Posted on 12/16/2013 5:24:55 AM PST by oblomov
There goes the neighborhood!
Motor homes have invaded the Upper West Side, sparking fear in the hearts of residents worried their well-heeled haven could fast be transformed into a low-rent campsite.
“Why is this ugly piece of junk here?” demanded area activist Gretchen Berger, referring to the rusted RV that has been stationed at Riverside Drive and 74th Street.
“It just sort of creeps me out that somebody is living in a parking space, and this may give rise to other people thinking that it’s a cheap way to live on the Upper West Side, where the rents are high. Is Manhattan going to become a trailer park?”
The RV — an ’84 Chevy Pathfinder — belongs to Queens-born Rabbi Steve Blumberg, a Kabbalah practitioner, who told The Post his neighbors need to lighten up.
“If you want a gated community, you should live in Creedmoor [Psychiatric Center],” he said. “Otherwise-liberal West Siders have very serious middle-class scruples about what should or should not be in their neighborhood.”
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“The RV — an ’84 Chevy Pathfinder”
Nice
Living in a van down by the Hudson River - now that’s living!
Welcome to Bill de Blasio’s New York.
And the chaos is only just starting.
Just wait til NYC figures out how to tax them ......
All the two-headed gar and zebra mussels you can eat!
Area activist Gretchen Berger is a NIMFY.
("Not In My Front Yard." It may also describe something else, but I don't know the woman personally.)
Mr. niteowl77
Is that anything like "mowing the lawn at night"?
LOL, clever.
“Otherwise-liberal.” What a country.
Next will be corn fields in every vacant lot.
Traditional Christmas dinner, RV style:
Carlyle Group (some of the smartest money and best connected in Wash DC) is buying trailer parks.
That tells you a lot about the long term direction of the US economy.
The RV class of mobile working people is discovered by the liberal elite-— quelle horreur!! Can’t have real working people (whom they normally politically revere and coddle for political favors and support of the lib agenda) == can’t have them living amongst us in our “classless” society. YEP. Commies, creating a new wealthy Statist class in their desire to “climb” the ladder of success without working.
Take a clue and wake up NYers. in obamaumao’s statist paradise (while he goes to HI on OUR millions).. this is a reality in thousands of Wal-Mart parking lots every night across the US, and truckstops and campsites. People who are permanently transient, most willing to work and not be on EBT, food stamps, unemployment and obamaumaocare. People who are trying to keep their pride in the new Dust Bowl. Where are the black and white photos of this new Depression in the high tech era of nothingness? Photos of the Real People?
Now, that sounds like fun.
I like trailer parks and the people who live there. The libs should be embracing them and bringing them rugelah and hot coffee!
I wonder if this woman felt the same way during the 60s and 70s when the Upper West Side was an absolute sewer of garbage and drug addicts. How the libs during those days ignored the riff-raff!
I guess Gray’s Papaya will not be putting out the welcome mat!
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