved into the building in 1936, who stridently guarded Mr. Levy’s parking spot while he was at work. 'He was retired and sat in the window. When people tried to park in front of the building, he would scream at them, "No, no, no. That’s Mr. Levy’s place."'"I'm reading "A Long Life in Harlem, Made Possible by an Affordable Apartment/Owen Levy says the social fabric has remained strong in the often-tumultuous 46 years he has lived in the neighborhood" (NYT).Times have changed. You can't get a big apartment near Central Park for $300. And anyone who thinks they can enforce a moral right to a public parking spot is going to become a figure of fun on TikTok:
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There's no such thing as affordable housing (especially in NYC). I own property just outside of Chicago. If I provided my apartments at cost, with a zero percent return on my investment, heck, even a negative 10% return, they still wouldn't be affordable for low-income households.
It's mean and ugly to say but we need more single occupancy rooms (i.e., flop houses like those that used to be found in the Bowery). What we don't need is the government providing "luxury" apartments to unemployed men and women in their 30s and 40s. For example -- a new, kind of nice, building popped up next to one of my properties. The rent is close to $ 3,000.00 per month for "luxury" units (i.e., particle board kitchen cabinets and luxury vinyl throughout). Half the tenants are section 8. This is bull. Not only did the local government give this landlord millions of dollars to develop his property, the government is paying the rent for half of his tenants. What the hell kind of craziness is this?
“Walk that line
(Torn apart) Torn apart
Gotta spend your whole life trying
(Ride that train) Ride that train
(Free your heart) And free your heart
It's midnight up in Harlem
I went down to the river
And I took a look around
There were old man's shoes
There were needles on the ground
No more mysteries, baby
No more secrets, no more clues
The stars are out there
You can almost see the moon
The streets are windy
And the subway's closing down
Gonna carry this dream
To the other side of town”
—— “Midnight in Harlem”
Wow, Karen Anderson has some crazy looking eyes. Is there a part 3? Do we get to meet Joe Anderson? What happened to Karen's lung? There could be a whole reality show based on Karen Anderson and her parking place.
I have been all over this planet, and NYC is one of - if not the most - overrated bergs of civilization. Even for those with money, how even they put up with the functional realities of living there is beyond me.
You’ve been had on that viral TikTok video. There’s a followup featuring The Joe Anderson.
FYI: This Karen parking video is a skit. The Joe Anderson approves.
But at least it wasn't a sloppy AI generated work.
The solution to the housing affordability crisis involves removing all property taxes and insurance costs on dwellings owned by the current occupant and transferring those to rental owners.
Have a deduction for rental owners on their first 10 properties.
Then Soak Blackrock and make it unprofitable and uncompetitive for them to own so many residential properties. The price of housing will come down very fast.
THE Joe Anderson is never revealed. The driver never asks who he is. This has to be a gag.
"Hey, what was his name?"
The parking place video could be the plot of a porno movie.
It’s always the eyes, the crazy eyes that give it away.
Wait a minute. If it’s ’her spot’, where her car? Why isn’t her car already in her spot?
"Wow, Karen Anderson has some crazy looking eyes. Is there a part 3?" I dunno - you mean there was a part 2?
Bob Boyd,
LOL but I don't think the Karen is hot enough.
Seinfeld had an episode about parking in NYC, as I recall.
...use a lawn chair, your old charcoal grill or a push cart from Star Market to hold your space like they do in Southie. Nobody dares touch that stuff...
Yeah, there's a part 2. It came up automatically after Part 1 ended. Karen suffers a punctured lung in part 2.
The Joe Anderson video recalls "Big Joe Haney" on Green Acres - unseen character on Green Acres. A hot dog vendor outside of the State Capitol building, Big Joe could make things happen.
Spiros lamented: "Not only did the local government give this landlord millions of dollars to develop his property, the government is paying the rent for half of his tenants. What the hell kind of craziness is this?"
The "government" isn't paying their rent ... YOU are.
It continues because you allow it to continue. You pay your taxes. Stop doing that. Your money is being stolen from you by your mortal enemies and their co-conspirators.
Wake up, pal.
Your enemies have taken over the government and are now using it to steal YOUR stuff. You let them do this. Even volunteer to do this. That is what you are doing when you pay taxes.
Stop doing that.
“A Long Life in Harlem, Made Possible by an Affordable Apartment”
I.e. by our tax dollars.
Brings back memories when my mother lived in 190 St in Washington Heights. No way anybody could save a parking spot over there. It was literally every man for himself.
THis tik-tok thing has to be fake right? I didn't stay to the end. Normally, I don't like parking in front of people's houses because frankly its rude. Of course, if there's no alternative, I do.
In the case, of the Tik-Tok video we don't have the whole story. Where does this guy live on the street? Or there other open spots? Why is it important that he parks there in that particular spot? If it doesn't make a difference, why not let her have "her" spot?
I've seen jerks park in people's drive ways. And block people's driveways. And then get upset when the police get called. LOL.
Rent control is a good thing. People shouldn't be forced to move, just because the landlord wants to an extra buck.
If this were real, I'd feel sorry for The Joe Anderson.
anyone who thinks they can enforce a moral right to a public parking spot is going to become a figure of fun on TikTok
Until they stab and kill the offending parker. Lost a friend to such a confrontation in DC.
RideSpaceMountain said...
“I have been all over this planet, and NYC is one of - if not the most - overrated bergs of civilization. Even for those with money, how even they put up with the functional realities of living there is beyond me.”
Paging Robert Cook. Robert Cook to the white courtesy phone, please.
FormerLawClerk said...
“The "government" isn't paying their rent ... YOU are.”
Very true.
“It continues because you allow it to continue. You pay your taxes. Stop doing that. Your money is being stolen from you by your mortal enemies and their co-conspirators.
Wake up, pal.
Your enemies have taken over the government and are now using it to steal YOUR stuff. You let them do this. Even volunteer to do this. That is what you are doing when you pay taxes. Stop doing that.”
Wesley Snipes, is that you?
"No way anybody could save a parking spot over there. It was literally every man for himself. "
The man better have good comprehensive insurance coverage. That would make a good cartoon short... from the car's perspective.
"Hey man, don't leave me here! "
Only whites are made figures of fun in these videos. Blacks always have some justification for their outrageous behavior, even if they themselves don’t know what it is
I’m not surprised that it’s fake. It plays like a skit
Iman: Husband and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the song Midnight in Harlem by Tedeschi Trucks. I have spent most of my life living in a big city and even though our house itself is in a leafy neighborhood with a suburban feel, I still appreciate the sights and smells and the light and the people around you in an urban environment. It has its own beauty. This song just somehow takes me right there, and even though it talks about the tragic elem, there is also beauty and hope. Just magic!
Sort of analogous to the JD Vance point about too much migration, too fast, being disruptive. The "social fabric" of a place is torn by too much change. Keep the neighborhood the same, protect those who are already there and have roots.
Libs happily accept this concept when it comes to rent controls and opposing "gentrification" and so on, where American-born whites are often cast as the villain ... but apply that concept to the country as a whole, and guess what -- now you're a racist xenophobe, if you don't like the new America and the costs that come with it, you can move.
It's all situational. When whites were moving away from the inner cities, and taking their tax dollars with them, it was racist assault on the community. When whites moved back in, driving up rents, it was a racist assault on the community. So it doesn't surprise me that libs are inconsistent on the "social fabric" -- the question is really just what they want that "social fabric" to look like, and that may require some eggs to be cracked in the meantime.
rehajm said...
"...use a lawn chair, your old charcoal grill or a push cart from Star Market to hold your space like they do in Southie. Nobody dares touch that stuff..."
5/20/25, 10:22 AM
You beat me to it. Newbies learn quickly not to mess with the space savers.
If you can't afford to live somewhere without my tax dollars, move.
Rcocean: you have clearly never been a landlord.
What is this, amateur commie night on Althouse, Kelly M? Some of us pay our bills and don't presume we have some right to claim public property paid for with other people's taxes.
This is why NYC is a subsidized shithole.
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