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New York, Once a Lure, Is Slowly Losing the Creative Set
NY Times ^ | December 18, 2005 | JENNIFER STEINHAUER

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: New Jersey; US: New York; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: artists; industry; nyc; realestate; taxes
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Notice the "left leaning?" I've never seen a conservative group described as "right leaning;" always "right wing" or "conservative." If the Times says "left leaning" they must be Marxist.
1 posted on 12/18/2005 4:48:07 AM PST by Pharmboy
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To: Pharmboy

Way out there past tin foil land is the nexus of right and left. If the NYT says left leaning, that is the place.


2 posted on 12/18/2005 5:01:17 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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Thank heaven they're moving from one left wing America hating bastion to another.

Seattle can have them!

3 posted on 12/18/2005 5:03:11 AM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: Pharmboy

Lots of ad business in Dallas now.


4 posted on 12/18/2005 5:04:54 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: Pharmboy

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).


5 posted on 12/18/2005 5:10:15 AM PST by libertylover (Abortion is a crime against humanity.)
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To: kittymyrib

Yeah, before long, Dallas and Houston will have it all.


6 posted on 12/18/2005 5:16:52 AM PST by battlegearboat
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To: Pharmboy

Don't forget the AIDS contribution.


7 posted on 12/18/2005 5:21:04 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Pharmboy
If the Times says "left leaning" they must be Marxist.

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?"

8 posted on 12/18/2005 5:36:49 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (whatever)
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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.


9 posted on 12/18/2005 5:46:44 AM PST by randita
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"...But with phones and the internet etc., one can be almost anywhere in the world and do many of those jobs.

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.

10 posted on 12/18/2005 5:51:24 AM PST by KarlInOhio (What is the most obscene gesture to a Democrat? An Iraqi voter showing him a stained finger.)
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To: libertylover

Yes...excellent point.


11 posted on 12/18/2005 5:57:34 AM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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potters

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?

12 posted on 12/18/2005 6:52:34 AM PST by TheGeezer
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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.

The potters are leaving? Wow, old NYC is certainly doomed now.

13 posted on 12/18/2005 6:57:58 AM PST by Max in Utah (By their works you shall know them.)
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LOL! Those darned potters!
14 posted on 12/18/2005 7:00:56 AM PST by Max in Utah (By their works you shall know them.)
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I can assure you that the "artists" who enjoy rent-controlled apartments are not going anywhere.


15 posted on 12/18/2005 7:05:59 AM PST by montag813
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Yes. Potters are leaving.

But only the ones named 'Harry'.

nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!

16 posted on 12/18/2005 7:10:38 AM PST by uglybiker (Iraqis have purple on their fingers. Liberals have brown on their thumbs.)
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"artists" who enjoy rent-controlled apartments aren't going anywhere

Even when they die they are not going anywhere. :-)

I remember hearing Rudy G. praising rent control in Manhattan. "It is the most valuable real estate in the world so we have to do it" he said.

Such flawed economic thinking in a potential Presidential candidate is very scary.

For those who don't understand try reading Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson".

Rent control grossly distorts the real estate market and its second, third, and fourth order effects are incredible.
17 posted on 12/18/2005 7:12:43 AM PST by cgbg (MSM and Democratic treason--fifty years and counting...)
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To: montag813

I forgot about that...excellent point.


18 posted on 12/18/2005 7:12:45 AM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: Pharmboy

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 $$$


19 posted on 12/18/2005 7:14:54 AM PST by bert (K.E. ; N.P . Slay Pinch)
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To: uglybiker

20 posted on 12/18/2005 7:18:25 AM PST by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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