Posted on 09/14/2015 3:54:55 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Princeton actually does have a black section, populated by descendents of slaves and free servants left behind by rich Princeton students. But considering how high the property taxes are in that town, even the Princeton ghetto is probably not affordable any more.
But yes, rich white liberal do-gooders should be forced to live alongside the people they claim to be helping with other people's money.
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your making me hungry.
I’ve never been there. They just opened a Key Foods on that main drag and it makes Wegman’s look anemic.
I know that area - by the Princeton Cemetery, I think. It’s actually pretty nice although I haven’t been there lately.
Yes, right across the street from the cemetary.
Quite a few historically important people are buried there.
Grover Cleveland, John Witherspoon, Aaron Burr, etc.
And the Menendez Bros.’s parents!!! I always say “Hi!” to Burr when I visit on occasion.
From memory, that area is not a slum. It’s just an historically black neighborhood.
Oh, I don’t know. Princetonians (the denizens of the town as much as the students and alumni of the university) *are* a pretentious lot, but it would seem a shame to ruin the peculiar culture there, where alone among all place in the U.S. or perhaps the world, academic rank function as social class. In Princeton, physicians wives, who in most places in the U.S. fancy themselves the pinnacle of society, are all eager to hobnob with the wives of IAS members, and speak in awe of people who are full professors at Princeton or permanent members of the IAS. Very odd. (I’m very much a Kirkian conservative — part of the point of conservatism is not to efface local differences).
It happens that I have family who have been in both of the classes of “Princeton poor” I mentioned — I was a postdoc at the IAS and my daughter was a grad student at Princeton — so I’ve spent a reasonable amount of time there, despite as an old Penn man not wholely approving of Princeton U.
Leave them alone, don’t move any Camdenites, Trentonians or Newarkers in.
I have no idea what an IAS is, was, or will be, lol. All I know is that during the intermission of “Skylight,” they pontificated on the play, getting all the acting points wrong, misunderstood what was a joke and what was not a joke and generally burbled on like the obnoxious NYU professor in “Annie Hall.” Who could forget when Woody dragged out Marshall McCluhan to tell the pretentious guy off? Too bad David Hare wasn’t in the audience that night.
Institute for Advanced Study. The place they founded in the 1930’s to give Einstein a place to work. It’s also an oddity. The people who endowed it set up the land-holding for it in such a way that the ownership is more absolute than is normally the case — there are all sorts of things the Princeton, Mercer County and New Jersey governments have wanted to do to or with the land, and they literally can’t. Sort of a student-less university, all research, with Schools of Mathematics, Natural Sciences (almost all physics, but with a little theoretical biology), Historical Studies, and Social Sciences (almost all economics), just postdocs there for a year or two, visitors on sabbatical and the creme de la creme of researchers in each of the relevant areas there with permanent posts.
Don’t forget Paul Robeson and his folks. They are buried there too, and they named a street right there in his memory.
The university’s knocking down some of the older houses around where Merwick and the old hospital was to put up housing. I noticed some of the old dorms around the Y were in the process of being knocked down too the other day. With that, and the changes to the Dinky and the WAWA, it’s starting to not look like Princeton.
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