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Viv R (not verified) says:
"Get over it and grow up."
I love how anyone fighting to save their homes and communities are written off as a bunch of flakes who just can't stand "change". As if all change automatically represents progress.
No one likes having their world turned upside down and their homes threatened. Buildings all over New York are using every means necessary to dump their tenants - even those paying market rents - so rooms and apartments can be rented to tourists. Residential neighborhoods on the upper west side are suddenly full of "youth hostels" and tenants are being harassed, beaten up, and thrown out in the street.
A neighbor of mine (a 59 year old woman) was harassed constantly by new management at our building for two solid years and, because of a delay in paper work, was literally thrown out on the street in 29 degree weather ("grow up!").
Chelsea Hotel tenants also pay thousands of dollars a month to live there - it may be stabilized but it ain't cheap!!
I've no doubt tenants at Chelsea Hotel just want someone to run the place who understands and wants to maintain the unique character and history of the place, not just bulldoze it into another idiotic Marriott where tourists come and gawk at the "artsy types". In any case they don't need some snot-nose at the front desk who treats them like sh*t because they have the nerve to actually live there.
The reason we had artists and writers like Thomas Wolfe and Dylan Thomas and Larry Rivers is because THEY NEVER DID "GROW UP". When there's no place left for in the world for oddballs, freaks and other creative types to congregate (and we're running out of places fast) there will be no art, no culture, no life at all. Just one big soulless shopping mall of toothy white bread types reading NY Magazine and "The New York Observer".
Oh Joy.
"Get over it and grow up."
I love how anyone fighting to save their homes and communities are written off as a bunch of flakes who just can't stand "change". As if all change automatically represents progress.
No one likes having their world turned upside down and their homes threatened. Buildings all over New York are using every means necessary to dump their tenants - even those paying market rents - so rooms and apartments can be rented to tourists. Residential neighborhoods on the upper west side are suddenly full of "youth hostels" and tenants are being harassed, beaten up, and thrown out in the street.
A neighbor of mine (a 59 year old woman) was harassed constantly by new management at our building for two solid years and, because of a delay in paper work, was literally thrown out on the street in 29 degree weather ("grow up!").
Chelsea Hotel tenants also pay thousands of dollars a month to live there - it may be stabilized but it ain't cheap!!
I've no doubt tenants at Chelsea Hotel just want someone to run the place who understands and wants to maintain the unique character and history of the place, not just bulldoze it into another idiotic Marriott where tourists come and gawk at the "artsy types". In any case they don't need some snot-nose at the front desk who treats them like sh*t because they have the nerve to actually live there.
The reason we had artists and writers like Thomas Wolfe and Dylan Thomas and Larry Rivers is because THEY NEVER DID "GROW UP". When there's no place left for in the world for oddballs, freaks and other creative types to congregate (and we're running out of places fast) there will be no art, no culture, no life at all. Just one big soulless shopping mall of toothy white bread types reading NY Magazine and "The New York Observer".
Oh Joy.