- The Seward Park Cooperative rejects the sale of an apartment bought at public auction for $33,000. Now the would-be purchaser is suing the co-op and Chase Home Finance (Daily News).
- Aiding the 1%? Rep. Carolyn Maloney comes under criticism for pushing to gut an already “ineffectual” law regulating Wall Street (Salon).
- Activists release study showing the effects of gentrification in Two Bridges area (Real Deal).
- Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will apparently support the governor’s push to legalize casino gambling (Daily News).
- Community activists gather to celebrate their successful campaign to save the St. Mark’s Bookshop (DNA Info).
- Excerpt: “Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul.” (Tablet)
- “Artistic Resistance” is a major theme of the second Triennial, coming to the New Museum in February (NYT),
- Noah Wildman did not choose the knish… the knish chose him (Tablet).
In a nutshell: gambling to raise revenue on the backs of
low-income people, “non-strident resistance” from the hedge-fund run art
museum, help for the 1%, and the steady removal of Chinese people to make room
for well off whites, etc.
Maybe we need a tax on millionaires? Housing protection for
our community? And I’m thinking a bit of strident and actual resistance from
artists?
At least a bookstore was saved.