Open House Picks

Uh, Love for Language… not to upset you or anything, but I think “bald-faced lie” is as common, or even more common than “bold-faced lie.” To assume that you know what the author meant is a bit of a stretch, might even call it sort of “know-it-all-ish” or “schoolmarm-ish.” For all we know, he meant “ball faced lie,” which may be some colloquial expression from his own personal background.

It gets a little strange to sign in and step innocently into some oddball fracas or other, but Bob is right. It just gets pretty funky sometimes on this site.

Well, the troll has moved up in tech knowledge and has now blown whatever authenticity a typekey identity had. He has in the past week, posted Typekey symbol posts for many regulars here, including Bob Marvin, Ed, CHP, and Bx2Bklyn, and probably more. All of these people “posted” saying things none of them would usually say, (Ed, sometimes it’s hard to tell).

It’s really a shame that an interesting and informative blog site that depends on anonymous opinions, has been totally deprived of the free exchange of information by someone who is now taking credit and getting publicity, by being the Brownstoner Troll.

This may not matter to most people, but I enjoyed the knowledge and malice-free charm of Bob, and the opinions of the other people who post regularly, most of whom no longer post often, if at all. Something else in the world ruined by a selfish, uncaring a$$hole without any conscience.

I just moved to Bed-Stuy six weeks ago, Marcy between Jefferson and Putnam. Although there is no landmark protection, there are some really beautiful blocks between (roughly) Fulton and Gates on one side, and Nostrand and Throop on the other (maybe past Throop; I’m not sure; and some of the blocks on the other side of Nostrand are very nice too).

These are blocks and blocks of pristine brownstones, although some of the blocks at the margins are not great. The center seems to be the old Boy’s High School building at Marcy spanning Putnam and Madison. Anyone know what use the Dept. of Education has put it to? It is a really spectacular building, fully restored.

I think this area is as nice as the landmarked Stuyvesant Heights district further east, and very convenient especially if you’re close to Fulton St., which is still seedy but has the Foodtown super-duper market and especially the Nostrand Ave. stop for the A and C.

We moved from Clinton Hill where we used the Clinton-Washington stop on the C and find that we get home much faster even though it’s another mile down the road because we don’t have to wait for the C train.