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The truth about a complex built for veterans and the middle class and how it has evolved through the years to become one of the more interesting and controversial of New York stories.
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Management has two priorities: 1) Making sure money is made, hence upgrading and filling up apartments is their goal. "Amenities" are important in selling the place, though few residents use them. 2) If someone needs medical attention, Public Safety will be there, if alerted.
Quality of life issues are not that important, however. Things like the carpet rule or outsider dogs. These "rules" tend to be ignored, on purpose it seems. So you will see a lot that isn't taken care of properly, and complaints will be met with a creative excuse and a smile.
"Peace and quiet" must be a cruel joke, though this property is sold that way. There can be no peace and quiet as ALL apartments must be upgraded, which includes the installation of an AC unit below the window. Aside from the continual construction about the neighborhood, there is a new and noisy subway extension being built along East 14 st and the shut down of the L line. "Choosing" to live in NYC, now the newest mantra, is a fabrication when the talk is of ST and PCV, which was traditionally quiet, with no construction noise.
Though money was always important, it is now more important than ever. Money rules many things, as you will find.
About those "club cars" we see going this way and that way, and outside of Stuy Town or Peter Cooper Village:
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The STR Plan for Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village
When it came out that the Tenants Association has been brewing a tenant co-op/condo plan for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village with Brookfield Asset Management, several real estate big sharks began circling again around this complex, offering up their own plans or willingness to get into the mix. Well, in the spirit of "if they can do it, why can't I?", this is my plan for Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village:
1) Senior lenders are "owed" 3.5 billion dollars. Says who? And if so, who is to pay? Let's get this straight: Institutions took a financial risk in investing in the biggest real estate deal of the century, the investment tanked and now residents of this complex are to be burdened with a debt of 3.5 billion? Sorry, your mistake for trying to make a killing here, so you LOSE and won't be able to get anything for your loss except perhaps a tax break. Take it up with Tishman Speyer if you have a problem. Sue them if you like for 3.5 billion. But in no way should residents of this community be burdened with paying off the senior lenders in high rents, packed-in apartments for students, gimmicky non-zoned commercial activities, a reduction of services, benign neglect, or some future "deal" to be made with CWCapital. Once residents are free of this burden, even by implication, then our financial future in this complex becomes clearer and more breathable.
2) The city has to take over the running of the complex, at least financially, and establish a partnership with the Tenants Association. Before the Met Life sale, Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village used to turn over a modest profit and the complex can still do so. For their pains, the city would gain something for their coffers. (Let's see the politicos of NYC, the people who so eagerly appear at tenant rallies and meetings, vote against the idea of the city making sure ST/PCV is truly run for the ideals of "the middle class" and "affordability" by letting the city become the complex's owner.) The TA would be charged with selecting someone to manage the actual day to day workings of complex, and that entity would be responsible to the TA, and by extension, to the tenants, for the quality of the work they do, which includes the quality of the security force.
3) Full and genuine rent stabilization in this complex has to be a right and tenants have to focus on working toward strengthening tenant protections across the board in New York. No more of this "realistic" bs (convenient as a scare tactic to get tenants to give up current rent-stabilized apartments) that tenant protections are going to disappear, so we may as well go for the best deal we can, which includes voluntarily accepting rent-stabilized units turning into market rate apartments. Tenant protections laws, to include permanent rent stabilization, have to be the primary goals of every rent stabilized tenant living in the city and every tenant association that represents them.
4) All apartments in ST/PCV are apparently rent stabilized, but at the same time we have market rate prices on many apartments. How in the hell did that happen? There has to be a complete revaluation of high-priced apartments with pricing that reflects the general pricing of apartments that have not turned "market rate." The only allowance would be a modest addition fee of living in a refurbished apartment. Even an extra $300-500 per month charge would be a savings for tenants paying market rate prices, as their monthly rental bill would be cut in half from its current high. If the rents here were truly in the rent stabilized category, there'd be a complete occupancy of rental units here, with a waiting list to get in, and a decent selection process of prospective tenants, just like in the "good old days."
5) No more transient tenants from schools. Transient tenants create garbage, pressurized wall mazes, and destabilize the community, creating a class of people who do not care about the past, present or future of ST/PCV. Bye-bye NYU, New School, etc. We want families and working people here, whose intentions are to stay for a good number of years and preferably for a much, much longer time, setting up roots in this place as many of us have done. Such tenants, replacing the transients, will create a vigorous new body that will become active in tenant affairs and fully support rent stabilization because this is their home and not a dorm or a hotel. These are people we want here, the solid middle class who will fight for the middle class and not take bull from anyone--politicos and monied real estate/asset management companies combined.
Any other plan that deviates in large part from the above, to include co-op and condo conversions, spells the end to the true middle class here and affordability and paves the way for the complete transition of Manhattan into a Bloombergesque vision of highrises fronted by chain drug stores and banks--a Manhattan inhabited by the wealthy and/or their student sons and daughters--and the eradication of the charm, gusto and fighting spirit of what still is the greatest city in the world.
99 comments:
Dream on, STR. Dream on.
- December 6, 2011 at 7:44 PM
I appreciate your thoughts. I'm not very optimistic that the bond holders will give up anything outside their legal rights. While your plan is great in an ideal world, we all know how our Mayor Bloomturd feels about the middle class, the sale of Stuyvesant Town and the future of NY, and how the Republican State Legislature feels about the real estate money in their pockets and downstate tenants. Maybe if the negotitions drag out for a couple of years..... who knows ?
- December 6, 2011 at 8:44 PM
I'm with you 99%! We part company at having the TA run the place--at least not as it is currently constituted.
And you can add to your list of schools the SVA. Saw a bunch of them unloading their crap last night.
I'm not going for this deal but I might sign on for yours.
- December 6, 2011 at 9:46 PM
Sorry STR. I have only one question to ask you. In your world, what color is the sky?
- December 6, 2011 at 9:52 PM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
We can't change the sky, but we can have a say in determining what roof we'll have over our heads...and what that roof will cost.
- December 6, 2011 at 9:57 PM
"I'm not very optimistic that the bond holders will give up anything outside their legal rights."
They have the legal right to recover whatever they can get. That's it. We don't have to pay them face for their note. Nobody does. It's up to them what they will accept to unload this albatross.
One thing is for sure, the longer they have to run this place and the more cash they bleed, the more willing they will be to take a reasonable offer.
- December 6, 2011 at 10:00 PM
STR, you have come up with the only plan that I, as a rent stabilized tenant, would sign on for. I am paying close to $1,400 per month and cannot afford much more. Tishman Speyer decimated this property and incurred the huge debt that has left the bondholders up the creek. I have no sympathy for them They made a bad investment and should swallow it. Go after the stinking avaricious jackals that "bought" the property at such a ridiculous price and roped in enough fools so that they could walk away from it. Tishman Speyer and Blackrock owe the money to the bondholders, not we tenants. No way in this world am I going to go along with the TA, Brookfield or Guterman, but I would go along with your proposal.
- December 6, 2011 at 10:09 PM
Yeah, you can have a say in determing what roof is over your head and how mmuch it costs, but only if you own it. And if you think things are screwed up now, you can't imagine how bad it will be if NYC is in the mix.
- December 6, 2011 at 10:19 PM
STR...I commend your stab at a plan, but it is fundamentally flawed from your first point contending that the senior lenders are not "owed" $3.5 billion dollars.
The lenders made a loan to Tishman and have a contractual and legal right to get something in return when Tishman defaulted - possession of the property and buildings (collateral). Plain and simple. It's what all banks do with loans made to individuals who purchase homes or apartments. If you default on your mortgage, the lender gets to take your property and sell it so that they can recoup the money they've loaned to you.
This has been the fundamental pillar of home/buildings loans for centuries.
I am a tenant here and I despise what Tishman did and what has/will become of our community. However, a contract is a contract and laws are laws and they must be honored if legal. Morality is another issue.
- December 6, 2011 at 10:43 PM
Thanks for your plan. A lot better than the one we have before us. At the TA meeting, Dan G. said that we would probably be receiving in the mail an offer from Guterman. He should we should ignore their offer, as they will promise us anything. I'm sure they are just as bad as anyone else, but has anyone received such a letter and why did Dan G. need to warn us against them?
- December 6, 2011 at 10:46 PM
STR, Your plan needs to be tweeked a bit, but not bad at all. Have to re-read it a few more times before I add my two cents.
I don't think there is any rush, any plan will be tied up in litigation for years. The legal fees alone will bankrupt the TA, and they won't see so much as a penny from me!
- December 6, 2011 at 11:14 PM
As someone who spent 3 years living ST, with a roommate and a pressurized wall while paying about 40% of my after tax income for the privilege of doing so I have very little sympathy for rent stabilized "middle class" tenants.
"Affordability" is a great excuse for keeping the rent of the lucky few low and therefore inflating the rent of everyone else who would like to live in the area.
Rent stabilization has little to do with the middle class. If you are middle class then you can afford to live elsewhere, you don't need to be subsidized. There is no "right" to afford a Manhattan apartment. If you are working poor and need a subsidy just to get by that's different.
Its not fair that some legacy tenants receive a windfall at the expense of others, especially those who can barely afford to move into the neighborhood but are willing to make other sacrifices to do so.
- December 6, 2011 at 11:41 PM
All of Lux's sites are down. Facebook account seems to be removed.
- December 7, 2011 at 7:02 AM
Let's analyze your proposal:
1) I'm not sure what this rant is about, but I'm guessing you want to force the lenders to sell the property for less than value of the mortgage. This sort of thing happens, of course, but even detestable people have a right to retain their property. How exactly are you going to force them to sign away their legal right to own this place? It isn't like they can just donate it -- they have a responsibility to the people who gave them that money (which includes plenty of normal people's pension funds and the like).
2) Wait, you want to turn our community into city housing? Seriously, have you seen what the NYCHA projects look like? No, really: put down your laptop, and go check it out. If you're excited by things, like working elevators, maintenance requests closed in the same quarter as they're opened, and any sense of security, you might want to reconsider that route. I think we'd long for the days of Rose after a year of that (and talk about unaccountable!) "This time is different" isn't a place most of us can live.
3) I'm not sure what you want here. Do you want a special rent stabilization law for PCVST? The law is the law, and if we want a different law, that's a NYS political process thing. TS might be some greedy bastards, but the whole RS system isn't something they invented, it's the system. If we want something different, it isn't something we can get via a contract, a deal with NYC, or anything like that: it takes an act of the New York State legislature to change that (and, it's going to be opposed by every landlord in the state, because most believe that there's no legitimate reason that people somehow have an entitlement to a sub-market rate home in Manhattan).
4) So we're going to cut all the rents back to Metlife levels? This will do a great job of ensuring that whomever runs the place can't afford to maintain it, which will make the degradation mentioned in #2 a forgone conclusion. This one is probably legal, since RS laws set a MAXIMUM rent but you can always charge less. But, this doesn't address the thorny question of who gets units. If you DO suddenly have a waiting list for apartments, how do you give them out? If we're really becoming city housing, we have to make it income sensitive and let the most needy people in first. We also are obligated to kick out those who aren't needy. This is actually an interesting problem: if our goal is to make this "affordable" middle class housing, do we evict everyone making more than, say, 60k to make room for people who "need" a home? That would help to ensure we're benefiting the middle class with affordable housing... although I'm sure that would cause some screaming.
5) Are you suggesting that the community should start violating the Fair Housing Act of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975? Or just ban pressurized walls? Suffice to say, I think imposing rules on things like carpeting and walls are a great idea... but attempting to evict or not lease to people just because they're young or students is illegal. Granted, that seems to be no barrier to you in some of these things, but if we're going to be city-run, we probably need to uphold federal housing laws. Let's just say that we'll ban those subdivisions, enforce maximum resident rules, and hope that makes us a bit too expensive for the students. Of course, we can stop selling blocks to NYU too, and force the tenants to apply individually, so we can do the full wait list process.
Wow, that was fun. I can see you care a lot about this community. But, I think your plan would make things a whole lot worse here. Thankfully, the barriers to that happening are pretty high, and involve the government of New York likely forcible repossessing the complex from its owners to make it into public housing. Until they default on their taxes, that ain't happening.
- December 7, 2011 at 7:31 AM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
"All of Lux's sites are down. Facebook account seems to be removed."
I just sent an e-mail to Lux to find out what's happening.
- December 7, 2011 at 9:35 AM
"Rent stabilization has little to do with the middle class. If you are middle class then you can afford to live elsewhere, you don't need to be subsidized. There is no "right" to afford a Manhattan apartment. If you are working poor and need a subsidy just to get by that's different."
That is one of the more hateful comments I've ever heard in this forum. You do realize that not everybody that lives in this complex makes a six-figure salary at some tech startup, right? Imagine you're a cop, firefighter, teacher, or some other kind of civil servant. You have two, maybe even three kids. Your spouse has to stay home to take care of them, so the four of you have to live on a cop/teacher/firefighter's salary. The problem is that the middle class CAN'T afford to live ANYWHERE in this city without being subsidized via rent stabilization. If your salary is 50,000 dollars a year, and your rent is 4k a month, that leaves 2 thousand dollars for an entire year's worth of food, clothing, entertainment, etc. I find it pretty disgusting that you choose to attack those who cannot afford to pay market rate. I'm glad you don't live here anymore.
- December 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Its not fair that some legacy tenants receive a windfall at the expense of others, especially those who can barely afford to move into the neighborhood but are willing to make other sacrifices to do so.
Boo hoo! waaaah! Then go home to Mommy's basement. New York is a diverse city for people of all income levels. Always has been and always will be. Nobody asked you to live here and you're welcome to leave asap.
- December 7, 2011 at 10:52 AM
"Its not fair that some legacy tenants receive a windfall at the expense of others, especially those who can barely afford to move into the neighborhood but are willing to make other sacrifices to do so.."
oh and by the way..Nobody FORCED you to rent an apartment here.
- December 7, 2011 at 10:58 AM
Post @ 10:45 am: Why should we have to explain ourselves to these fucking assholes from the flyover states who come here and feel it is THEIR RIGHT to live in Manhattan and pout and resent the New Yorkers who are already living here and have affordable rents. THEY are the ones who can't afford to live in Manhattan and should go somewhere else. Our rents are not too low, their rents are too high because landlords take advantage of their petulent demand to live in The City. We owe these whining white breads NOTHING and never will. The people who made this city great didn't come here demanding to live in prime real estate for a low rent and resent those who were already here, probably born and raised here. This is the flyover state crowd of entitled narcists who are perpetually glued to their iPhones, iPads, iPods, iShits and think they are God's gift to the world! Immature jerks!
- December 7, 2011 at 11:45 AM
I hope Luxie hasn't been assassinated (technologically speaking, of course) by the Forces of Evil that surround us. If so, watch out STR!
- December 7, 2011 at 11:48 AM
Hey Numbnuts December 6, 2011 11:41 PM,
Some people who live here fought for YOUR right to not have to wear jackboots and pledge allegiance to Hitler Youth. Get a fucking clue you narcissistic twerp.
- December 7, 2011 at 11:53 AM
"The problem is that the middle class CAN'T afford to live ANYWHERE in this city without being subsidized via rent stabilization."
That's such an ignorant attitude. There's plenty of affordable housing that people earning $50k a year can raise a family. It just isn't in Manhattan south of 96th street. It's on Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, Upper Manhattan, and the Bronx.
The sense of entitlement is staggering, that some people believe that somehow the world owes them an apartment in the most expensive place in the US, regardless of all other factors. Not everybody gets to be an astronaut when they grow up, and not everybody gets to live on 5th Avenue. That's okay, though, because there are plenty of great places to live.
- December 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM
What HAPPENED TO LUX?
- December 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM
There is no "right" to afford a Manhattan apartment.
However, there is this little pesky thing known as the law. Granted Tishman Speyer, CW Capital and Rose Associates routinely ignore the law and Dan Garodnick and the group formerly known as the Tenants Association look the other way and pretended not to notice. That is, until a group of tenants got so fed up they went around the TA and dopey Dan. Yet, it is still the law of the land and as such is enforceable despite dopey Dan and the incompetent TA.
- December 7, 2011 at 12:17 PM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
Regarding Lux, everything is okay. No conspiracy theories. He just decided to move on. I thank him for his sites and Facebook, and who knows? Perhaps he will come back. He and his work will be very much missed.
- December 7, 2011 at 12:45 PM
@12:17 pm. The law is not enforced for the likes of TS, Rose, Dopey Dan, et al so long as Bloomturd is in his illegal third term that was bought and paid for, over and above the will of the electorate that overwhelmingly voted in favor of term limits. Let us never forget that Christine "Slush Fund" Quinn enabled this and she is part of the cabal pols who turned up to cheer on Dopey Dan and the group f/k/a The Tenants Association. When Bloomturd has gone and City Hall has been cleaned out and thoroughly sanitized, maybe we will have the rule of law again.
- December 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM
Lux didn't even say goodbye. Something must be up. I do hope he is alright. It's not like him to just dump everything without a world of warning.
- December 7, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Wow, he didn't say goodbye. ?????
- December 7, 2011 at 12:54 PM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
"The sense of entitlement is staggering, that some people believe that somehow the world owes them an apartment in the most expensive place in the US, regardless of all other factors."
No, the world doesn't owe people an apartment south of 96th Street, but if we are already here, it's another issue to try to kick us out of our homes. Conversely, the world doesn't owe the wealthy carte blanche south of 96th Street.
- December 7, 2011 at 1:02 PM
I do hope that Lux comes back. We need both the STR blog and Lux blog. Both are very, very valuable, informative and entertaining blogs. Please, if any of you see or hear from Lux, please ask him to come back. He went so suddenly too. I hope he is not sick or in trouble in any way. WE LOVE YOU LUX!!!
- December 7, 2011 at 1:05 PM
I wonder if Rose had something to do with lux departure?
so abrupt! Watch your backs kiddos.
- December 7, 2011 at 1:20 PM
Calling people names, or telling them their opinion doesn't matter, or making fun of where they're from or what they do or don't do hardly unifies the community at a time when we actually need to be able to work together.
If all we want to do is rip at each other, we're going to be such suckers for whomever has money and a plan, because we won't be able to organize to do anything about it.
Incidentally, I think housing in New York City should be affordable to everyone. I'm not sure why I (who don't need a subsidy) deserve a RS deal that my son (who really could use one) doesn't get, except that I've been here since '77.
It's a travesty what's happening to our kid's generation, that they're being cheated out of their money just to put a roof over our heads. I'm ashamed that we're not doing more to give them (all of them, not just a select few) the breaks we got when we were coming up.
- December 7, 2011 at 1:37 PM
Instead of whining about Lux's not saying good bye, we should thank him for everything he's done for such a long time and wish him the best of everything. He deserves our gratitude, good wishes and support. We'll all miss him and his great work.
- December 7, 2011 at 1:43 PM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
Rose had nothing to do with Luxie's departure.
- December 7, 2011 at 1:45 PM
Maybe the TA will reinstate their forum! Yeah right!
- December 7, 2011 at 1:53 PM
I can't believe that Lux just dumped his many friends and fans without so much as goodbye and good luck. I am worried about him.
- December 7, 2011 at 1:57 PM
Incidentally, I think housing in New York City should be affordable to everyone. I'm not sure why I (who don't need a subsidy) deserve a RS deal that my son (who really could use one) doesn't get, except that I've been here since '77.
Then move out and pass the apartment on to your son, if he's been on your lease, if not give it up for someone else's son. However, dont blame others because you're not willing to give up your good thing.
- December 7, 2011 at 2:04 PM
This is a terrible time for Lux to leave us. I can't believe he would do it unless there was something unfortunate happening in his life. I send you good wishes Lux and I'm sure many, many others do too. Please come back when you can.
- December 7, 2011 at 2:11 PM
Maybe something good is happening in Lux's life and he just doesn't have time anymore. I prefer to believe that. He deserves our very best wishes.
- December 7, 2011 at 2:25 PM
"Instead of whining about Lux's not saying good bye, we should thank him for everything he's done for such a long time and wish him the best of everything. He deserves our gratitude, good wishes and support. We'll all miss him and his great work."
Nobody's "whining" about Lux not saying good bye. We are concerned about him because it is so unlike him to just go without any word to his fans. We are very grateful to him for his good work and will miss him dreadfully. We would still like to have heard a word from him instead of such a sudden departure. He's going to be missed by a lot of people. We are fortunate to have STR otherwise we would have no way of sharing info, views, ideas, etc. The TA is good for nothing in that respect.
- December 7, 2011 at 2:34 PM
Of course everyone will miss Lux. His email probably till works.
- December 7, 2011 at 3:08 PM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
Perhaps someone wants to take on the chore of maintaining a ST/PCV Facebook, which was a good, quick and efficient way of tenants speaking to each other. Of course, there IS the TA Facebook....
- December 7, 2011 at 5:41 PM
LOL the TA Facebook!!
- December 7, 2011 at 6:10 PM
The TA Facebook doesn't work. The TA wants to keep us in the dark and does not allow comments and does not give out useful information.
Lux, if you read this I beg you to come back!
- December 7, 2011 at 6:16 PM
I'm not really understanding why you are so quick to judge and distrust the TA. I have NO idea if the final offer will be adequate, but the TA has done monumental work with the whole J51 lawsuit and various other actions. I wouldn't automatically assume they are selling us down the river. There are affordable condos that also have rent-stabilized units--I think the ILGWA across town are like that. I think it's possible to have a deal that works for most, if not all, of the tenants (with 26,000 people here, it will be hard to please everybody). But the TA hasn't yet shown they are betraying the residents.
- December 7, 2011 at 6:49 PM
I personally don't believe that Lux Living closed down his site and facebook voluntarily. Why? Because he is the consummate professional when it comes to how he handles his blog and as a webmaster. Unless he sent emails to all the people who were on his subscription lists, he wouldn't just go with no word of explanation, even if it was just to say I' sick of doing this/I am not well/I'm in jail/I've entered a monastery/am running for President. He would have said something. He was whacked by the Stasi. Mark my words. If not that, then he is very ill or someone in his family is very ill.
- December 7, 2011 at 7:49 PM
There is more stupidity and lack of reality in this posted plan then is worth even responding to. Imagine if we had a blog run by someone with a clue and at least half-wit intelligence.
- December 7, 2011 at 8:49 PM
What @ 6:49 said. The TA is the only entity making a concerted, affirmative effort to bring much needed stability to stpcv. They're to be applauded.
- December 7, 2011 at 8:52 PM
"No, the world doesn't owe people an apartment south of 96th Street, but if we are already here, it's another issue to try to kick us out of our homes. Conversely, the world doesn't owe the wealthy carte blanche south of 96th Street."
These people have NO right whatsoever to try to kick us out of homes. Who the hell do they think they are and what kind of morality do they embrace?
- December 7, 2011 at 9:10 PM
"If your salary is 50,000 dollars a year, and your rent is 4k a month, that leaves 2 thousand dollars for an entire year's worth of food, clothing, entertainment, etc."
When I first moved to NYC my salary was less than 50, I lived in Brooklyn, ate spaghetti and didn't travel. We all make choices, life is full of trade offs. I choose to live here and that is what it took.
"I find it pretty disgusting that you choose to attack those who cannot afford to pay market rate. I'm glad you don't live here anymore."
Talk about hateful. I now live in a cheaper apartment in the East Village because after 6yrs in NYC this is home. I can't afford rent high enough to subsidize others granted the right to the same apt but for an affordable price.
Its a deal anyone would fight to keep so I don't blame those that do but don't be angry that others don't want to pay for it.
- December 7, 2011 at 9:24 PM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
"There is more stupidity and lack of reality in this posted plan then is worth even responding to. Imagine if we had a blog run by someone with a clue and at least half-wit intelligence."
Yeah, and imagine if you would be intelligent enough to know when to use "then" and "than"!!! LOL.
- December 7, 2011 at 10:26 PM
Anon December 7, 2011 9:24 PM
You don't really understand. Rent Stabilized tenants are NOT subsidized by Market Rate tenants. They were all here before the complex was sold, and before the sale the property generated a healthy profit for Met Life, even with a lower rent roll. The fact that you are forced to pay these high rents is a matter of personal choice. Thousands of others in ST/PCV waited for as long as 10 years for the opportunity to rent an apartment at an affordable price.
If you want to bitch and moan, talk to the greedy real estate speculators who caused this mess, not about the people who have legitimate rights to be here.
- December 7, 2011 at 10:28 PM
Let's be clear about one thing: the current rent laws are the "rich white person Manhattan protection act." They have absolutely ZERO to do with the middle class in most cases. Let's just be honest and stop pretending that they benefit deserving people.
- December 7, 2011 at 11:42 PM
Anonymous 11:42pm
He has a point -- there's no way to know if the people who have RS rates are middle class or not. The only reason they have those rates is longevity. I'm sure they feel its heartless to say they don't deserve the break they're getting, but it's equally heartless to deny that break to someone who actually needs the RS price when people who don't are getting it--and that happens every hour of every day.
All we hear, though, is "don't kick me out, I've been here forever". I'd feel that way too if I were them, but it's only supporting the legacy tenants. They were chosen due to politics, wait lists, and in the more distant past policies that excluded people due to race, sex, sexual preference, ages, and family status.
Maybe they should kick us all out, and have an application process to find genuinely needy people, then conduct a lottery to assign the apartments. That would actually make this a middle class community... whereas right now, it's anybody's guess (but probably not that). All those people calling us names, are you willing to prove you have a right to be here?
- December 8, 2011 at 7:28 AM
"Let's be clear about one thing: the current rent laws are the "rich white person Manhattan protection act." They have absolutely ZERO to do with the middle class in most cases. Let's just be honest and stop pretending that they benefit deserving people.
December 7, 2011 11:42 PM"
That's simply the most inaccurate and racist view one can hold on the issue. Are you jealous ? or just pitifully ignorant ?
If you fools would understand that it's not necessary that each and every apartment in NYC be considered Park Avenue quality, you would understand that the diversity of NYC is what makes it great. When it's filled with 8 million yuppies, there will be little reason for the world to care about it.
- December 8, 2011 at 7:33 AM
@ Anonymous December 7, 2011 11:42 PM
You've obviously never been to an RGB rent increase hearing. You also must not have attended any of the tenant rallies or marches last year urging the legislature to renew rent regulations and repeal vacancy decontrol. The crowds were very mixed with a large black/Latino/Asian make-up.
Here's some rent regulation history and context. For most of the 20th century, NYC had some sort of rent regulation to protect renters because the city understood that it needed to provide those protections if it wanted a to keep a viable middle class work force here. In the early 1970s, Gov Nelson Rockefeller took a leap and put an end to rent regulations -- overnight and completely. Rents skyrocketed, NYers went ballistic, and soon after Rockefeller had rent regs re-instated, but with a big change: NYC no longer had control over rent regulations, that control was mostly handed over to the state. And renters have had problems ever since.
Rent regs are not permanent. They sunset. Meaning they have to be renewed every few years by the state senate, the assembly, and then signed into law by the governor. Real estate is one of the most powerful lobbies in the state. Big real estate has donated huge amounts of campaign cash to politicians upstate (mostly GOP, but not exclusively) with few to no renters in their districts. In exchange, the upstate politicians gutted the rent regs that were extremely popular downstate. Under Gov Pataki, who was adamantly anti- rent regulation, rent regs were decimated.
The death blow came in 1997 when vacancy decontrol was passed. Anti-tenant Senate Majority leader Joe Bruno held back the legislation renewing rent regulation until 3 a.m. on the last night of the legislative year, just as rent regs were set to expire. He demanded vacancy decontrol as the price of renewal. Vacancy decontrol basically kept rent protections for occupied rent regulated apartments, but removed them forever once the tenant moved out. (BTW, the vacancy decontrol bill was put together by Pataki's transition aide Charles Urstadt, the same Charles Urstadt who put together the bill that took away NYC's home rule over rent regulation and gave it to Albany when he was Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's housing commissioner).
- December 8, 2011 at 8:11 AM
More...There was a huge effort by tenants groups last year to repeal vacancy decontrol and re-extend rent regulation to all renters once again, but that withered on the vine because pro-landlord GOPers in control of the state senate blocked it and Gov Cuomo decided not to force the issue. (There is also an ongoing effort to repeal the law that took away NYC's right to regulate its rental housing stock).
Finally, there is a bright side to all this: redistricting. Every 10 years after the census, election districts are redrawn. By law, NY districts have to be redrawn by March 2012. Usually they are re-drawn (gerrymandered) by the party controlling the state senate. But former Mayor Koch and a bunch of reform groups have been agitating for independent redistricting and they got the governor on board. Cuomos's demanding independent redistricting and said he'll veto any legislated redistricting. GOP senate majority leader Skelos has balked, because census results indicate that indy redistricting would ABSOLUTELY lead to loss of GOP control of the state senate and continued Dem control of the Assembly. But if the GOP tries to redraw lines, Cuomo will veto and redistricting would then be thrown to the courts. That would also lead to loss of senate GOP control.
Polls indicate a big shift to the left in NYC since the economic crisis hit in 2008 and a renewed interest in seeing rental housing stock in the city re-regulated. Even the historically anti-rent regulation NY Times took a 180 degree turn last year in support of tenants during the effort to renew/expand rent regulations. If redistricting leads to a Dem Assembly, Senate, and Governor, tenants would finally be in a position to have things go our way for a change, and in a big way. If things didn't change, the pro-rent reg Democrats would have a lot of explaining to do...
- December 8, 2011 at 8:12 AM
I can't believe the rank, raw, boneheaded stupidity and ignorance expressed by some of the posters who are so bitterly jealous of people in rent stabilized apartments. They just don't get it that rent stabilization was not designed to keep THEM out and US in affordable apartments! It was put into place to curb the abuses of greedy, speculative developers and landlords who would have thrown middle income renters out at a moment's notice every chance they could get someone else in who would pay a dollar more. It was intended to bring STABILITY to tenants, hence the name STABILIZATION. Maybe there are some tenants who could afford to pay market rate, but not many. The majority of tenants in RS apartments qualify and you know what, no matter how much it burns you up because you can't get a RS rent, we are not moving out for you.
- December 8, 2011 at 8:51 AM
Thank you Roundly Roger for that very well-written and clear explanation of the facts concerning Rent Stabilization. I hope the haters take the time to read it.
Now would someone please find out what happened to the Lux Life guy. I don't believe he just shut up shop of his own accord without any warning or adieu to his followers.
- December 8, 2011 at 11:07 AM
The people who just moved in next to me have a dog. Just to note, I love dogs. Really love them.
But now I feel like I have a dog too. When it barks, it actually sounds like it's barking IN MY APARTMENT. And this goes on all day.
I'm losing my sanity. There is no way I'd ever buy my apartment.
- December 8, 2011 at 11:26 AM
Funny you shld bring up the noise here. Spent last night listening to valley girl screaming, giggling and running back and forth from room to room. Seriously.
There's a definite problem with floors and walls. I'm really supposed to call security at 2 am with my kids here? Really?
Today I write the owners and tell them I'm not paying the rent until they carpet upstairs valley girls. I'm not calling security, they can piss off.
- December 8, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Ok, so I would have no issues going upstairs and explaining to them that they are bothering me (honestly in the nicest way possible.) Actually a note would probably do this as well. Strange that you hear music from the people above you though, right?
How do I tell someone that their dog never stops barking? Isn't that like telling people to quiet their baby from crying? I FINALLY understand why people shouldn't have dogs in apartment building.
- December 8, 2011 at 12:05 PM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
A continually barking dog is a quality of life problem and something management should be able to take care of. If the dog-owning tenant doesn't respond to notes under the door or a personal meeting, it's time to call security.
- December 8, 2011 at 1:04 PM
Walls and floors way to damn thin here. All should be carpeted in my opinion. With padding.
- December 8, 2011 at 1:12 PM
Re the recent TA meeting, it now seems that the entire meeting is now avaiable at livestream. At the link, there now seems to be parts 1-13 with a Q&A section of parts 1-4. Total of 17 vids.
- December 8, 2011 at 4:14 PM
- maxschactman said...
When it comes to the future of the community there are only two choices -
We buy OR another landlord buys.We know what will happens if another landlord buys.
Tudor City should be the model for what happens here.A co-op conversion,offering apts at very low prices that leaves those who choose to remain rent regulated undisturbed by the change.It worked beautifully at Tudor City and everyone was truly happy,buyers and rent regulated renters.Despite the old condition of those buildings maintenance fees were very reasonable.After down payment the combined mort. and maint fees were roughly equal to prior rents.The buildings were well funded enough for upgrades and both owners and regulated renters enjoy the benfit of those upgrades.
That is why I am dismayed by the rejection of Guterman's simple,co-op conversion plan.
- December 8, 2011 at 4:47 PM
Re the recent TA meeting, it now seems that the entire meeting is now avaiable at livestream. At the link, there now seems to be parts 1-13 with a Q&A section of parts 1-4. Total of 17 vids.
So what. Who cares. I didn't go to the meeting because I didn't want to hear all the lies and BS coming from these prevaricators or the politicians either. This BS deal is going nowhere.
- December 8, 2011 at 4:53 PM
Many people have longed for the old days when Mother Met Life took care of all her children and others blast them for that and say it will never be that way again. I don't know. Yet, still, I long for the old Tenants Association not the current one with the soon to be market raters pushing their agenda. With all due respect (and he deserves respect)I long for the old Al Doyle, the one who would never have stood by and watched as management forced dogs, and bikes and circuses and illegal commercial ventures. That TA with Joann Polise and Al taking on Met Life to assure that they took care of the RS people. How I wish we had THAT Al Doyle and Joann and the board and volunteers of the old TA. It really is a shame to see how far the TA has fallen and I dont believe they will ever recover. I was recently given a handout regarding a potential new TA that is forming for RS tenants only, I sure hope that pans out. Anyone have any info on that??
- December 8, 2011 at 5:25 PM
STR, I like your plan but I am wondering how you would get it implemented. Have you spoken to any possible financial backers about your ideas?
- December 8, 2011 at 6:10 PM
Yeah, I'm sure a CEO responsible for 150 billion dollars in assets gave up his Saturday at Baruch because it's a BS, no-chance deal...
- December 8, 2011 at 6:34 PM
to: 4:53 pm
but why? are you happy with the present slumlords, or the prior?
are you dreaming of days that are not returning?
What would you like US to dream about?
We're all fairly CERTAIN that our next landlord will be another nightmare and beyond. YOU OK WITH THAT?
- December 8, 2011 at 8:24 PM
Why weren't the three top contenders for the property revealed to the tenants before going with a Brookfield Condo Conversion? Then there could have been some real discussion rather than being presented with a fait accompli. Maybe the Guterman plan was not good, but it should have been discussed at a tenant meeting. All of these corporations including Brookfield are in it for the $. They are not charitable institutions. Why can't tenants vote on the best plan for tenants instead of leaving it to the Board and the Councilmember?
- December 8, 2011 at 9:08 PM
I love reading STR, but I am going to miss the LL facebook, particularly Lo Rhent. I kinda wonder if he is/was LL himself????? I tried to post a comment on the TA site regarding the Ice Skating Rink and even though I am a member of the TA I was not allowed to post. It said something I wasn't registered??? Their facebook page is non-existent. Lux, please come back with facebook. STR, please don't leave us too. I am suffering from acute separation anxiety. I didn't ever post on Lux's forum or facebook, but I sured loved reading the facebook comments, etc. (I didn't read the forum much because there was too much blathering. I can go to a TA meeting to listen to that!)
- December 8, 2011 at 9:52 PM
It is amusing to see how FURIOUS people get when someone questions their rent-stabilized status. There ARE middle class people here, but there ALSO are those with summer homes, or lake homes, or ski homes, etc. which are subsidized by the low rents they are paying. Maybe they were middle class when they moved in 30 years ago, but they moved up the income ladder and their rent did not. It's just a fact. Why would that make readers so angry when it is stated?
- December 8, 2011 at 9:54 PM
Thanks for the info, Roger.
Thanks for keeping it going, STR.
No good deed goes unpunished! Thanks, Lux, for your positively heroic work over the years. You really deserve to move on, in peace! Best of luck.
dcf (That's my two sons and my late dog, not my initials.)
- December 8, 2011 at 10:05 PM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
"There ARE middle class people here, but there ALSO are those with summer homes, or lake homes, or ski homes, etc. which are subsidized by the low rents they are paying."
Perhaps some, but they could still be middle class, having worked for a long time to get a summer home someplace. Most of the tenants I know do not have such extra homes and will find it difficult to finance the TA-Brookfield plan.
- December 8, 2011 at 10:23 PM
maxschactman said...
What Max doesn't tell you is that the people who bought in when Tudor City did their conversion got hosed. If they are lucky, they are just NOW getting financially back above the water line. That's a long time, folks.
Maybe Max is telling us to pass on the deal and to stay on as renters. Hey, thanks Max!
- December 8, 2011 at 10:24 PM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
"I tried to post a comment on the TA site regarding the Ice Skating Rink and even though I am a member of the TA I was not allowed to post. It said something I wasn't registered??? Their facebook page is non-existent."
You have to be a member of Facebook and accepted by the TA Facebook to post. Otherwise, the TA Facebook should be available for tenants to post on.
- December 8, 2011 at 10:26 PM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
"STR, I like your plan but I am wondering how you would get it implemented. Have you spoken to any possible financial backers about your ideas?"
My plan doesn't need financial backers, only the will of the people and the politicians who claim they are for affordability and the middle class.
- December 8, 2011 at 10:28 PM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
BTW, I miss Lo Rhent too!
- December 8, 2011 at 10:29 PM
I can tell you why Lux stopped: no one was paying him for that hard work he was doing, and in fact, he took a large amount of crap. Why would anyone work that hard for free, and usually getting no credit?
- December 8, 2011 at 10:32 PM
I got the Guterman letter tonight and I read it and tossed it. I wouldn't buy into this rancid dump under either the Guterman proposal or the TA/Brookfield proposal as long as this place continues as a dorm. I've got students upstairs, downstairs and to the side of me. I am fed up of their woo-hooing, braying, fucking, stamping around on their uncarpeted floors at all hours of the night and day and playing their fucking music at top volume. I call Public Safety and it does no good. The minute PS leaves, the rev up the volume again. I wish they would all DROP DEAD and I mean that sincerely and literally. Buy into this hell hole? I don't think so!
- December 8, 2011 at 10:47 PM
Website referenced by TA at last week's meeting.
- December 8, 2011 at 11:45 PM
How charming! Another cranky old person paying $650/month for an unrenovated apartment, longing for the days when he could do anything remotely similar to "fucking". The statement about young people said it all. A psychiatrist would have a field day with these dying people and their feelings about the newer residents. Sad, truly.
- December 8, 2011 at 11:48 PM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
"Another cranky old person paying $650/month for an unrenovated apartment...."
I really, really doubt anyone in ST/PCV is paying only $650 per month. I've been here for over 20 years and my rent is edging close to 2K at this point.
- December 9, 2011 at 8:19 AM
"Another cranky old person paying $650/month for an unrenovated apartment...."
I've been here 31 years. My apartment started in 1980 at $350 per month. Now, with all the mci increases and rgb increases it is close to $1,700. It is a one-bedroom, unrenovated unit. I wish it was $650 per month! It might be worth the bs we have to put up with then!
- December 9, 2011 at 8:30 AM
BTW, I miss Lo Rhent too!
It's too bad Lux couldn't have left the facebook page up and just taken the forum down. The TA facebook doesn't seem to be up and when it comes to commenting on any TA forum or facebook, there is very heavy censorship as in you cannot disagree with the TA. You toe the party line or yerrrrrout!
- December 9, 2011 at 11:00 AM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
"The TA facebook doesn't seem to be up and when it comes to commenting on any TA forum or facebook, there is very heavy censorship as in you cannot disagree with the TA. You toe the party line or yerrrrrout!"
Last I checked the TA Facebook was online. I have not tested out the theory that if one doesn't toe the TA party line, one gets bounced, but it would be a real shame if that were so. I can understand deleting posts, and eventually an account, if the poster is insulting or out-of-control, but, otherwise, all views should be acceptable to post. It is OUR association, after all.
- December 9, 2011 at 11:24 AM
STR, I went to the TA Facebook and just got the blank page to create an account. The TA Facebook used to be up and readable (couldn't post if you didn't have an account), but now that has gone away. Also, I tried to comment in the regular comment box concerning the icerink and was not allowed to even though I am a dues-paying member of the TA. Their site is not at all user-friendly in my opinion. It's a totally one-way traffic account, at least for now!
- December 9, 2011 at 11:39 AM
- Stuy Town Reporter said...
Were you banned before? I still get the TA Facebook page:
- December 9, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Were you banned before? I still get the TA Facebook page:
No! I only used to read it occasionally. Never commented on it! I've never been banned from anywhere! Not even a bar! (I guess I've led a boring life!)
- December 9, 2011 at 12:29 PM
"BTW, I miss Lo Rhent too!
It's too bad Lux couldn't have left the facebook page up and just taken the forum down. The TA facebook doesn't seem to be up and when it comes to commenting on any TA forum or facebook, there is very heavy censorship as in you cannot disagree with the TA. You toe the party line or yerrrrrout!"
Lo say "toe." You supposed to say "tow." You come to my Oval English class Sunday in the morning at 7am and I teach you.
- December 9, 2011 at 12:59 PM
"Lo say "toe." You supposed to say "tow." You come to my Oval English class Sunday in the morning at 7am and I teach you."
I'll be there Lo! Please don't go away!
- December 9, 2011 at 2:57 PM
Oval English session cancel. Manny kick me out of Amanatee center! Never trust that Manny.
Now we meet at Loisaida cultural center. Coffee better there, anyway.
- December 9, 2011 at 9:33 PM
Tell Manny to get his blog back up. Or at least his facebook. I miss those montages of our beautiful recycling rooms! Manny must be on the lam. He gave away Adam Rose's umbrella by mistake. Don't worry, Manny. We will bail you out.
- December 9, 2011 at 11:12 PM
I like the coffee at Oval Amanatee Center. It has that pungent note of gorgonzola. That is because Manny likes to wash his socks in the hot water before he uses it to brew the coffee every morning. It's an acquired taste, of course. Only the most sophisticated pallet can appreciate it.
- December 10, 2011 at 9:40 AM
What does "no transients" mean in English? Are people not allowed to change jobs, to move to another state, to get married and move in with their spouse in another part of town? This does not make any sense. Just making my two cents known.
- December 13, 2011 at 12:03 AM
What "transients" means in the context of STPCV is the large group of people who are just passing through. The people who rent by the night/week/month from those unscrupulous tenants who rent out their apartments as hotels; the students who are here for a semester or two and then move on. Transients are the people who don't come here with any intention of staying and becoming part of the community, if only for a year or two, but are really just passing through, using the facilities and, because they have no long term investment in them, leaving them in a mess. Does that answer your question?
- December 13, 2011 at 3:32 PM
- maxschactman said...
Anonymous said...
maxschactman said...
"What Max doesn't tell you is that the people who bought in when Tudor City did their conversion got hosed. If they are lucky, they are just NOW getting financially back above the water line. That's a long time, folks."
A bizarre comment obviously based on complete ignorance.
I bought my studio apt. in 1990 for 42K and sold in 2003 for 135K.ALL Tudor City buyers are well in the black,have been for many years,even with the real estate downturn.
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Putnam and Knox did battle with first place in the Tri-Rivers Conference on the line Tuesday night
EDINA, Mo. - After holding a double-digit lead for the majority of the game Putnam County found themselves only up one with 26 seconds to go, and Knox County having the ball after the Midgets lost it on a jump ball situation. The Eagles inbounded the ball and started to run a play head coach Zach Summers had just drawn up in the huddle. The problem was PC defended option one and option two.
With time running out and the Midget defense closing in, Lee Tague got caught under the basket and thought he saw a teammate breaking open, but he cut the other way and Knox turned the ball over with only 18 seconds to play.
Knox would turn the ball over again on their next possession and ran out of chances as they lost 70-65.
"I thought I saw something in their defense so I drew a play that I thought would work. They defended differently than I expected and the play broke down. That one is on me," said Summers.
It was somewhat ironic that KC was done in by turnovers since PC turnovers are what helped them get back in the game. The Midgets turned it over five times in the fourth quarter alone, and were called for multiple traveling violations throughout the game.
However, Putnam did win and climbed even in the Tri-Rivers Conference standings.
"We came out and did what we needed to offensively early on, but then when [Corey] Lewis got into foul trouble it that hurt us because he does so many things for our team. But plain and simple, the reason Knox was able to stick around is because we didn't rebound like we needed to, and they got easy put-back opportunities. I take my hat off to them, they are a good team and it's always hard to play at Knox County," said Putnam County head coach Jamie Tipton.
The Midgets came out on fire, getting up and down the floor mainly due to KC turnovers and missed shots, PC led 16-8 after one and by as many as 12 early in the second quarter. Most of that was due to the play of junior point guard Cody Quint. Quint also was key in the Midgets closing out the game. After having a rough start to the fourth quarter with some turnovers and bad passes, Quint stepped up by breaking the KC press and knocking down free throws.
"He stepped up, I have been telling him all year, 'you are the general' you have to get us into our offense, and what happened tonight was that they played off of him trying to stop Deion and he took advantage of it. I guarantee you that 20 points is his career high," said Tipton.
Quint saw his role increase due to Corey Lewis being in foul trouble from almost the opening minutes, Lewis would foul out with four and half minutes left in the game.
"We just really needed this win and we knew it was going to be tough playing in this environment. I know that those guys are seniors and I know that they want to make it four [conference titles] in a row and when Cory got into foul trouble I just did what we needed to get the win," said Quint.
Tague played the whole game while battling a stomach virus that made it hard for him to keep anything down the previous 24 hours. Tague led all the Eagles with 24 points and was major catalyst in the comeback.
"I just went out and played as hard as I could for as long as I could, and we knew that the backside drive would be there and I started kind of slow, but me and coach went over that. We had people in the right spots and then the ball started going in, next time hopefully it will be enough to win," said Tague
The loss was the Eagles first defeat in TRC play.
"They played hard enough to win, but we have said that at least six or seven times this year but we haven't won yet and that's the frustrating part. We need to get over that hump and beat a good team right now. We're close but we haven't done it. One good thing I saw tonight is that this loss hurt our guys," said Summers.
After suffering a tough loss to North Shelby, the Midgets pulled even with the Eagles Tuesday night.
"North Shelby is a tough place to play, but in our minds that didn't really matter because we knew we were going to have to beat Knox County twice to win the conference. We have it and we want it, we have won it outright the past couple years and these boys want it again. And now we have a good opportunity to do that when we play them at home," said Tipton.
Deion Hunt scored 24 to lead the Midgets. Royce Poore had 16 and Donovan Edwards added 10 to go with Tague's 24.
These two teams meet again on Feb. 12, in Unionville, and that could very well be a do-or-die scenario for the TRC title. But before then KC will travel to Milan on Friday night to play the Wildcats and PC will play Newtown-Harris on Friday.

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The death of Gail Martin, on Jan. 17, 2013 marks the death of a giant among the writing community.
Gail Martin wrote short stories and poems in various periodicals. Her children and grandchildren followed her example and were writers in their own right. She was the first of three generations of writers – a great achievement indeed.
Gail's work in Kansas Authors Club (KAC) is of lasting value. She joined KAC in 1991 and, in words of Don Pady, was "a continuous and contributing member, author, speaker and bibliographer……She (was) KAC's State Archivist from 1996 to 2005. …..Gail explained her role as Archivist when she presented papers and research-related book talks to state and district meetings……When her daughter Cynthia Jo joined KAC, Gail's writings began to flourish….. Several years before her death, she published, with her daughters Cynthia J.Ross and Virginia Allain, Clyde Owen Martin: Family Memories of His Life and Times (2010)."
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For some if not many of us, our furry friends are beloved companions and members of the family. So in honor of the too often forgotten members who I think should deserve honorable mention on our family trees, I have started a Furry Friend Friday posting here too!
While visiting my sister-in-law in Tollo, Italy I was struck how her cats loved to bask in the warm sun near her brick ovens. When we returned home, I snapped this photo of our cat Java enjoying a similar sunny day!
This beauty is 19 years old and still as frisky as a kitten! My sons have grown up with him and he has been boss over all of our dogs as well as us — and most cats of the neighborhood too!
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Last season the Wildcats finished 8-13 overall and were 2-8 in league.
Last season the Wildcats finished 8-13 overall and were 2-8 in league.
The Wildcats were one and done in the playoffs last season falling at Mulvane in the first round of the sub-state playoffs.
Head Coach Gary Melcher returns for his 16th season at the helm with a record of 140-169 at El Dorado.
The Wildcats boys basketball team enters into the 2012-13 season returning 6 lettermen from last year's squad.
With the loss of three seniors in starters Alex Brown and Michael Riedl and Jared Erpelding from the bench, the Wildcats will depend on strong junior class this season.
"We lost three seniors to graduation and return four players with starting experience, along with two additional lettermen," said head coach Gary Melcher.
The Wildcats have three proven offensive threats in Travis House, Trevor Crain and Aaron Riffel.
House a 6' 1" junior guard averaged 12.7 ppg along with 3.2 rpg earning AVCTL Div. III first team honors.
Crain a 6' 2" senior forward scored 9.3 ppg and had 4.7 rpg earning Div. III Honorable Mention.
Riffel a 5' 11" senior guard averaged 7.8 ppg and 3.1 apg earning Div. III Honorable Mention as well.
El Dorado will count on its paint presence in big men Jared Haury a 6' 5" junior forward and Collin Just a 6' 3" senior forward.
Haury and Just need to have solid seasons in both ends of the court for the Wildcats to be successful.
The big question mark for the Wildcats will be in their depth coming off the bench.
"Our depth will be provided by players with limited, if any, varsity experience, which we needed to identify prior to the Christmas break," said Melcher.
Sam Haines, Isaac Johnson, Dylan McAdoo, Connor Scanlon and John Scott will most likely provide valuable minutes off the bench.
El Dorado opens the season on the road in Chapman next Tuesday in the Dickinson County tournament.
Wildcats first home action is against Buhler on December 11.
"We hope to compete at a more consistent level than last year," said Melcher.


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Stonington - Manhole covers used to be boring metal contraptions that rusted quickly and could become scaldingly hot, but the Fibrelite manufacturing plant in Pawcatuck is riding a new wave of fiberglass-composite coolness.
Looking for a manhole cover with your company logo? No problem.
How about a school-mascot cover? Done.
Yes, there are even shockingly pink manhole covers these days at Fibrelite, thanks to a process allowing for the creation of a wide array of designs and colors that are spicing up the previously mundane industry.
"We typically build to order," said Jim Goodman, president of Fibrelite's North American division, during a tour of the 30,000-square-foot manufacturing plant, previously home to Harris Press.
Fibrelite traces its roots to England in 1980, but it was only eight years ago that the company opened its first factory in North America, tapping Stonington resident Goodman to lead the way.
Goodman naturally decided to open the plant in his hometown, setting up shop at 100 Mechanic St. and winning support from the SouthEastern Connecticut Enterprise Region, a New London-based development agency that loaned Fibrelite $300,000 to get started.
An initial crew of seven employees has since grown to 42, surviving the Great Recession with barely a nick, according to Goodman. In the past two years, sales growth has been between 20 percent and 30 percent annually, he added.
"It's been an enjoyable ride," he said.
About 80 percent of Fibrelite's business is with retail petroleum suppliers - mostly gas stations and convenience stores. The company provides both the manhole covers and structures beneath the ground for such major oil companies as Shell, Chevron, Exxon and Mobil as well as convenience stores such as 7-Eleven and Cumberland Farms.
Adding to their allure, composite containment systems can be designed so they are water tight. The local plant makes Fiberglass underground containment systems that sit on top of gasoline tanks and enclose submersible pumps.
"There's a huge issue in the retail petroleum world of keeping water out of storage tanks," said Alex Yellowley, U.S. sales manager for Fibrelite.
About 85 percent of Fibrelite's products are distributed within the United States, with 7 percent going to Canada and the rest being spread throughout South America and the Caribbean. Last year, the company's three factories, including facilities in the United Kingdom and Malaysia, rang up more than $22.5 million in sales.
Fibrelite claims to have invented the first composite manhole cover in 1982, and manufactures them locally in a variety of sizes ranging from 12 inches to 42 inches in diameter. Fibrelite, the world's largest manufacturer of composite manhole covers, produces more than 20,000 of these products every year, about 6,000 of them in Pawcatuck.
"We're a market leader," Goodman said.
The first Fibrelite customers, mostly major international oil companies, were attracted to the idea of reducing occupational injuries by installing manhole customers that were lighter and easier to remove. But the advantages are many, Goodman said, including composite's ability to resist corrosion, prevent water seepage and insulate against heat - a major advantage compared with metal manholes in industrial applications that can become dangerously hot.
"We feel we're the Mercedes brand in the composite-cover marketplace," Goodman said.
The Pawcatuck plant manufactures round manhole covers exclusively, since it is the American standard. In Europe, rectangular covers are the norm, Goodman said, so Fibrelite's plant in Yorkshire, England, has a different focus.
While gas stations have been the main focus of business over the years, Fibrelite is starting to see growth potential in other areas, such as water and sewer plants and utilities.
"Retail petroleum is the Steady Eddy," Goodman said. "Now we're beginning to tap the non-retail petroleum market."
Boeing, Dow Chemical and Bechtel are among the large corporations that are showing an interest in the nontraditional manhole cover, he said. Fibrelite covers are generally about one-third as heavy as traditional metal or cement covers, which can run up to 300 pounds.
And Goodman said Fibrelite's proprietary manufacturing process creates an internal structure that is much stronger than what his composite competitors offer. The covers can withstand up to 90 tons of weight, suitable for airport applications, with only minimal bending, according to Goodman.
One of Fibrelite's latest marketing moves is onto college campuses at Ivy League schools as well as large state universities. The idea is to provide manhole covers at football stadiums and elsewhere that help in the branding of universities.
"Every university wants to see their university colors and university logos around the campus," Goodman said. "We are focusing on the customers with deep pockets that want to do this."
Goodman said Fibrelite can mold any color imaginable onto its manhole covers.
"It's a way of making manhole covers a little more exciting," he said.
What: Fibrelite Corp., division of Fibrelite Ltd.
Where: 100 Mechanic St., Pawcatuck
President: Jim Goodman
Established: 2005
Employees: 42
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LONGMONT -- Last year's drought followed by record-breaking snowfall this spring has created additional challenges for the staff and animals at the Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.
The drought and excessive moisture had similar effects on local vegetation making it difficult for wildlife to find food, according to the center's staff.
The first babies began arriving at the center in mid-February, many of them thinner and in smaller litters than previous years, training coordinator Mimi Gillatt said.
"If these storms came in January, all these animals hunker down... but by April most of them are having babies or they're trying to set up nests so they're using a lot more calories," Gillatt said. "They were hoping for buds coming out on trees, which a lot of them will eat and the buds were delayed because of the storms."
The delayed blooms cause animals to migrate farther than normal, sending them across busy streets where many are injured or killed, she said.
About two weeks ago, dozens of mountain bluebirds that were migrating north for the summer died near Fort Collins from freezing temperatures.
Despite the hardships this year, staff said the center is staying busy with new babies including 10 birds, seven raccoons, five foxes, about 18 bunnies, 65 squirrels, a coyote and the center's newest patient, a goose.
Altered migration patterns due to the spring snow have brought some unusual animals to the area this spring.
Horned larks, mountain bluebirds and Lapland longspurs are a few of the atypical birds seen at the center this year.
"We have this drop down of species in our database and suddenly we have a lot of animals that aren't in that drop down because we've never had them before," executive director Linda Tyler said.
The center was able to accommodate squirrels outside of Boulder County for the first time in several years due to the unusually small litters, Tyler said.
A reduced number of patients and a high number of volunteers have made maintenance and care a little easier for the staff this year, Tyler said, but things may change once the cold weather passes.
Gillatt predicts that once the vegetation starts to bloom the center will be busier than normal creating a hectic summer and fall.
"Our early birds have been delayed and then this weather, it's obviously not going to snow into June, and then everyone is going to have a bunch of babies," Gillatt said.
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Guttenberg resident Laura Boss, an award-winning poet, believes in giving back to younger generations by sharing the gift of poetry. Boss holds a workshop each year at the Anna L Klein School in the hopes of "opening the door to poetry" for its students.
"I like to give back," said Boss. "This is the only free workshop I do in a school because I want to give back to my town. I love this town."
In the workshop
In the most recent workshop, Boss read one of her poems, and the students wrote their own, with her help. Their poems varied from free verse, narrative, to rhyme.
Students Jaydee Herreria and Kathlyn Velez read their poems aloud.
Jaydee's poem, "Long Gone," was about a relative's passing.
"I understand you were gone and never coming back," read Herreria. "Out of everyone in this world, he [God] needed the person I loved the most. Tall with brown hair, smile like no other, a laughter that filled the air. I will always remember the day I got the phone call."
Kathlyn's poem, "The Arrival," was a capsulated moment of her brother being born.
"I remember when I got a phone call saying that my brother was born," read Kathlyn. "I cried tears of joy, I felt like nothing can bring me down. [When I carried him in my arms] the whole world stopped and it was just me and him. I made him a promise I would never leave him, no matter what I would always be by his side."
Remaining students chose not to read their poems aloud. Boss then read four student poems anonymously and held a question and answer period.
"I share my passion with the students and maybe some of it will be a good contagion." – Laura Boss
She wants students to enjoy writing, reading, and poetry.
"I want them to continue writing and read more books," said Boss. "I think there's so much emphasis today on testing and results, that we lose some of the joy of creativity, imagination and the joy of writing and joy of reading for pleasure."
In the workshop, she told them what it's like to be a poet, how poetry differs from essays, and what it takes to write a poem.
Advice for others
Boss suggested that poems make great holiday gifts for loved ones. She also encouraged more poetry readings in school.
Eighth grade teacher Beth Peluso believes in the workshop.
"Having someone from Guttenberg show these kids they can go out and do whatever they want, they can be a poet and that we have talent here in Guttenberg [is a positive] message," said Peluso. "I think any way we can get them to express themselves is definitely beneficial."
Peluso said students like being able to do something different.
"I think that's exciting for them," said Peluso.
Continuation of the arts
Klein administrators believe in the arts, especially Boss's workshop.
"The kids love it," said Principal Pedro Garrido.
Boss commended Board of Education Trustee Sari Zuckerman, a neighbor of hers in the Galaxy condos, for the workshop's beginnings, along with the administrators of Klein.
"[The] faculty is so encouraging and warm," she said. "They stay and participate."
Boss is the author of six books of poetry that include the award-winning On the Edge of the Hudson (1986), and Reports from the Front (1995) which was nominated for an American Book Award. She is a long-time Dodge Poet-in-the-Schools.
"To me it's part of being an artist to share my work and encourage others to enjoy and participate in the arts," said Boss. "I think it's a responsibility artists have to hand down the legacy of poetry to each new generation."
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Taft Police detained a possible suspect at the end of a pursuit in the Ford City area involving both Taft Police and Kern County Sheriff's deputies.
Few details are available.
The chase started just before 12:30 p.m. and ended when a blue Ford Aerostar minivan was abandoned in the west alley of the 100 block of Pierce.
Police and deputies set up a perimeter around the block and started searching.
A man dressed in a black leather jacket and black hat was detained by officers in a yard at Pierce and Ash streets.
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The match opened with Duke dropping just its second doubles point of the season. The Blue Devil tandem of senior Henrique Cunha and Raphael Hemmeler captured the first win at the No. 1 position with an 8-4 win over No. 18 Campbell Johnson and Chris Konigsfeldt, but the Bears quickly answered with a win of their own on court three, as Gregory Bayane and Chase Melton defeated junior Fred Saba and classmate Chris Mengel, 8-5.
In the deciding match on court two, the ninth-ranked duo of Jason Tahir and Michael Redlicki sent their match to a tiebreak, after Tahir was able to hold serve to tie the match at 8-all. The Cal tandem of Mads Engsted and Ben McLachlan went on to win the match in a tiebreak, 9-8 (5), as the Duke duo's comeback bid fell just short.
In singles, the Blue Devils were led early from the back of the lineup, capturing wins at the No. 6 and No. 5 positions. Duke evened the score at one after Tahir captured the first singles match of the day on court six, defeating Nikhil Jayashankar, 6-1, 6-1. The win for Tahir marked the 10th consecutive victory for the sophomore, as he now owns a 10-0 record from the No. 6 position in the dual season. A few moments later, Hemmeler gave the Blue Devils their first lead of the match, 2-1, after he downed Cal's Engstred, 6-2, 6-3, from the 5th position.
The Bears pushed back with two consecutive victories to regain the slight 3-2 advantage. After dropping a tough first set in his match on court two, Saba fell to Konigsfeldt in straight sets, 7-5, 6-1, while Redlicki dropped his match at the No. 3 spot in the lineup, 7-5, 7-6 (7).
On court one, Cunha dropped the first set, 6-7 (3), before the senior bounced back to tie the team score at three after his thrilling 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-4 win over McLachlan. A native of Jaú, Brazil, Cunha remains perfect on the season with a 7-0 record from the top spot in the lineup.
After Cunha's comeback at the top spot in the lineup, Mengel tried to complete a comeback of his own at the No. 4 position against Bayane. After falling in the first set, 1-6, the junior bounced back to take the second set, 6-4, sending the match to a decisive third set. Bayane sealed the match for the Bears, as Mengel was edged in a tiebreak, 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (4).
Up next, the Blue Devils will return home to open conference play with a match against Wake Forest at Ambler Tennis Stadium on Friday, March 15 at 1 p.m., before making the short drive to face North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Sunday, March 17 at 1 p.m.
Tennis Match Results
Duke vs California
Mar 10, 2013 at Berkeley, Calif.
(Hellman Tennis Complex)
#24 California 4, #4 Duke 3
Singles competition
1. #9 Henrique Cunha (DU) def. No. 56 Ben McLachlin 6-7 (7-3), 6-4, 6-4
2. #34 Chris Konigsfeldt (CAL) def. #46 Fred Saba (DU) 7-5, 6-1
3. #69 Campbell Johnson (CAL) def. #31 Michael Redlicki (DU) 7-5, 7-6 (9-7)
4. Gregory Bayane (CAL) def. #70 Chris Mengel (DU) 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4)
5. #44 Raphael Hemmeler (DU) def. Mads Engsted (CAL) 6-2, 6-3
6. Jason Tahir (DU) def. Nikhil Jayashankar (CAL) 6-1, 6-1
Doubles competition
1. #4 Henrique Cunha/Raphael Hemmeler (DU) def. #18 Campbell Johnson/Chris Konigsfeldt (CAL) 8-3
2. Mads Engsted/Ben McLachlan (CAL) def. #9 Michael Redlicki/Jason Tahir (DU) 9-8 (7-5)3. Gregory Bayane/Chase Melton (CAL) def. #43 Chris Mengel/Fred Saba (DU) 8-5
Match Notes:
Duke 12-3; National ranking #4
California 7-5; National ranking #24
Order of finish: Doubles (1,3,2); Singles (6,5,2,3,1,4)


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The National Marionette Theatre presents the finest puppet shows in Prague. Other theatres have sprung up, but to experience the original, book your place at this quaint little theatre.
Performances include puppet versions of Mozart's famous "opera of operas", Don Giovanni, and the enchanting story of the Magic Flute. Both are extraordinary productions, employing very tall puppets clothed in period costumes, set against 18th century stage sets.
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text: I just tied my warpfeed into my ghetto morlock controlled e-cocker. I just cut the wire going to the vibration sensor, soldered wires from the output to the second solenoid on the morlock. So the warpfeed is essentially turned on by the 45-60ms second solenoid pulse. However it seems the fast I pull the trigger the less time the warp is actually on per trigger pull.