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Copperfield
Citizen
Username: Copperfield
Post Number: 22
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 2:32 pm: |     |
From a story yesterday on "kid-friendly condos" in Manhattan (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/26/garden/26TURF.html) :
"Conventional wisdom used to be that you decamped to Westchester or Connecticut as soon as you had your second child. But a growing number of families are choosing to stay in the city...."
Since as we all know, no one a NY Times reader would actually talk to might live someplace as gauche as New Jersey.
Just another in a string of articles where the Times pretendds NJ doesn't exist- the recent article on how winter is affecting commuter trains dealt with Metro North and LIRR, made no mention of NJ Transit.}} |
peteglider
Citizen
Username: Peteglider
Post Number: 482
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 2:38 pm: | |
considering how many of the editors and writers live in SO/Maplewood and Montclair (that I know) -- wonder if its the business side influencing content... (oh the blasphemy)
Pete |
marian
Citizen
Username: Marian
Post Number: 129
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 2:42 pm: | |
Copperfield,
LOL! Gotta love the "paper of record!" BTW, I asked a woman in my office who currently lives on the Upper East Side, has two kids and rents her apartment, what she made of that line and here's her response:
"People from brooklyn move to new jersey. manhattan is westchester and connecticut. sometimes long island, but that's mostly queens folks"
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Copperfield
Citizen
Username: Copperfield
Post Number: 23
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 3:31 pm: | |
Thanks Marian. I think her response was correct 20 years ago. But I've found that in the past 2-3 years, a lot more Manhattanites are "discovering" New Jersey- Essex County in particular. I know that when we first moved to the UWS, most of our neighbors who were leaving were headed for Scarsdale or the River Towns in Westchester, but now everyone seems to be heading for Essex County.
I find that the Times tends to pretend we're all living in a Woody Allen movie or a New Yorker cartoon and at some level, their audience probably likes that illusion too. |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 441
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 4:39 pm: | |
Yeah, it's probably like Cosmopolitan mag -- most of the readership doesn't much look like the photos (but it would ruin the credibility to admit it) |
mtierney
Citizen
Username: Mtierney
Post Number: 493
Registered: 3-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 10:00 pm: | |
I read that kid-friendly article - got to the part where it mentioned small 2 bedroom units starting at $1.1 million and lost it. Really, are there young families with 2 or 3 kids able to afford those numbers? They could live well in a very comfortable house in Short Hills with a nanny for that money!
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Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2251
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 29, 2004 - 3:20 pm: | |
Well if they think $1.1M is reasonable, then no wonder they call South Orange and Maplewood affordable. I guess it all depends on which socio-economic circles you hang out in. I bet the folks in Irvington don't consider Maplewood to be affordable.
I don't think I'll get upset that the article mentioned Westchester and CT and forgot NJ. But that's just my choice.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 444
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 29, 2004 - 4:58 pm: | |
Y'know, y'all could boycott the Times until they cover NJ more. Money where mouth is, and all. One can live without the NYT, and pretty nicely, too. I read the Star Ledger (to attempt to understand the natives) and WSJ.
Sounds like folks are just hurt that despite their loyalty to the NYT, it's not requited... |
e roberts
Citizen
Username: Wnwd00
Post Number: 5
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 4, 2004 - 3:16 pm: | |
The NY Times is one of the most liberal papers i have ever read. Now i understand that many papers have to slant left right or other but most still present both sides of a story. i guess the times doesnt feel that is necessary.
I think we are better off without them writing about NJ. |
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