Friday Links
A Favorite Villain in Election Ads: New York [NY Times] Homeowners Can Recoup Legal Fees in Foreclosure Cases [NY Times] City Will Crack Down on Scofflaw Cyclists [NY Times] Demand Rising for Rentals Among the Ultra-Rich [NY Times] Flatbush Ave Car Wreck Injures Seven [NY Post] ‘Rent’ Guy is a Damn Liar [NY Post] Group…
A Favorite Villain in Election Ads: New York [NY Times]
Homeowners Can Recoup Legal Fees in Foreclosure Cases [NY Times]
City Will Crack Down on Scofflaw Cyclists [NY Times]
Demand Rising for Rentals Among the Ultra-Rich [NY Times]
Flatbush Ave Car Wreck Injures Seven [NY Post]
‘Rent’ Guy is a Damn Liar [NY Post]
Group Rallies Against Bus Cuts in Brooklyn [NY1]
Plum Beach Honors Gay Man Four Years After Death [NY Daily News]
City Blitzes Williamsburg for ATM Violations [Brooklyn Paper]
Brooklyn Families Move Into Affordable Housing in Red Hook [Real Deal]
NYers Say They’re Happy, Still Dismay Regarding Development [AY Report]
Most accidents at the Place de l’Etoile involve tourists who think they can drive. I’ve been through it many times with French drivers (from Paris and surroundings) and it works fine – they all know what to do, but tourists are another story.
I mean, a blow-up pool.
I think the whole house used a window as the front door, since the front door had been blocked off to make this lovely room out of the front entry and stair.
Great idea for space-starved people in Brooklyn, huh?
Wow, DH, just googled the incident and I am sure it is the same. How strange.
One paper reported she referred to herself as the “Queen of Brooklyn” before slamming the dog. Sounds like she was having a psychotic manic episode.
They love to throw things out windows.
That reminds me of another story…
The aforementioned best friend went to see a room for rent advertised as “room, private entrance, walk-up closet,” etc.
Turned the “room” was the former front entry way of a house, which you accessed by climbing in and out of a window. The “walk up closet” was a stairwell that had been blocked off, so you could use it as a “closet.” Out in the yard, a variety of appliances such as a toaster were drying in the sun — apparently someone had thrown them out a window the night before into a blow-up pond.
Yes, it was about five months ago. That is so weird.
Dave, that’s the norm in LA too. Different set of understandings.
Heather, that reminds me of a story I heard about this guy who used to play guitar in downtown Santa Cruz. He played really, really well. But he only played Neil Young songs. Somebody asked him why and he said “Because I am Neil Young.”
(Neil Young lives on Highway 9 in the mountains kind of near Santa Cruz.)
The most remarkable maneuver I have ever witnessed as a taxi passenger in NYC was an illegal u-turn — from the far right hand lane across four lanes of traffic and on a red light.
“Dirty, one time I was coming out of Almacen, and saw police tape in an intersection and people crowded around and police all over the place and I thought OH MY GOD there’s been a shooting. It happens EVEN HERE.
No. A driver had hit and injured but not killed a lap dog.”
was that about 5 months ago? there was this big incident where this girl who lived on N7th and Driggs was all whacked out on drugs and took her little dog out on the street and body slammed it. All the *other* blogs picked up on it. Sounds like it might have been the same thing you saw.
Dave, it was probably the same guy. He should be in a museum, not out driving a cab.
Dirty Hipster, my best friend is a woman who used to be a cab driver. She says fares always assumed she was a cop, because otherwise why would she be driving a cab as a woman? So she was never hassled. If she didn’t like the looks of someone who got in, she’d whisper to them that the cab was “hot” and that she “thought she was being followed all day.” They’d leap out.