Roberta Gratz

writer. author. New Yorker. urbanist. jane jacobs follower and friend. second home is New Orleans.

[Roberta Gratz @RobertaGratz]

It's getting tiresome refuting those who would use Jane Jacobs to validate City Of Yes. My one reply does not seem enough. More to come.

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@VitalCityNYC @urbenschneider Absolutely not. You insult her thinking and memory.

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@bellachu10 Better on street than in the wasted space of vast parking lots and deadening garages

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@MarketUrbanism @harryh If you think Jane was anti-development, you haven't read her.

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@MarketUrbanism Thanks Jeff.

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@harryh @MarketUrbanism She would be unable to afford any neighborhood in Manhattan. To think that Greenwich Village is the only neighborhood where prices have risen is to be blind to rest of the city. She'd probably go to the Bronx.

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@MarketUrbanism I love that anyone who criticizes developer-driven upzoning is automatically a Nimby. Totally based on ignorance of legitimate criticism of how cities evolve.

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@ndhapple I repeat. Trickle down does not work. Never has, at least not in New York City. Not in the more than 50 years I've been writing about NYC and cities everywhere.

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@alessandra115 Alessandra: I’m trying to reach you. Please email [email protected]

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@alessandra115 Roberta gratz here. Trying to get in touch with you. I have old email address. [email protected]

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@alessandra115 trying to reach Alessandra. Please email [email protected]

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@alessandra115 @thrasherxy @layallivs alessandra. I'm trying to reach you. Email me at [email protected].

[Roberta Gratz @RobertaGratz]

Between this and Air B & B is it any wonder there's a housing crisis?
https://t.co/X2S84wv54d

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@effiedog The most amazing quote I've heard.

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@Kaid_in_DC I wrote about this big time in my first book, Living City: Thinking Small in a Big Way. It was a travesty repeated in many cities.

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If we reall want to stem the loss of affordable housing, ban Wall Street equity firms from buying up whole blocks of houses, doing nothing to improve them and then renting them at huge profits making them out of reach to most.

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Taller does NOT mean more housing units. Height and density are not the same thing. A shorter building can have more units depending on design. Many of the new tall towers are replacing shorter, older buildings with more units. That's just a fact.

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Par for the course. Lawyer Mark Silberberg has been standing in the way of protecting landmarkable interiors for decades. The city has lost great treasures.

[Paul Goldberger @paulgoldberger]

An unforgivable failure on the part of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They claim designation would get in the way of public use of the public space and its evolution—a disingenuous and totally absurd claim. They have the right to approve of any reasonable changes.

[Roberta Gratz @RobertaGratz]

https://t.co/AcuGvPBTJo Landmarks Commission is a joke. They do the developer's bidding always!!

[Roberta Gratz @RobertaGratz]

Amazing hubris of $men who think they know the first thing about how cities begin or function. I won't live to see this fail.
https://t.co/VNOgVosyKb