Park Avenue, New York City - Extreme lifestyles!!


This is perhaps New York's most expensive condo tower on park Avenue.......

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/d32ac782.jpg




Right across the street.....you will see this.. :(

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/9f9a9789.jpg

:???:

I wonder if it bothers these millionaires to see these homeless people living outside their doorsteps....

:dunno:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/46f88416.jpg


:no:

It'd bother me, I wouldn't want some nether do wells dirtying up my view.

^ ouch

you're evil!!

That is how it is in most cities. I lived for awhile in Old Town in Chicago, a neighbhorhood that encompases million dollar flats and towers and mansions next to transient hotels, and less than 1/2 mile from what was once really rough housing projects. After awhile it started to feel weird.

oh! :( caviar doesn´t taste so good after seeing this...

Caviar's never tasted good.

it's all just people living in boxes...

Caviar's never tasted good.

thats soo right!
BTW i don't see the big deal on this, i mean when would u look at the sidewalk having that awesome view anyway.

I wouldn't mind much if they don't like attack me or beg me for money everyday.

When you look at the type of construction in NYC (and other cities) that is designed for the super wealthy (a small group that is garnering more and more of the total pie of US income) and realize that the disperity between those few who have truly made it and the rest of us continues to grow, do you believe cities like NYC (and, for that matter, the whole USA) can continue to be great......or will our inequities and our excessive life styles catch up with us? Have we created a system that will collapse on its own greed? We're doing a great job of creating a Latin American banana republic and we're totally oblivous to what we have created.

Perhaps if we can just manage to ignore them & pretend they're not there, our problems will just go away and we will continue to be the greatest nation (with the greatest city) on earth and live happily ever after forever.

^ agreed



btw the cheapest condos in that tower go for 8$ million.... :eek2:

Its the same in London. You have Holland Park and Chelsea on one side, and Harrow Road and Sherperds Bush on the other.

When you look at the type of construction in NYC (and other cities) that is designed for the super wealthy (a small group that is garnering more and more of the total pie of US income) and realize that the disperity between those few who have truly made it and the rest of us continues to grow, do you believe cities like NYC (and, for that matter, the whole USA) can continue to be great......or will our inequities and our excessive life styles catch up with us? Have we created a system that will collapse on its own greed? We're doing a great job of creating a Latin American banana republic and we're totally oblivous to what we have created.

Perhaps if we can just manage to ignore them & pretend they're not there, our problems will just go away and we will continue to be the greatest nation (with the greatest city) on earth and live happily ever after forever.

ignoring the flaws of your system will eventually catch up with you. It's sad to see how the wealthies nation on earth has inadequate public education and no public healthcare. 45 million americans are uninsured, doesn't that ring a bell? The US System is outdated and needs to be revised.

Some quotes from a newsweek article:

In the United States, inequality once seemed tolerable because America was the land of equal opportunity. But this is no longer so. Two decades ago, a U.S. CEO earned 39 times the average worker; today he pulls in 1,000 times as much. Cross-national studies show that America has recently become a relatively difficult country for poorer people to get ahead. Monbiot summarizes the scientific data: "In Sweden, you are three times more likely to rise out of the economic class into which you were born than you are in the U.S."

OMFG (Bush blinded by his own ignorance) :eek2: :

"Americans have the best medical care in the world," Bush declared in his Inaugural Address. Yet the United States is the only developed democracy without a universal guarantee of health care, leaving about 45 million Americans uninsured. Nor do Americans receive higher-quality health care in exchange. Whether it is measured by questioning public-health experts, polling citizen satisfaction or survival rates, the health care offered by other countries increasingly ranks above America's. U.S. infant mortality rates are among the highest for developed democracies. The average Frenchman, like most Europeans, lives nearly four years longer than the average American. Small wonder that the World Health Organization rates the U.S. healthcare system only 37th best in the world, behind Colombia (22nd) and Saudi Arabia (26th), and on a par with Cuba.

The American Dream has always been chiefly economic—a dynamic ideal of free enterprise, free markets and individual opportunity based on merit and mobility. Certainly the U.S. economy has been extraordinarily productive. Yes, American per capita income remains among the world's highest. Yet these days there's as much economic dynamism in the newly industrializing economies of Asia, Latin America and even eastern Europe. All are growing faster than the United States. At current trends, the Chinese economy will be bigger than America's by 2040. Whether those trends will continue is not so much the question. Better to ask whether the American way is so superior that everyone else should imitate it. And the answer to that, increasingly, is no.

whole article can be found here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6857387/site/newsweek/

Very interesting article, i highly recommend reading it

^Bush said medical care not coverage and he is right in many regards though the disperites must be adressed lest we see a revolution ferment.

^Bush said medical care not coverage and he is right in many regards though the disperites must be adressed lest we see a revolution ferment.

yeah so? Everyone deserves healthcare, not only the ones that can afford it. coverage is equally important as the quality of healthcare

I too find it hard to imagine that there is a homeless living in one of the prestigous blocks of Manhattan.

Quote: yeah so? Everyone deserves healthcare, not only the ones that can afford it. coverage is equally important as the quality of healthcare

I agree 100% but I was simply pointing out that the way in which the media or certain people reacted to Bush's comments werent in snyc with what he actualy he said. That said I think we can do better in this country.

how dissapointing and sad

The funny thing is--that condo tower (in addition to being hideous) is on the verge of being condemned as structurally unsound.