Them That's Got

The Filthy Rich Are Decimating New York City--and Most of Them Are Foreign
In New York, the most recent transaction involving foreign investors was announced just last weekend, when Istithmar Hotels, which is controlled by the royal family of Dubai, said it had agreed to buy the former Knickerbocker Hotel in Times Square, at Broadway and 42nd Street, for around $300 million. Although the 16-story red brick building had been turned into office and retail space and includes a Gap store, Istithmar says that it plans to convert it back to a luxury hotel.

Joe Sita, the chief executive of Istithmar Hotels, called the Times Square district "extremely buoyant."

Last October, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of the Saudi royal family bought back a stake in the Plaza Hotel, which he had sold in 2004 with his partner at the time, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels of London, for $675 million to El-Ad Properties, which has its offices in New York and is backed by an Israeli investor. The Plaza, at Fifth Avenue and Central Park South, is being redeveloped into condominiums, hotel rooms and condo hotel rooms, and the prince will focus on the hotel part.

Another big transaction was the purchase last fall of the Essex House, at 160 Central Park South, by Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, now the ruler of Dubai, for around $440 million. It was one of the most expensive hotel deals in the nation last year, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting and consulting firm. The hotel will be the first of his Jumeirah chain in North America.

This is a year old; it comes from the site that lists construction going on currently in New York City. Doesn't that thrill your soul to know that the ruling Sheik of Dubai has 440 million bucks to just throw away buying the god-damn Essex House. I see PricewaterhouseCoopers mentioned and they should know all about the old Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum; remember, PWC was involved in the big BCCI bank scandal--the large banking firm from Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, yep, supporting terrorists they were--oh, but we've forgiven everybody involved in that sordid little affair.

And how about Prince Alwahleed bin Talal of the Saudi Royal Family--dabbling in a piece of the Plaza--didn't Ivana win that in her multibillion dollar divorce from urban white trash numbskull Donald Trump?--the constantly going bankrupt world's self-proclaimed richest man--and the 30% of Amuricans who love G.W. Bush and his totally wrecking this country and killing off our young people love Donald Trump, and they love doling out their monies to these creepy sorry sons of bitches who do more harm in our society than they do good. Donald Trump is now bragging about he's gonna build the highest building in SoHo (south of Houston Street), a 45-story luxury tower eyesore totally out-of-character for that beautiful old once-zoned low-level neighborhood--an area of old iron and tin buildings and beautiful old factory lofts that the artists and musicians and writers took over in the 70s and made the area hip except soon here came the movie stars, like Di Nero, Dan Ackroyd, John Belushi, and fake artists, like Cristo, and right behind these celebrities here came the Uptown monied bored sons and daughters of the old East Side wealth and here came the foreign art gallery BSers and soon SoHo is so full'a real estate ho's that now it is so chi-chi no artist unless you're Picasso can afford to live anywhere near there--Oh god it riles me up! I'm grrrrowling passionately mad--everywhere I go and start to love and start to live and start to have hope, these developer bastards come loping in like hyenas and start stealing the kills of the other predators, the scumbag Old World building owners...I'm panting I'm so pissed.

And then up at the top, hey, there's the Royal Family of Dubai buying up a Times Square hotel, the old Knickerbocker--and why not? It's only $300 million win or lose--besides, if they've got the money to buy the whole Bush family off, then they've got the money to buy an old raggidy hotel in Times Square--Jeez, theez old filthy smarmy sheiks and princes and shit own thousands of these kinds of properties all over the world I assume--oil money; and shit, 300 million is chicken feed to the old Royal Family of Dubai. Dubai, by the way, is the Princedom Georgie Porgie our phony president gave our ports away to. Can you believe that; a terrorist-backing nation managing our ports?--their Royal Family buying up New York City properties by the blockfuls! It is unbelievable what is going on in this city.

[BULLETIN (Tin of BS): Halliburton has just announced it is moving it's headquarters from Houston to DUBAI!!! Hot Damn, bring on the A-rabb virgins! Sounds fishy to me. Has Unka Dick sold us lock, stock, and barrel to these Arab Royal Families? The Bushes are Arabs now--Dubai where Neil houses his education business (what an F-ing joke) and Marvellous Marv hides his security businesses; since Houston is the Bush Family home now, I assume, Pappy and Mammy will soon be moving to Dubai. Why not? They ain't Americans anymore. They're Arabs now; they sold their souls to the Bin Ladens years ago--back when Pappy was President. REMEMBER the IRAN-CONTRA hearings? Now do you know why Iran is evil? Why can't We the People revoke Halliburton's charter and nationalize this company--we are in a war aren't we?]

I thought the reason for the white man's revolting from Britain was because of the monarchy, kings, dukes, earls, worthless pariah that prey off slave labor, get belly-fat rich and then leave it to their inept, despicable in most cases, bimbo, wastrel children who proceed to wallow around in the wealth until it begins to dry up and then they sell out to the Sheiks and Princes of the Arab world, who according to our weakkneed, wimpier-than-his-father phony unelected president are all terrorists out to wipe us off the face of the earth, or at least our large commerce centers, like the WTC.

How much Arab Royal Family money is being invested in that tacky Freedom Tower they are forcing on us down at Ground Zero, which in reality is a cemetery?

Of course, our billionaire f-ing mayor, Blooming Idiot Bloomburg, is money mad and territory grabbing mad, giving big developments away to his rich-boy development buddies, like the idiot who is bringing the no-good New Jersey Nets basketball team to Brooklyn, destroying downtown Brooklyn in the process, tearing down Brooklyn Center City and replacing it with 15 or 16 multistory office and condo skyscrapers, and the tacky, max-tacky gymnasium/luxury box-crammed eyesore basketball arena right in the middle of that. Traffic! Whooo boy!

As I type this the noise from the building of a 2000-room hotel 2 blocks over from the back of my building is overwhelming me, seeping into my room as if the bulldozers have broken through my walls and are smack-dab in the middle of the room with me.

Here's Another, to Me, Disgusting Article
In New York, the city's first foray into successful hotel-condos was considered 1998's Trump International Hotel and Tower at One Central Park West. Also in the Columbus Circle neighborhood is the Mandarin Oriental at the new Time Warner Center, which is considered the most luxurious.

Brenda Powers, a Brown Harris Stevens broker who herself owns a Mandarin Oriental hotel-condo, said she is seeing an increase of interest from people who live in the hurricane-afflicted Gulf Coast region as well as from corporations looking to pamper their top executives while investing in real estate.

What does that mean, "an increase of interest from people who live in the hurricane-afflicted Gulf Coast region...."? What does Brenda mean by that? You mean Katrina victims are rushing to NYC to buy luxury condos in Trump's bankrupt hotels? Give me a break! Is every MF-er rich but me?

The median salary in NYC is $44,000 a year. That doesn't seem like much to me. I've made over 100,000-a-year in this town and that didn't last all that long when I had it. Poverty in NYC is $26,000. I'm facing a future of maybe having to live on that $26,000 a year and I can only do it because I pay low rent--I'm one of those old NYC neighborhood tenants who our little-man, billionaire, self-impressive mayor hates rent control--what old New Yorkers know keeps landlords from gouging us blind for outrageous rents and very little respect in return. Landlords came up with the condo scheme under their old pal Ed Crotch in the 80s but that's petering out now and they're back to kowtowing to renters again. Most of these luxury bullshit constructions going up now are half rental units--the upper floors saved for the rich and famous who can afford the going 10.2 million-average price for a high-floor/w views condo in NYC. I am amazed at the money in this town. It's here. There are some awfully rich young and old MF-ers around here. Trouble is, they don't put the monies they've made thanks to New York City back into the city except through buying land and buildings and condos and shit, which doesn't really put that money back into NYC, though our billionaire fop rather marigold-like mayor claims these rich assholes coming here are building up the tax base and are gonna leave NYC filthy rich with tax overflows. Yeah, sure, mayor. So said every other mayor that came before you, all of them crooked as snakes at night; all of them into developments--Ed "How'm I doin'" Crotch developed the max-tacky Javitts Center that has not been successful at all. All of them knowing there is power in rezoning and giving tax breaks to Saudi Royal Family terrorists--yep, the Saudis had to be behind the bringing down of the WTC. As I've said before, of the 2,990 they admit died in the WTC tragedy, a lot of them were foreigners; a lot of them were Arabs; some of them were Saudis; plus the WTC was home of one of the largest CIA databanks in existence and the depository for a CIA gold hoard.

As of now, 3,200 Amurican soldiers have died and 10,000 of them have suffered serious bodily injuries and over 100,000 of them have mental problems revenging those 2,900 Americans and foreigners who died in that "terrorist" attack on the WTC.

If you preciously know the family of the man you are accusing of being behind 9/11, how can you call him a terrorist unless they've given you approval to blame 9/11 on him, their son, and call him a terrorist--maybe that's an honor for a Bin Laden, who knows?--why, the Bin Ladens are our "president's" Arab family aren't they? Pappy Bush would have no wealth today if the Saudis hadn't'a bailed his old wimpy sagging ass out of his failing oil businesses and propped him up for president during his faulty reign--the Bin Laden/Saudi Royals backed his numbskull sons in their fabulous rise to political fame and fortune, too. We may never get rid of the Bushes just like we'll never get rid of Saudi Royal Family investors or the Royal Family of Dubai.

In the meantime, the Iranians aren't Arabs. The Iranians once had the Children of Israel in bondage, except they were called Hebrews in those days and they were off-east relatives of the Mesopotamian Sumerians who started all of this many many long moons ago--back in the days when kings were elected by the people--only when Mesopotamian kings declared themselves divine did this modern-day love of monarchies start.

averypissedoffgrowlingwolf
for The Daily Growler

All the above excerpts are from:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=103927&page=5