Stirrings in the Bronx?

They laughed when developers began buying up brownstone shells in Harlem in the early 2000s.  They laughed when Roberta’s opened in Bushwick.  They laughed when big $ hotels opened on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope.

So check this out: The Opera House Hotel opens in the South Bronx.

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The Real New Yorkers Speak

Our advice and opinion column — The Real New Yorkers Speak — will debut here next Wednesday.

We’ll cover topics of interest to all Real New Yorkers, from food & entertainment to housing to child rearing.

Tune in every Wednesday for audacious commentary on lifestyles in the five boroughs.  And, because this is YOUR column, feel free to send your topic suggestions.

See you next Wednesday!
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The New “Real New Yorker”

The City of New York has a whole new population of recently minted citizens.  They love it here, intend to stay and raise kids here, and want to build their careers here. And yet, in some important ways, these New “Real New Yorkers” are very different from the Real New Yorkers of generations past.

Today’s Real New Yorkers ride the subways day and night.  They are not afraid and, why should they be?  They never experienced yesteryear’s subways: sad, hot, tagged Redbirds, with only a door or two that worked.  And, what’s more, they don’t care about the bad old days, either.  The fact that their train did not derail or catch on fire today is no big deal:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/nyregion/mta-ponders-transit-for-a-new-generation.html?ref=nyregion

Today’s Real New Yorkers are young and tech-savvy, full of energy.  They don’t care for cars, ride bikes everywhere, and embrace mass transit.  Importantly, they grew up with electronic devices that put 1960s era, NASA-level computing power in their shirt pocket. They want to know: when’s the next train coming?  Why can’t I get Wi-Fi?  Why doesn’t my Smart Phone work down here?  What’s with these MTA neanderthals?

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But then, the story is read, the time travel is over and it’s back to today’s reality.  Rather than asking, “If I get on this train at 2 a.m., will this be the day that I die?” they wonder: Why doesn’t my station have a countdown clock? as they sip complex Fair Trade coffee orders and flick the pages of their iPads.

Me?  I’m just thrilled that the a/c works and I can see out the graffiti-less windows. Working a/c, on a New York City subway car.  Imagine that!

 

 

This Real New Yorker’s Summer Reading List

Summer’s here and the time is right, for…well, sure, dancing in the streets but, also, curling up poolside with a good book.

What is this Real New Yorker reading this summer?  Well, other than re-reading that soon-to-be-classic, Home Front (available at your favorite online booksellers), I’m reading:

  • Anne Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories (almost finished.  Wow!)
  • Transatlantic: Colum McCann (loved Let the Great World Spin, so this s/b a winner too)
  • The Round House: Louise Erdrich (heard such great things about it)
  • The Yellow Birds: Kevin Powers (ditto)
  • The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious, by Avivah Zornberg (What?  You never read any of Zornberg’s books?  She’s at the intersection of religion, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, literature — with a heapin’ helpin’ of her unique “special sauce.”)
  • The I.L. Peretz Reader (keepin’ it real)
What’s on your list?  Let’s share book reports later this summer…

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Time for the New Silent Majority to Speak Up!

The “Silent Majority” sobriquet came into wide use in 1969.  Nixon’s speech in November of that year called out to the “great silent majority of my fellow Americans…”

He, Nixon, was referring to that wide swath of Americans for the Vietnam war and against the counterculture at the time.  The idea was that these were people with beliefs that were overshadowed or out-amplified by protesters, and the news coverage they generated.  The so-called Silent Majority, it was believed, was not involved in the public discourse.

We have, today, a situation where – IMHO – a great majority of Americans agree on what is right, and what is wrong, and yet is being out-shouted by louder groups garnering out-sized media share-of-voice.

The difference is that, this time, the louder forces are, politically, on the far right, and the Silent Majority is more moderate.

The New Silent Majority, I believe, has a heart and real American values.  This is a group willing to listen to another’s point of view, that doesn’t see life as a zero-sum game (for me to “win” you must “lose”).

Here is what the New Silent Majority says on some key issues of the day:

  •  The Economy: we need jobs.  Our kids need jobs.  We want to work.  Why are we not focused on job creation?  What is the purpose of sequestration, at this painful time?
  • Healthcare Reform: We need affordable healthcare coverage.  Now.  Our kids are sick and need medical care and coverage is costing me $1,500 a month.  My teeth hurt and I haven’t been to a dentist in 15 years.
  • Congress: Get your heads screwed on straight and start moving forward on…anything! And if I turn on the TV next Sunday and see Lindsey Graham on a talk show one more time, my head’s going to explode.  Get into a back room, lock the door and don’t come out until something gets done.
  • The Military: Our men and women are the bravest, toughest group anywhere on the planet, and they’re exhausted. We need to reboot our thinking.  We’re not the world’s police anymore.
  • Medicare: Here’s a program that works fine.  All my older relatives are on Medicare.  Wish I had it.
  • Social Security: I paid into Social Security my entire working life and now they want to move the goal posts on me?  Social Security is not a handout.  I paid for it.
  • Education: Our children need the best education possible to compete.  Why are school budgets being cut?
  • Social Issues: Gay rights?  Abortion?  That’s all private family business, not fair game for legislation.
  • Immigration Reform: See my thoughts on Congress, above.  Let’s get moving.  My forefathers didn’t exactly come over on the Mayflower.  Why are we stalling this out yet again?

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The sad truth is that the “us-versus-them” binary thinking of the hard Right is a product of mass communication, which gives giant media megaphones to every pipsqueak.  Real New Yorkers, I urge you to travel around the country.  You’ll be amazed.  Most folks – the New Silent Majority – are friendly, fair-minded and hospitable.   We all bleed red blood and most people I know are quick to help their neighbors in time of need.  But the shrill magpies that pass for journalists prefer to keep the heat up, the battle sides drawn.

No doubt, there are those who agree with the magpies and remain steadfast in their intransigence.

Trust me on this, however: there is a New Silent Majority out there.  It is gathering power, like a tropical storm passing warm waters, picking up energy.  It is getting ready to break the logjam that prevents our country from moving forward, as it should – and as it has in the past.

Think: in our current state of stasis, could you imagine an Interstate highway system being built?  Could you imagine a space program, or a power grid, or anything that required bold vision, clarity, determination?

The New Silent Majority is out there, lurking.  It’s been quiet for a long time.  My question to today’s leaders: are you willing to bet it will remain quiet come 2014?

INHOFE: “BLUE STATE DISASTERS BAD. RED STATE DISASTERS GOOD.”

According to Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, his state’s tornado tragedy is deserving of significant and immediate Federal disaster relief.  President Obama promised he’ll provide “whatever it takes…”  No questions were asked, or conditions required.

Funny, but I seem to recall him saying, just months ago, that disaster relief requests for Hurricane Sandy victims were full of pork, wasteful, and heart-tuggingly manipulative.  Yes, that’s what the Senator from Oklahoma and his moron partner, Tom Coburn, reaffirmed just the other day.

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/21/inhofe_and_coburn_red_state_hypocrites/

Ah, now I understand.  Silly me. We have virtuous disasters and bogus disasters, according to Inhofe.  Oklahoma’s tragedy, from a state that gets an out-sized proportion of Federal relief dollars (from that evil entity BIG GOVERNMENT) is deserving — so hurry up and cut that check.  But last December, after months of sitting on their thumbs, Inhofe and other red state pols casually picked apart Sandy relief requests like pulled pork at an Oklahoma Sunday BBQ.
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Big Bikers Banned — Fatties Flunk Citibike Contract!

The long-delayed Citibike share program comes fully equipped with a rider contract that prohibits bike usage by riders weighing more than 260 pounds, according to New York Post reports.

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What gives?  First, program managers bungle the software, delaying operations for many months.  Then, Citibikes’ garish kiosks and docking stations marr building access and aesthetics around town.  And now, we learn, anyone over the 260 lb. weight limit is not contractually eligible for the program.

So, let’s get this straight.  Transfats?  No good.  Big Gulp sodas?  Too fattening.   Fast food?  Gotta put up calorie signage.  Cigarettes? Verboten, put them on the bottom shelf.

But try to bike around town to shed weight and live healthily?  Forget about it, fatty!!!

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Sounds more than a little contradictory, n’est-ce pas, Monsieur Bloomberg?  And maybe plus-size banking customers should take their accounts elsewhere — Citibank does not seem to appreciate your body type.

 

 

 

 

Bully Mayors

Are you tired of bully mayors?  I am.  Giuliani was a bully, a finger-poking, sharp-talking, nasty bully, with a penchant for appealing to the worst in human nature and for pushing around those less fortunate.  With 9-11 came a period of redemption but, alas, he’s been riding that day for more than a decade now, largely irrelevant but, still, a bully.

Mike Bloomberg is a bully too.  He’s sharp and mean and vindictive and, under the guise of “I don’t suffer fools,” he pokes the eye of reporters who ask him tough questions.  “That’s just stupid,” Mike will say.  Frequently, the reporter backs right down.

And who, early on, latched onto Mike’s teat, as if for dear life?  Christine Quinn, current Council Speaker, who aided and abetted Bloomberg’s unconscionable quest for an illegal third-term and made sure her thumb pressed down hard upon the scales of justice.

Recently, Quinn was outed as a big-time bully in The New York Times.  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/nyregion/in-private-quinn-displays-a-volatile-side.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=all.  She withholds funds from those who cross her.  She screams and yells at subordinates.  She has a volcanic temperment.
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So does Mayor Mike.  So does Giuliani.  When it comes to school behavior for our children, we are all over the bullying issue.  Why, then, do we seek bullies out, as elected officials?

And, mind you, the issue is not men/women, when it comes to bullying behavior.  The issue is not “oh, when Quinn, a woman in a position in power, goes batshit, the world quakes.”

No, that’s not it at all. The issue is professional/shtunk.  Rudy, Mike and Quinn are shtunks.  They are abusive.  They are mean, in spirit and in deed.  As mean as Butch and his henchman, Woim, from the Little Rascals (photo above).  People like these will not get my vote.  Will they get yours?


New Friends

Just a quick post for Real New Yorkers: Wife got a call from a new friend in the building here, where we moved in the summer of 2010.  She hadn’t seen my wife in several weeks and was just calling to see if everything was alright.   What The demand for this amazing capsule generic levitra bananaleaf.com.ph is augmenting today. One of the reasons why it normally won’t put this particular available is always that they order cialis this link fear so much being rejected as well as interpersonal splendour because of the considered that erection problems will probably be long lasting and this is considered as a disadvantage. Overdue head development is normally thought of being a product or service regarding toxins in the viagra rx online environment safely. It is also necessary to cure damaged nerves and tissues in the viagra sale canada bananaleaf.com.ph reproductive organs and prevent semen leakage naturally. a refreshing difference from our previous abode, where it was all about what you did for a living and “what could you do for me?”  Wow!  Did we ever move to the right place, or what?

Buddy Boys Redux

http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/theater/lucky-guy-by-nora-ephron-as-recalled-by-jim-dwyer.html?pagewanted=all

You know all the stops on the G train.  You are a regular at Pete’s Candy Store.  You know where to find the best Banh Mi in the city.

So, do you know about the dirty 30?  Does the name Abner Louima ring a bell?  What about the Buddy Boys of the 77?  What about Amadou Diallo?  What about the Bushwick riots of ’77?

Yeah, that’s about what I thought.  That’s the world Real New Yorkers know — from back in the day, pre-Disneyfied NYC.  The world explored in Home Front (coming soon, to a bookstore near you).

But if you can’t wait for Home Front, you may want to check out Lucky Guy, a new play about the bad old days of NYC crime, as reported by the tabloid heroes of my youth.  In this case, the protagonist is Mike McAlary (played by Tom Hanks), a brash, swaggering crime reporter who wants to climb the Hamill – Breslin – Daly mountain.  These are the guys I learned from, the guys who reported on the folks others overlooked.

Now, we have a city run by zillionaires who threaten to veto a law that would allow workers to take five sick days a year.  (More on this to come, dear readers.)  Five effin sick days, our Mayor is against.

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Remember this as you uplink L Train hijinks at 3 in the morning, eat your blueberry bagels and wait 20 minutes for your mixologist to herbify your $17 cocktail.

Get a ticket to Lucky Guy.  Buy a copy of Home Front.  Get dirty.  Be a Real New Yorker.