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I’ll have more on this in a day or two, but here’s an appetizer on affordable housing from the News. A lot of apples and oranges (as is common when trying to parse numbers on affordable housing), but no matter how you look at it, the 2005 rezoning has not delivered on its promise of affordable housing.

Fillmore Place is one step closer to being an official NYC historic district (and its the most important step – LPC designation).

Abundant Life Assembly Church gets tagged – photos here.

Now conservatives are going ape shit over Obama’s choice of mustard for a burger. Apparently its too treasonous and French-like to ask for Grey Poupon. Even though Grey Poupon is not French – its made by Kraft Foods here in America using mustard from the great white north and white wine from right here in New York State (kosher, at that).

To recap – Barack Obama went to a mom & pop burger joint and ordered a burger* with American-made condiments, and that’s what the 12 conservatives left in the country spent all day hyperventilating about.

*Medium-well – WTF is up with that?

Macy’s is moving their East River fireworks display to the Hudson River – for this year. Seems some Englishman sailed up the Hudson 400 years ago. I guess I’ll have to wait until 2010 to see if I still have a view of the fireworks from my roof – the waterfront condos (who won’t have a courtside view this summer) have pretty much cut me off.

I wonder if there are generations of artificial siding salesmen out there – Ernest Tilley hawking aluminum in the 1950s and 60s, his son vinyl in the 70s and 80s. If so, his grandson has been very busy with “California stucco”. Can we make them stop?

Jake Mooney of the Times on Henry Miller and Fillmore Place. On May 12, the Landmarks Commission is expected to formally designated Fillmore Place and Miller’s childhood home (which is on Driggs, not Fillmore as the photo caption in the article says).

Bottom line: white evangelicals and Catholics are far more likely to endorse torture; mainline Protestants and “unaffiliated” (aka godless heathens?) are more likely to oppose it. Godless heathens are the most likely to oppose torture. And going to church generally correlates with support of torture.

Still, just about any way you look at it, a plurality of Americans believe torture can be justified at least some of the time.

A sad end to Monday’s hit and run on Manhattan Avenue.

Kudos for the “mostly nameless Metropolitan taco cart”:

When compared to their peers on Bedford (the mostly regrettable Endless Summer Truck at North 6th and mostly depressing L.A. Burrito at South 1st), these tacos are a true standout in Mexican flavor.

Mostly depressing? How about utterly and completely? We long ago dubbed L.A. Burrito “Blando Burrito” – a name they have never failed to live up to.

[via Serious Eats]