Posted on 06/11/2012 6:51:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When only macadamia–based cheese will do for that late-night craving, a new luxury condo on New York’s Lower East Side delivers: the Madison Jackson has been “designed to support a vegetarian or vegan organic lifestyle,” offering prospective tenants 24-hour organic vegetarian room service, organic dry cleaning and an on-site juice bar, “for those who get kale cravings at 2 a.m.”
The “vegan condo” will also offer in-house nutritional counselling, craniosacral therapy and Jivamukti yoga, which combines hatha yoga with meditation and stresses veganism and environmentalism.
“We have many people who are health conscious,” Michael Bolla, the building’s developer, told DNAinfo.com.
“But they don’t have time to do certain things, so we’re making this lifestyle more tenable and easier. It’s not only offering amenities, it’s also offering the environment to help people live that way,” said Mr. Bolla, a yoga practitioner who is “mostly” vegan.
Response online has been vicious, with no live-and-let-live spirit in sight. Grub Street’s Jenny Miller called the condo a “glorious, meat-free, rich-people utopia,” and hoped righteous celebrities such as Alicia Silverstone would sequester themselves inside. One vegan commenter suggested the opulence of it all induced nausea.
Madison Jackson is also not getting much love for its “wacky” interiors, conjured by more than 100 designers and artists who descended on the property last month. The result was four whimsical apartments; one was called “Play,” which featured a rubber-band stairwell and drew the ire of bloggers.
According to The Wall Street Journal, real-estate investor Thomas Sung bought the building for $535,000 (all figures U.S.) in 1983; it’s taken him this long to bring the property to market after installing an Olympic-sized pool at his daughter’s behest. Prices start at $542,000.
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Why not?
As long as the meat is free.
You win.
I have a hunch this building will be 50% homo when it is filled up. Surprising there is not a piercing parlor on site being planned...........
Recall the final scene in Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland pointing? That’s what you’ll see if they find you with a Mickey Dee’s
Our ancestors didn’t kill their way to the top of the food chain to eat a couple leaves and some tofu.
It’s capitalism. If there is a market, it will succeed. If not, it will fail. Niche marketing at its finest and, obviously, not for most of us.
How much does it cost for a bus tour of this freak show ?
Pfhht. Bacon. Accept no substitutes
It wouldn’t be Utopia without meat.
Vegan? Is this some sort of hybrid vampire that can only be killed with a holy-water-soaked-wooden-cross stabbed through the heart in bright sunlight?
Sounds dangerous.
To the headline: Don’t understand the question.
I am just not getting utopia and no meat in the same sentence, know all the words but together make me confused.
“It’s capitalism. If there is a market, it will succeed. If not, it will fail. Niche marketing at its finest and, obviously, not for most of us.”
Agree...I am a vegan, but I would not purchase a condo anywhere...Free enterprise should win praises though.
The “vegan condo” will also offer in-house nutritional counselling, craniosacral therapy and Jivamukti yoga, which combines hatha yoga with meditation and stresses veganism and environmentalism."
IOW, a condo for PC, limp-wristed pu***ies. No thanks. I'll be on the rooftop next door grilling a two-inch-thick filet or ribeye, thankewverymuch.
do they have to file down their canine teeth to live there tooo???
Crazed people committing themselves to a nut house.
Free association applies to the mad and feeble-minded too.
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