Mr. B:

Proof your posts, amigo. Rife with errors. Hard to read for those of us sensitive to these things.

Posted by: Luce at November 16, 2009 9:17 PM in response to Checking In On the Red Hook Co-ops

Wow, garish. Looks like Dina Whatserface from the Real Housewives of NJ redid it. I'd rip out the garden, pronto, and see if I could somehow work with the bathrooms, though they'd need a rethink.

Posted by: Luce at July 15, 2009 1:46 PM in response to House of the Day: 202 Clermont Avenue

Stoner, what's going on with the copyediting with you guys? Site is rife with typos.

-- ms. huffy

Not that you'll read my comment, since I'm posting on Sun.

Posted by: Luce at April 19, 2009 11:10 AM in response to The Making of Google Streetview

I think Root, Stock & Quade on Myrtle are great. They have a really sophisticated selection. The owners are both great at arranging flowers, too. Only problem is there's one girl there with long brown hair who is *awful* at arranging flowers. She doesn't seem like she particularly cares about it and just grabs stuff and shoves it all together. If she's there, I'd wait 'til someone else can help you.

Posted by: Luce at April 10, 2009 8:54 AM in response to Buying cut flowers in Brooklyn

This has nothing to do with the post, but can we ban "shovel-ready" from the lexicon? So sick of it.

Posted by: Luce at March 5, 2009 10:06 PM in response to Navy Green: Shovel Ready By The End of the Year?

Hey, feel better. It's killer when you're out of commission and you have little kids. Hope they're not sick, too.

Can't help with the perambulations, though.

Posted by: Luce at February 28, 2009 10:34 AM in response to A Little Help

Okay, hello. I need to represent.

!!! GO SOX !!!!

since 1974, in my case.

good thing the skanks got that 370$ bailout.

Posted by: Luce at January 20, 2009 7:57 PM in response to Streetlevel: Commonweath To Run Lighthouse, Mooney's?

I, for one, am bummed ole Bruce didn't take a bath on this one, but Forest City is in generally poor shape, since a ton of their debt is coming due in 2009, ha ha.

Posted by: Luce at December 19, 2008 10:16 PM in response to The Madoff Mess and Real Estate

Lenny --

Ratner's never had to use eminent domain, just hold the threat of it over people's heads, so they bail. That's what happened early on with a lot of properties in the area -- for instance, every other condo in Daniel Goldstein's building.

In this instance, though, the property was owned by another developer -- I believe Boymelgreen -- who happily sold it to Ratner.

Posted by: Luce at November 3, 2008 2:36 PM in response to Goodnight, Ward, Goodnight

Don't forget David Salle's house on Hanson Pl. -- the grey one. No pic, sorry.

Posted by: Luce at October 31, 2008 12:52 PM in response to Your Modern Townhouse Suggestions

Lisa, I believe you mean "whupping," vernacular for "whipping," rather than "whooping," as in crane or cough.

-- your resident pedant

Posted by: Luce at October 10, 2008 2:18 PM in response to Green on Brownstoner: Salvage on State Street

you mean, *pique* our interest

Posted by: Luce at September 9, 2008 11:10 AM in response to Now That's Luxury Real Estate

Dow:

Extremely sage advice. We're looking to trade up, and our money guy told us to sell within the next six months (we're in PS) and rent for a few, putting our dollaz elsewhere.

Posted by: Luce at August 8, 2008 6:52 PM in response to Auction Time for 306 St. James Place

Good. That's such a dismal stretch.

Posted by: Luce at August 7, 2008 4:27 PM in response to Development Watch: Pratt Starts on New Myrtle Project

Most quietest?

Posted by: Luce at August 6, 2008 1:42 PM in response to House of the Day: 19 Garden Place

Well, this is getting super-complicated (in fact -- why am I even explaining this? I must be nuts) but I was coming from the standpoint that I thought of many of us as upper-middle-class looking down on people with means but in what we consider a lower class -- the petit bourgeoisie, or straight-on middle and lower-middle class. Two-toilet Irish, as we say, where I come from, and an apt description of some of my relatives.

Class has nothing to do with means -- that's the issue. Few would accuse Donald Trump of having either taste or class. Class has traditionally been used as a way to exclude others of like means. My only, rather weather-beaten point. Anyway, who the hell cares? I'm sure the owners are decent folks, and if they aren't, it's not a reflection of their taste in home decoration but surely other things.

Taste is permeable, anyway. Have to say I was a tad disconcerted to recognize a chair I own in Carmela Soprano's living room, several years ago.

Posted by: Luce at July 30, 2008 7:17 PM in response to Dyker Heights 'Mansion': Yours for $2 Mil

I think the issue some are bringing up is that somehow it's okay to make fun of people on the basis of class, but not religion or ethnicity. This is a long-standing complaint about liberals (which I consider myself to be). Resentment about this -- and that minor issue of integration -- are what sundered the New Deal Coalition and impelled Nixon, Reagan, et alia into the White House. Depending on your view, this is either a good or a bad thing.

Those of us on the left have for years scratched our heads and said, why are all these people at a relative disadvantage voting all these rich guys into office? Why are they voting against their own self interest?

Class resentment is your answer.

So -- laugh away. It just might be a useful exercise to examine your own class biases, and how they affect other people.

Jes sayin'.

If Biff's mom was indeed this flavor of, er, petit bourgeois, then I guess he gets a pass. Somehow the name "Biff" doesn't seem like that, though.

Posted by: Luce at July 30, 2008 5:40 PM in response to Dyker Heights 'Mansion': Yours for $2 Mil