20-08-2013, 05:54 PM
Quote:In exchange for building the low-income apartments, Extell is seeking millions of dollars in tax breaks from New York lawmakers, according to the New York Post.
However, unlike other developers seeking the tax exemption, 40 Riverside Boulevard will have five floors facing away from the Hudson River with a separate entrance, elevator and maintenance elevator. The 219 condos have a riverside view, a contradiction the West Side Rag blog compared to the wealth gap at turn-of-the-20th-century Britain.
"You know that show Downton Abbey'? Where the servants have to come to and go through separate entrances and bow their heads when they see a noble?" the author wrote, as quoted by the Post. "Well, there could soon be a version right here on the Upper West Side!"
This is easily fixed: tell the developers they if they build separate entrances, they lose the multi-million dollar tax break.
Will it be fixed? I very much doubt it.
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"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
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"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war