Closing Bell: South Portland's Very Polite Bike War
A reader sent in this photo-poem shot on South Portland. It is entitled “Indignity MINE!!!” Click through the photos and witness the palpable tension and riveting conclusion.
A reader sent in this photo-poem shot on South Portland. It is entitled “Indignity MINE!!!” Click through the photos and witness the palpable tension and riveting conclusion.
This whole thread just goes to show you: Brooklyn’s still a provincial little small town full of small-minded people with too much time on their hands. Cities all over Europe are giving people bikes for free to ride so their air can be cleaner; bikes are considered adornment and a sign of a hope for the future. And here we are, back in the 1950s. Smalltown America never looked so bleak.
God If I hear this stupidity one more time: “Why don’t you park it in front of your own house?” I’m gonna start typing in all caps — oh oh here it comes anyway . . . .
BECAUSE WHEN A BIKE IS LOCKED UP OUTSIDE, IT MEANS THE BIKE OWNER IS NOT AT HIS HOUSE, HE’S JUST USED HIS/HER BIKE TO TRAVEL TO SOMEWHERE AWAY FROM HIS HOUSE, WHERE HE/SHE WILL PROBABLY BE FOR A LITTLE WHILE, DURING WHICH TIME ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOSE AND EVERYONE WILL START ATTACHING STUPID NOTES TO HIS/HER BIKE!!!!!!
How hard is it to understand the concept that a bike is something used for TRAVELING?
sometimes the homeowners who post here make me glad I’ve left your little area of the world. And make me wonder if I ever should come back.
Yes, I was a homeowner. When I left my brownstone and saw people sitting on my stoop, talking (sometimes eating), enjoying the fine Brooklyn street, I’d say “hi” and just silently hope they didn’t leave any food residue for us to clean up. I was friendly – I didn’t harass them, even after we had the stoop nicely rebuilt and brownstoned. I treated them with respect – they did me as well. I remembered myself sitting on stoops and talking sometimes.
I suppose you’d recommend destroying the dogs who shit on your sidewalk, too, if the people who owned them didn’t clean up after them properly. (I hated that – but it isn’t the dog’s fault. I also hated the dogshit that got all over in our garbage cans. Also not the dog’s fault – they didn’t put it there.) But by your logic, they (the dogs) are the property you’d destroy.
No, I forgot, you homeowners writing here to destroy the bike are probably dog owners who take your dog out to shit elsewhere, and leave it or deposit it in other’s cans.
It isn’t that you are logical, it’s just that you are selfish and mean. Bike travel is a **good** thing for the environment and the community. And that one isn’t bothering anybody.
Why dosen’t the owner of the bike park it in front of his or her place. I have the same problem, except its chained to a street sign. As a homeowner, I don’t want to see the front of my house turn into a bike parking lot.
That note looks like something I would expect to see in Brooklyn Heights or Pork Slap. Not very neighborly.
Lots of people voicing so-called informed opinions without explicit legal citation or the the facts to back them up…typical of these posts.
Did the OP ever confront the bike owner or too much of a wuss for that? Looks like every house has a tree guard in the front so why can’t he chain the bike to the place that he’s going to??
Simple questions for simple minded posters!!!
I beleive the first 7 feet of sidewalk from the curb belongs to NYC and anything after that belongs to the homeowner. But they still charge and mandate the homeowner to repair all of it. The Tree belongs to the NYC Parks Department, touch that and you are toast. Anyone trips and falls both the Homeowner and NYC will get sued. As for the bike, who gives a shit?
That note looks like something I would expect to see in Brooklyn Heights or Pork Slap. Not very neighborly.
That note looks like something I would expect to see in Brooklyn Heights or Pork Slap. Not very neighborly.