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am kinda in shock listening to this – I had no idea this sorta thing is going on!
I mean a common room in an apt building for kids to play in, or worse the main lobby for the little scamps to go wild in?!?!?!
WHATTTTTTTTTTTTT???????????????????
I mean my husband and I are trying to have kids so obviously am not a hater here – but I grew up in Queens in an apt building my entire life and you know what? my mom took me to the park to play in the scary 70’s & 80’s
Why are people so oddly precious about their kids at the same time being completely rude to their neighbors!!!!
Why doesn’t The City of New York enforce litter laws?
***Bid half off peak comps***
no common rooms. all the basement rooms were converted with the lobby apartments in duplexes in the 90s. i say just stick some mittins on them and stick them on the roof! we have a great roof.. well except that the top floor got a whole bunch of cabins built with little mini yards on it for some of its apartments in the 90s too. so it’s like a maze up there between what is common area and what belongs to an apartment.
lol @ the person with the little sectioned off roof yard complete with astroturf, flags, and a big wooden thingie that says home sweet home.
*Bfly*
Are there any common rooms in your buildings? Maybe those could be used for play areas in bad weather?
it’s definitely a rental building. i mean i can sorta understand since there is no outdoor space for the kids to play anyway and maybe it’s too cold for the parks and stuff but it’s just annoying. and ew @ half the kids playing the hallways are barefoot. ick. hahaha. also i dont want to be the one complaining to the super about it though. looking back tho, seriously, as a kid i used to play in the hallways running around with other kids all the time (these were projects tho!) so it’s definitely not a class issue i guess, it’s just weird that they have such structured play in the hall and they are just really really really young kids. it’s a creepy scene too looking out your peephole seeing that haha. i asked my roommate about it and he said it seems to be a new phenonemon in the building and he hasnt seen it until this year and he’s lived there 5 years.
OMG OMG OMG i have the funniest thing to tell!!!!!
—- is this ANYWHERE on the internet or in the papers?
friday night. around 6.. i witnessed TD bank, formerally the commerce get ROBBED!!!! walking my dog, the guy at the cash coin converter was filling bags with change. come back around the corner, he is gone and three kids hovering over the machine. walk a little further toward my building, those three kids RUNNING fast *(one had a limp btw! LOL) i noticed in one kids hand a huge cannister of change with a rubber sealish thing ont he top. they got into a black car in the middle of the block. i was going to go into the bank to describe the kids (three white kids who were definitely no older than 15 btw!). should i have gone in to the bank or called the cops immediately? i was so caught up telling everyone what happened i wound up not calling. my roommate said that bank gets robbed at least once a month. do they not even have security? the bank was packed at that hour! wouldnt they be on security camera? they werent wearing masks or anything. anyway, i figured this would be a good thread to post a crime spotting. i did laugh at the one with the limp. “hurry!” was all i heard one say hahah.
*rob*
let me just say this about my building: there are very few young families there, maybe 4 total, but one of them is the superintendant – which lives directly off the lobby and across the lobby from this enormous (and never used) common room. So the common is basically his kids huge playroom. Now, the indoor cyclist was not one of the superindendants children, but I am sure that if the super confronted the other young dad about it, no more playroom for his own kids!
Now there’s a great lesson that kid is learning- the whole world revolves around me and my needs.
B.O.D.,I hope someone laid down the law to that young father. I love kids (“crotchfruit is a disgusting term, btw), but you do your kids no favors when you teach them insensitivity and lack of consideration.
You have to nip this kind of behavior in the bud or it will rapidly escalate a la rob’s experiences and probably benson’s too.
Unfortunately it is likely that only an accident and then the ensuing lawsuit usually puts an end to anything like this very quickly.
*rob*, my building has a huge common room off the lobby. it’s decked out in crappy ikea lounge furniture and hand-me-down books; granted no one in the building EVER EVER uses the space, but the other day i saw a young father push all the furniture (and there is a lot) to the edges so his little kid could ride his bicycle around in circles! the best part was that the room is plush carpeted but the kid was still wearing his helmet. ha ha
but like hellaoooo, i know it’s kinda cold out, but go outside!?