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Rothbard the Urbanist Part 4: Policing


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 [...]

Rangel Now Only Hoards Three Rent Controlled Apartments


Democratic 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. [...]

Congressman Rangel Legally Plunders $30,000/year in Four Rent Controlled Apartments


[update! Rangel Now Only Hoards Three Rent Controlled Apartments]
In case you missed it, powerful New York Congressman Charlie Rangel has been hoarding four apartments in Harlem’s Lenox Terrace. Coincidently (perhaps not so coincidently) Lennox Terrace is the same building where New York’s Governor Patterson, Patterson’s father, former Manhattan Borough President, Percy E. Sutton, and [...]

NY Gov. Patterson’s Rent-Stabilized Apartment in Harlem


NY 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, [...]

“Change” Not Welcome in Harlem: Neighbors Cause Commotion as Harlem Rezoning Passes


Limousine 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; [...]

125th Street Rezoning


Collectivists 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:
Harlem rezoning critics want changes

Latest:

The Real Deal:
City Council subcommittee approves Harlem rezoning

NY [...]