Gothamist: Unhappy East Village Residents to Protest

NannyState

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:13:25 -0500

If the doorbell rings at the Econmakis Urban McMansion, it won't be the Welcome Wagon.

Gentrifier

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:35:38 -0500

As the statement was invoked to justify the death and destruction that came with the French Revolution, I hope that persons attending the protest do not mistakenly use it to justify the destruction of property. Jesus, what a pansy. No, the slogan doesn't justify destruction of property. But his bitch-ass response to it does.

takethecanoli

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:44:20 -0500

[i]Will there be shit?[/i] Is that the new Daniel Day Lewis movie?

fugothamist

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:53:05 -0500

this family deserves whatever happens to them thats all i have to say about that

JMH

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:50:01 -0500

Moving sucks, but that's what can happen when you rent rather than own your home.

salad

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:38:41 -0500

Peter - not really "slavish adherence to", more like "obvious interest in". And not really an issue over rent control, more like having to move out involuntarily from a place one has called home for decades...who wants to do that? I can understand the assertion of property rights here, but the man is an irritating prick, even if he is legally justified. In his website (feudal lord's manifesto @ http://www.economakis.com/), Economakis claims that he grew up in Brooklyn with his family in a brownstone (generally no more than three floors, two windows across) and therefore wants an a huge building all to himself, to replicate the experience. Guy, nobody's family is that big...and I doubt he is going to use all of the space for anything other than bullshit self-aggrandizement. Well fine, more power to him and more wealth to him...it's his American dream. It's a two way street, though, and where there's greedy land baron's, there are pissed off peasants. In America, the principle of property rights does not cancel out the freedom of expression - from all corridors. We all know that he will continue his vision to completion, and i don't condone any violence towards this guy. But it would be good to have a memorial against this going unnoticed or unchallenged. Will there be shit? I kind of hope so. It would be a fitful christening.

takethecanoli

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:26:47 -0500

Scorn and rebuke are fine, but it's still their property. Time for the tenants to pack salt.

petebfd

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:50:15 -0500

eh, live like a decadent 18th century aristocrat, die like a decadent 18th century aristocrat i always say

Polite New Yorker

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:35:43 -0500

While everyone has a right to do with their property as they choose, such greed, excess and avarice are deplorable. The Economakises deserve every bit of scorn and rebuke coming their way.

Peter

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:30:05 -0500

New York's slavish adherence to rent control, decades after the concept became obsolete, is a sick joke.

melanarchy

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:20:14 -0500

I'm on the landlord's side with this one, assuming that they don't "amazingly decide" that their new mansion is too big and convert some of it back to apartments in the next few years. This sort of thing happens all the time in brownstone brooklyn, I've twice lived in a building that was sold and the owner moved in and kicked everyone out. The chief differences that the buildings are smaller overall, and the apartments aren't rent controlled, don't seem to me to make that situation any different. Seems to me like the tenants are unhappy that their sweetheart deal is finally over and can't get over themselves.