tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post7051952670174144500..comments2024-03-29T01:02:53.128-04:00Comments on MOLOVINSKY ON ALLENTOWN: Camden On The Lehighmichael molovinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12581039755319742687noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-26143645516057686272007-11-24T20:19:00.000-05:002007-11-24T20:19:00.000-05:00jeff, yes in this post i'm referring to large city...jeff, yes in this post i'm referring to large city machines which have lost their integrity. i think this political arrogance is a bigger danger to allentown than any verbal associations about the buildings in camden, n.j. the house of chen has seen dadonna,heydt and afflerbach come and go. they will see pawlowski go also. dadonna put the canopies up, heydt took them down. after the koz expires chen will be here, after the subsidized projects move on. if the city planners would ever sit down with the "chen's" of allentown, instead of the developer of the month, perhaps something sustainable for the long term could be created.michael molovinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12581039755319742687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-54306096544923434142007-11-24T18:17:00.000-05:002007-11-24T18:17:00.000-05:00I know what you mean by Camden but the city evokes...I know what you mean by Camden but the city evokes a bunch of associations--bombed out, irrecoverable--that I hope you didn't intend.<BR/><BR/>By the way: you are owed a congratulations, and my genuine admiration, for pushing hard for (and not just blogging about) those abandoned merchants on Hamilton Street. I think that I have said that I don't buy the intentional strangling-by-gentrification theory that you have floated, but I DO commend you for your selfless work on the merchants' behalf--merchants who were, as you were first to highlight, screwed.Jeff Pooleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17868178804244773058noreply@blogger.com