and yes, rob strikes me as not very smart. hates people who ride bikes? ok. done now with you.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 20, 2009 4:36 PM in response to Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

i don't love park slope. carroll gardens is my home. not sure why the comments about 11217. don't get it

Posted by: swine_flu at May 20, 2009 4:35 PM in response to Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

i don't understand the rude comments here from some of you. nevermind, i don't really care. seems some of you just like to say odd things to get attention.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 20, 2009 4:28 PM in response to Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

i've lived in carroll gardens for 48 years.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 20, 2009 4:18 PM in response to Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

one more point to note...isn't the whole reason williamsburg is popular these days is because it's industrial, gritty, ugly and perhaps loud? it doesn't seem as though quiet is a word i would use to describe it, so anyone who moved there looking for peace and quiet didn't do their homework on where they were moving. i can't believe what whiny people live there these days that they cry about an ice cream truck. makes me happy to still live in a part of brooklyn where the sound of an ice cream truck brings up nice memories and feelings.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 20, 2009 3:37 PM in response to Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

this is someone's home you are speaking about. you might think it's overpriced, but to call this lovely home a shack is downright despicable.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 20, 2009 3:30 PM in response to House of the Day: 449 Bergen Street

i'm glad i don't live near heatherie. that's all i can say.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 20, 2009 3:22 PM in response to Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

i just sent this to the new york magazine. i hope they expose what atrocities are going on in williamsburg these days.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 20, 2009 3:04 PM in response to Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

"They'll sit at the nearby park for 5 minutes"

"Until you have listened to that jingle which can be heard for blocks night and day for days on end"

which is it? 5 minutes? or night and day? seems weird to sell ice cream during the night.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 20, 2009 3:03 PM in response to Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

you people in williamsburg sound miserable. 5 whole minutes they'll sit there with their music on heatherie? why is that a problem? drowning out your mgmt? learned that one from my grandson.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 20, 2009 2:49 PM in response to Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

don't waste your time talking to rob. he has a brain the size of a pigeon.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 20, 2009 11:47 AM in response to Wednesday Links

people complaining about ice cream jingles? sounds like a story you'd hear about in park slope, not williamsburg.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 20, 2009 11:42 AM in response to Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

i think people who focus on religion have a simple mind.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 19, 2009 3:59 PM in response to Streetlevel: Bell Tower Opens on Livingston

i just read this last week, and if you read it carefully, it looks as though nyc has been steadily gaining people (brooklyn also) so we could stand to lose some people due to the recession and still be higher than the 2000 census.

Hispanic Population’s Growth Propelled City to a Census Record

Published: May 14, 2009

A spurt in the number of Hispanic New Yorkers helped push the city’s population to nearly 8.4 million last year, while a slow but steady rise among non-Hispanic whites brought that group to the brink of regaining its majority in Manhattan for the first time in a generation, according to Census Bureau estimates to be released on Thursday.

Of the more than 50,000 people added in the city between July 2007 and July 2008, 27,000 were Hispanic (nearly 10,000 of them in the Bronx) and 20,000 were Asian (fully half of them in Queens).

The number of blacks declined slightly, as it has every year since 2000.

The Census Bureau announced in March that the city’s population had reached a new record, 8,363,710; in Thursday’s estimates, it revealed the demographic details behind the increase. But the snapshot was taken before the depths of the recession, which may have tamped down immigration and slowed growth.

In the metropolitan area, the number of Hispanics and Asians rose in every county. Non-Hispanic whites increased in only four areas: in Middlesex and Ocean Counties in New Jersey, and in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Nationally, the rate of growth among Hispanics and Asians has slowed, largely because of declines in immigration. The influx of foreigners to New York has not slowed as much. In fact, the city’s Hispanic population grew at a faster rate in 2007-8 than during any other year this decade.

In Manhattan, the steady decrease in black and Hispanic residents, coupled with the increase in whites, means that as of last July, the borough’s population was 49.5 percent white — higher than it was in 1980.

Higher rents and apartment sale prices have driven poorer people, who are predominantly black and Hispanic, from Manhattan, while the number of white households, including families with children, has been increasing.

Citywide, 35 percent of the population was non-Hispanic white, 28 percent Hispanic, 24 percent black and 12 percent Asian.

The city’s overall population gain, nearly 54,000, was the second highest of the decade. As of last July, Queens (2,293,007) had already surpassed the City Planning Department’s population projection for 2010 and Brooklyn (2,556,598) fell just a few hundred short of the projection.

Brooklyn and the Bronx (1,391,903) now have larger populations than at any other time since 1970, and Manhattan’s (1,634,795) is the largest since 1960. Staten Island’s population grew as well, to 487,407, a 0.9 percent gain from 2007.

In the 22-million-person metropolitan area, the population increased by 95,000. The number of whites declined by more than 58,000 and of blacks by 4,000, while the number of Hispanic and Asian people grew by 95,000 and 45,000, respectively.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 19, 2009 1:34 PM in response to Last Week's Biggest Sales

this place i linked last week has already gone to contract in only 16 days on the market:

http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/406742-condo-park-slope-brooklyn

Posted by: swine_flu at May 12, 2009 1:34 PM in response to House of the Day: 178 8th Avenue

foulplay you clearly have a personal issue with this broker since your only other comment on this website was -

"Given that Elliman is sooooo poorly managed in Brooklyn, it is no surprise you were never called back. Obviously, the incompetent office manager should have been aware of misrepresentations made in its substantive misrepresentations. Hopefully, Elliman will wake up to the problem of poor office management in the Brooklyn offices before it is too late."

you are a bitter broker who didn't get this building as a client. or were fired from elliman.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 12, 2009 12:06 PM in response to Checking In On 500 4th Avenue

you think curbed is garbage? take a look at the comments above. very little difference.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 7, 2009 12:49 PM in response to Open Thread

what an apology.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 6, 2009 2:51 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 11 Garden Place

dave, you are a loser. you spend every day, all day posting on this website trying to get people to like you. i wish you could step back and realize how bad you sound. you really are a grotesque person...anyone who would say otr to someone is not a very nice human being.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 6, 2009 2:33 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 11 Garden Place

and the disgusting few on this blog scare off yet another one. i can't believe more of you don't stand up to dave. he is a bully and a 1st class ahole.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 6, 2009 2:22 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 11 Garden Place

i have been in many nice apartments that have attached dressing rooms and the bathrooms themselves do not have doors. it's elegant and very common in nicer buildings. i guess they don't have these types of buildings in bay ridge?

Posted by: swine_flu at May 5, 2009 6:00 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 225 Park Place, #2G-H

well then maybe the broker is classy and didn't appreciate having the comments talk about human excrement and talking about the listing agent as a piece of meat. again...some of you are so disturbed that you don't even realize it. it means you really have no soul if you believe you can say whatever you like on a blog and not even think about the family who might be trying to sell this. there is a way to be constructive without coming across as negative about each and every point over and over. it doesn't speak well for you to say such things as if they don't count because it is the internet.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 5, 2009 5:45 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 225 Park Place, #2G-H

whether or not the apartment is the correct price, was barely even mentioned here. so thats not a great excuse. the comments were about trivial things, and it's obvious from reading it over that people on this blog just like to be negative. it's not the brooklyn that i know, and quite frankly, its disturbing that so many people on here want to be negative about every little thing.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 5, 2009 5:28 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 225 Park Place, #2G-H

doesn't your comment denton, make you even less tolerant than the people you are complaining about?

Posted by: swine_flu at May 5, 2009 5:23 PM in response to How'd You Miss This?

maybe the broker was sick of seeing the idiot posters on brownstoner rip the place to shreds. its a beautiful apartment and thanks to the repetitively negative comments about it, you all just helped another apartment in brooklyn not sell. congrats losers. and here i thought the point of this blog was to support brooklyn. silly me.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 5, 2009 5:16 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 225 Park Place, #2G-H

the swine flu may disappear soon for the warmer months, but it can always come back in a mutated state later.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 5, 2009 3:04 PM in response to Open Thread

do you enjoy being a b*tch townhouselady? cause last i knew, you don't own this blog. you and some of the other "ladies" on this blog are really disgusting to listen to. would rather have benson than you.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 5, 2009 2:58 PM in response to Open Thread

it's really amusing to watch you start turning on yourselves and see a different longtime poster disappear each and every week while you all defend the reasons to pick each person off. this blog has definitely lost its soul thanks to a select few of you.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 5, 2009 2:51 PM in response to Open Thread

ontheparkway is stirring up some trouble. good man

Posted by: swine_flu at May 5, 2009 1:51 PM in response to Open Thread

yes, ontheparkway...some of the people on this blog are really quite scary and disgusting.

Posted by: swine_flu at May 5, 2009 1:30 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 225 Park Place, #2G-H

i'm really surprised this new to market apartment hasn't been picked for co-op of the day yet: http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1544548

Posted by: swine_flu at May 5, 2009 12:49 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 225 Park Place, #2G-H

rob, you are not very smart.

Posted by: swine_flu at April 30, 2009 2:39 PM in response to Open Thread

you're not the boss, brg

Posted by: swine_flu at April 30, 2009 2:36 PM in response to Open Thread

giada is pretty yeah...but her personality is a dud. her show sucks biff balls.

Posted by: swine_flu at April 28, 2009 6:01 PM in response to Open Thread

hey, what's up guys?

Posted by: swine_flu at April 28, 2009 5:47 PM in response to Open Thread