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November 9, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 51 Degrees.
Notices:
Plays, concerts and more are on our calendar.
NYPL for Performing Arts says: “We’re back to normal operating hours today! Open from 12-8pm.” (On Fridays it’s open from 12 to 6.)
Our list of needs for Hurricane Sandy continues to get updated. Check it out here.
News:
For years, the historic Kleeberg Residence at 3 Riverside Drive (73rd Street) was used as an apartment building for several tenants. But why rent out apartments when you can occupy all 11,000 square feet by yourself? Now, after being restored, the mansion is on the market for $40 million. The current owner “said that with three of the four children grown, the town house had come to feel too big.” Presumably, the 18-room home with 9 fireplaces had previously felt snug with four children and two adults. Ah, our new gilded age. (NY Times)
Workers from the Central Park Conservancy helped out people from Staten Island even as they dealt with the destruction in the park.
The pizza boy who is accused of raping a woman in her 61st Street apartment after delivering a pizza to a nearby apartment pleaded not guilty, even as police released his confession. (NY Post)
Hi–The Performing Arts Library is actually open from 12-6, our normal hours on Fridays. Thanks!
Notable news about the Kleeberg Residence, with “11,000 square foot[,] 18-room home with 9 fireplaces” being vacated by its current banker, um, I mean “owner”.
Now, *how* many New Yorkers have been left homeless by the recent hurricane?
Or is it OK for those of who can barely afford living on the UWS anymore to give the suddenly homeless our outgrown sweaters and cans of beans, but providing them with some of this grossly excessive housing would be (collective shudder) “socialism”??
Re:the above “…but providing them with some of this grossly excessive housing would be (collective shudder) “socialism”??”
NO, BUT THIS TYPE OF OCCUPY-WALL-STREET INSPIRED NONSENSE WOULD BE A VERY, VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE! “Oh, sure, that dim little voice of the former CCNY-liberal/pseudo-Marxist tingles in our brain, “let’s correct social ills by demanding that the excessively wealthy be forced to share…like surrendering part of their property to the less fortunate!”
Great Idea?? Maybe NOT-SUCH-A-GREAT-IDEA. Consider the scenario of. let’s say, two New York City educators who, during a lifetime of service in the city’s schools, scrimped and saved and lived well within their means. Along the way they were fortunate enough to score an apartment in a middle-class enclave like Penn South, or Stuyvesant Town, or the Amalgamated Houses where they now spend their retirement. But it’s just TWO of them in a spacious two-bedroom/two-bath apartment with ample closets. MUCH TOO BIG, RIGHT? FORCE THEM TO TAKE IN THE LESS-FORTUNATE AND THUS SHARE THE WEALTH??
Yes, it sounds ridiculous, but it could be the logical extension of thinking like that above.
As ’tis said, “Careful of what you wish for, lest it come to pass!”
And, yes, I am a former CCNY liberal and a staunch Democrat!