France has a very different culture when it comes to race. It probably isn’t a coincidence that these comments come from two French women, Delpy and Rampling.

I don’t know, I think calling affordable housing apartments in a luxury building a “slum” is a bit too much of a stretch. An intercom at the door not working doesn’t get me there.

Well, plenty have people have argued in these threads that the amenities should be available to all building tenants. I don’t think anyone, though, has argued that the landlord shouldn’t fix broken shit. Deciding where lights should go sounds a little too nitpicky for me to take a side.

I think there are some unwarranted assumptions being made here. If the developer plans to have 400 people in a building, and 300 of them are market rate and the other 100 are affordable housing tenants, then the developer can plan the size and layout of the “premium” amenities according to the usage of 300 people. If…

Yeah, also reasonable possibilities. Of course they could just not offer doorman services (like holding packages or whatever else doorman do, we don’t have them in my state). Not sure that taxes etc. would really differ based on the location of a second door, though.

That isn’t how it works in New York. The only way to get those amenities in NYC is to pay through the nose for them. In any case, the goal of the tax breaks is to provide affordable housing for working class New Yorkers. Pools, bars, roof decks, gyms, etc. - those aren’t integral elements of affordable housing.…

Are you sure it requires that all amenities be shared, not just common areas and entrances? The articles describing the ban only mention common areas and entrances. I’m also not convinced that this is the first ever instance of a “poor door” - more likely its the only or most recent high profile backlash against it. I…

The law doesn’t say the developers have to give everyone the same kind of everything, but one family can pay $2m and the other can pay $1200. Having a different door is strange, although if the building is designed as a building within a building or separately enclosed internal structures I can see why it might have…

Know what else is separate and less than equal? How much people pay to live there.

For $800 a month? Why should you get the same amenities for $800 a month that you get for $1.3 million? No one forced them to move into the building.

Cancer runs in all families. Have to die somehow, if something else doesn’t get you, cancer will eventually.

“temporarily” “stage IV” one or the other of these is probably not true.

He needs to order 12 paternity tests.

Far better was his ceremony-closing comment “From myself and Mel Gibson, shalom!”

Maybe, but it does mean that there is no evidence to suggest she has been victimized or assaulted.

Is it weird that the leading photo is of a bunch of freaking out white teens from 50 years ago, but the video is a bunch of black kids rioting at a mall?

I think it’s a fair point. There were centuries during the history of ancient Egypt where the Pharaohs were white people of European descent. The Egyptian pantheon tended to reflect the ruling class in depictions.

Not to mention the fact that the Yale “eli” (Elihu Yale, its namesake) himself profited from the slave trade and was for centuries depicted at Yale with a chained and collared black slave at his feet.

I think you mean “Few things more heartbreaking.” Otherwise, the phrase as written is pretty heartless.

Nothing in the book made the ethnic background of the characters relevant, that I can recall. If ethnicity was an integral part of a character and the film studio chose to recast it and dispense with ethnic character elements, I could understand the objection. And they probably should have changed her last name from…