“ One area the administration has been willing to spend money is in building affordable housing in the city. The New Housing Marketplace Plan, a multi-billion dollar investment, is expected to produce up to 140,000 housing units (the initial goal was 165,000). Small snag: many will only be affordable for upper-income people. A new report prepared by the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development found that two thirds of the new spaces cost too much for most neighborhood residents. In half of the districts surveyed, the majority of units are too expensive for residents that make the neighborhood’s median income (the administration disputes their conclusions). “The typical Bronx household would have to make 1.5 times its income in order to be able to afford the majority of the affordable housing built in the Bronx,” they write. As Eric Jaffe points out in Atlantic Cities, “In general terms, the affordable housing plan did create low-income housing, but it was upper-low-income housing.

6 Ways the 7th Richest Man in America Has Screwed the Poor

Bloomberg. Is. The Worst.

sidnote: Tumblr, your new editing platform is friggen terrible, especially for editing HTML. Good job.

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posted : Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

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fuckyeahanarchistbanners:

This is NOT an anarchist banner. This is a fascist banner, being hung by organizers from the Golden Dawn neo-fascist party. They are violent, antisocial racists.(1) It is being hung at the Stathakion Cultural Center.
In Greece, while Golden Dawn does better and better in the polls, their offices are being repeatedly smashed(2). Now they’re looking to expand into the US(3). Time has shown that bastards like these can be pushed back against successfully using a three-pronged approach. First, their ideological agenda must be countered ideologically. Wherever they speak, an opposition voice must speak also, speaking firmly and honestly. Second, their physical agenda must be met physically. You are left to your own devices to infer what this means. Third, their affiliations and ties to support must be severed, so they are left to recover from said aggressions on their own, and without the aid of others.
This post is being made because we know of Stathakion Cultural Center in Astoria, NY as one of their first US alliances. We don’t know whether the leadership of the Cultural Center supports them ideologically, is ignorant, or most likely, a mixture of both. We do know that Golden Dawn held a food and clothing drive to ‘be distributed to Hellenes, and only to Hellenes’ at Stathakion. You can read about it here: http://xanyc.org/?p=1
This post is being made for two reasons: first, to inform you comrades in the NE that you have some nasty neighbors moving in, and you should be aware of that and take whatever measures are necessary to stay safe with these violent xenophobes on the loose. The second relates to the third prong of the plan to dismantled fascist organizations. Call Stathakion Cultural Center and tell them what violent ultra-right fanatics they’ve been hosting. Tell them how important it is to you that they don’t host them again. Ask them what they’re doing to prevent this group from unleashing the same kind of violent terror they’ve been responsible for in Athens. Their number is (718) 204-6500. Please call them and then reblog this.
(1) http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shocking-video-greek-neo-nazis-attack-immigrant-vendors-outside-athens-onlookers-simply-watch/ (2) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/greece-golden-dawn-firebombed_n_1773505.html (3) http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/333341
Note: This post is informational only and in no way advocates violence or property destruction against fascist organizers. Such acts would be illegal and thus, inherently wrong, regardless of how little harm it caused and how much good it caused. One must never be tempted to stand up against racist terror using anything other than kind words.

fuckyeahanarchistbanners:

This is NOT an anarchist banner. This is a fascist banner, being hung by organizers from the Golden Dawn neo-fascist party. They are violent, antisocial racists.(1) It is being hung at the Stathakion Cultural Center.

In Greece, while Golden Dawn does better and better in the polls, their offices are being repeatedly smashed(2). Now they’re looking to expand into the US(3). Time has shown that bastards like these can be pushed back against successfully using a three-pronged approach. First, their ideological agenda must be countered ideologically. Wherever they speak, an opposition voice must speak also, speaking firmly and honestly. Second, their physical agenda must be met physically. You are left to your own devices to infer what this means. Third, their affiliations and ties to support must be severed, so they are left to recover from said aggressions on their own, and without the aid of others.

This post is being made because we know of Stathakion Cultural Center in Astoria, NY as one of their first US alliances. We don’t know whether the leadership of the Cultural Center supports them ideologically, is ignorant, or most likely, a mixture of both. We do know that Golden Dawn held a food and clothing drive to ‘be distributed to Hellenes, and only to Hellenes’ at Stathakion. You can read about it here: http://xanyc.org/?p=1

This post is being made for two reasons: first, to inform you comrades in the NE that you have some nasty neighbors moving in, and you should be aware of that and take whatever measures are necessary to stay safe with these violent xenophobes on the loose. The second relates to the third prong of the plan to dismantled fascist organizations. Call Stathakion Cultural Center and tell them what violent ultra-right fanatics they’ve been hosting. Tell them how important it is to you that they don’t host them again. Ask them what they’re doing to prevent this group from unleashing the same kind of violent terror they’ve been responsible for in Athens. Their number is (718) 204-6500. Please call them and then reblog this.

(1) http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shocking-video-greek-neo-nazis-attack-immigrant-vendors-outside-athens-onlookers-simply-watch/
(2) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/greece-golden-dawn-firebombed_n_1773505.html
(3) http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/333341

Note: This post is informational only and in no way advocates violence or property destruction against fascist organizers. Such acts would be illegal and thus, inherently wrong, regardless of how little harm it caused and how much good it caused. One must never be tempted to stand up against racist terror using anything other than kind words.

posted : Monday, September 24th, 2012

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citywingtsun:

Animal Day snapshot (taken with Instagram)

much love and respect for all my sidai (and my Sije Nicole!) for totally beasting through today’s challenge. If only I hadn’t jacked up my rib after the first third… Looking forward to more photos, though.

citywingtsun:

Animal Day snapshot (taken with Instagram)

much love and respect for all my sidai (and my Sije Nicole!) for totally beasting through today’s challenge. If only I hadn’t jacked up my rib after the first third… Looking forward to more photos, though.

citywingtsun:

Post-demo group shot at the Asian Heritage Day festival on Ellis Island.

Demo crew I preformed with on Saturday. Related: My Wing Tsun school has a Tumblr now. You should check it out/follow/etc. And no, my Wing Tsun clan aint nothin’ to fuck wit.

citywingtsun:

Post-demo group shot at the Asian Heritage Day festival on Ellis Island.

Demo crew I preformed with on Saturday. Related: My Wing Tsun school has a Tumblr now. You should check it out/follow/etc. And no, my Wing Tsun clan aint nothin’ to fuck wit.

brotherbrain:

The City That Never Sleeps by Brother Brain. Rad Racer II (NES) Square 1990.

been on this ride so many times.

brotherbrain:

The City That Never Sleeps by Brother Brain
Rad Racer II (NES) Square 1990.

been on this ride so many times.

posted : Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

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nom-chompsky:

full size for reblogging. this was just posted on twitter as of tuesday 9/20 around 9pm.

heads up, new york.

nom-chompsky:

full size for reblogging. this was just posted on twitter as of tuesday 9/20 around 9pm.

heads up, new york.

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nevver:
1982
This is the New York City (right down to the approximate neighborhood, almost) that I was born into.

nevver:

1982

This is the New York City (right down to the approximate neighborhood, almost) that I was born into.

posted : Friday, September 11th, 2009

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Fucked Up - Police

I can’t stand the police in this fucking city.

I can’t stand the police in this fucking city.

I can’t stand the police in this fucking city.

I can’t stand the police in this fucking city.

(i could have also gone with “New York City Cops, they aint so bright” for the second link in particular…)

posted : Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

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