>alone in 10,000 sq ft studio >bought the whole building for a smile in the 70s (don’t ask why he had two yrs salary in cash in his 20s) >invented a style called “Bad Painting” where he paints… badly >gets even richer these boomers have got to go man
jameson (big deck energy)

Nov 6, 2025 · 7:00 PM UTC

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so you want to kill them all? and you think they’re the bad guys
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how on earth did you come to that conclusion
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It's truly so unfair
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so many places were selling for basically nothing back then. most people didnt take this risk even places like upper west side sucked, and now look like "obvious" investments but that was just not true
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You can do the same thing as this man! Pick a city that is absolutely ruined like Detroit. Go buy a property for 1$ (yes they have some for sale for that price) fix it up, live in absolute chaos for 30 plus years until the area is revitalized. Some 20 something kid will be saying the same about you in 40 years.
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Whoa! It's Neil Jenney! Amazing! Luv him He was in the original "Bad Painting" show in 1978 at the New Museum.
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Neil Jenney is literally a world famous, highly respected, highly collected artist. Easy to be jealous of guys like him, he got to live his dream and created a beautiful life for himself. The level of resentment & hatred directed at him is really pathetic. Why not just be happy for him?
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You think when that place becomes available you will be able to get it with your two years salary? No. It’s going to join today’s market pricing. Literally no point in holding a grudge against this guy or anyone like him. Let him enjoy the rest of his life.
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this is super white because those landlords were no offering these spaces for that price to Black artists back then
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Do you have to go? Do you offer anything of value? Probably not so you should keep quiet. The place looks like a hell hole when he went there probably like a place that you escaped from.
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Nice portrait of a rabbi you got there Mr.Miracle buyer.
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This really is t any of your business. Good for him, providing for himself and not being a burden.
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no one wants to move to a bad neighborhood where businesses are leaving. They all want free prime real estate.
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these videos should be radicalizing for the youth
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Commie
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What a cool guy. The lesson is to keep compounding.
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ok thats just ridiculous
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You should live so long!
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We must mandate that they give the majority of their wealth to the young and that cycle should always continue. When left to their own devices they will all of it to the grave.
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That place is HUGE
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Imagine even the most prolific painter of today being able to afford this same property in New York is absolutely laughable. They’re prob making art for some shitcoin company
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Soon...
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This man is clearly the most Jewish Jew alive.
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😹
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These people would not last one week if they had to start over today.
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I get where you're coming from, but the dude bought a dump in a shit part of town, made it nice, and everyone in his neighbourhood did the same. Now it's a highly desirable neighbourhood. There are plenty of places in the United States where you can recreate this and have similar results 50 years later.
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Start saving bro, New York deals for rundown buildings is coming. You just have to wait a decade, socialism will give you the opportunity......unless the vacant buildings are turned into mosques.
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You were clearly not in New York in the 70s. The man is a hero. rarehistoricalphotos.com/new…

Gritty Photos Capture the Urban Decay and the Street Life of New York City in the 1970s

These street photographs taken by Camilo José Vergara, document the gritty neighborhoods of the South Bronx and Lower East Side during the 1970s.

rarehistoricalphotos.com
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We cam have it back if we deport every migrants who came here and received 200k business loans to buy up American businesses. Deport every single Indian and auction off their gas stations to people willing to operate them.
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You understand, don’t you, that a good 85% of the issues here would disappear if we got all the extra people out. Housing prices will come down and wages will go up. This guy made good life choices. Good for him.
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I love when my boomer hate is validated
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old fellas one toilet flushes with a pull rope he owns like 6 pieces of furniture he worked and paid for everything he has I hope he lives a long happy life in the amazing home he created
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