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October 20, 2007
NEW NEIGHBORHOOD DEBATE ANYONE???
Hi folks! Let me first start off by saying that I intend to take/seek out FULL CREDIT for the coining of a new neighborhood-should it be met with the appropriate support (or indifference as the case may be). I went to look at a building today (possible purchase) and came away stymied as to what neighborhood I had actually just set foot in. To elucidate, the block is lined with pleasant brownstones, a few of which are currently under reno (so I'm no trailblazer here!), but in a decidedly "unexpected" place. Bet. Park (read BQE) to the east and Flushing to the West; Steiner Studios to the North; Ft. Greene Park to the South (and East of course); Pratt somewhere in between... The 'hood is slightly reminiscent of the days (8 yrs. ago) when I was, in fact a trail blazer (sigh) and lived on 44th Drive just off 10th st. in L.I.C. At any rate, and please forgive my longwinded roundabout-I get there in the end-I have decided to name this lovely (and soon to be embraced, I assure you) stretch of asphalt ...NAVY GREENE. Call me crazy but it's got an ironically color blind ring to it, and, I think, justifiably demarcates" a neighborhood or swath of land that has heretofore been ENTIRELY ignored. My reasoning is as follows: It's not Ft. Greene, that's for sure (it so wants to be given it's proximity to Myrtle but it just isn't!). It ain't Clinton Hill which is a good 12 minute walk west, and what, if anything does Navy Yard imply? (according the DOB this is where I was) other than Steiner Studios and some derelict buildings that Massey Knackal has already gotten their hands waiting for the day when the area does IN FACT have a suitable moniker. HENCE NAVY GREENE... And so all you Brownstoners out there-please (if you think its worth it of course ;-) LET THE DEBATE BEGIN! And FYI, I'm keepin' tabs so always remember: regardless of the outcome- YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!!!
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It's too early on a Saturday night for you to be already that drunk! Take a nap, it'll wear off soon!
Posted by: guest at October 20, 2007 8:06 PM
And so it begins. Thanks so much for the advice "guest". I would expect nothing less. Your comment is duly noted. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on who you ask), there's no alcohol involved here. Perhaps too much time on my hands, but nothing as nefarious as a cocktail. Please do continue to sound off though, preferably with a somewhat more enlightened and engaging statement... Cheers!
Posted by: saint marks soul at October 20, 2007 8:34 PM
Are you the same idiot who is here every couple of days, a 'writer' perhaps. Have another drink and go away. This is an inappropriate use of the forum.
Posted by: guest at October 20, 2007 9:22 PM
Let what debate begin?
Posted by: guest at October 20, 2007 9:26 PM
OMG, you are a DELIGHT!! so witty and clever.
a regular Oscar Wilde.
Posted by: guest at October 20, 2007 11:24 PM
Sounds like a nice name. But I'm still kind of confused as to where exactly it is.
Posted by: guest at October 20, 2007 11:40 PM
losers
Posted by: guest at October 21, 2007 1:03 AM
9:22 Please forgive my "inappropriate use of the forum." Seemed like the perfect place to put that out there and see if any INTELLIGENT visitors out there had anything to say about it- "good" or "bad." Seeing as how you've managed to comment solely on a person you don't know, not the question raised, your words become worthless. Make a comment directly related to the subject like "Jeez, that's the stupidest name I've ever heard." Or "It's Clinton Hill and always has been you clown!" Those comments would be taken to heart. But "have another drink and go away?"... Bitter and dejected is no way to go through life 9:22. I think they have some meds out there (to be taken with a stiff drink of course), that could cure that ailment of yours.
Posted by: saint marks soul at October 21, 2007 9:39 AM
Well, for what it's worth OP, when I read your post last night it set me into a fit of giggles, and your humor and jolly state of mind proved contagious... sometimes this "place" needs a little "lightening up"... some folks take themselves and the site just a bit too seriously.
Have a great day!
Posted by: bren at October 21, 2007 10:20 AM
There are WAY too many serious and cynical people here. This site gives the world the impression the sidewalks of historic preservationist brownstone Brooklyn should be filled with aid workers handing out Prozac and other various happy pills.
Navy and green are my fave preppy color combination! (If one has to have one.) I like that neighborhood name.
Posted by: guest at October 21, 2007 10:54 AM
I agree bren. (I don't know those neighborhoods that well, so I can't really comment.)
Posted by: guest at October 21, 2007 10:55 AM
You know, I'm actually surprised at the kinds of reactions some of these forum posts elicit. For example, seemingly normal questions or topics engender some pretty impolite or aggressive responses, but then totally asinine, almost psychotic, posts (the most recent example being that of the person asking an anonymous forum whether she should move to NYC) get mostly earnest replies. I don't get it. And I think this post is fine and lighthearted, and actually quite topical.
Posted by: guest at October 21, 2007 11:22 AM
It's called the Navy Yard until you move more to the East where the area becomes the relatively newly minted Wallabout Bay, which the community is in the process of trying to get landmarked.
Ft. Greene ends at Park, with Vanderbilt on the East. Clinton Hill ends at park on the North with the Eastern border on Classon Avenue. So you're noat 12 minute walks from Clinton Hill, you just over the border from Clinton Hill or Fort Greene. People refer the area as the Navy Yard, or near the Navy Yard, or more frequently, Wallabout. The proposed Wallabout Historic district will encompass some of the northern blocks of Clinton Hill (between Myrtle and Park) if it goes through.
Posted by: guest at October 21, 2007 2:33 PM
See link to story on Wallabout.
http://www.therealdeal.net/issues/MAY_2007/1177626532.php
Much prefer Wallaboutn than Navy Greene (too color based). But good thinking OP....
Posted by: guest at October 21, 2007 3:36 PM
Navy Greene was a bit too... Oh well, can't knock me for trying. OK then- Wallabout it is. Thanks for setting the record straight 2:33 (precisely what I was looking for there) and suffering through my juvenile sense of humor. For those who saw the levity (and "relevance"), it's good to know that this blog or forum or whatever the heck you call it is not totally filled with self-righteous, self-important people. Were that to be the case it would be a real shame. Life's too short as most of us all know. I just learned something new- I was in a place in Brooklyn soon to be officially christened Wallabout!
Posted by: saint marks soul at October 22, 2007 12:12 AM
I have always thought of this as Wallabout as well, taken from the name of the bay the Navy Yard was built around. I think the name goes back to the Revolutionary War, so its not some wierd made up thing like BoCoCa.
Posted by: guest at October 22, 2007 11:36 AM
11:36 has heard of it too. It's clear I'm a bit "out of the loop" but glad to see that last post. I have, in the last day and a half, let 4 other friends know that that area does, in fact, ALREADY have a name attributed to it. Gonna have to do some research on the origination of the "Wallabout" part... It's "fringe" in the truest sense of the word. Sadly, not for long I suspect.
Posted by: saint marks soul at October 22, 2007 7:11 PM
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