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Dun dun dun duuuuun: composer Philip Glass recently came home to find his apartment had been broken in to. While someone took the time to shatter a window to get in, the only thing that was taken was a cell phone. The Villager reports that his 2nd Avenue home is just around the corner from the 3rd Street Men's Shelter, where it's suspected the thief resides. The paper notes a broader issues with the shelter, saying that muggings, car break-ins and drugs are becoming more rampant problems in the area. One community board member, Elinor Tatum, was recently at the Marble Collegiate Cemetery and "was shocked to see all the 40-ounce beer and vodka bottles littering the graveyard, which she is sure were tossed out of the shelter’s windows." She told the paper: “I don’t want to see it going back to the way it was in the late ’80s.”
Philip Glass Burgled By Men's Shelter Neighbor?
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It's the same media that NEVER mentioned Muslims' hatred of Israel as a possible motive for 9/11.
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bloomberg's legacy.
record homelessness. tent cities popping back up,
no affordable housing to be seen, just a one way ticket out.
Leave Philip Glass alone, you bastards!
Cue "Pruitt-Igoe."
Why is this news?
Was it a one-time theft or could Glass be the victim of a serial burglar?
Well played, sir.
Wait, am I the only one who got this?
“I don’t want to see it going back to the way it was in the late ’80s.”
wrong. Wrong. WRONG.
You are supposed to say that New York has lost the spirit and sense of community we used to have. Finally, with 40-ounce beer and vodka bottles littering the graveyard, we are returning to what the city should be like.
WRONG.
Anybody who wants to go back to that time didn't go to a crime victim's funeral, several times.
With a smaller population we had up to 2000 murders a year, compared to about 600 last year.
If you want the romance of community with that violence, please buy a one-way ticket to Baghdad.
I think you missed the sarcasm in the post you responded to. They were mocking the people who romanticize that time, not romanticizing it themselves.
I didn't catch it because too many people, not really knowing any better, believe those were the golden years.
Maybe it was, if the only things that mattered were cheaper rent and the Mets.
Actually, Glass has lived here for decades, when it was really bad. Getting burglarized is an inevitability for many NYers.
It is surprising that this is the first time it happened. That be some f*d up block.
I once saw Phil carrying a piece of lumber on his block there. Maybe he's buying plywood today.
Phil's the man. Love seeing him around the hood. I wonder if they'll break the same window every day, in the exact same way, for the next twenty years now as an homage to the master's style. Maybe kick down the door in 9/8 time or something.
Just a cellphone? Must have been a minimalist burglar.
Men's Shelter Burglar Steals Cellphone, Shatters Mr. Glass.
I'm happy about the men's shelter in the neighborhood and wish there were more... the fear of muggings, break-ins and violence keeps the cowardly Wall St. scum and yuppie breeders at an almost tolerable level.
2 bonus points for nannystate :)
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The reflexive assumption that the thief (or the cemetery litterer) is associated with the shelter is sickening on a lot of levels. Its racism is obvious to those of us who live and work near the shelter. Most of the residents there are men of color. They're also people who are working hard, against tremendous odds (not to mention plenty of NIMBY hostility from community board members like Tatum), to get their lives together in the wake of circumstances never endured, much less imagined, by most of their privileged neighbors.
It doesn't even matter that the Villager article doesn't offer statistics or quote anyone on the record apart from Tatum. All you need to do is be awake in *any* neighborhood in this city to know that, since the beginning of the financial crisis last year, petty crime like bicycle theft is up everywhere, not just (conveniently) in the vicinity of the shelter. The “shelter,” incidentally, is not a human warehouse; it's a medical services provider, vocational training center, and the home of several excellent social-purpose businesses: http://www.projectrenewal.org/index.html.
I'm sorry that the Gothamist is springing on board with this kind of irresponsible fear-mongering. Smarten up.