Link to the NYT article mentioned in class: “That Noise? The Rich Neighbors Digging a Basement Pool in Their $100 Million Brownstone” by David Margolick, NYT (April 5, 2019): Tamar Gongadze, whose third-floor apartment at 51 West 68th Street was directly above the pit, also just fled. Her law firm […]
Daily Archives: April 9, 2019
Doubled-Edged Sword (noun): Something that has or can have both favorable and unfavorable consequences. After reading the articles by Winifred Curran, the phrase Double-Edged Sword immediately came to mind. The effects of gentrification on industrial displacement is more complicated than at first glance. Like most issues, there are multiple sides […]
Winifred Curran’s entire argument is an implied “nature is good, and anything that interferes with nature is bad”. I simply ask: why? Additionally, I will show that Curran’s argument doesn’t make sense intuitively, doesn’t make sense practically, and doesn’t make sense ideologically. Natural is defined as “existing in or caused […]