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gravesend is pretty pricey now. A lot of tear-downs and big McMansions being built on smallish lots. Definitely not poverty-stricken.
Well, it seems lots of people get tickets for drinking on the stoop. Sorry that your sense of entitlement makes you believe you should be immune from that.
As far as you getting frisked by the police, when was the last time that happened and where were you, what were you doing? Let us know when it happens again.
Good morning everyone! It’s 5.30 AM here in Mito City,Japan. I had about 5 hours of sleep last night, which is not too bad for the second day in Japan. I am getting too old to be a road warrior – my body can’t take it any more. Considering the economy, however, I guess I’ll have to keep on doing it.
Buckfast: I’d like to ask you a question. In a previous thread, you stated that you grew up on Ave Z, near the Coney Island Yards. I know this area well, as I grew up not too far away. Ave Z is not in Coney Island, it’s in Gravesend, and it is not surrounded by the housing projects. The housing projects are well on the other side of the belt parkway and further to the west. What the heck are you talking about?
Sure, you have to be aware of your surroundings in any urban or semi-urban area, anywhere in the world. New York’s hardly the only place that can be dangerous. That doesn’t mean that it’s desirable to live like that.
Whether you minded it or not, being in fights from time to time is a definite negative of any kind of “quality of life” scale. It’s demonstrably the truth that reducing quality-of-life crimes — petty theft, panhandling, petty violence … even things like jaywalking — has an overall positive impact in urban neighborhoods on everything from property values, to school graduation rates.
What have we given up to get New York where it is? I don’t know – I wasn’t here in the 70s. The personal freedoms I enjoyed when I was here in the early 90s aren’t any different than the personal freedoms I enjoy now: I can go to restaurants, bars, movie theaters, drama theaters, musicals, parks, museums, historic and architectural tours, and all of the other great things that the city offers.
Same stuff as I could do then, except now I don’t have people getting up in my face and asking me if I want to buy drugs every ten friggin feet like I did back then. I don’t miss that. Was that worth me giving up the “personal freedom” to spraypaint on subway trains, smoke crack, and kick the shit out of someone whose face I didn’t like?
Yeh, probably.
i think i already touched on it dave.peorsonal freedoms.like walking down the street without the pigs going in ur pockets.how many times have u bin stoped and frisked? and just every day things like being able to enjoy a couple of beers with ur friends in front of ur building.
yes seen him. almost a s good as tina fey!!! paterson may just be a bad politician. i think that’s becoming apparent.
dave, i meant the senate race, but i think you’re right, rudy probably is more interested in running agaisnt como for the governorship. i assume that como will beat paterson in a primary race.
paterson is hapless and has pissed off too many important people.
the guy who impersonates him on SNL is absolutely brilliant, he’s an ordinary looking white guy who impersonates both paterson and oabama perfectly. have you seen him?
What exactly did you scarifice, buckfast??? This ought to be good.
well thats the difference between us cw.getting in a scuffle now and then did nothing to effect my quality of life or my every day mood.and as far as being able to “walk down the street at night without having to look over ur shoulder most of the time” might be somewhat true.(even thought u still have to be aware no matter where u r walking)but what did we have to sacrifice to get there.