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It's easy to check whether apartments in your building are listed on AirBnB. Individual clients do not need to have liability insurance - the insurance is carried by AirBnB. (I'm not arguing your basic position, just stating facts)
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Peaches was good. Spinach omelette and home fries. Most fun was Cuban jazz (Alvaro benevides) saturday night at nearby café lunático. we stopped for a night in Milton on the way home. Milton de is much quieter than Bedford Stuyvesant.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/n...mo-region&_r=0
A story in the Times about the Labor Day celebration.
A story in the Times about the Labor Day celebration.
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The parade is along Eastern Parkway which was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the same men who designed Central Park, Prospect Park, Golden Gate Park in SF,
Any student of urban landscape knows that Frederick Law Olmsted designed Central Park. What is largely unknown is that his first project after that, and his first solo design of any kind, was Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland.
What is also little known is that this historic graveyard, started in 1864, was his only major solo project in California.
This may come as a surprise to those who think Olmsted designed Golden Gate Park. He didn't, but among those who believe he did are the managers of Mountain View Cemetery, whose brochure reads: "Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, architect of New York's Central Park and San Francisco's Golden Gate Park."
Any student of urban landscape knows that Frederick Law Olmsted designed Central Park. What is largely unknown is that his first project after that, and his first solo design of any kind, was Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland.
What is also little known is that this historic graveyard, started in 1864, was his only major solo project in California.
This may come as a surprise to those who think Olmsted designed Golden Gate Park. He didn't, but among those who believe he did are the managers of Mountain View Cemetery, whose brochure reads: "Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, architect of New York's Central Park and San Francisco's Golden Gate Park."
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That is a gorgeous cemetery. Have you ever seen the Christmas lights they do there? It's a really pretty place to take a walk. I do Pilates right by there, so if I'm early I stroll though the cemetery.
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The parade down Eastern Parkway on Labor Day is attended by almost a miliion people and I wouldn't ever go. I used to live right there and would leave the neighborhood for the day when it occurred. Dangerous. And Bed-Stuy? This Brooklynite says stay away.
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A facinating book about Brooklyn: The New Brooklyn: How to Bring a City Back
https://www.c-span.org/video/?422030...s-new-brooklyn
https://www.c-span.org/video/?422030...s-new-brooklyn
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Here is another book; I could not get through it but it is pertinent to this thread:
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Rent-B.../dp/0062415646
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Rent-B.../dp/0062415646
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My wife and I both grew up in Brooklyn, on opposite sides of the borough and today it is unrecognizable. When we were kids and if someone said, "I'm from Dumbo," someone would have probably answered, "Yeah, and I'm from effing Pluto."
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Brooklyn is not just Williamsburg, Park Slope, etc., and hipsters. There's Coney Island, Boro Park, Bay Ridge, East Flatbush, Brighton Beach. I could go on. Hardly 1% ers. I gew up in Flatbush and my high school was one of the best in the country. Just us regular neighborhood kids there. And we never said "Deese, dem or dose". Old stereotypes die hard and so do people thinking they know which new stereotypes live in Brooklyn now.
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