Posted on 07/31/2015 12:05:54 PM PDT by C19fan
The glass facade of Cooper Union’s $111 million academic building offers a remarkable view — of a back alley packed with vagrants. “I have seen drug deals, public urination, defecation, masturbation in broad daylight in the Taras Shevchenko alley,” a Cooper Union faculty member told The Post. “It’s a place where many homeless congregate to sleep — right in front of a church and between a high school and a college,” the faculty member added.
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Hahaha. You cant even imagine my lifestyle. I interact with ALL people freely wherever my mind wanders. To create new philosophies, programs and inventions. I have multiple patents that were seeded from such encounters.
I’m far from typical and HATE the phony greedy type of Russian you speak of.
I’ve never been on the dole and pay the top 1% of taxes in the country.
Whether you believe me or not, I dont give a damn since you already showed your ignorance.
All I ask is STOP making FR look bad with stupid generalizations about entire groups of people!
I don’t make FR look bad - most of the people here don’t interact with Russians and so think of them as poor, besotted souls - or genuine capitalists - instead of the greedy, on-the-make bastards that they really are. You started this with your ignorant comments about Cooper Union - you know, hangin’ with those hobos (a word that hasn’t been used since 1930) in “the East Village” and all those great illegal rentals you’re so fond of, filled with the flotsam and jetsam of a very sad, desperate world. If you don’t want people to think you’re not a typical Russian, don’t mention illegal rentals. Just a word of advice.
Whatever. You look ignorant as hell and make FR look ignorant with your generalizations. “Cab drivers”? Come f’n on.
I came up in this world and remain connected to it. Everyone “travelling” around St Marks knows me by name and I help anyone I know I can help. Including giving free housing.
Yes, the correct modern word is “traveller” but most people not in that world dont first think of THAT kind of traveller. They think of a vacationer. “Hobo” seems to be better understood by outsiders. “Bum” implies that you sit and don’t travel. At least among people I meet. Anyway, these symantics are irrelevant and you know what I mean.
I only mentioned illegal rentals to explain why housing is cheap here for some people. Because I TALK to them. Most of them are illegal purely because of arbitrary zoning laws that should not be in such an open neighborhood.
Rebels and “illegal” things are the engine of change in society. This nation was founded by REBELLION and people acting outside the law!
I’m going out to find new ideas to change the World. Good night and stay “safe”!
What a bullsh*tter you are. One of the greatest engineers in NYC but you walk around St. Marks Place where everybody knows your name. I remember when the great critic James Wolcott lived there and nobody knew his name - but they all know yours? And who cares if it is true? It’s just another block in a city filled with blocks. It’s just a tourist attraction for its old hippy roots that we would occasionally visit to eat at Dojos and visit the bookstore that has since been gentrified and ostracized onto the avenue. And, yes, I remember when it was a hippy haven in the late 60s when as a 15 year old, I attended acting school in Greenwich Village. We didn’t call it the West Village in those days anymore than we called the lower East Side the East Village.
You didn’t come up in NYC, you arrived long after those of us were living in dives and trying to make a career in the arts. But we lived legally and had to work hard to pay the rent. Waitressing, secretarial work and occasionally getting jobs in the theater. We didn’t hang out with hoboes (what the hell is a traveler? Are you getting mixed up with Irish gypsies or something?) or the homeless - we were too scared if things didn’t work out for us, we’d end up as the homeless. So stop being hip and au current, it doesn’t sit well with you and sounds patently false.
I was just wondering. What possible incentive do I have for saying this if it’s not the truth?
I think I said it in my first sentence.
Times have changed and you’re no longer with it. Sorry
People know my name because I talk to EVERYONE that hangs here
Ahh, and the adjuncts are 20x worse
A few years ago the machines at my gym faced an area that was between a very high end condo and a very high end hotel. From the gym you could work out watching drug deals and lots of men urinating. It was interesting because many of the men were well dressed and somehow decided they needed to go there.
Even the phrase “with it” is so archaic. Who are you, Yakov Smirnoff? Off to Branston, Missouri with you!
Not sure about that. It's more like, history is repeating itself.
Back in the 1970's I had to walk by the Taras Shevchenko alley to get to the bus stop on third avenue. I learned to walk very fast while holding my breath. The homeless were supporting the foundation of that building.
Another thing, there's McSorley's just around the corner. Their patrons may be the ones stinking up the area.
They voted for him... they can pay the price.
When I lived in the area, I was told that "SoHo" was an abbreviation for "South of Houston" street and "NoHo" meant "North of Houston" street.
Just curious...
Are you a Community organizer?
Are you someone who teaches tenants to be professional tenants?
It’s a typical cutesy real estate word that was always meant to conjure up images of London. And yes, that’s the cutesy way of saying “south of Houston” but it was only introduced several decades ago when people started gentrifying there. As a kid, we never heard of a neighborhood called Soho. Actually, I must find out when Chelsea came into vogue. Always harking to London neighborhoods for some reason. Why can’t we have La Halle or Montparnesse?
No, I was in McSorley’s this weekend. With the exception of myself, the clientele was clean and nice.
Chillax yourself girl
“Are you a Community organizer?
Are you someone who teaches tenants to be professional tenants?”
Neither.
I know the tenants you speak of though. I used to be a LEGAL landlord and they are part of the reason I stopped.
I simply talk to the downtrodden and artists. Then personally help people I truly feel can be helped. I have had amazing material fortune but dont wish to dump it into the charity/NGO black hole (where I was taken advantage already). I’d rather individually help and coach people.
Not saying my judgement has been 100%. Some people were very good liars and used what I gave them to abuse themselves with drugs. Or ended up robbing or stealing from me. I’ve even lived in fear of my life after helping people.
I considered stopping many times but can’t ignore them nomatter what happened so far
What else am I going to do? Be on permanent vacation all my life? See how much crap I can collect? See how many young women I dazzle with junk and sleep with? I assure you I tried but it wasnt for me
The clientele at McSorley’s is decent, always was. I lived two houses down 40 years ago. The problem was the long lines waiting to go in and limited restroom facilities inside. Some guys found it faster to do their nature call outside. Who could blame them?
NYC has no public restrooms. I was discussing this with an elderly person who was complaining about that.
If the French had settled there first instead of Germans, there probably would have been a Montparnasse.
Come to think of it, you're correct. There was a renaming of areas at one point. I later never knew where I lived based on the responses/corrections I'd receive when I was asked. To be safe, I'd say that I live "downtown"... even that wasn't correct for some.
Downtown is good. Uptown is good. Harlem is good - from the Dutch. East and West side is good. Clinton? Not so good. And do you know that the right way to pronounce the Brownsville section of Brooklyn is “Bronzeville”? Because that’s how the Germans pronounce it. They eventually settled that part of the city. No one of course does that anymore but my grandparents did.
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