All stories about "Stuy Town Follies"

Avert your eyes from the above image for a second to feast on the news that Stuyvestant Town landlord Tishman Speyer is allegedly "building tax dossiers on tenants in a massive effort to drive out low-paying families and jack up rents," as the Post reports. Ah, the glory of resident paranoid; always a good time. Memo to Stuy Towners: if you've got another residence somewhere else in the country, quickly switch it to your great aunt's name. Yesterday.

Returning to the above image, feel free to join us in a round of WTF. It comes our way from a Curbed reader who emails, "Look what I randomly came across: conversion plan for Stuy Town with glass penthouses, sky garden and wind turbines!" The renderings are posted at a secret link on the website of überkool LES architecture firm Work, which probably means they were done for a showcase or random design study or something, but we'd rather embrace the darker greener vision: it's the future of Stuy Town, revealed! You'll take your hovering marshlands and like them, mmkay?

What to do when you're the new owners of a massive housing complex that already has some tenants up in arms about rent increases and rumors of full-scale demolition? Rebrand! Per a tipster embedded inside Stuyvesant Town comes the above, with this note: "Received a magnet in the mail from Tishman a couple days ago with a new logo saying they are about to launch a rebranding effort around this logo. This follows a letter from a couple weeks ago saying they had incorporated Stuyvesant Town as its own entity, separate from Peter Cooper."

Oh, those swooshes! A thin, yet dignified, sans serif font! Compared to the old logo, we'd have to give the edge to whatever design firm bilked Tishman out of six figures for this recycled bit of blandness. And yet, that's not even the best part. Continues our tipster, "Something else from Stuyvesant Town that might be necessitating the rent increase: what appears to be a putting green (as in golf) is being built in the oval next to the fountain, complete with sand traps, putting green-length grass and new terrain for added effect. Not sure who they expect to use this, but thought it was interesting."