Riding up Lafayette Street, I stopped at Astor Place. There you can see from one Starbucks to the next - they're less than a block apart. Also there,the venerable Cooper Union, school of art and design and New York's beloved Public Theater founded by Joseph Papp. Adjacent and north of the theater and just west across the street from that historic old school, where Lincoln gave a famous campaign speech before the Civil War, used to be a parking lot -- now a very busy construction sight.
One more obscene luxury condo being built here - rising curvaceously, and very out of context, above the staid old buildings on the streets below. Here, in a city with huge numbers of homeless, where "affordable housing" has become an oxymoron - here the sign on the construction project read "sculpture for living" and advised that you better have plenty of cash to live here: prices will range from $3.2 to $12 million.
I thought to myself how strange this city has become that a millionare can move into this tower, inhabit the three million dollar apartment and be considered the poor man on the block!
What ugly times we live in - the hideously ugly and cruel Era of Bush.
The new luxury condos (any other type of residences being built nowadays??) rising at Cooper Square.
It's a terrible thing to be a poor millionaire in New York, don't you think?
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