Where did the money that the Federal Government keeps sending
here and never reach those it was intended for? I'll bet no one on
the Council can account for "lost" millions that the late
Assemblyman Smith brought to this area. He TOLD me this!
My daughter HAD a business on Cookman Ave., next to the old
Jay Davids store. Who cares whether someone is Gay or straight?
Why do you bring this up? One thing I'm not is anti-gay, so why
do you bring this up?
I don't have a clue as to what AP does with our taxed to death
dollars! You tell me! I'm FOR gentrification. Asbury authorities brag when a
new business opens, but it's not through THEIR effort!
It looks like good PR. Where's Affordable Housing for those stuck
in that dreadful situation that passes for public housing?
Long Branch has a rule that if you allow a criminal to live you,
you get evicted! All I know is the rich and famous go to rehab
over and over while the poor get locked up and they throw away
the key and in some cases like gangs and drugs, it should be!
So you're a good guy right? Are you anti-gay or something? You seem
to be on a rant about them. Many of those homes had "absentee"
landlords, living elsewhere and couldn't give a hoot about AP.
Murnick that owns the Munroe Towers owned the lot across the street,
the old Bond St. School. Bought the lot from the City for $139K,
sat on the property for 10 years undeveloped. The City bought it
back through eminent domain, paid him the 139K, fair market value
and now the Thurgood Marshall School is there! Finally a Senior
Center is being built but the neighborhood over there is surrounded by
eyesores! I was a member of the Board of Adjustment when all of this
was going on. Mid nineties.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <oakdorf@...> wrote:
>
> The question should be:
>
> Should the city have remained a run down wasteland it was?
>
> How many of you actually had a business in AP during "those years"?
>
> I did.
>
> The city, state, feds and general public had a great opportunity as did every
> single charity that every existed - to do what you ask?
>
> To have come in, purchased properties block by block and build housing,
> renovate housing you name it.
>
> And it wasn't and hasn't been gentrified - barely at that.
>
> Someone once said about the "gay movement" in AP - that it wasn't the "rich"
> gays "Taking over" - it was the ones that had vision and not "rich enough" to
> afford other gay communities.
>
> It hasn't been the "rich" that first came in and bought a bunch of run down
> boarded up houses that every one else had a chance to buy - it was a bunch of
> average people who really couldn't afford to buy in avon, belmar etc - maybe
> the second or 3rd resales of homes since 2000 were "wealthier".
>
> Tell me one thing please - where were all these people, charities etc - that
> all had the opportunity to help and rebuild their own community - but didn't.
>
> Where was the APHA? Was the leader with vision in town?
>
> I once posted that I took a nice bike ride all around the east side of AP and
> counted how many - apartment buildings there were, how many multi family
> houses there were and how many condo there were.
>
> Is it a sin to have people coming into town, investing and fixing up homes
> that were boarded up, illegally converted and ridden with code violations -
> and not paying taxes??
>
> As a reward, they (the "gentrefires") get blasted by the community - for
> what? Trying to make it a safer place, paying taxes, opening businesses and
> spending money all around town. Add to that - developing programs, adding
> diversity and volunteering.
>
> Instead, get blasted for being gay, rich, racist, uncaring, selfish -
>
> And I;m sure most of us on this board crack open their wallet and give back
> to the kids and community in general many more ways - beside spending money
> and paying taxes.
>
>
>
>
>
> > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "fancypaaantz" <fancypaaantz@> wrote:
> > >
> > > The problem is the inherent conflict with gentrification. The "rich" move
> > > in and displace the "poor."
> >
>
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