PitbullNYC's Profile
- Rob
- just moved here from Harlem in July
- Brooklyn
- Park Slope
- Rental
- office monkey
- Male
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Author's Posts
March 4, 2009
i can't post in the main forum:(
i keep getting a post that says you are not allowed to post and there is no links to ask why or go anywhere. also i checked everyones profile looking for an email of a regular poster to email and found none but i e-mailed 11217 cuz we emailed a while back but havent heard back from him. can someone in open thread ask why i was post restricted? :( did i say something offensive!?
*rob*
February 20, 2009
good places to leave books/items
what are some good areas to leave books and random stuff for people to take? i live in apt building and i guess i can just leave it out in a box like some people do but just wondering if stores get mad if you leave it out in front of them.
thanks!
*rob*
December 22, 2008
the dyker heights christmas lights
alol yesterday my roommate was like i rented a zip car to go see the lights in dyker heights and it totally reminded me of people talking about that her a while back. wasnt there some kind of brownstoner field trip to see the lights or did that already happen?
anyway we wound up not being able to get the zip car cuz he couldnt find his activation card whatever that means. :(
so how are the lights there and what should i expect?
i thought there would be many more lights in park slope than there is. it's pretty slim pickins. (and the people across from me have a tree up.. you can see into their living room from my apartment and they have this HUGE tree with, kid you not, a light set of about 25!) i dont know if they are trying to save energy or what but that is not enough lights. the rule is 100 lights per foot of tree!
*rob*
December 17, 2008
has anyone ever had any luck with housing lotteries?
in AM new york today i FINALLY found an advertisement for affordable housing where my income actually fits the criteria for both a one bedroom (1035) or a studio (900). unfortunately it's in mott haven in the bronx :( but i guess if i could find a new new construction apartment that's rent stabalized i would be very happy.. not having to worry about finding a new place all the time. plus i really really want my own apartment (im almost 32!).
anyway, it's just like 7 slots for studios and like 8 for one bedrooms. they do give 50 percent to people who live in the immediate area and 5 percent to people with disabilities, and 5 for city workers, etc, so in reality there are probably just a few apartments actually available..
just wondering if it's worth it? also if anyone knows of any in brooklyn? the ones i always find for brooklyn i either make too much or i make way too little.
the ones for manhattan are always ridiculous where it's like you cant even make more than 25K a year.. but that's fine, i guess it keeps people who do make that in manhattan so im okay with that..
thoughts?
*rob*
December 8, 2008
where can i buy a xmas tree in park slope? and one other question
preferable something on 5th avenue on the name streets or early numbered streets (it's cooooold out and i dont to have to walk too far). im looking for a very very little tree tho. not microscopic, but one i wont have to buy a stand for?
on another note, i took a nasty fall on friday evening on union street between 4th and 5th avenue. there's an entire part of the concrete that jets up. i took a nastys pill and really hurt both knees (i wasnt even drunk btw, this was right after work). ouch. anyway, is 311 the place to call to get this fixed or is it the property owner? oh and when i fell this helpful man who lives on the block came up to me and told me that a few months ago an older lady broke her ankle in the same spot.
im not looking to sue anyone, i didnt have to go to the doctor or anything, but i dont want the same thing to happen to someone else.
thanks,
*rob*
November 25, 2008
Mr. B... can we get an OT *off topic* forum here?
a bunch of us like to talk back and forth during the day and i feel like some of us are totally polluting the forums and regular blog posts.
having an off topic forum wouldnt detract posters from the other parts of the blog, but it would definitly give some of us who actually do like to poke fun at each other a nice little section of this great blog.
it's up to you, id think it would be cool. see what other think.
i just want to make fun of bayridgegirl about her former roller disco days but i cant just come out and do that in a blog about something important. it would just be for fun. if it gets out of control, of course, nix it. but most of the best blogs and websites have an off topic section where the people who wind up friending each other wind up talking about things where they dont have to mess up the other parts of the board.
*Rob*
November 21, 2008
suggestions for my doggy thanksgiving?
so it looks like this year for thanksgiving it's going to just be me and my dog and another dog. one's a pitbull 7 years old and the other is a beagle 15 years old. so their plates will definitely need to be different.
i was thinking about making stuffing and mashed potatos for myself and for them some kind of turkey concoction. would plain old turkey slices be okay to give to dogs? im sure my dog would be fine but i guess ill have to ask my roommate if it's okay for his dog. im watching his dog cuz he's going away for thanksgiving with his boyfriend and i dont want her sharting all over the house cuz i fed her the wrong thing.
im reluctant to hit add post cuz this is totally coming across as absoooootely pathetic but what are you gonna do? i think this actually IS the first thanksgiving in 31 years ive ever spent alone! tho im glad the dogs will be around.
*Rob*
November 20, 2008
anyone else here on the brownstoner facebook group page?
i just realized i think i remember joining it. any other regular posters on there?!
*Rob*
November 18, 2008
making friends with people in luxury condos
im a pretty social person and always wind up meeting new fun interesting people throughout my perambulations around the city... but i have YET to meet anyone who lives in a luxury condo (not talking about a luxury renovated brownstone, or regular walk up building..) im talking like high in the sky luxury living with tons of amenities and big swimming pools and stuff.
honestly, id like to know, where these people hang out and what kind of stuff they might be into.
i know it's a strange question, but im genuinely inquiring about this. manhattan or brooklyn btw.
-rob
November 17, 2008
how to deal with noisy tweens!?
i am never ever ever ever one to complain about noise in the city. ever. except for this weekend. my bedroom window as well as living room window is on the first floor (ground floor) over looking what is supposedly a locked in alleyway..
well now there's a large group of kids who hang out in that alleyway and they are SUPER loud. i mean i dont really care.. it's just that ive lived there for months and never saw a single person in the alleyway.
fine whatever. they are usually only hanging out in the alleyway for about an hour or so each time they are there. but they've taken to taunting my dog, barking at it and throwing sticks at the window, etc.
part of it is funny in a sense. these kids are all like between 11 and like probably no older than 13. i was listening to their conversations and i kept laughing my ass off (if their parents only knew what these kids said ahhhah). anyway, when they taunt my dog i just open the shades and stare and they just stare back at me with a what are YOU gonna do look?! ha. okay so that's my question. what should i do!? throw water on them!? scream at them!? i dont wanna be one of those cranky people who yell at noisy kids.
-rob
Author's Comments
quote:
"Yeah we are moving from Park Slope and happy to be doing so. I love the diversity and vibrancy of PLG."
i always feel like when people say that, really they just mean "priced out". PLG is super pretty tho!
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at September 3, 2009 1:44 PM in response to PLG Schools and Amenities
it would be funny if all the previous tenants dressed up like bedbugs and picketed outside the building too. that would get media attention. it would be like those people who put the giant rat in front of buildings!
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at September 1, 2009 10:17 AM in response to Park Slope Bedbug Disaster
quote:
Also I dont doubt that you have a BB in a jar but if I'm not mistaken BB dont crawl on walls in broad daylight
yes they do, ive seen them at a friend's apartment. we smashed them on the walls and blood literally squirted out.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at September 1, 2009 10:15 AM in response to Park Slope Bedbug Disaster
quote:
Rob, do you have any experience with women?
just kissing and i think i felt a boob once.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 3:27 PM in response to Open Thread
in case anyone is interested. unfortunately i cant make it :(
****
Hello my name is Kermit and I work for the audience department here at
the Maury Show. We are currently offering tickets for Wednesday
September 2nd** which will be a Special Night Show and has an arrival
time of 5pm and/or Thursday September 3rd which will be our traditional
morning show taping with an arrival time of 8am...If you are interested
in receiving tickets for any of the previously mentioned days please
email me back or call me at 203-564-8421 with the day of your choice.
** Free Charter Bus From NYC Does Not Apply For Wednesday September 2nd.
***
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 3:26 PM in response to Open Thread
fine. then i wanna do it with Trina on the hood of a truck!
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 3:21 PM in response to Open Thread
you people are mean
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 3:18 PM in response to Sunset Park Finally Getting Its Own High School
no, it's me jester. ill admit im slightly manic today for some reason :-/
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 3:15 PM in response to Open Thread
what is ed zachary disease?
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 3:13 PM in response to Open Thread
i wanna be the baloney in an olson twins sandwich!
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 3:07 PM in response to Open Thread
ana faris is NOT gross! she super hot! i want to do it with her in one of this giant champagne glass hottubs!!
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 3:02 PM in response to Open Thread
wow a coworker just rented a tux for a wedding he is in for a friend and it cost 225! friends dont make friends be in their weddings!!
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 2:55 PM in response to Open Thread
so fine im a criminal. maybe ill apply to this school. id fit right in!
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 2:53 PM in response to Sunset Park Finally Getting Its Own High School
ana faris is the hottest chick EVER!
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 2:51 PM in response to Open Thread
yeah but my students loans that im not paying back educated me and kept from a life of crime. welfare benefits keep people in a vicious cycle of poverty, crime, and over breeding. perhaps i am just as much of a deadbeat, but such isnt the case really.
and before you bring up race again 1.) im white and 2.) i grew up in the projects (in nj tho where at least public school education is top notch, even in the ghetto)
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 2:41 PM in response to Sunset Park Finally Getting Its Own High School
and people in the projects paying 200 bux a month are laughing at the fools who buy this and have to pay 9000 dollars a month.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 2:08 PM in response to House of the Day: 86 Douglass Street
SNAPPY DO NOT RENT A CARPET VACUUM OR CLEANER. THOSE COULD HAVE BED BUGS AS WELL! (IM SERIOUS!)
*ROB*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 1:29 PM in response to Open Thread
look! it's going to be sunny and mild today. turn your farking tv off when you take pictures for listings. jesus
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 1:17 PM in response to House of the Day: 86 Douglass Street
UGH! why am i in such a cranky mood today? i totally took it out on a group of tourists just blocking the entire sidewalk at lunch :-/ i barrelled thru them like a bull and one dropped their phone on the ground. oh well. gtf outta the way!
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 1:16 PM in response to Open Thread
quote:
Please excuse Rob, he had some bad HS experiences, colored folks (including folks on welfare) were always ahead of him in all aspects and he even got beat down by some boys due to uncontrollable winking aimed at girls...
If only segregation was still alive and kicking, Rob would have ended up both wealthy and happy...
are you F'ing KIDDING me with that remark? what the HELL does race have to do with anything i said. jeez. the white kids in nyc, are in my mind, by far even dumber and dull than anyone else! so your remark is ignorant.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 1:08 PM in response to Sunset Park Finally Getting Its Own High School
quote:
. These kids are bright, motivated and creative.
whatever. maybe one or two of them. but the majority are borderline retarded, violent, and dull.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 1:06 PM in response to Sunset Park Finally Getting Its Own High School
quote:
You seem to be so extreme! Are you saying the school is not good for the area?
no what im saying is the area is not good for the area. people will move in and buy a 3/4 of a million dollar house (because that is all they can afford) and claim to want to live in a diverse area, but then not send their kids to this school. it's just lame, the whole dynamic of housing prices and schools and parents and kids and everything. it's all LAME
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 1:04 PM in response to Sunset Park Finally Getting Its Own High School
uninformed? i dont think so.
uncalled for? it's called an opinion.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 11:43 AM in response to Sunset Park Finally Getting Its Own High School
no. and i dont blame the kids really. it's just that too many stupid people breed. it's disgusting. it's absolutely disgusting that people in nyc get benefits out the a$$ and paid to breed even more stupid people who breed. barf.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 11:31 AM in response to Sunset Park Finally Getting Its Own High School
except that it won't 11217. the students will be forced to study for regants or whatever it's called, take remedial math classes, some will be put in "honors" classes that in all honestly are just 8th grade level to begin with, apathetic teachers who are nothing more than paid baby sitters, shady administration, and have a wonderful 4 year graduation rate of less than 30%.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 11:28 AM in response to Sunset Park Finally Getting Its Own High School
if by great looking you mean as crappy looking as the "paintings" that will be done by those "students" in the "visual arts track", then yeah
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 11:22 AM in response to Sunset Park Finally Getting Its Own High School
please do not lump me in with the above two clowns
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 11:18 AM in response to Carlton Mews Cleans Up
90K! i like that price!! *wishes i could find a way to get a 9000 dollar down payment tho :( *
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 11:09 AM in response to Brooklyn Sales: Under a Million
quote:
three tracks--performing and visual arts; health and human services, and business and entrepreneurship
also i have issues with how nyc schools are set up claiming to specialize in certain areas. sorry but a low-rent painting class where you use q-tips from home and tempera poster paint does not a visual arts school make. and "entrepreneurship" a tripe LOL on that one.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 11:08 AM in response to Sunset Park Finally Getting Its Own High School
quote:
Sunset Parkers will be cheering.
probably no one who lives within a 5 block radius of it. 3pm outside any school in nyc is liking being locked in a cage with a pack of wild animals. it's scary! well, not really scary, but i think it definitely scares some people hahah.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 11:07 AM in response to Sunset Park Finally Getting Its Own High School
quote:
Rob, how did your asparagus turn out?
i decided to just leave it in the pickling jar and not cook it. i dont think anyone at the party will be able to notice a difference if it was cooked or not. and considering my sister only eats canned corn, im sure however this comes out it will be a delicacy
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:58 AM in response to Open Thread
or they could be on meth
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:53 AM in response to Raccoons Evidently Digging 4th Avenue
and i KNOW i might be being hypocritical since i wear pink hello kitty hats and hannah montana gear, but at least it's not done in a overtly feminine way! grrr
* str8rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:51 AM in response to Open Thread
this is why i want to be straight! even straights guys under 35 these days are just waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too flamboyant. gross. im sorry, but if you are male and wear a white tote bag over your shouldar like and prance around,... well.. just barf!
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:51 AM in response to Open Thread
it was awesome in Super Mario Brothers 3 on the NES when you got the racoon suit and could fly!
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:48 AM in response to Raccoons Evidently Digging 4th Avenue
and truth be told if i lived in the ghetto and saw someone like that preening down the street i'd probably mess with them too
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:42 AM in response to Dekalb and Nostrand Safe?
im picturing typical nyc-brooklyn flamboyancy. white tote bag over the shouldar like a purse, tight cut off jeans way above the knee showing off pasty undefined legs, loafers with no socks, knock-off 2 dollar sunglasses, girl bangs, and pursy lips.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:42 AM in response to Dekalb and Nostrand Safe?
this is what happens when you turn urban concrete city streetscapes into wannabe rural farms. you reap what you sow.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:38 AM in response to Raccoons Evidently Digging 4th Avenue
are you F'ing kidding me? i eat tomatoes almost everyday on my dinner sandiwch :(
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:35 AM in response to Thursday Links
im CRACKING the hell up at the person asking if it's okay to move to bed-stuy if he's chinese and flamboyant. is that poster who posted that dave being funny!?
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:28 AM in response to Open Thread
quote:
kind of flamboyant.
oh wait. nevermind, you wind. it's not safe to be "flamboyant" in that area. if youre going to move there, Man-Up.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:27 AM in response to Dekalb and Nostrand Safe?
quote:
I'm half chinese/russian, and she's spain/dominican
you will both be fine.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:26 AM in response to Dekalb and Nostrand Safe?
quote:
hermaphroditic nematodes.
you mean the people that hang out at tea lounge?
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:21 AM in response to Open Thread
i just went off on jscheff. all his photographs are dark and you cant see crap in them. is he using the same camera I do? i.e. a hannah montana 19.99 digital camera from best buy?!
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:19 AM in response to Open Thread
okay seriously, learn to take photographs. you cant see crap in those pictures, as well as 1/2 the other posts.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:18 AM in response to Carlton Mews Cleans Up
omg freaks!
autosexual = having sex with oneself, i.e. masturbating
asexual = breeding with oneself.
clearly im not breeding with myself, so the proper term is autosexual. but from now on im officially heterosexual.
hey ladies
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 10:12 AM in response to Open Thread
it was late but PLUSA seeings in the street: i ran into snappy once hobbling, and one plusa snubbed me in the street but i honestly dont remember if he's a regular poster or just showed up once? sometimes when you see someone in the street randomly there is a disconnect, like where do i know this person from? or they look very familiar, but confusing at the same time...
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 9:52 AM in response to Open Thread
i'm turning in my gay card. i'm just NOT attracted to gay guys at all. and after standing in line for coffee this morning staring at a hot booty (female) i've decided, why not. im not claiming im bisexual; i've been autosexual for the last five months, but i don't really feel like being homosexual anymore.
*str8 rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 27, 2009 9:49 AM in response to Open Thread
snappy get one of those elevator chair lifts for the stairs that the old lady in Gremlins had! tho honestly when the gremlins farked with the electricity and she went shooting out the window into the snow at 100 mph, lol, but i wouldnt want that happening to you. you need an old school raised bed with a bunch of thick-thighed oiled up lesbians in sarongs lifting you up and down the stairs.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 26, 2009 7:04 PM in response to Open Thread
Responses to Author's Forum Comments
It really is a good advantage if you have money invested in a 401k account, enough to buy you a house for preferably cash. For instance, assume you have $150k cash in your 401k, experts suggest rolling it over to a Self directed IRA from which you can use the funds (100% of the funds) to buy a house. However, the percentage of money you should take out from your self directed IRA depends on the amount of savings you have.
Once you have a self-directed IRA set up, consider purchasing actual physical real estate by withdrawing funds from your IRA to make a down payment on the home, and get a mortgage, or if you have enough funds, purchase the entire home by paying 100% cash.
Source: http://www.research401krollover.com/
You are not allowed to take a mortgage from your IRA, like how you would take out a loan from your 401(k) and pay it back in a certain period of time. When purchasing property from your IRA, remember this key point that all gains you make from this property such as rental income, capital gains, etc must be contributed back in to your IRA.
Posted by: cocojambo at November 14, 2009 12:07 PM in response to Tapping 401(k) for Purchase?
An amendment to my post from July: although I didn't like living near the BQE personally, I know plenty of people who have absolutely no problem with it. So go for it! There are lots of folks happily and healthfully living on the many blocks near the BQE.
Posted by: rabbit at November 17, 2009 2:25 PM in response to Enviromental Impact of BQE?
Hi, I do not live there (I am in New Mexico) but did come across this post because I have mysterious bread thing going on.
I moved into a small community recently.
On to the point, 2 times there has been bread left at my gate. The only times I have actually gotten the bread was when I have been away for the night, which has been 2 times. Not just white bread, but Pueblo Indian white bread. They are pretty large loves, baked in outdoor ovens. They have not been wrapped, but are left laying on the soil, in front of the gate.
I was hoping to shed some light on this, but the most information was from this post. I doubt it was a squirrel. I really did get a kick out of all your responces.
Posted by: kai at November 21, 2009 2:53 PM in response to Mysterious bread on windows
I bought a tree at the guy behind the lowes parking lot on 9th street. He had a lot of nice trees and in every shape and size
Posted by: charliesackett at December 16, 2009 12:35 AM in response to where can i buy a xmas tree in park slope? and one other question
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Posted by: ddman at January 31, 2010 3:55 PM in response to good dumpster diving spots in brooklyn?
fair enough BC to BK. :)
what is it about NYC public schools that new people to brooklyn so vehemently destest and won't send your kids to them? is it because they just teach to take standardized tests, discipline problems? im trying to understand as i was recently labelled a "child hater" :-/ and put on posting probation (still sort of on it, can only post in the forum) for the thread recently about a HS in sunset park.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at September 3, 2009 2:01 PM in response to PLG Schools and Amenities