We have received a lot of feedback regarding abuse of our anonymous posting feature - users replying to themselves, posting profanity laden comments and creating streams of insulting off-topic posts. In order to help with these issues we've decided to remove the ability to post anonymously.

Going forward all posts will show your 'display name', which you can select the next time you post to our message boards (it appears just above the comment box.) Your display name can be the same as your login name, or it can be something different. We know that some of you may have personal information in your login name, using a display name keeps this private.

All your old posts will still remain anonymous, nothing posted before today will change. We hope that this feature helps to continue to build the great community around our forums!

Thanks!
Matt Walker
StreetEasy Support

thank you

Good call.

thats a great move! I hate it when people post anonymously with anonymous names to an anonymous board! I especially hate it when a board kowtows complaints from brokers about anti-broker rhetoric for fear of losing future advertising. I applaud StreetEasy....for selling out.

Sounds like a good idea.

totallyanonymous is totally right. I predict that StreetEasy is going down in flames for removing anonymous. totallyanonymous is not anonymous anymore. I mean, we don't know who they are, but they are definitely not anonymous, because there can only be one totallyanonymous.

Perhaps it's just summer but the board seems rather uninteresting of late, I wonder if the now defunct 'anonymous' has anything to do with it?
Anonymous

#7--You seem to be the only one who got my irony. bravo.

I don't see where to change my display name - I didn't get the option - please help - thanks!

No offense man, it may be sad but people do come back to read a lot of those "controversial" comments, so in a strange way a lot of those posters may have actually been doing you a favor.

I personally only try to insult those that deserve it.

Great development, though I fear the "renters vs. homeowner" threads will become less interesting.

The renters vs homeowner threads are boring. You see the exact same discussions on Curbed and Brownstoner. You could practically create a template for them. Good move, Matt. I love the site, but I was a bit disappointed with the level of informed mudslinging here. People innocently asking for info got flamed for no good reason.

sorry 'uninformed mudslinging'.

zorki, considering the time and effort some of the posters seem to be putting into their messages, sometime might qualify as 'informed mudslinging'. It doesn't make them informing, though.

I haven't looked at financials for the bldga nd don't know how fees will rise. but initial bldg common charge is pretty low for units below the tower and away from the water (about $0.50/sqft) but the BPCA fee/tax is high, generally $1-1.50/sqft. but rather than comparing this bldg to visionaire, I think a comparison with 200 Chambers and 101 Warren is more appropriate. Compared to 200, the low-end units are much better priced, but the view units have a greater premium. 101 is just a rip-off, not many units have been released, but they are asking for around $2K/sqft. No wonder they aren't selling.

a lot of anger, wow. must be the dreadful "R" word looming on the NY exchange. I too was in your shoes about 8 months ago...no, I didn't have the luxury to buy into ANY neighborhood in the city, but also was against coops for future rental flexibility. Let's remember that 75% rent in the NYC area -- so we all are in a "club" if we must, when you buy a piece of the apple. That being said, I narrowed down my search to UES, UWS, BPC, Harlem, and Brooklyn -- namely Carroll Gardens, since it had access to great restaurants, a nice neighborhood feel, and was a 15 min. train ride to work (comparable to UES/UWS, yet minus the snobbery, entitlement cards, and closer to below 14th st. which i frequent). I will say that it was a choice, more so than what some maniacs posted before about "country club" status. I did my 5+ years in the city and although I love it, work in it, and have no complaints about it, wanted a more tranquil buffer to all of that. If I was still single...maybe I'd think differently. I'd investigate further, but this was the time last year that I was doing my homework. I found that Park Slope was as crowded as the city, Billyburg was too hit or miss without a neighborhood feel, but the BoCoCa area seemed to have it all. It's as close as you're going to get to Manhattan that offers a true neighborhood for future little ones in a less congested area. Good luck!

Steve F "When this "credit crisis" passes Manhattan will have a surge in sales and prices. IMHO, once the stock market stabilizes and starts to recover and declares the "credit crisis" over we will see a tidal wave of apt buying."

I agree 100%