Gothamist: Neighbors Sour on Apple Store

NannyState

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:54:54 -0500

Ah, you reaped a nice capital gain for yourself from all their valiant efforts. No wonder you love it so. But that's ok, it was a moment and you were there. Keep hanging on.

thefacts

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:59:24 -0500

Oh, and don't confuse Prince Street with the rest of SoHo.

thefacts

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:55:10 -0500

NannyState It is both. Most of the original artists still remain, despite what the NYT Real Estate Sections and followers like you may think. Many of the new residents are in the creative fields or rich artists. Tourists from noon to 7pm, and a nice neighborhood the rest of the time. But how would you know, since you spend all your time on Gothamist? It must be hard staying in first place, being #1. Probably the first time you were first in anything in your life and it takes no talent at all! How fortunate! In conclusion, don't be jealous that my $50,000 loft (and my fellow artists) is now worth $2M, while you reside primarily on the internet.

NannyState

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:49:03 -0500

So. I take it that thanks to the SoHo alliance, SoHo remains a wonderfully vibrant haven for artists and creative people and isn't an overpriced, tripple A credit tennant retail ghetto for tourists? Bravo, The Facts.

Barbj8

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:03:01 -0500

Everyone knows that Apple stores are just fronts for major drug operations. Check out the lines at the uptown store.

thefacts

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:12:09 -0500

SoHo Alliance is not a stock offering, Dan. The fact that the Alliance legalized residential use in SoHo and the fact that SoHo is among the highest real estate residential prices in the USA should indicate that these guys can plan for the future as well as they handled the past. If you don't believe that, I have a stock in the bottom quintile in returns for the past 22 years that you likely would buy. Interested? Sounds like it. I also have a winner of a stock, but I am not going to tell you that one. You know, your maxim "Past performance is not indicative of future results."

Dan Dickinson

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:40:16 -0500

@thefacts: Past performance is not indicative of future results.

thefacts

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:18:21 -0500

^ I guess being the #1 commenter on Gothamist leaves one with the obligation to blather incessantly, even when the facts are wrong and it effectively becomes verbal diarrhea. Before opening your mouth, if you had researched you would have known that the SoHo Alliance is the group that helped create SoHo from a slum back in the 60s/70s, legalizing residential living there. They continue to work as a block association for the nabe. In fact, it was at their first meeting that the word 'SoHo' was coined. Hardly the people who 'ruined' SoHo. But blather is more important than truth to some people.

NannyState

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:00:15 -0500

So the same people that ruined SoHo are bitching about a business that is ruining their ruins?

Rfive

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:04:07 -0500

Hey bh & edge! I still have a princess phone and dail-up on my 28.8 baud modem on my IIci! It works wonders on youtube!

abzme

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:09:37 -0500

I wish they made that street pedestrians only. That would've been rad.

qwerty

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:47:12 -0500

The leaves DO get annoying.

IvoryJive

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:13:56 -0500

The Soho Alliance organized the neighborhood to oppose a city proposal to pilot making Prince Street a temporary pedestrian street. Now they are writing a letter seeking "an end to the sidewalk congestion". I have an idea - why don't you... pilot making Prince Street a temporary pedestrian street you fools? Some neighborhoods have real problems - Crown Heights is fighting to stop the city from adding a 1500-bed homeless psychiatric intake center to what is already one of the largest and worst homeless shelters in the city, not decrying the presence one of the highest quality retailers in the world. F*ck Soho - victim of its own affluence I have little sympathy for. It's like people with homes on Central Park West complaining about all the leaves in October.

The Edge

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:45:08 -0500

#6- I don't have a iphone 3G but I have a phone that supports 3G and HSDPA -- I get DSL speeds on my phone. Nice for when I'm traveling and need to get online with my laptop.

La Leone

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:18:52 -0500

Re: Jonas Brothers. I literally thought that it said: Among the complaints were CREAMING teens. Heh. Well it IS one letter away from "screaming." Better yet, should say: "Among the complaints were CREAMING teens FLOODING the sidewalks.."

Spiritof76

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:50:14 -0500

SoHo is So (H)over. I was just at that store a few days ago. Everything seemed civil inside and out.

Pull My Finger

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:40:59 -0500

Hey SOHO hahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha

RIFRANK

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:32:14 -0500

You know, these idiots could move out of Soho if they hate the Apple Store so much. These are like the morons that come to NYC to "be in NYC!!" and then complain about bar noise because they got an apartment across from a bar. Losers.

babyhitler

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:29:06 -0500

the new iphone sucks! 3g is not that great and the plan is awful. I regret getting it.

jenspellnogood

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:19:34 -0500

there's something to be said about being a good neighbor, and not taking the neighborhood for granted and acting like you're the be all end all. they're not curing cancer in there, so they should stop acting like their shit doesn't stink.

spreetaper

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:08:20 -0500

that area is always crowded.. it's a shopping district it's like complaining if you live in or near the theater district get over it!

EastRiver

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:57:09 -0500

Things like this make me think of the South Park episode "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes". Near the end of the episode the townspeople decide to shop at the "mom and pop" store Jim's Drugs. The store is shown to grow larger and larger over time - and then the townspeople burn it down and move on. Sooner or later the people turn on businesses.

drchadwick1

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:46:46 -0500

Also the same alliance who's vehemently opposed to opening the streets to pedestrians. That alone would make more than enough room so that shoppers, street vendors and screaming Jonas Bros. fans could coexist quite easily.

cmoney

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:42:37 -0500

Right but this same alliance allowed SoHo to get to the state it was in right before that Jonas Bros appearance...which was already downright horrible in the first place!