Monday Links
Mary Poppins in the Heights. (Contributed.) Muggings Stir Memories of Clinton Hill’s Bad Old Days [NY Times] NYCHA’s Payments to the City Are Scrutinized [NY Times] Art Among the Wrenches in Burg Store [NY Times] Airplane Noise Peeves Some Slopers [NY Times] Another Delay for Kosciuszko Rehab [NY Daily News] New Bike Lanes Abound in…
Mary Poppins in the Heights. (Contributed.)
Muggings Stir Memories of Clinton Hill’s Bad Old Days [NY Times]
NYCHA’s Payments to the City Are Scrutinized [NY Times]
Art Among the Wrenches in Burg Store [NY Times]
Airplane Noise Peeves Some Slopers [NY Times]
Another Delay for Kosciuszko Rehab [NY Daily News]
New Bike Lanes Abound in Brooklyn [Eagle]
Bklyn Animal Rescuer Talks About Pit Bulls [GL]
Real Estate TV Thrives [NY Mag]
i expected this kind of juvenile bourough bashing on brooklyn vegan when a staten island event was posted. my advice here is the same, grow up. if you’ve been to si and don’t like it, fine. i don’t really care. if you haven’t been, you’re just showing your ignorance by talking about mobsters and landfills. i wouldn’t live anywhere else in the city. i like my car. i don’t like republicans, nor do i like democrats. toe the party line, regurgitate arguments that you heard on fox news or cnn, and keep letting other people think for you. my thoughts and ideas are as original and valid as yours and they have very little to do with where i live.
at the end of the day, your shit stinks just as bad as mine. you live in brooklyn, i live in si. brooklyn always fires the first shot in these borough wars…why is that? why can’t we be freinds? stay in brooklyn and keep on double parking. i’ll take my driveway anyday.
much love, brooklyn, to those of you that want it.
Cool picture.
Guest at 11:47 wrote (edited but retaining its thrust):
“The borough reflects the white demographic of Brooklyn …which …resulted in a multitude of ….houseproud homeowners.
Nice! Much better than those minority-owned hovels in Bed-Stuy (irony intended).
most of the people on this blog who dump on staten island have never been there . all they know is manhattan,brownstone and hipster brooklyn. then they make broad comments on an area they never have seen.although i wouldn’t live in staten island due to its isolation there are some really nice places there and some really horrible ones too. look bed stuy and williamsburg isn’t for everybody. these are the same people who hate bay ridge,douglaston,forest hill gardens (how come brownstoner never shows those great houses).
lastly don’t you know to them staten island is not diverse. to them diversity is having all people of different colors thinking exactly liberally alike and having the same socioeconomic backround as them(im one of them). diversity is having a designer kitchen exactly like your neighbors. don’t you know people from outside new york and lived here for 3 years are better then those of us who grew up here?
What part of the slope are these planes flying over??? I’ve lived in the south slope for the past 9 years and I have never seen nor have I heard a low flying plane. Am I just lucky? Oblivious? The only thing rattling my windows is hideous music coming from cars that go by at night.
11:46
MUSIC SCENE
– HAPPY ANARCHY is an amazing band from Staten Island that just Headlined and packed out the trendy Mercury Lounge in NYC last week and is also playing Union Hall in Park Slope August 2nd where a lot of the haters on here probably reside. http://www.myspace.com/happyanarchy
– The Budos band, which is signed to your very own Brooklyn based label, Daptone Records. They also headlined SI’s very own successful rock festival in June, ROCK THE HARBOR, with supporting acts such as HAPPY ANARCHY, THE WAHOO SKIFFLE CRAZIES, JULIUS C, PARAGRAPH, THE RABBITS, THE HEAVENLY TENANTS, THE DELAY, etc. I could go on forever.
– Staten Island based label HIGHLARK RECORDS.
http://WWW.HIGHLARK.COM
RESTAURANTS
-DoSi
-Angelina’s
-Fushimi
-DaNoi
-South Fin
* All within a close drvining distance from OPAL RIDGE.
staten island is filled with trash.
take that how you choose to.
Why is everyone dumping on SI? I grew up there and found it wonderful–plenty of room for us to run, lots of good parks and things for kids to do. The City was easily accessible to teenagers via the ferry.
Staten Island, even prior to the completion of the VN Bridge, was filled with refugees from Brooklyn. My Dad was one. He wanted his kids to grow up in a less constricted environment and I can’t say he was wrong. The borough reflects the white demographic of Brooklyn (but oddly, few Jews who seemed to prefer LI) which is the origin of so many of its residents and resulted in a multitude of terrific Italian restaurants and delis as well as houseproud homeowners (OK some go everboard with a twisted sense of what “luxury” is), more than there are in Flushing where I live now.
Yeah there are mafia types who prefer to live there, (one was right down the block from me) but OTOH they kept the area safe from petty crime.
11:38
” Big music scene”- Please elaborate
” Nice restaurants”- Name 5 on the whole island
Quick ferry ride; I’ll give you that.