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The impact that zombie properties have starts at a very local level and then reverberates from there. When you have a home that has been vacant for many months, it decreases in value, and the cost required to rehabilitate that property increases. It can serve as a magnet for crime and fires. You also have costs to the neighborhood in terms of adjacent property values. We know that economic decline can often spiral out from a single property or a cluster of vacant properties to other neighborhoods.
Zombie properties are particularly difficult to address because they often occur in neighborhoods with lower property values. In high property value areas, banks will take immediate steps to preserve the property and complete the foreclosure process. But when the property value is lower, many mortgage lenders and banks would just as soon walk away, leaving local governments and communities to deal with it.
Making lending institutions legally responsible for maintaining zombie properties was a key component of its success. The law clarified responsibility and gave local governments the power to impose penalties. Another successful component of the law is that it established, for the first time, a statewide registry of zombie properties.
But the law alone would not have had the impact it did without the capacity-building grants that went to local governments, which enabled them to hire coordinators, implement the data software that they needed, and work with foreclosure prevention NGOs in certain communities. The true genius of the Zombie Law was the accompanying capacity-building initiative and technical assistance provided by LISC.
First and foremost, data serve as the foundation for any kind of intervention to deal with vacant and abandoned properties. You need data on several key questions: How many vacant and abandoned homes do you have? Where are they? Who owns or used to own them? What else is going on in the neighborhood? How do vacancy data align with other important factors, such as health, socioeconomic, or market indicators? In this initiative, a number of the local government grantees were able to use a software called Building Blocks, which enabled them to take their code enforcement and inspection data and overlay it with neighborhood indicators and other property information.
The last important strategy is establishing local legal capacity. Not every lending institution or property owner is going to voluntarily bring their property into compliance. Thus, in some cases, grantees hired their own attorneys or partnered with nonprofit public interest law centers to file court actions against noncooperating lending institutions. And that also sent a message throughout the lending communities in New York that municipalities were taking the Zombie Law seriously, and that failure to take care of a property could result in legal action. In that way, municipalities were able to create a deterrent effect.
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Between The Walking Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Return of the Living Dead and Fear of the Walking Dead it looks like we love the dead and the idea that they could overrun the living population at any moment.
Could you survive a zombie apocalypse? If you did survive the initial outbreak how would you get by long term? I know it seems like a dumb question but there's a good chance that you have thought about it once or twice while watching a scary movie. There's enough interest in the conversation that there's even a zombie survival guide available on Amazon.
If there were a zombie outbreak there is a high probability that New York City would be one of the first major cities to be infected. According to Lawnlove, New York City would be the 2nd safest city in the nation from an outbreak. I love New York but I have to call this judgement into question. As a horror movie fan I disagree with the methodology.
They judged 200 cities by things like the amount of healthcare clinics, shopping centers, sporting goods store and how easy the cities were to travel by foot. All things that are fine on a regular day but once the zombies are here there will be a complete societal breakdown. The stores will be mobbed, you won't want to walk the streets and the healthcare facilities will not be able to help the zombie virus. New York City is also densely populated.
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Since 2004, we have celebrated our combined love of gore and Michael Jackson by performing the infamous Thriller dance in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. We are between 15 and a million years old, and our dance experience ranges from novice to professional. We eat brains, grrrrrrrrrowl and bite, but most importantly, we boogie.
This Halloween, leave your mundane human life behind and transform into a rotting, dancing cadaver. After studio rehearsals, outdoor practices, and zombie makeup lessons, you'll be hungering for brains in no time.
Our living spectators often get so excited by our group that they want to join in. We don't want them distracting our zombies with their delicious brains, so it will be up to you to keep them at bay. If you are interested in becoming a zombie bouncer, contact [email protected].
A lot goes into organizing a dance of this size (studio space, dance lessons, makeup lessons, brains, water, music and basic graveyard fees). If you or your company is interested in sponsoring our performance please contact Erin.
The issue of drug overdose has become a persistent concern on American streets in recent times. Data by US federal government indicates that a drug overdose claims one life every five minutes in the country. Now the flesh-eating "zombie drug" is causing alarm on the US streets, literally rotting people's bodies, and medical professionals appear to be struggling to effectively combat its effects.
"Zombie Drug", as tranq is known in the US, is a drug used as a tranquillizer on cows and horses. It is flooding the country, with people procuring it through illegal means. Dealers often mix it with other illegal drugs like fentanyl and heroin.
Tranq is posing a significant challenge for medical experts as it has overshadowed the other drugs coming into the country through illicit routes. This is adding complexity to nearly every facet of treatment and rehabilitation, making it exceedingly difficult for medical professionals to effectively address the issue.
"The clinical picture becomes much more diabolical, a lot harder to follow, and a lot more can go wrong" when tranq is involved, Dr Paolo Coppola, the board-certified co-founder of Victory Recovery Partners in Massapequa Park, told The New York Post in a recent interview.
"When an addict uses a speedball of cocaine and heroin, we can deal with that without a problem. You reverse the heroin so they start breathing again, and you wait for the cocaine to finish up," he said.
"Xylazine doesn't work that way," the doctor continued. "When they come to the emergency room, you fully expect them to wake up when you push the Narcan... but all of a sudden it's not really working; they're not waking up."
Dr Coppola explained that the existence of tranquillizers frequently prompts doctors to turn to substitute medications as a means to stabilise a patient's diminishing blood pressure or rapidly declining heart rate.
"We think, 'Wait a minute, he's on suboxone and he's on a good enough dose, so why is he still irritable and anxious? Why is his blood pressure up? Why is he having seizures?' Dr Coppola said, referring to the medication used to treat narcotic dependence.
My take on this is that this sort of urban design is put together by planners who read Jane Jacobs but didn't really understand what she was getting at. So they'll talk about "mixed use" and the like, but not the underlying society that uses the city.
Right, Scout.
It's never just one thing. The urban renewalism that came up in cities throughout the 60's, 70's, and 80's, became bastardized as a form of light commerce and advertising, but let's remember something. When you came Downtown (wherever) in the old days (say, the 1950's), you shopped, you bought a pair hard of shoes and an overcoat. You didn't sit except at a lunch counter or in an established park, if there even was one around. That lunch counter was a for-profit venture benefiting someone. Now, larger concerns are benefiting from people sitting. Instead of the local Rexall (and its parent corporation), it's a marketing tier on a hard-to-imagine scale. You rent a Citibike and -- who benefits, per se? Who is that Citibike? Who has a better vacation because you rented the bike?
The lack of answer is why we're tempted to liken our urban experience to zombiism; we have no control over anything, no dialogue, nothing but acceptance. In essence, we trade a bit of our souls for a nice place to sit.
Frankly, I understand the wrecked-town nostlagia, even though it doesn't really make sense. The current meeting holes like Overpass Park (the Highline) are crowded, claustrophobic, and in some ways even demeaning. They are not the old steel and wood benches near City Hall where you felt left alone and miles from anyone, if you chose. There you could think. Heaven forfend you try that now.