This is begging for vile scathing commentary. Alas, wrong forum.
Stadium Discussion
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This is begging for vile scathing commentary. Alas, wrong forum.
I received an invite today. I guess they worked their way down from Pitchside to Delta. One oddity, the email listed the date as September 11, just like Jay. But the RSVP page says my event is September 12.
I'm going to email my rep to confirm what's up with that.
Same here, got the invite, but the RSVP states the 12th versus the 11th in the e-mail. Either way, this should be interesting to attend.
Morning or afternoon? I hear there's also a morning meeting sometime near the 11th date as well.
The email said evening. The RSVP said 5:30 to 7, consistent with evening.
I'm fairly confident guessing my group is in fact Sept 12, and they just made a mistake when they edited the original email.
Trying to not get excited as this likely doesn't mean shit in the grand scheme of things, but I can't help but be intrigued.
As someone who narrowly defines worthwhile art, due more to the number of people who claim garbage as art than anything else, I find this particularly offensive.
How about some affordable housing for startup product leads? Where the fuck is that? What a narcissistic punk that barely deserves to be called human.
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Lol. I’m yet to be invited to fuck all. Which is one of the reasons I provided for cancelling.
No offense to you, but I know what you pay, I know what I pay. I pay more. Or I did. Until they shit on me. Twice. Not to mention, I was a day 1 depositor.
The disrespect I’ve suffered as a consumer, not as a supporter or any of that shit, but as a consumer, is enough that I would boycott any traditional retailer who acted similarly
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I got an invite to the focus group on the 11th/12th. The cynic in me thinks it could just be NYCFC just stringing people along so they think there's some actual progress going on with a stadium. I'll reserve my excitement for some actual f-ing news.
What’s the deal with affordable housing for artists?
The city has some affordable housing for artists at 43rd and 9th. That building, where Larry David lived across from “the real Kramer” inspired the development of Seinfeld. It is where it is so people that work on Broadway at other arts venues can afford to live nearby. Why would artists specifically want to live in Willets Point? Hard to say.
The city has some affordable housing for artists at 43rd and 9th. That building, where Larry David lived across from “the real Kramer” inspired the development of Seinfeld. It is where it is so people that work on Broadway at other arts venues can afford to live nearby. Why would artists specifically want to live in Willets Point? Hard to say.
Someone screenshot the poll and bring it to the event, so they know we want the stadium in the Bronx.
Because they got priced out of Soho years ago, a neighborhood specifically designed for artists that had its zoning protections removed by the well-connect affluent class that wanted the lofts for themselves.
The trope of “why artists, why not me,” is outdated and kinda uninformed. Art is a representation of current culture and a historical record of the times. Take away the places for actors, artists, musicians and writers to live affordability, and the city will lose its soul. Even the non-cultured fly-over states folk come to NYC to take in Broadway & off-broadway shows, hit up the museums and see concerts. They’d aren’t coming here to experience business incubators.
And to keep this on topic.... having an artists enclave near the stadium (if both end up being at Willets Point) wouldn’t be bad, especially if the proximity led to interest in the club - they could be a hell of a group adding to support of the club if interested and personally invested. We were stoked about Blue Man Group being at the derby - three off-broadway actors in their stage costumes. Also, it’s not as if the Third Rail has developed many original songs, and while some Tifo has been quite pleasing, it hasn’t had a killer originality or skill to it.
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Same. I suspect mailing list issues. I've tried to work with Fan Services on two separate occasions without any luck.
Are product leads at startups struggling to pay for housing in NYC? I'm assuming you are talking about tech startups or other companies geared towards rapid growth and thus adequately nurtured by venture capital.
Hahaha...have you seen VC funding lately? Nigh impossible to get decent funding at the proper times. They all basically operate as PE firms.
More importantly, I just chose an example relevant to me, but I could have picked any profession and said the same thing. It’s not the profession, it’s the idea of dedicating affordable housing to any profession.
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Thanks for writing this. I felt a little bad about posting a tweet that resulted in a pile-in against artists or the arts in general. I think there is a massive amount of non-market value in art (and in sport for that matter), so embracing non-market means to adequately price the means of production (like living) of a non-market good doesn't apriori raise any red flags for me.
