Absolutely untrue. My building is all-rental and we have a full-time doorman. So do many of my friends who live in rental buildings.

I don’t know, but here is the exact wording of the law: “Affordable units shall share the same common entrances and common areas as market-rate units.” I interpret that to mean amenities. But I’m no lawyer. It sure as hell means the no-cost garden, courtyard and rooftop areas that are off-limits to this building’s…

Now the law does state that every resident must have access to all common areas, amenities, and entrances. Because public outcry over this building was such that the law was changed. This building was grandfathered in, because it was built before the law changed. BTW, this law has stood for more than 20 years, and…

We have low-income apartments in my very expensive building, too. Those residents are allowed to use all the amenities, including the doorman. I’m sure most of them tip little to nothing at Christmas, because they probably earn much less than our 10-person unionized staff. They are treated no differently than anyone…

These 55 apartments were rented to low-income people by lottery. There were 90,000 applicants for those 55 apartments. You'd probably get a similar amount of applications even if the entry price included blowing a rich resident once a month. Trust me - affordable housing in NYC is so scarce that there are plenty who…

Very good and fair reply.

The point isn’t the value that the renters get - it’s the tax breaks, in the many millions, that the developer got, with the understanding that they’d provide non-discriminatory housing. The law was not meant to create two classes of residents, but to create a mix - which is why Cuomo (not deBlasio, as erroneously…

It gets even worse than that. The gym is on the “rich” side of the building. But there is also a roof deck that is actually atop the poor side that the people living below it can’t use. So in addition to being reminded on a daily basis of how inferior they are every time they walk in their door, they get to hear all…

You’d be wrong. The millionaire residents loove this setup. I have a friend who bought in this building, and she loves to brag about all the amenities that “the people who paid millions of dollars, not the renters” get to use. Seriously. Makes me ill. I can barely stand to look at her these days. Personally, I…

Except that the developers got millions of dollars of tax breaks and zoning variances on the condition that they supply these few below-rate apartments. They used a loophole in the law that didn't explicitly state that all residents have access to everything to set up their elitist building. This law has been around…

I love Bowie, but I don't know how you (or anybody but the parties involved) could possibly know the answers to your questions regarding drug use and cheating on Iman.

According to Keith’s autobiography, he wrote the song about detoxing from heroin, and he used the word “Angie” to mean “heroin.” He claims that he didn’t know Pallenberg was going to name his daughter Angela when he wrote the song, and didn’t even know that it was going to be a girl, because, “In those days you didn’t…

Thank you. But I guess “Fancy Light-Up Skateboard” wouldn't have made it the toy of the year,

Well, that would make every King’s Cake sold in the US around Mardi Gras time illegal.

Thank you for your thoughtful, honest answer.

Thanks for the clarification. I was confused, which I suppose is the goal of this literature, anyway. Probably more propaganda to deter that small number of women who wouldn't want to touch their own vaginas. I have a question for you, though. The abortion pill method sounds so much longer and more painful than the…

It ain't necessarily so.

Fascinating, necessary reading. Just one curious thing, though. I did read the mandated Michgan materials - all of them. In those materials, they state that the second set of pills should be placed in your vagina. Yet Jex describes putting them in her cheek, two on each side, and allowing them to dissolve in her…

Their money is already invested in the public schools. That's a gimme. Everyone pays for the public schools, whether they use them or not. So if private school parents changed to public school, they wouldn't be contributing one dime more than they already are to the public schools. But they would be using more…

The police and fire departments don’t go to these schools every day, all day. At least I hope they don't. Because that would be one dangerous-ass school.