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Updated
July 8, 2006
Business Review Managers:
Concerning your article "First Time 'Developer' Takes On South End apartments" found online at http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2006/05/22/story6.html
I fully understand that you people from the suburbs have a perceived vested interest in downgrading the neighborhoods of downtown Albany through negative reporting. It is only by maintaining the falsehood that Albany is an undesirable place to live that you can support the illusion that your suburban properties are valuable commodities.
Your suburbs are heavily subsidised by our City. Every day hordes of you people drive here and loot us of our wealth, which you carry back to your ticky tacky badly built tract houses. This is the only way you can maintain your unsustainable municipalities.
But what if the price of gasoline rises so much that it becomes too expensive to drive every day to loot our City? What will happen to the price of real estate in automobile slums like Clifton Park?
Don't worry, that scenario is just around the corner. Thanks to the first amendment, you people have every right to borrow the phrase "hardscrabble South End neighborhood" from the Hearst-owned Times Union. In a few years, we shall see if you people are still using that phrase. I am happily looking forward to day that you arrogant suburbanites are desperately searching for affordable real estate in my "hardscrabble neighborhood. I am also looking forward to reading references to "the ghettos of Clifton Park and Colonie."
By the way, it is because of such slanted reporting and anti-urban propaganda that I do not subscribe to or even bother to read your uninformative rag.
Sincerely,
Daniel W. Van Riper
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