{"id":279,"date":"2008-04-16T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2008-04-16T02:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T02:52:00","slug":"new-yorkflushing-queens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/new-yorkflushing-queens-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Flushing, Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/flushingshops.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/flushingshops.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Flushing, Queens<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">One of the reasons for visiting Flushing was to do a photograph for an article being written by my wife for a Dutch magazine on the sub-prime mortgage issue. She is an urban planner, currently working on the staff of Community Board 4 (Chelsea and the west side of Midtown). Most of the sub-prime-related foreclosures have been in the so-called outer Boroughs, Queens being one of the hardest hit. It&#8217;s definitely a &#8220;tale of two cities&#8221; (please forgive the clich\u00e9) with Manhattan and the more prosperous neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens virtually untouched by the mortgage crisis while lower income, mostly black and hispanic, neighborhoods suffer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/flushinghouses.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: arial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/flushinghouses.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Flushing, Queens<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I took the 7 train out to Main Street Flushing, which has become a largely Asian area, something that is immediately visible to all. I walked through some surrounding residential neighborhoods where two and three story row houses are making way for tall apartment blocks, often in jarring fashion. It&#8217;s clearly evidence of a hot real estate market, but whether the recent mortgage mess is slowing things down, I don&#8217;t know. In any case, I was pleased to get this somewhat enigmatic image of empty row houses surrounded by tall wooden fencing and apartment high rises under construction in the background.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/grandcentralclock.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: arial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/grandcentralclock.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Grand Central Terminal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Back in Manhattan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, Queens One of the reasons for visiting Flushing was to do a photograph for an article being written by my wife for a Dutch magazine on the sub-prime mortgage issue. She is an urban planner, currently working on the staff of Community Board 4 (Chelsea and the west side of Midtown). Most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}