My own private East Village

Rev Pedro Pietro RIP genius.

Good weather for drumming on the roof.
How about a traditional meditation.

The Nature of wealth in Loisaida may seem inexplicable. One society's waste is another's opulence.

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I think there is one of those on Sammy Jo's bldg.
Right next to the Fall Out Shelter Sign.
(Which I LOVE BTW and want to steal)

Indulge in luxurious decadence while you save the environment.

eco-indulgent.
wow.

Casanova LOVES to poop in front of that building. Obvs he knows eco-indulgence when he smells it!

HA !
What a marketing conceit.
Only in NYC would ecological consciousness and real estate be combined as fatuous, exorbitantly expensive status symbol.

It has nothing to do with the Lower East Side but everything to do with how exaggerated and distorted the city in general is.

How does the song go ? ..... something like:
Avenue D will be owned by rich people's dogs
the mayor will lift all the poop scooping laws
as if we weren't already drowning in enough
government shit
let's get rid of all the real estate terrorists

Through the bullet proof plexi Mom used to ask me how old I was before sliding the half pint of whiskey through the pay drawer with my change. Then we both would laugh.

Chico deserves his own topic. While I do generally love folksy local art he's just rotten. He's loves to depict the obvious recent deaths that everyone is overly sentimental about: Lady Diana, Mother Teresa, Selena, etc. I remember cracking up when he misspelled Selena!

I actually kinda like the MOM one, at least it's not about some overhyped celebrity.

I always gag when I see Chico do one of those pop celebrities Miss U. The one of Selena was especially bad. Ech. It makes me think he does that lazy comic book style just to fit the kitschy sentiments, or he doesn't even care about the subject he just does those types because he thinks everyone is in to them. And no one cares about Lady Di, Mother Teresa or Selena in the EV. There are much more rigorous aerosol artists around, check out the huge mural on the corner of 2nd and A. I will give Chico props though for trying to rep the neighborhood and for taking on young apprentices. Mom was one of the coolest people I knew in the neighborhood. She probably would have joined in your criticism.

While eco-indulgent condos is a weird concept the thing that hurts me more is a 3 and half million dollar condo on east11 st. That's the nail in the coffin for me ever living in NYC again, I can barely live in ghetto Baltimore. There's not enough johns in the world that can add up for a 3.5 million condo, lol

PS-I have been away from NYC for some time,, is it really true that condos go for that much in the east village?

There are condos for ten million Babette.

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Originally posted by seven:
There are condos for ten million Babette.

Oh my,, that's insane,,,, where's common sense in buying a condo for that price? maybe this is where the stimulus money went,, into condos,,,lol

The more I read about NYC the less I want to go back. I'll happily live among the red necks where I live now over the 10 million dollar yuppies of the East Village. Actually it is quite sad for me to read things about NYC..

The lowest price for a small one bedroom is about $400,000, which is generally an older coop rather than a new condo. It's wacky because for that money you can buy a giant mansion in other parts of the country.

It is dismal to do comparison shopping for real estate using NYC as the bloated exemplar.
I know people in the mid west who buy whole houses for as little as $6,000.
Routinely, you need four grand more than that just to get in to a low end rental in NYC.
It is a whole different culture.

It's time for Part 2.