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I apologize for the extended delay between posts. Personal (newborn) and professional priorities have prevented me from having the free time I once had. Unfortunately posts will probably continue to be sporadic until things settle down a little. We are now at Part 4 in the multi-part series delving into the urbanist-friendly ideas in Murray [...] August 3rd, 2009 | Tags: For a New Liberty, Harlem, Murray Rothbard, police, railways, sidewalks | Category: Economics, Rothbard The Urbanist, Transportation, history, privatization | Comments |
 printable viewDemocratic Congressman Charlie Rangel has announced that he will vacate the rent controlled apartment he has been using as a campaign office. This apartment is just one of four rent controlled apartments he is hoarding in the Lenox Terrace apartment building in Harlem. NY Times – Rangel to Relinquish Apartment Used as Office: Representative Charles B. [...] July 15th, 2008 | Tags: Charlie Rangel, Harlem, housing, Lennox Terrace, nyc, rent control, rent stabilization | Category: corruption, housing, rent control | Comments |
printable view[update! Rangel Now Only Hoards Three Rent Controlled Apartments] July 14th, 2008 | Tags: Charlie Rangel, Governor Paterson, Harlem, housing, Lennox Terrace, nyc, rent control, rent stabilization | Category: corruption, housing, rent control | Comments |
printable viewNY Sun: Paterson Pays A Stabilized Rate of Rent The governor of New York pays about $1,250 a month for a two-bedroom, rent-stabilized apartment in central Harlem, even while owning a home upstate in Guilderland and having unfettered access to the 40-room Governor’s Mansion in Albany. Governor Paterson and his wife, Michelle, made about $270,000 last year, [...] May 16th, 2008 | Tags: apartments, Governor Paterson, Harlem, hoarding, housing, new york, nyc, rent control, rent stabilization, rent-regulated | Category: corruption, rent control | Comments |
printable viewLimousine Liberals aren’t the only ones who oppose change. In Harlem, neighbors fought to keep new people out of their neighborhood, and want to force gentrification upon other neighborhoods. In the process they created such a stir at Wednesday’s Council session, they had to be cleared out. It’s such a strange phenomenon: progressives who act conservative; [...] May 1st, 2008 | Tags: 125th street rezoning, gentrification, Harlem, neighborhood, NIMBY, nyc, rezoning, zoning | Category: zoning | Comments |
printable viewCollectivists planned to join “Hands Across Harlem” to stop developers from further exercising their property rights. However, they only managed to gather a small crowd. New York Observer: 125th Street Rezoning Rally: 1968 Tries Again City Council Could Approve 125th Street Rezoning Tomorrow The Real Deal: Latest: The Real Deal: NY [...] April 14th, 2008 | Tags: development, Harlem, nyc, zoning | Category: zoning | Comments |
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