"Anglo" is generally a word to differentiate between English-speakers and Spanish-speakers in the US. Black people are Anglos. So the person who used "anglofication" here isn't too sharp.

Posted by: Jeremy at August 14, 2007 9:27 PM in response to Streetlevel: Foccacia Spot Sprucing Up Bedford

Charming home, beautiful proportions. Would take this over cookie-cutter brownstone mierda any day.

Posted by: Jeremy at August 14, 2007 9:34 PM in response to House of the Day: 419 Washington Avenue

I say build a monorail.

Posted by: Jeremy at August 15, 2007 4:19 PM in response to McCarren Pool Park: How to Spend That $50 Mil?

"Affluent residents and tourists appreciate heavily policed public spaces"

"For example, one woman in Clinton Hill described changes in Fort Greene Park to Dr. Freeman. Previously, she said, mostly black residents used the park, and often barbecued there during the summer. “Now that’s where you see a lot of white people,” she said. “They sit outside tanning and walking their dogs. The folks in the brownstone are complaining that the smoke bothers them.”"

"Gentrification brings to the fore clashing ideologies on public space. You have on the one hand the more romantic view of public space as a place where people can come together unfettered unrestrained, compared with the view of public space as a place of ordered, controlled recreation. Gentrification is typically associated with the latter, as a place where space is controlled and privatized, with less opportunity for random interaction."

We get it! White people are boring and those cute ethnics are so flavorful! Listen to the academics.

Posted by: Jeremy at August 15, 2007 4:28 PM in response to Wednesday Links

Actually, the place looks fine in person -- Williamsburg isn't exactly full of awesome architecture. It's a bunch of shitty old buildings and empty lots. A blank canvas for cool, and this makes the grade.

Posted by: Jeremy at August 25, 2007 10:39 PM in response to Adventures in Architecture: North 6th and Berry

I can't imagine market rate to live in what is in more ways than one a copy of an outer-ring Moscow suburb -- but less convenient to the city than its Russian inspiration -- could possibly be much more than the below-market rent.

Yuck.

Posted by: Jeremy at August 30, 2007 6:32 PM in response to Starrett City’s Owners Look to Leave Mitchell-Lama

3:38: You and I go to jail for Ponzi schemes. But the government has all kinds of Ponzi schemes and bills them as among their most valuable services.

Posted by: Jeremy at August 30, 2007 6:39 PM in response to The Dewitt Update: Not a Sale in Sight

Jesus christ, I, and most of my friends have always paid nearly or more than half our income in rents so that we could live in cool places. And I'm talking about when I was 18 in Miami, and I struggled to pay half of $650. It's not "unsustainable" or a harbinger of anything -- if you want to live in a very popular location, you pay more for the privilege. And that's what living in NYC is: a luxury.

Posted by: Jeremy at September 13, 2007 7:11 PM in response to Brooklyn Breaks the Bank for Housing

This Amanda Burden is a micromanaging totalitarian. She's the urban planning-obsessed dork who read A Pattern Language one too many times, but happened to be blue-blooded enough to actually get into power.

Concrete yards are ugly, yes, but so are many gardens. Some people just have abominable taste, and unless Ms. Burden is going to start showing up and personally planning people's gardens and paved areas so that they are more legally stylish (haha), this should be dropped.

Posted by: Jeremy at September 24, 2007 3:14 PM in response to Not in My Front Yard?

Is this any kind of special wrought design, or just your standard straight railing stuff? I'm also thinking about an iron tree pit guard.

Posted by: Jeremy at September 28, 2007 2:01 PM in response to Tree Guard Opinion / Reccomendation