BUDGET DEFICIT : Even if the current deficit is closed, the state is at a considerable risk going forward , and will have difficulties borrowing money because of the worsening credit rating which will significantly increase the level of interest rate.
New York , has a $130 billion budget and a deficit of $3.2 billion.The second largest deficit behind California.
Governor Paterson has warned of the possibility of state-worker furloughs, and delayed state-aid paiments being $1.6 billion to pay to school districts, $2.5 billion in property tax relief to landlords, and half a billion in general aid.
The grim news of the current fiscal year will get far worse in the next fiscal year , as it is impossible to cut $3 billion this year, and highly unlikely to reduce the budget by $ 6 billion next year!
NEW YORK DESIGN, TREND SETTING HOT SPOTS :
Restaurant, glamorous hotels and shops made over by top architects of the moment.
Strolling thru the NYC turmoil , you can feel the creation in the air.
Start with the DROOG , www.droog.com
10000 square feet of pure pleasure in Soho, a specatular boutique by Jurgen bay
BDDW , www.bddw.com
Soho Natural design with tree trunks cut lenghtwise then laid up against the walls gives a fairy tale feeling.
Tyler Hays also surprises with his tables structured out of Walnut.
JOHN DERIAN Company , www.johnderian.com
This boutique in the east village is often frequented by the top design stylists looking for ideas.
His dishes, lamps and vases are the definition of elegance and charm. You will also find a selection of his own favorite designers in household objects.
GAGOSIAN, www.gagosian.com
Gagosian art galerie and shop in one.
Larry Gagosian , puts together works from top contemporary artists, furniture from top designers and even trendy wallpaper.
Time for a drink a bite to eat, what a better place that the VIP Headquarters, Monkey bar, www.monkeybarnewyork.com
(The web site is « light » )
Design reflecting the memory of its first VIP’s, Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, and Ernest Hemingway among others.
Booths with red leather and paintings 30’s style by Ed Sorrel.
Final stop, Ace Hotel and the Standard Hotel New York
www.acehotel.com www.standardhotels.com
The First , very urbain with its « wall paper » by the artist Michael Anderson, photocopies of small posters from the 90’s on.
Other feature is the wood panelling taken from a Park Avenue apartment used for the bar decor.
Then the Standard Hotel, a daring new building, certainly the most unusual and significant New York building in years, every room has a stunning skyline on Hudson river vistas.
André Balazs has done it again with the Standard.
This glass sky scraper in the Meat Packing district with its restaurant is the spot to be.
Minimalist decor and large bay windows make you feel like your literally hanging over the city.
Standard hotels can also be found in Hollywood, Downtown LA and Miami beach.
French:
Michael Bloomberg, pourra t il sauver New York?
Situé à l’épicentre du séisme financier , les finances municipales sont exsangues.
New York qui était le premier centre financier du monde, est aujourdhui au troisième rang, derrière Londres et Sydney.
La grosse pomme a perdu près de 100 000 emplois depuis fin 2007, dont 30.000 dans l’industrie financière.
Le secteur financier représentait en 2007, 25% des salaires pour seulement 12% des emplois, c’est aussi une perte de rentrées fiscales de 2.5 milliards de dollars par an que la ville doit gérer.
Le marché de l’immobilier a accusé une baisse de 9% dans le résidentiel, l’immobilier commercial dont 30% est occupé par l’Industrie financière, a été encore plus touché que l’immobilier résidentiel .
Néanmoins la situation est beaucoup moins que critique, que lors des années 70′ , à l époque le taux de criminalité était à son apogée, et il était impossible d’obtenir un crédit à New York.
New York s’est relevé de Nine Eleven, La grosse pomme se relevera de cette crise, et, certainement plus rapidement qu’on ne le croit.
Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas le Maire, Qui est Michael Bloomberg?
Un homme dont la fortune est évaluée à 17 milliards de dollars, il a engagé entre 120 et 150 millions de dollars dans cette campagne pour sa ré election, enfin c’est le plus grand donateur des Etats Unis, il a déboursé au cours des douze dernières années 1,5 milliard de dolars en dons divers.
Son opposant démocrate à la mairie de New York Bill Thompson, avec un budget de seulement 10 millions de dollars avait très peu de chance de gagner , la politique s’apparente plus en plus à la promotion d’un produit.
you have to click on this link :
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/now-dining-the-guggenheims-wright-restaurant/?ref=design
Now Dining | The Guggenheim’s Wright Restaurant
Design, Food
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By MONICA KHEMSUROV
| December 9, 2009, 1:28 pm
Philip Greenberg The Guggenheim Museum’s new Wright Restaurant, designed by the architect Andre Kikoski.
It would have been easy to design the Guggenheim Museum’s new Wright Restaurant, which opens to the public Friday, exactly as Frank Lloyd Wright himself would have wanted it: among the 400 drawings he made for the 1959 building, a few were devoted to a ground-floor dining space, though not one particularly suited to a contemporary …………………
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In a Crime-Free City, How Does a Young Gangbanger Represent?
By Graham Rayman Tuesday, Jan 12 2010
You now live in the safest New York City that has existed since the Beatles came to America.
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Murders are now so rare—at least for a city this size—that you have to go back to the Kennedy administration to find similar numbers. Just ask Mayor Bloomberg. Like a kind of political Tourette’s syndrome, he tells you that’s the case every chance he gets.
New York is now so tame that old-timers grumble that it’s become a boring town and wish openly for at least a little of 1977’s grit and grime.
So considering what a patsy your metropolis is now, it’s hard to believe any of you are going to be alarmed at what some young people in the Lower East Side are telling us—that actually, for them, this town is still a jungle.
Yeah, we had the same reaction.
Prove it, kid.
There’s this one street kid—we’ll call him Johnny—who’s 18 and lives with his asthmatic grandmother and cousins in a cramped East 12th Street apartment because his father kicked him out of their apartment and his mom left the city. He says he’s on probation for five years, which stemmed from a robbery arrest. He says he knocked someone over and took their cash so he could buy lunch. He says he’s been jumped and beaten with metal bats. He says he’s afraid to walk past certain public housing projects that he considers rival gang territory. He wants to leave the neighborhood, but feels like he has no other option than to stay.
Johnny describes a world of young louts endlessly roaming the streets, of the constant presence of drugs, of brazen instigators who post YouTube videos to make threats and call out other groups and who fill MySpace pages with tough-guy images and over-the-top boasts. These wannabes and badasses associate themselves with the public housing projects they live in, giving themselves colorful names like Money Boyz in the Campos Houses, and No Fair Ones (NFO) in the Smith Houses.
« I’m just like a billion other kids I bang with, » Johnny says, clearly exaggerating. « We gotta look over our shoulders all the time. You can’t be by yourself on the street. We gotta run in pairs. »
But everyone knows that the neighborhood he’s talking about—the Lower East Side—has been rapidly gentrifying in the past few years, and walking on Hester or Orchard Street isn’t like strolling into some Jimmy Cagney two-reeler. The whole place has turned into a suburban shopping mall, right?
We first met Johnny one evening in late November. He happened to be up against a wall: Two police officers were frisking him, checking his puffy black jacket and his jean pockets. The stop-and-frisk is a routine police tactic to deal with street crime. More than 500,000 people were subjected to the procedure in 2008, 83 percent of whom were black or Hispanic, most of those young men and teens. Eighty-six percent of the time, no arrest was made.
The cops didn’t arrest Johnny. They just asked for his ID and wrote his name on a stop-and-frisk form. They were polite enough. But Johnny seemed both weary and resigned to the process, having been through it several times already.
« Man, I was just standing there at the corner, » he says with some exasperation after the officers depart. « And they rolled up on me. »
« Why did they stop you? »
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