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slice of life

Gennaro Lombardi, an immigrant from Naples, opened a Little Italy grocery in 1897 that grew into America’s first pizzeria.

http://clocktowertenants.com/2011/07/no-triangles-here.html

One of his employees, Antonio Totonno Pero, began making pizza to sell in the grocery but most folks could not afford the 5cents it took to buy the whole pie.

http://clocktowertenants.com/2010/12/winning-new-york-pizza-wars.html

It was Tontonno’s genius to begin asking folks what they could afford, then cutting them slices in keeping with their offers. 

Genius.

http://clocktowertenants.com/2011/11/so-much-in-life-is-timing.html

Business took off and never looked back. Today there are over 400 places to get a slice in New York City.

http://clocktowertenants.com/2013/08/sometimes-simplest-meals.html

By 1924 Totonno left Lombardi and opened Totonno’s in Coney Island with a coal brick oven, and the New York style of pizza was a thing.

http://clocktowertenants.com/2014/01/homemade-pizza-is-worth-it.html

New Yorker’s fold their slices, 

then pick them up with their hands.

http://clocktowertenants.com/2014/05/diamond-girl.html

You gotta know when to fold ‘em.

NYTimes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York-style_pizza

Have a great vacation in Italy, Mr. Mayor.

case of shingles

When this old world starts getting me down

And people are just too much for me to face. 

(Up on the roof)

I climb way up to the top of the stairs

And all my cares just drift right into space. 

(Up on the roof)

On the roof, it's peaceful as can be

And there, the world below can't bother me.

Let me tell you now.

When I come home feeling tired and beat

I go up where the air is fresh and sweet. 

(Up on the roof)

I get away from the hustling crowds

And all that rat race noise down in the street 

(Up on the roof)

On the roof's the only place I know

Where you just have to wish to make it so

Let's go up on the roof 

(Up on the roof)

At night, the stars put on a show for free

And, darling, you can share it all with me.

I keep-a tellin' you.

Right smack dab in the middle of town

I found a paradise that's trouble-proof. 
(Up on the roof)

And if this world starts getting you down

There's room enough for two up on the roof. 
(Up on the roof)

Up on the roof (Up on the roof)

Oh, come on, baby (Up on the roof)

1962

Oh, come on, honey (Up on the roof)

Everything is all right. 

(Up on the roof)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_King

hunter college

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself. 

Who is the happier man?

He who has braved the storm of life and lived?

 Or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” 

you look wheelie tyred

vox

In early 1918 "Dr. Hertzler" advanced a hypothesis that 'The only way to make a woman happy,' he said, 'is to keep her barefoot and pregnant.'

Indeed.

So you can imagine how men felt 25 years earlier when women were getting their first bikes.

No longer did a woman depend on a man for travel. 

With two wheels and a chain she could be gone.

The media got hold of this and had a heyday.

What to do?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_face

Male doctors began to dissuade women from riding bicycles.

“Overexertion, the upright position on the wheel, and the unconscious effort to maintain one’s balance tend to produce a wearied and exhausted “bicycle face” noted the Literary Digest in 1895.

An oppressive case was built around bicycling as “an excessively taxing activity, unsuitable for women — it would not only lead to bicycle face, but exhaustion, insomnia, heart palpitations, headaches and depression.”

It took a Chicago woman doctor---naturally---in 1897, to put bicycle face to rest. She wrote: 

Somehow this lovely seems to have survived it all okay.

jj

Of course for men there are no worries at all.

http://clocktowertenants.com/2012/06/clocktower-contemporary-1886.html

class action suitcase

“We only greet strangers when we need something from them.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is risky to own and lease real estate. 

I’ve been a landlord and I know.

You pour your heart and soul and your cash into a place you hope someone else takes care of.

Landlords are responsible for a mortgage while tied to enormous risk: market fluctuation, adjustable interest, tax and insurance increases, heating oil and electricity, habitability standards, stabilization limits and all with legal accountability to what goes on within their property. 

reddit

Landlords must vet prospective tenants very carefully.

cornel.edu

Airbnb takes that judgment away from the owner and gives it to the renter when they sublease, as a hotel.

We should be able to do whatever we want with our home as long as it is single-family, we own it outright and we meet the same minimum hotel regulations.

If we have a partner like a bank mortgage or another owner in the building, it seems reasonable that we need permission from the lender or other owner.

queens4sale

In a multiple dwelling condo where you actually own the bricks and mortar, it seems reasonable that a majority of the other owners agree.

 monroeproperties.com

In a cooperative you don’t actually own your home, you hold shares in a corporation that is responsible for the overall building. In this case the cooperative can simply say “no".

sothebys

Renters have occupancy rights for the name on the lease, but are not granted the control of an owner. 

Hotels are subject to license and a cleanliness standard and government regulation that over time has become common sense.

Whatever the outcome for airbnb, 

let’s hope common sense prevails. 

What do you think?

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/top-9-landlord-legal-responsibilities-new-york.html