How Bread Stuy Didn't Die
Over the weekend the Times had a piece on how community members rallied to save Bread Stuy after it was shut down by the feds. The article looked at how people in neighborhood see the 6-year-old coffee shop as “part of the fabric of the community,” and threw three fundraisers to help its owners pay…
Over the weekend the Times had a piece on how community members rallied to save Bread Stuy after it was shut down by the feds. The article looked at how people in neighborhood see the 6-year-old coffee shop as “part of the fabric of the community,” and threw three fundraisers to help its owners pay the $10,000 they owed in tax penalties. The outpouring has given Bread Stuy’s owners both a psychological and financial boost: “Having run through their savings and being unable to leverage their home, they thought they would simply have to move back to Oakland, Calif., where they lived before coming to New York in 2000. But the generosity of the neighborhood—one woman gave Mr. Porter $25 on the street ‘for milk and Pampers,’ he said, reducing him to tears—has given the couple new resolve. ‘Every day, I am making coffee with a purpose,’ he said. ‘Like, ‘I am going to make the best cup of coffee in America.’ We’re going to make this happen.'”
Saving a Place to Bump Into People [NY Times]
Bread Stuy Seized By Feds [Brownstoner]
Photo by anonymous rose.
Went back there this morning. Very stale muffin. Went to T-Cup Cafe on Throop Ave down the street where I saw several folks who used to go to Beg-Stuy. Good coffee and pastry. I will be going back. Do people know that there are two other coffee shops within a two block range of the Beg-Stuy cafe? There’s also Food for Thought Cafe on the corner of McDonough and Marcus Garvey (Sumner Ave). Why no mention of these? People talk a good community game but it’s a bunch of bull! Also, the folks at the new and popular Saraghina Italian spot down the street on Lewis Ave. are getting ready to open a coffee bar at the same location. Can’t wait.
Your reading comprehension is fine Rob. I THINK the term “cock” actually only refers to a single faucet (i.e. hot or cold, rather than a mixer that has both. I also think the turn “cock” refers to the on/off valve, rather than the projecting tube the water comes out of, which kind of spoils the double entendre.
BTW, the valve turned to shut off an old gas light is a “gas cock.” 🙂
I hope your plumber has a sense of humor.
so what im getting from this conversation is that back in the old days faucets were called cocks? i cant WAIT till i have to call the plumber at work again just to be able to tell him my cock is broken and he needs to come in to fix it.
if my reading comprehension is totally off and cocks isnt not old school terminology for faucets, please tell me as not to embarrass myself and my place of employment.
*rob*
Bob;
Thanks for the post. Looking forward to further debates.
After getting my HW heater fixed, I took my widowed mother-in-law to the DMV to straighten out a mess wrt her car registration.
That was my charitable act of the day.
Oh, and the “Bathroom Machineries” Fuller cock look-alike faucets almost exactly matched my old ones except for a slight difference in the handles (the repros say “hot” and “cold”; the originals don’t. Also, I had to enlarge the holes in my marble sink tops to accommodate the repros.
Why thank you bxgrl–I aim to please 🙂
BTW Benson–the “hijacking” of this thread really was inadvertent and I’m very glad to accept your “e-handshake”, and offer one back, despite the frivolity that followed.
bob- you are perhaps the most insidiously evil man I have ever had the honor to meet. YOu are positively wicked- and i mean this in a good way. 🙂
I seem to have inadvertently hijacked this thread by referring to the toilet part I had replaced yesterday. To continue in this middle school-level vein, ball cocks and cock lofts aren’t the only old house parts that appeal to adolescent-type prurient interest. When I first bought my house there were beautiful Fuller cocks (a type of faucet) on my two dressing room sinks. I actually found a source for NOS Fuller balls (the rubber balls that got pulled up and down to shut the water flow). Unfortunately the Fuller balls, although NOS (new old stock) were generations old and deteriorated after a couple of weeks use. They would have been easy to replace except that there wasn’t enough clearance to unscrew the faucets in place, meaning that I had to remove them from the water line and sink to install new balls. Lying on my back with a basin wrench got old real fast (even though I was more nimble 35 years ago. Fortunately I found new repro brass faucets that looked almost exactly like Fuller cocks, but are actually regular compression faucets, with washers.
I just looked at the website of Bathroom Machineries and they still have these “Fuller ball style faucets”:
http://deabath.com/4inchlav/Widespread/basinfct/basinfct.html
When you factor in inflation they cost less than they did in the ’70s.
…..ummmmm, I found an extra ball cock in my
brownstone’s cock loft and I’m willing to donate
it in the spirit of community and for the sake of
putting a stop to all this cock and bull poppycock!