Yeah, when I see these complaints about a "Hoboken-like atmosphere" that translates to me as "young people who aren't lucky enough to own million-dollar brownstones like me."
Whenever people talk about what classes of (law-abiding) people do and don't deserve to live in their neighborhood, that's really off-putting to me. And then they force the city to break the law and subvert the approval process in order to keep "those people" out. It seems very ugly on its face.
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Hopefully they will keep moving the ball further but in the not too distant future they can re-imagine those big box lots and build residential on there.
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Yeah. I think they should start with the Staples lot, but I think that (and Newport Mall) are owned by Simon, not LeFrak, and I'm not sure if they'd be interested in developing residential/mixed use. However the Target is owned by LeFrak. **EDIT: Actually the area between Washington and Marin does allow residential development, I was wrong about that**