Sometimes it takes a former Brooklynite to appreciate the little island’s virtues: convenience, service, walkability, density, variety, architecture, food, culture, etc. (All found in Brooklyn, to be sure, so why make invidious distinctions?)
Won’t be in town for a few weeks, but quite missing it.
And go doormen! (And building porters, handymen, painter/plasterers, concierges et. al.) Some people forget that in addition to all the service you provide, you also help reduce apartment insurance premiums (because you make buildings more secure), while you increase co-op and condo values. (Why else do sellers tote “full service”?) This is as true on Park Avenue(just ask my neighbor who’s asking eight million for his three-bedroom pad)as it is on Eastern Parkway.
” Canal Street to Pacific on the N-Train last night took over 15 mins… and we were basically moving the whole time. Rage began to consume me. I’ve never been in a fight in my life, but I can see how the MTA could change that.”
I get RAGE whenever someone says the commute from the north slope is sooo fast. The N/Q CRAWL over the manhattan bridge thru downtown brooklyn. Whenever I’m going to Pacific St or 7th Ave – it takes me at least 30 minutes (including waiting for the train) to get there during rush hour – so not sure about these 10 minute door to door commutes to midtown from park slope people are always spouting off about in HOTD threads.
N train is faster during non-peak times. D is faster (for whatever reason) than all of them.
I see this is Beat-Up-On-Manhattan Day.
Sometimes it takes a former Brooklynite to appreciate the little island’s virtues: convenience, service, walkability, density, variety, architecture, food, culture, etc. (All found in Brooklyn, to be sure, so why make invidious distinctions?)
Won’t be in town for a few weeks, but quite missing it.
And go doormen! (And building porters, handymen, painter/plasterers, concierges et. al.) Some people forget that in addition to all the service you provide, you also help reduce apartment insurance premiums (because you make buildings more secure), while you increase co-op and condo values. (Why else do sellers tote “full service”?) This is as true on Park Avenue(just ask my neighbor who’s asking eight million for his three-bedroom pad)as it is on Eastern Parkway.
” Canal Street to Pacific on the N-Train last night took over 15 mins… and we were basically moving the whole time. Rage began to consume me. I’ve never been in a fight in my life, but I can see how the MTA could change that.”
I get RAGE whenever someone says the commute from the north slope is sooo fast. The N/Q CRAWL over the manhattan bridge thru downtown brooklyn. Whenever I’m going to Pacific St or 7th Ave – it takes me at least 30 minutes (including waiting for the train) to get there during rush hour – so not sure about these 10 minute door to door commutes to midtown from park slope people are always spouting off about in HOTD threads.
Biff, I’ll let ’em know they won the award today!
ENY: And yet you post here all the time, so clearly you actually do want to be around these people. Is it just agoraphobia then?
“I’m weighing watching the NFL draft on the big screen in my (finished) cellar”
ENY;
You sound positively suburban with that statement!
Bad attitude, ENY.
ENY, : (. We don’t all ‘over-booze’, some of us just have one or two while we chat away.
But ENY, who will whisper “EUROTRASH!” in my ear??? 🙁