Category Archives: neighborhood

“frienemies”

If we showed you, we’d have to pixelate you

No Google street view for West 44th St (and sometimes 45th St too), between 7th and 8th Aves, in Manhattan:
Viacom?

performance.google.com

A new genre:
Street with a view.

Octopus’s garden

NYT:
Google Maps hasn’t quite heard of Mountain House:
Ths sponsored link homegain.com links to findmeaforeclosure.com…
…which has the same registrant as tracyrealestate.com:
(Both sites’ “Community” links are blank.)
Repeat ad nauseam nationwide.

Roger that

Kaplan, “Hunting the Taliban in Las Vegas,” theatlantic.com (Sep ’06):
But the Predator, especially as it is improved, may also interfere with decision making. As one pilot told me: “No general will want to attack something without visual confirmation from a Predator. It’s the old story—by the time you have all the evidence, it’s too late [...]

Coney Island puppet show threatened

Director of the Coney Island Development Corporation resigns in an open letter:

If snooty Paris, of all places, can live with Euro Disney why can’t New York City reinvent a 21st century Coney Island the right way?

What was the last urban-planning project NYC did the right way?
(vanishing new york | gowanus lounge)

Foreclosure, expulsion

WSJ, “School Districts Get Tough as Home Foreclosures Rise“:

Districts from Florida to California are hiring private investigators, creating anonymous tip lines and imposing penalties when they believe people have registered at false addresses. [...] One reason for the crackdown is the rise in home foreclosures, which may prod parents into faking addresses to keep their [...]