Chelsea is so ghetto

how is the application for columbia doing?

Here, PsychoCrackerBoy: http://www.colum.edu/

hahahahaha alan. you are awesome

i never applied to columbia. But if you guys think every person who is remotely critical of NYC is me, then go ahead.

i am all for pure gentrification. kick out all poor people (this will, implicitly, mean people that aren't white like me). if need be, cattle them up and send them to, like, the bronx or something. then we can live by ourselves in a clean, wonderful gentrified manhattan. just like chicago. clean white people rule.

No one on this board has been able to answer this basic question: If NYC really is wealthier than Chicago, why is it dirtier and have fewer nice areas than Chicago? And why are the residential buildings inferior to Chicago as well?

PsychoCrackerBoy, explain yourself at http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/8131-rufus-mystery-solved

alanhart, i'm not jjc1122. There's no explaining about it.

rufus, chicago is worse than NYC. There's no explaining about it.

How exactly is Chicago "worse" than NYC? It's cleaner, looks nicer, has better real estate, higher quality of life.

Wow I'm surprised Rufus decided to show his face here again. How does this not get tiring Rufus? You've been doing this ever since you were rejected from Columbia. How bout instead of ranting against NYC in order to make yourself feel better about not getting the opportunity to live here, you take some initiative and do something else with your life. Seriously, were your only two options Columbia or Streeteasy?

Rufus, it doesn't look nicer. And it doesn't have a higher quality of life. The people are boring, sincere but boring. Some people must like it, hence there are people who move there. But they're boring.

"Seven six two millimeter, full metal jacket."

aboutready, you're an idiot if you think a neighborhood like chelsea looks nicer than the gold coast or lincoln park. Those Chicago neighborhoods are full of luxury apartments and gorgeous townhomes.

Let's take chelsea for example. There are very few nice condos west of seventh avenue. You have some decent buildings on sixth, but that's about it. Once you go west of eighth, you're in a freaking wasteland.

That's not a freaking wasteland, that's the gallery district! There is lots of cool stuff over there. The beauty of New York has been described as the beauty of discontinuity. The city is a mixture of all architectural styles, from all times, in all states of repair or disrepair. Those buildings you dislike so much may offer cheap enough rents to allow small, marginal businesses to flourish. This small businesses offer a richness and diversity that is not seen in other cities.

Try to think a little deeper about what you see out there and I think you will find that New York is a fascinating place, with lots of interesting features, unlike any other city in the world.

You know what's a great neighborhood? The Upper West Side, right around 116th Street. There's a university up in those parts. You should see all the excited young people around, expanding their minds under the best tutelage in the world. What a rare experience those folks are having!

Rufus, Chicago is not just the gold coast or Lincoln Park (still haven't responded to the article I posted on the riff raff invading Lincoln Park, one with his nude ass). If you limited yourself to Fifth, Park and CPW you might be happier.

But wait, those grungier areas have nightclubs, bars, etc. that are cutting edge. Gee, how do the people of Manhattan stand it, having to encounter reality on the way to dinner.

It's OK Rufus, we understand that you don't understand why Chelsea is great. I'm not an idiot, you're limited.

Rufus,
Pick up Ben Katchor's book of cartoons called "Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay". Ben draws an alternate New York, but definitely a city based on New York. This book should help expand your sense of what New York is.

Here is a blurb:
In a vast and shadowy city of gold skyscrapers, neglected warehouses, juice stands, and coffee shops, Julius Knipl--a rumpled, middle-aged man in a suit and hat--wanders the streets, photographing buildings and pondering the human and visual landscape of the city. This world of epiphanies is captured in a remarkable series of cartoon short stories.

More details
Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay
By Ben Katchor
Edition: illustrated
Published by Penguin Books, 1991
ISBN 0140159975, 9780140159974
108 pages

After reading that book, look for The Beauty Supply District:

http://www.amazon.com/Julius-Knipl-Real-Estate-Photographer/dp/0375401059

I don't know and don't care who rufus is or how many postings he has under different names...why don't you contact Streeteasy and ask them to delete the multiple names. Seems easy and everyone can stop complaining and get back to Manhattan real esate.

Because this is fun.
You can stop posting now Julia.
Please.

" Typical of Ben Katchor's recursive, compact style, The Beauty Supply District is actually the title of three distinct entities: this collection of over 80 installments of his 8-panel comic strip "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer" (appearing in The Forward and other weekly papers); a new, 24-page story with which Katchor concludes; and the subject of that final story, a commercial district on the edge of Julius Knipl's imaginary, melancholy Gotham. In the beauty supply district, the city's aesthetic needs are catered to by businesses like Synthetic A Priori Corp., Surface Meaning Refinishers Inc., and the Senseless Elaboration Parlor."

Sometimes, I think we're in the senseless elaboration parlor, with some visits to the surface meaning refinishers down the hall.

divvie...okay, now we know what is fun for you.

hey rufus,

here is a great school for you to go to since you got rejected by Columbua. It's called Bellevue UNiversity. It's great for you since you live in the Bellevue psycho ward.

http://www.bellevue.edu/

Their NYC campus has dorms that are just perfect for PsychoCrackerBoy -- great social scene, lots of extracurricular activities, etc. Not to mention their happy hour -- they do shots!

Hey Rufus - shouldn't you be studying so that you don't get rejected by another school in NYC? Perhaps you should set the bar a lot lower so that you can succeed? Perhaps you could try to get into a nice "Manager-In-Training" program at Costco or K-Mart?

It must be tough getting rejected by Columbia and then getting all teary-eyed about it on a blog when you admit that you will be stuck in Chicago now.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Rufus, you should apply to Wharton. Then you can get rejected and make fun of Philly. You might actually have a case then!

Hate defending rufus in any form or fashion, but isn't chelsea pretty crappy once you go west of seventh avenue? All the nice apartments I looked at, were on sixth avenue.

I found a busines school Rufus can apply to!

http://www.edref.com/school_list/new-york-institute-of-english-and-business

NYC - Nice one!

How about this as another option:

Devry can't call you Rufus. You're going to have to make the first move. But when you graduate (you can graduate, right?), you'll get a free set of tools.

I can't believe Rufus is denying that he is "jjc" on WallStreet OASIS when his postings are the EXACT SAME!!!

WTF.

Rufus, you didn't go to Chelsea. Stop googling bars when you can't even tell us which way traffic on Park Avenue goes.

> Devry can't call you Rufus. You're going to have to make the first move. But when you graduate (you
> can graduate, right?), you'll get a free set of tools.

LOL...

PsychoCrackerBoy, compare the themes and language of jjc's posts with yours. Mkay?