Thursday Blogwrap
Kent Avenue Building. Photo by technoparty. Days of Some Carroll Gardens “Wide Streets” May End [GL] Burg’s Hipster Parking Lot & Purple Truck Doomed? [Curbed] Mom of Toddler Laments New Union Hall Rule [OTBKB] On Your Marks! Get Set! Idiotarod! [Gothamist] Ticket Quota Met, Case Dismissed [Bed Stuy Blog] The Bakery is Open! [CH Blog]
Kent Avenue Building. Photo by technoparty.
Days of Some Carroll Gardens “Wide Streets” May End [GL]
Burg’s Hipster Parking Lot & Purple Truck Doomed? [Curbed]
Mom of Toddler Laments New Union Hall Rule [OTBKB]
On Your Marks! Get Set! Idiotarod! [Gothamist]
Ticket Quota Met, Case Dismissed [Bed Stuy Blog]
The Bakery is Open! [CH Blog]
Wow, scary glimpse into the mind of a Park Slope mom at 6:19 pm.
Bitter, angry, unhappy. Clearly.
10:27, if you’re still out there, go fuck yourself.
and the owner of union hall can go fuck him/herself too. this is fucking park slope brooklyn. they’re not banning strollers b/c of fire hazards, they’re banning b/c they think there bar won’t seem cool if mommy’s are drinking there. take that pretentious bullshit back to manhattan. this is brooklyn, if some mommies want to have a beer while talking to other mommies and holding their kids, so be it…
No 1:55. It should remain just the way it is forever. It the right kind of building for the area.
There’s nothing to save in that building. The nicest thing about corner buildings is the ground level storefront windows and doors IF they are original. The original storefront has been destroyed and bricked over. You know there’s nothing original inside either. So what’s the point in keeping it? I’m sure the owner is holding onto it as an asset for getting loans for other RE investments. That’s all.
I like that building. I hope it stays just the way it is forever. Keep williamsburg smelly and industrial!
That buidling was for sale at one time. I looked at buying it. I came with the lot behind.
When I went to make a bid, the owner withdrew it from the market and I don’t think that it has been for sale since.
If I owned a restaurant I’d fear a lawsuit because of the scenario 4:38 describes. It’s so inappropriate.
The WORST is this: you’re hosting a party for adults at night in your home, where there is drinking going on and it is not a party intended for kids. Then someone calls up and asks if they can bring their child or children. Not stated as a real question, but in a way that shows they feel fully entitled to bring their children. Then, and this is the fun part, when they arrive the parents join the party, drink and laugh and completely ignore what their children are doing, while you as the host chase after the kids the whole night trying to make sure they don’t break things, hurt themselves or poke your cat’s eyes out.
Plainly stated, it really sucks.
The problem is the parents who think its perfectly okay to bring their kids to a business to “run around” while the adults relax and socialize. The business becomes an impromptu playground and the employees become defacto babysitters.
I deal with that scenario everyday at a nursery. People bring their kids along and turn them loose so they can “run around”. We have to keep an eye on the little darlings because the parents don’t.
Waiting on customers is just part of the job–we also have to stock product, clean bathrooms, sweep sidewalks, take out trash, clean fish tanks, put orders together, answer the phone, tend acres of greenhouses and nursery stock…even when we’re not busy saleswise, we are ALWAYS busy.
Every minute we have to spend keeping unsupervised kids from getting run over in the parking lot or cleaning up after a herd of them have torn through a greenhouse or dumped potting soil in the koi pond is time not spent waiting on PAYING customers. It’s time not spent getting our chores done. It’s bloody annoying.
It’s no different in a bar. Just because the bar isn’t full of customers, doesn’t mean the employees have no work to do. When they’re not waiting on customers, they also have chores to do. They have to get everything cleaned, stocked and prepped for the “busy” time of day.
If parents want their kids to get out and run around, they can take them to a park. Kids don’t care if it’s cold or snowing or raining as long as they can play.
Good point, 12:14.