Farther uptown, on Central Park West \u2014 where the neighborhood\u2019s most expensive rental, a town house with a pool, fetches a cool $75,000 a month \u2014 stands a 19-foot, 1975 Dodge Sportsman with gold rims and two cameras affixed to its exterior.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks like it would fit more in the mountains of West Virginia than on the Upper West Side,\u201d said area resident Ron Hoffman.<\/p>\n
The Dodge owner, who only gave his name as Robert, refused to answer any questions.<\/p>\n
Neighbors are puzzled by the RV\u2019s windows, which are covered by gold curtains.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe once told me he just uses it to store things \u2014 but if that\u2019s the case, why would you have everything blacked out so you can\u2019t see the person inside!\u201d said longtime resident Bill Smith.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it should be here,\u201d added Mario Parisi, 86. \u201cWe\u2019re all waiting to park. Sitting there all the time is not a good idea \u2014 it\u2019s a monster.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Diversity is a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n
Just not near us<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Affordable Housing” and “Diversity” are big chanting points of blue-state liberals. Provided that the affordable housing, and the diverse people who pay for it, aren’t actually anywhere near you. Upper West Side Manhattanites recoil at people living in RVs among them: Farther uptown, on Central Park West \u2014 where the neighborhood\u2019s most expensive rental, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40543"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40561,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40543\/revisions\/40561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}