Slog - Comments on The End of Happiness http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness Today is my last day in Stuyvesant Square, Manhattan. I spent a week in a comfortable, one-bedroom apartment on the seventh floor of a complex. Here, each room is like other rooms; each building is like other buildings; each building is an island in the sun. A description of Stuyvesant Square in the New York Times: The Stuyvesant Square neighborhood is in every way unrelated to Stuyvesant Town, the rental complex not far away that recently sold, with its cousin Peter Cooper Village, for $5.4 billion. The rental communities consist of 110 uniform, nondescript brick buildings... Because it is clean,... Copyright 2008 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:44:48 -0800 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:49:06 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Lee Gibson Just because I'm curious, how much is the rent in your socialist utopia?

]]> Lee Gibson http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824807 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824807 Architecture Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:06:59 -0800 Comment by Anne "The rental communities consist of 110 uniform, nondescript brick buildings…"

And that sounds like my idea of hell. According to this post, socialism is the ultimate in BOR-ING. At least the communists had some bitchin' propaganda art and architecture.

]]> Anne http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824818 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824818 Architecture Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:29:00 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I'm equally confused, if I'm looking at the correct link. Annual? Are those daily prices? Weekly prices? I'm still slightly drunk from last night. Help.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824819 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824819 Architecture Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:29:03 -0800 Comment by Timothy Hicks Leave him alone, Lee, let him dream. Me, I know where he's coming from.

]]> Timothy Hicks http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824820 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824820 Architecture Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:29:10 -0800 Comment by larry According to the NYT article the rents start at $1,800/month for a 2-bedroom without doorman. No mention of studios or 1-bedrooms. Of course that was a year ago. Condos start at a million.

Worker's paradise indeed!

]]> larry http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824841 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824841 Architecture Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:51:29 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I see now.

That is not a good deal. Just sayin'.

I also just realized I don't know where my wallet is. Holy fuck.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824846 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824846 Architecture Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:00:47 -0800 Comment by lorax Why do so many Stranger writers seem to hate Seattle?

]]> lorax http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824858 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824858 Architecture Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:14:20 -0800 Comment by Issur Charles, love your post. Like you I grew up in a home with several maids, a chauffeur, and a cook. But I'm a marxist/socialist now. I have a cousin who is an attorney who just bought a condo in Stuyvesant. It's a lovely neighborhood, and an example of how great Seattle could be if the racist, Christian Seattle locals would only tear down their single family homes a allow density, socialism and a real city to grow.

]]> Issur http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824860 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824860 Architecture Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:18:19 -0800 Comment by gucci clad marxist Yeah!! Thats what I'm talkin' about. A clean snazzy Über-chic environ, where the posh proletariat can gather with his/her likewise fashionistas and plot the revolution(it never looked sooo good). Power to the Pea-coats.

]]> gucci clad marxist http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824868 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824868 Architecture Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:32:51 -0800 Comment by your wallet not gonna be found on SLOG

]]> your wallet http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824899 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824899 Architecture Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:52:50 -0800 Comment by brandon $1800/mo for a 2-bedroom rental in manhattan is a steal. $1 mil for a condo is a rip off anywhere.

]]> brandon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824910 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824910 Architecture Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:25:31 -0800 Comment by Irena I agree with #11. Two people sharing a clean, comfortable apartment in the heart of New York City for $900 each? Are you kidding? Worth every penny.

]]> Irena http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824929 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824929 Architecture Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:30:48 -0800 Comment by Paste Dogg My favorite memory about "Sty-Town" were the gigantic piles of trash that form on the small streets around the complex.

]]> Paste Dogg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824955 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c824955 Architecture Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:17:06 -0800 Comment by The CHZA Yet again I find that fun and socialism seem incompatible.

]]> The CHZA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c825080 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c825080 Architecture Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:09:05 -0800 Comment by torrentprime Sounds like a theme park all right: a fantasy wold erected and maintained by thousands of unseen others who couldn't afford to live in the world they are paid to build for others, even assuming they would choose to.

]]> torrentprime http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c825124 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c825124 Architecture Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:25:53 -0800 Comment by bubbleT I loved living at Stuy Town! Good thing I loved it then, because now I'm broke and I live in Brooklyn.

]]> bubbleT http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c826097 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_end_of_happiness#c826097 Architecture Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:49:06 -0800