Kevin P. Casey for The New York Times
Hope Forstenzer, a glass blower formerly of Brooklyn, at work at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, where she
moved two years ago.
Posted on 12/18/2005 4:48:06 AM PST by Pharmboy
Kevin P. Casey for The New York Times
Hope Forstenzer, a glass blower formerly of Brooklyn, at work at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, where she
moved two years ago.
They may not have the money of the hedge fund managers who line up at bonus time at the open houses for $5 million homes, and their numbers do not equal that of health care workers. But New York City's creative sector - which includes architects, potters, filmmakers and clothing designers - has long helped fuel the city's economy because of its size and its role in drawing the wealthy to town.
But relentless inflation in real estate and health care costs are endangering New York's long dominance in the creative sector, according to a new report, as artists and companies migrate to less expensive cities eager to lure them.
For example, 20 years ago, New York was the headquarters for half of the world's advertising agencies, but is now home to fewer than a third, according to the report, written by the Center for an Urban Future, a left-leaning New York research group that analyzes urban policy issues.
While the city still is home to most of the American publishing industry, the number of jobs in that field fell 3 percent in the last decade in New York, while increasing in San Francisco, Boston and Denver. And from 2001 to 2004, the number of jobs in New York City's motion picture and sound recording industries declined by 36 percent.
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Way out there past tin foil land is the nexus of right and left. If the NYT says left leaning, that is the place.
Seattle can have them!
Lots of ad business in Dallas now.
I the "old days" I can see the advantage of businesses being being physically close together..."Here boy, run this box of documents over to Smith and Jones on 34th Street"...But with phones and the internet etc., one can be almost anywhere in the world and do many of those jobs.
If you call Dell's support number, you end up talking to someone in India (and hope you can understand their accent).
Yeah, before long, Dallas and Houston will have it all.
Don't forget the AIDS contribution.
Actually, I think "moderate" means "Marxist" to them. "Left leaning" would be a circle all the way back to "Fascist," I'd say.
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The person pictured is named "Hope?" As in, a "she?"
New York commuters are moving to the Poconos (in PA) by the droves. Pike and Monroe Counties are the largest growing counties in PA. Closest place to NYC where they can get affordable housing.
A planned high speed train line from DE Water Gap into NYC will increase the influx to the Poconos even more. Alas, the Poconos, once a lazy, quiet retreat, is quickly growing to resemble North Jersey.
But just make sure that New York can collect taxes on them. I saw on FR one man who lived in Tennessee but worked for a company in NYC and either New York State or City (or both) required him to pay New York income taxes.
Yes...excellent point.
New Yawk leads the nation in the number of potters in the city? We certainly must be talking about more than throwing a few pots from clay, right?
The potters are leaving? Wow, old NYC is certainly doomed now.
I can assure you that the "artists" who enjoy rent-controlled apartments are not going anywhere.
But only the ones named 'Harry'.
nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!
I forgot about that...excellent point.
The artists are starving because they have gone too far into esoteric pursuits to make products for which there is no demand.
New York is too expensive for the starving artists to exist even by historical standards. They flee to academia where artistic idealism has built inassailable defenses supported by tax $$$
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