I see some Russian stripper must have stolen Lech's lunch allowance yesterday so he was all cranky hating on Russians and Argentinians since he didn't have his tofu pancakes.
Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree,
Up went pussy cat and down went he;
Down came pussy, and away Robin ran;
Says little Robin Red breast, "Catch me if you can".
Damn, people were really out and about last night!! Got my haircut and walked down Manhattan Ave and most places had hour waits (Habitat, Calexico, Five Leaves etc).
so my motor vehicles id card never came in the mail. at the DMV they said ill get it within two weeks. this was back on february 22nd. if i dont get it for the train trip am i screwed? i still have my old expired ID and the temporary paper ID that motor vehicles gave me. will that be enough? if im not allowed to board the train my grandmother is going to completely call bullshit on me even tho it's true. grrr. im getting really ill the closer the day approaches.
I'm going to a class at the Apple store at 10:30. I can't remember the last time I sat in a classroom environment. Have the rules on decorum and sexual harassment changed since the seventies????
well i cant even get thru to a live person at the main DMV question line. some voice recording of someone with a serious speech imediment (wtf?) says due to a high call volume (then something unintelligible) then it just hangs up.
has anyone ever held a rent protest? i dont mean like NOT paying your rent or witholding rent, just like a regular protest with life signs and whistles and stuff about unfair rents?
"has anyone ever held a rent protest? i dont mean like NOT paying your rent or witholding rent, just like a regular protest with life signs and whistles and stuff about unfair rents?"
we have bad mail carriers in my building, always putting the wrong stuff in peoples boxes. ugh it doesnt help my name isnt on the box i guess? usually people will put out mail in the lobby if they got it, but some people just throw it away.
nevermind. i just had a raven moment of it being sorted (by a woman with green hair lol) right this very second and will be on the counter this afternoon.
Rob, why don't you go back there tomorrow morning, especially since your initial contact was so successful?
My daughter's birthday card (with check inside) from our aunt took 2 weeks to get from CT to us. Actually 3 weeks because the letter carrier put it in the wrong mailbox and those people were away last week.
no, it's NOT. other apartments are just absurdly overpriced. why is it SO hard for people in this city who are stuck somewhere between section 8 and moonface 8?
"why is it SO hard for people in this city who are stuck somewhere between section 8 and moonface 8?" -
uh, they live in the other 95% of NYC you barely know exists.
lol Pete is right. You have to try hard to find a 2 bedroom for over 2 grand in my area. They usually run about 1,600-1,700 hundred for very nice 2 bedroom and about 1,400 for a nice one bedroom. Even cheaper in Benson's old stomping grounds.
ugh! my raven moment is wrong. i just went to the dmv site:
I applied for a driver license, a learner permit, or a non-driver photo ID card, but I have not received the photo document. What can I do?Wait approximately two weeks after the date that your application was processed or the date of your road test to receive your photo driver license by mail. If you are in another country, you must allow more than four weeks for your document to arrive. If you applied for a new photo document with a change of address, allow approximately six to eight weeks to receive the document.
so i have to wait 6 - 8 weeks cuz it was a change of address as well? the lady there told me 2 weeks!
How's $1,400 for a nice one bedroom too much? I am not talking shit apartment or anything. I have friends renting recently for $1,200-$1,300 for a nice one bedroom but you have to look around for those deals. For $1,400 I am sure you can find one tomorrow (Not saying that's cheap for my area, probably more on expensive side). There is actually a dog walker who lives on my floor. She is like 70 and retired and just does dog walking part time for extra income.
You wont pass a single credit check though so it's a moot point. You'll end up living with roommates for the rest of your life (unless you move in with family of some sort or a bf).
"uh, they live in the other 95% of NYC you barely know exists."
Yep. Though I knew about Ditmas Park before I moved here, I just knew about it 30 years ago, and had to catch up on what was going on now.
rob, I bet you anything you could find a studio apt. for just you and Duke not far from me/kens/Six. It's not that much further out.
And after all your sh*tting on me when I was distressed over my move, I'm gonna give it right back to you and say: Get over it, get off your ass and figure it out.
DH, I bet he could get a letter of rec from boss, and letter of rec from roommate and put together enough other documentation to get a place. But he'd likely have to save some money and be able to show some cash in the bank. And the rent for any new place should be lower than what rob is paying now. (Meaning realistically he can't afford to keep paying so much as he is now anyway.)
like i said i dont want to think about it. maybe my rent wont even go up, well it definitely will, but hopefully maybe just a little. also if i have to live with my dog i do not want to live in a studio. he needs his own room. he can take the bedroom and ill take the living room.
yeah most likely if i have to move i will be heading back to jersey, anywhere a long the pathtrain or the lightrail. i know more people who live in jersey anyway, i'd probably have more a social life. to many people in nyc (especially brooklyn) who are not even from the area think their shits dont smell. and i wouldnt have to pay the dreaded nyc income tax. we find out the new rent in may.
i can probably sell my entire video collection in bulk and scrape enough money for a security deposit and first months rent. buying an in bulk buyer is hard cuz they get so much less than selling things piecemeal. and i have 600 in security from where i live now. that helps a bit.
Doesn't one have to pay both NJ local income taxes and some NYC taxes if you work in NYC? And aren't NJ taxes as high as NYC, or is that just property taxes?
I sent a payment by mail and wanted confirmation. Had to send by USPS. So I sent return receipt requested. My friend found the card in my front yard. "hmmm....... Nice service from the post office.". In Jan when all the tax stuff was coming, somebody threw the mail on the wet ground behind the grate door. Our regular person was ok but it seems like all the carriers keep changing. The wet on ground delivery was DESPITE a prominent sign to pls deliver upstairs.
MM, NY and NJ State taxes are very comparable. The difference is the NYC tax which as you stated is comparable to the high ppty tax. but as a renter in NJ, it's cheaper rents and NO NYC income tax.
Rob you split 1400 for a 1 bedroom or that is your share? Are you kidding me? 1400 is CHEAP. In Park Slope? You should see the rat hole I saw in Greenpoint recently for 1200.
no, my share of the rent is 1265.25. and my share of the utilities, dog walker, and cable / internet is 200 a month. so that's almost 1500 dollars a month! gah. it's moderate for the area, but it's not CHEAP. some of you are nuts and have a distorted sense of reality.
Reality is easily confirmed *rob*. Just look on Craig's list or Ny Times rentals or rent.com. People are not buying due to tougher lending standards from the banks and are renting instead of buying, pushing up rents in NYC. There is increased demand.
Rob isn't interested in reality. He just wants to pay less. Of course if he quit smoking he could pay the increase and not have to live on ramen noodles every other week.
Rob, do you know what your roommate plans to do? Would he also move, or look for a new roommate if you left?
Shit. Didn't copy and paste. I said that Rob can pay whatever increase if he quits smoking. He's like the Rent Is Too Damn High candidate--doesn't really care about reality, just doesn't want to pay what it takes to live in Park Slope.
Rob, do you know what your roommate will do? Will he move too or look for another roommate?
Have you looked into changing banks? Silly to pay $20-30/month just for fees that other banks don't charge. 2 packs of smokes!
OK, I've lost track. Is rob already committed to moving or just agonizing in advance of an anticipated rent increase? Does he know how much the increase will be yet? And what if that rent increase is relatively small, say 2%? Still leaving? And what's the over/under on how many of us are going to parent him through the process and help him manage his anxiety?
Slope - nothing has happened yet but there's nothing else to talk about. But, my two cents is that he should get a cheaper place even if there isn't an increase.
It has been 4 months since I broke my wrist. The doctor told me on my second visit to him that I was in "denial" about the severity of the injury. But just over the last week, I noticed a difference and think that I am turning the corner. Thank God. I was getting seriously sick of this. I look forward to wearing a ring on my hand and bracelets again.
redacted.......nobody likes whiners about medical stuff.
Yeah, I do dh and it was the bling which made the injury worse. I was wearing an armful of gold bracelets, two gold fill and very big and heavy. I am going back to the gym too, now that I can hold weights.
1. in this shit economy i had so much trouble finding a decent job for my over-educated, under-skilled ass. but now that i'm a nurse i'm makin paper. and i can talk a bitch under the table about BIO.
2. nurses always tell me how they went through school with 2 kids so i should be able to. but fuck that cause they barely even knew what DNA was back then. the circulatory system is easy. you should see the shit we need to know NOW.
3. bitch please, i'm 23 and i just bought a house. i'm a nurse.
4. i don't know how you can work in a hospital. they are nasty and they scare the shit out of me. and produce an insane amount of industrial waste. gross.
*rob* nurses start in NY at pretty high salaries. For some reason 65,000 sticks in my mind. That is not 1% but they can make pretty good money, especially if they choose certain specialties. Also, people can live pretty well in this city, not the hoi-polloi, but if you live in certain parts of Brooklyn, like Dyker Heights, Kensington, Ditmas Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst....you can have a decent apartment for much less than what you pay. in Queens, you can do even better. Now that you know that you hate Staten Island, (based on that one incident), you can check out those other places. Also, places on the border of NY in NJ are way cheaper too. (i.e. Newark, Jersey City, Union City, Weehawken).
Donatella, I'm glad you're finally feeling better. Also, you should be proud of yourself for sticking with the PT - a lot of people seem to quit when it gets tough.
Ditto, Arkady. My mother is a nurse, my sister a nurse, many of my cousins. Nurses develop huge amounts of medical knowledge and while the doctors make decisions about care and medication, it is the nurses who do the lion's share of the care and this saves lives. I appreciated the nurses in visiting Ms. L. the new mother in the hospital. (She was pretty sick after the delivery). The nurses were great to her.
BTW, my sister's otherwise smart husband seems to her to have a very low amount of practical health knowledge, just basic stuff. I reminded her that we grew up with a medical professional and she thought about it and realized that my mother really is very knowledgeable about a lot of those things and taught us a lot. Maybe also that influenced us growing up and made us curious to learn also.
oooh i did not know you come from a long line of nurses. strange. (sorry for my biases against nurses, but ive just never in my life met a nice one.) most have been outright verbally abusive. but maybe i just experienced bad ones, i dont know
Thanks, jessi. It helped that it wasn't just me and the therapist. I went to the hospital and in the same area were a group of people getting therapy at the same time. We got to know one another and have developed a cameraderie. Many of these people have some pretty serious injuries and were going through the same thing.
Well, *rob*, there ARE mean nurses and it is pretty bad when you meet one and they are taking care of you. (I experienced that in London, unfortunately). But you can't paint the whole profession with the same brush.
Yeah, I don't know Pete. They told me growing up, "Be a nurse or a teacher; the best things for a woman." Of course, I proceeded to completely ignore their advice. Also, my father noticed that I was a hippie idealist and he thought the best way to help people was to join the police force. Well, ah...... ok. I took the police test just to get him off my back.
I had a dumbass nurse put an 'IV' needle in my hand recently, and she didn't believe me when I told her it was hitting a nerve! She was too busy joking with her sidekick to listen to me, and just kept poking at it with her fingers when I said it hurt...which of course didn't make it feel any better! Fortunately, I got them to change it to my arm, which was much better.
Otherwise, I like nurses, they're usually very good, kind and helpful.
4 loads of laundry done — check!
Waste baskets emptied — check!
Kitchen tidied — check!
Bed made — check!
Recycling and trash taken out — check!
1 job applied for—check!
Email regarding my volunteer work sent—check!
Cripes, I'm being waaaay too productive today. I better slow down or I won't have anything else to do this week. : P
I had to be hospitalized in London when I had a freak accident which crushed a toe. Not pretty. I waited 45 minutes for an ambulance (talking to my retired brother in NY the whole time, giving me instructions -- he is retired NYFD battalion chief with EMS training). When I finally got an ambulance to the hospital, I got good care from doctors there where I had to get surgery, but nursing? OMG. With the exception of one ANGEL by the name of Alma (I will never forget her) they weren't anything to write home about. But I was lucky enough to find the one in the bunch who was. I don't know about the NHS (National Health Service) over there. It is cheap (paid by taxpayers for nationals and for me much cheaper than it would be here) and basic medical delivery is good but nurses not so much.
"Dyker Heights, Kensington, Ditmas Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst"
Nixay on Dyker Heights. I know that the Brownstoner crowd loves to rag on Dyker Heights, but to a good number of folks in our region Dyker Heights is considered a top area, and rents and housing prices reflect that reality. It is one of the most "suburban" neighborhoods in NYC. Iit has no subway line and virtually no apartment buildings. Rentals are in 3-4 family homes. It is a car culture (again: think suburbia).
It was an orthopaedic ward with mostly old dames who broke hips. I was actually in a group ward. The nurses were mean to the old ladies. I wanted to bash them. I actually found myself advocating for these cute old broads who were a bit gaga from the medication and being treated like bad children from the largely immigrant nursing staff. Next to me was a little old dame named "Birdie". She kept saying "I'm fed up."
Hmm..... didn't realize that about Dyker Heights. All private houses doesn't work, Neither does not having a close by train. I guess like Mill Basin.....
Yes, the "N" is walkable, as well as the "D" line. However, to make those walks twice a day as part of a commute is really a drag. The train trip to southern Brooklyn is long enough, and then to add 15-20 minutes each way is not fun.
little slow here today so i was just looking at manhattan rentals on craigslist. once again, it is pretty ridiculous that you can get a nicer one bedroom in the 2000 - 2500 range in manhattan than brooklyn. i don't get it.
yeah benson, i am NOT taking most of the neighborhood suggestions people suggested to me in this thread today. it's as if they don't even know me!
ideal neighborhoods (in order of best to least best that id prefer living in)
financial district or battery park city
tribeca
far west village
hells kitchen
boulevard east in NJ, guttenberg - weehawken
park slope proper
lower east side / east village (but not on any of the moonface weekend parade routes)
jersey city waterfront / newport
UES
morningside heights (west of broadway)
harlem (preferably on riverside drive below 96th street)
and YES i know my above list is fantasy land.
neighborhoods i will tolerate if the price is right and my dog likes it:
south slope
bay ridge
washington heights
union city, NJ
west new york, NJ
cliffside park, NJ
fairview, NJ
north bergen, NJ
south slope
washington heights
bay ridge
absolute NO's even if if the apartment was 100 dollars a month and had a jacuzzi
williamsburg
bushwick
greenpoint
UWS proper
Soho
because gross moonfaces shack up in their 2400 dollar a month overpriced ONE BEDROOM a month apartments, whereas in manhattan it's usually a single person taking that 2400 dollar a month ONE BEDROOM. which makes more sense in that it will be a better and classier apartment? hint: it's not the one with smelly josh and molly living there.
"harlem (preferably on riverside drive below 96th street)"
That's not even remotely Harlem. I believe they call that the Upper West Side, one of the most expensive parts of the city, especially on RSD. Good luck with that.
I can't for the life of me figure out rob's neighborhood list criteria -- i.e. how a neighborhood gets on the good, bad or tolerable list.
Morningside good, but UWS bad? Tribeca good but Soho bad? LES good (but weekdays only on certain blocks) but Williamsburg bad? UES ? Park Slope = Hell's Kitchen but South Slope = Union City, NJ? Wash Heights (twice) but not Bushwick?
Rob, you have doomed yourself to a state of miserableness regardless.
You are the only person I know who won't live where it's actually affordable, because your dog needs his own room, and has neighborhood preferences. Right.
i stated my hood preference list was fairytale land in my original post. :( and slopey, um, i dont even understand the point of your post. i prefer some neighborhoods over others for all different kinds of factors. it wasnt an exhaustive list by any means. and i am not a princess or a delicate flower, i can live anywhere, and probably won't have much of a say in where in reality. i was just stating a wish list out to the Universe (maybe it's listening)
Slopey, it's because his irrational hatred and jealousy of young, successful white people, often with offspring, limits where he wants to live. In order to stay in the city, he really needs a cheap rental on one of those islands around the city: Ward's Island, Hart Island, Rat Island, Randall's Island, North and South Brother Islands, etc. There's also a Hog Island and a Swinburne Island, not to mention Shooter's Island and Mill Rock. The last is probably really only big enough for a studio.
Just forget Tribeca. It is listed in terms of sales value up there with Marin county as the most expensive real estate in the country. Upper East Side is relatively cheap compared to brownstone brooklyn. Some parts of the east side, like east of third avenue above 86th St can be cheaper. Bay Ridge nice; only drawback is N/R in my opinion but you like the R so not bad. The waterside NJ places good too. Newark is ok, *rob* in the Ironbound. Union City and West New York, very Latino and not expensive.
I can tell you about Washington Heights. It is really nice. Laid back. A train. Also pretty Latino, Dominican mostly. I really like it there. The housing is prewar coops and rentals. All huge apartment buildings. I always feel different when I go up there. Like it is very laid back. It is an old neighborhood. Not up and coming anything. There are more young, white people with some money than before because they have been priced out of a lot of places. And lots of the originals -- Jewish, German and Irish oldsters and their families who stuck around. The Dominicans dominate the further east you go. My friend lives up near the Cloisters right along the Hudson River. It is beautiful.
Hells Kitchen - expensive, Lower east side, expensive and shitty. Below 96th street is NOT HARLEM and is $$$$. Harlem is now $$$$.
Sunset Park is Latino too, but not Caribbean. It is mostly Central American and Chinese. I also like this. AND near Greenwood Cemetary. Around the high 20s and 5 ave.
oh, yeah sunset park could be on the list too.. like i said it wasnt an exhaustive list. the problem is that i most likely wont be able to afford my own apt in sunset park, and wont wanna share an apartment with the kinds of people who do shares in sunset park. which is why williamsburg and bushwick and greenpoint are completely off my list of possibilities for shares (and duh obviously for my own apt). there's a LOT of shares in random areas of manhattan, even nice areas for decent cost. smaller rooms, but i dont care much. the dog issue is problematic tho, however lots of people seem to be open to dogs. if i can stay where i am now for another year tho and suck up the cost somehow, ill make it work financially, it's not rocket science. why the fuck arent their old age retirement homes for pets?! i swear id visit him twice a week!
I had jackhammering here through the night. Who the hell knows what they are doing here now. Something right outside my house. Jackhammering at night. Then Atlantic Ave is torn up completely putting in new watermains. For Atlantic Yards. The gas/water/electric infrastructure is being upgraded for AY.
I quit fighting this. I have a white noise machine.
"Slopey, it's because his irrational hatred and jealousy of young, successful white people, often with offspring, limits where he wants to live."
I disagree. He's got Park Slope proper on the good list, along with Tribeca, Morningside Heights, tony West Village, JC waterfront and UES. No , no moonfaces settling around Columbia University.
And, my point, rob, is you have no criteria and you don't actually know what many of those neighborhoods are like (or even where some of them are). To the extent you are posting your apartment/neighborhood issues here because you actually want help, the rest of us could help you more if we actually understood your criteria.
To the extent you are posting your apartment/neighborhood issues here because you actually want help, the rest of us could help you more if we actually understood your criteria."
He doesn't want help, he wants to b*tch and complain. But, of course, you are right, Slopey. If he wanted actual help, there is much to be had here.
yeah my dog does sleep with them every night, since the first night i moved in lol. i cant just give my dog away tho :-/ unless it's temporary for a month or two? anyway, i dont wanna think about it and if our rent increase is the same amount of rent increase that someone else just told us about in the building (they have a 2 bedroom as well) then it is financially do-able, but nost wise.
Fair enough, jb. We always post responses like he asked for help. But perhaps before the first PLUSA responding should ask: are you asking for help with this?
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No , no moonfaces settling around Columbia University.
i lived in morningside heights for 10 months. completely different kinds of moonfaces. actually i dont recall ever thinking any of the students up there were moonfaces. moonfaces NEVER lived in tribeca, and now they can't afford to anyway. and wtf are you talking about? i know exactly what every single one of those neighborhoods are like. obviously i cant afford that, but that's why i said in my post FANTASY neighborhoods. you need to learn to read
" i know exactly what every single one of those neighborhoods are like."
Including Harlem below 96th along Riverside Drive? What's that like? And why is that, um, neighborhood, better than the UWS proper? (HINT: It IS the UWS proper.)
I've said it before: if I had to pick the next neighborhood that will "take off", it would be Washington Heights, west of Broadway. Stately old apartment buildings, good subway connections to Midtown, a hilly terrain, curving streets and parks facing the river make for a nice ambiance.
You thinking Ft. Washington Ave in 170s, benson? Or up above 181 along Pinehurst etc.? My dad grew up in the latter until he was 12. 190 curved and plunged down a steep hill. Great for sledding, apparently.
also i wouldnt mind a relatively stable area that's slowly in decline. i dont want any currently stable areas that on an upswing. im sure someone is going to make a stupid comment about that.
Hey, dp, I just hope that if GOP ends up running the country in 2013, they can run it more efficiently than they run their own delegate selection process. What a mess. Why should anyone care who "wins" a caucus when campaigns are all back in the same states trying to win over previously-won delegates at county conventions in advance of state conventions where mroe campaigning and lobbying will go on to decide who goes to national convention on behalf of which candidates. It is really quite a mess, with no decisions that can't get redecided in several fora.
after walking around the hood recently, I can't say with a straight face that I'm keeping it real via moving back to LES. many parts of LES looks way more "trendified" then I realized. wife strolled into a coffee shop and came out with a $4.50 cup of coffee - that aint the LES I remember. Luckily, I don't mind these moonfaces artists etc - just mind those talent raiders (one of the prime raiders is apparently across from me; finally met his mega hot Asian wife)
Yeah, perhaps we should steer clear until the whole thing slams into a lamppost. Which reminds me of a joke I once heard in Spanish (and a friend had to translate):
Drunk: Senor, how many bumps do I have on my forehead?
Sober person: (Counting) six, seven, eight, . . . . um, seventeen.
Drunk: Good, only three more lampposts until I get home.
"Drunk: Good, only three more lampposts until I get home."
Snort!
Lately, for entertainment, I've been playing devil's advocate with myself when I watch the news. I try to listen to Romney et al as if I were a repub. And I find myself bashing them even still! ; ) (Don't say that, you lunk head! Oh g*d, he's stuttering again! Nooo, don't touch that subject, it's a live wire! etc...etc. Mentally tallying the votes lost at each turn!)
Yep, Allen, Orchard, Essex, and beyond — all whipped up into gallery spaces. And the restaurants are crazy! I went to Beauty and Essex not long ago! HOLY MOLY! What a scene that was! Good food though, and the service/server was very good.
DH, there are still seedy blocks around delancey but the real difference is all these pricey joints popping up. a few yrs back, I would never imagine a joint like Sons of Essex opening there and drawing all these celebrities. Luckily, the prices at the new coop is not crazy vs the nearby new condos are mega expensive (~$1100 psf)
rob, I notice that stuff but it doesn't bother me. I see it as adding to the retail diversity (ie 1/2 a block from shop where wife got her $4.50 cup of coffee, I got me a reg price $1.75 cup of coffee). of course if all the regular price biz gets replaced by pricey joints then yeah, I would be annoyed.
rob, there is one benefit to all that - some nice eye candy. speaking of eye candy, they shouldn't be running together as a pack and definitely should not be jogging in place and/or stretching as they wait to cross on a red light. I nearly rear-ended car in front of me when this pack of 4 super model looking girls were doing that in tribeca yesterday morning. way too distracting
rob, these 4 were in bike tights with lose tops which were clingy due to their sweat. the jogging in place was distracting but the damn stretching was dangerously distracting
lol @ "retail diversity" lmfao. sadly, much like ethnic and racial diversity in this city never seems to last, that too never lasts. im still laughing at retail diversity ahahahhaha. i cant wait to tell the man behind the counter the next time im in the bodega how much i appreciate him keeping retail diversity in the neighborhood
rob, if there weren't 99c shops, bodegas, regular supermarkets, regular pizza joints etc in the Slope, you would be itching to move out of there already - ie you can only take so much of the "organic" pricing on stuff
im not "itching" to move out of there. i like it. besides there are still enough things around that cater to my needs. unfortunately there is not enough low income housing in the immediate area to keep it that way forever :(
yeah, retail "diversity" is the real deal in South Slope and not going away any time soon. We've got cheap and expensive second hand clothes, bodegas, fauxdegas and 7-11s, cheap eats, fancy eats, korean nail salons, hair salons, 99 cent stores galore, mattress stores, martial arts studios, bakeries, cheap and fancy coffee, Kumon, dive bars (real and moonface-infested) and upscale moonface bars, etc. I would bump that hood up to the top of the list. Oh and lots of crappy architecture mixed in randomly with the good stuff.
(What am I saying? I don't want MY hood degentrified!!!!)
yeah those are my favorite stores. i dont know why you are calling them 99 cent stores tho, they are just value stores. unless i missed the actual 99 cent stores! why were they called dollar stores in jersey, but 99 cents stores in nyc btw!? it sorta threw me off when i first moved here.
"what do you mean you dont want your neighborhood ungentrified?"
Rob, I am teasing. How many times have you referred to yourself in the OT as a de-gentrifier or commented that you are degentrifying park Slope? That is what I am referring to. But in jest. I would certainly welcome you and your dog to South Slope. There's a dog run at 6th Ave/18th Street, I believe.
So, since we're in fantasy real estate land, question - if you had to live in Manhattan, and money was no object whatsoever (fantasy for sure) where would you live? It can be as simple or as multiple choice as you want, since it is fantasy.
West Village townhouse or on Gramercy Park in that great old building on the East side of the park or pretty much any of the townhouses (but just for that, not the surrounding area) or in the Ansonia or Dakota.
First choice -- UWS (90s, 100s)/Morningside -- WEA/RSD/sidestreet brownstone. Near park, water, easy car escape to points upstate and west, two subway lines downtown, incl. express. Like the housing stock -- townhouse and pre-war apt bldgs.
I have several. Forgot about the Ansonia, that would certainly be on the list.
Midtownish - a very large loft in the Flatiron/Ladies Mile area.
Uptown - an old mansion on Riverside Drive, uptown, 116 or above, into Harlem.
RE Porn, the old Bailey Mansion in Harlem, a giant Victorian pile of stained glass and woodwork.
Pre-War full service bldg(could be apt house or old factory), with 3 bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths with 2 fireplaces and a large terrace with views of Hudson, preferably in WV.
One summer during college I rented the "maid's room" in a big 3 BR apt 12th floor overlooking the Hudson on RSD/99th. Amazing sunsets. Loved the access to Riverside park and Central Park not too far away.
"with 3 bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths with 2 fireplaces and a large terrace with views of Hudson, preferably in WV." -- you can't see hudson from anywhere in west virginia.
since in fantasy here is the homes of the crazy lady who chose to live hospitals instead of lavish homes all over the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/nyregion/a-glimpse-into-huguette-clarks-manhattan-apartments.html?hpw
ha, actually i got lost in the west village just yesterday making a delivery. i had to fine jones street, and even with a map printed out i had a hard time. those crooked streets can be awful, but they are very pretty. my answer to MM's question, but be a penthouse suite in the new trump tower in tribeca (well it's technically soho i guess?) but i would say i lived in tribeca. in the penthouse. with no furniture lol
I need outdoor space... patio or big rooftop terrace. and none of those apartment building where they allow dogs. pissing in the elevator and yapping. and I need w/d in apt.
actually i take that back, i think a fantasy house would be the bubblegum painted house around near where i currently. and it's for sale :( a big giant unrenovated victorian with a bunch of smallish rooms and mazes would be great too.
A pied-a-terre in Manhattan? Fine, that I could do. My home? No. I'd sooner live where Legion lives. It has: a) people who actually speak with a New York accent, b) beautiful homes and c) you are by the ocean.
I am kinda sorta with Benson on this one. I much rather have a ridiculously nice apartment in BK Heights or Jersey city on the water overlooking Manhattan skyline rather than be on the water in Manhattan looking into Brooklyn or Jersey.
Shit, if we are dreaming, can I just have the top 3 or 4 floors of the Empire State building? That would be pretty baller. I'd invite Rob to throw water balloons from there.
since we dreaming, how about a rooftop where I can park & liftoff via my personal helicopter? of course, my v12 sports cars would be in the basement garage.
O.K. if it's fantasy - I'd live in the Frick. Even in fantasy I don't want to be in a co-op or condo no matter the amenities. I'd love a townhouse in the WV but the yards are too small for a pool & the street/foot traffic have gotten to be abysmal.
OK, so, with all this resistance to MN (which I share):
1. Dream location in BK, money no object.
Also, 2. dream location for weekend house.
1. Difficult choice -- maybe a 5-story brownstone facing that little park in Cobble Hill. Or 3rd St. between 7/8. Or So. Portland. If I worked at home, a big ass apartment in 1 BBP with water views.
2. Montauk, overlooking bay or Springs near Louse Point on Napeague Bay.
Slopey - I looked at a lot of places on 3rd - very short gardens because extensions have been built out - also very little sun in the patches that are left.
No second home - fantasy is just private plane & pilot to take me to visit friends' places.
Arkady, in fantasy land, you would actually own the freaking bldg inself - ia publishing company hq bldg where you're the founder, part time chairman, and full time resident of the top 2 floors of the building etc. out door space, infiniti edge pool, etc.
when one has a helicopter, why wouldn't the beach shack/pad be a choice spot on jersey shore, hamptons, martha's vineyard, etc. hampton is only a bitch if one has to get to/from via car - not so via helicopter
california mediterrean in montecito where I could lounge on terrace off bedroom and gaze over the gardens and pool area straight down to the deep blue pacific ocean.
Ok, scratch 3rd b/w 7-8. Arkady, what about 7/8 block of Carroll (south side) or Garfield (north side) -- anything with extra big yard due to divergence of those streets, or are the yards gobbled up by the little side streets?
Sounds like you want a house in Saltaire, dp. Nice. I like Montauk for the variety -- great bay swimming plus ocean surf, good biking, lots of plain old weirdness, though it's gotten hamptonified since we used to go there regularly. On a quiet lake in Adirondaks would be nice (except for black flies).
I'd prefer to live in Brooklyn over Manhattan, too, just wanted to see what people thought. I used to always say West Village, but I roam around there, as I have a home furnishings client there, and although I love the back streets, the houses are all too small, and there are too many people touristing around. People like me, looking at fantasy real estate.
If I could live anywhere in Brooklyn, I'd have to go with my favorite house on St. Marks Ave, here in CHN, or that large top floor apartment at the Montauk Club, which has the wrap around terrace. I also have another favorite on St. Marks, on a different block, but it's not across from the park, which would be really nice.
Fave 2nd home - somewhere in the Blue Mountains in Jamaica, of course. Tuscany would work, too.
Here in the US, I have my dream home in the Catskills picked out. High up on a mountain.
Well. if I lived and worked somewhere where I could get to Camogli. Italy, for the weekend, I'd have a vacation house on a cliff above the Ligurian sea there, jut a stone path walk from town.
Oh the heck with it -- I'm going all in for a humongous James Bond villain's lair in some undisclosed location in the Pacific. It's a beach house; it's an underwater aquarium, a mountain home when it needs to be, and a friggin moonrocket if the mood arises, plus it is tricked out with all sorts of modern conveniences. Room for plenty of visitors (and the means to kill them when they overstay or act ridiculously). Okay, party at the Slopey villain's lair!!
Well, Seychelles are about 6" above sea level, so that will last about 5 years. Then you and your guests will come crying to me at my watertight lair!!
"Saltaire has rich people you'd actually enjoy talking to, dp."
Really? You mean some are worth making the effort of speaking to??!! ; )
I've stayed in Saltaire, Kismet, Point o'Woods, Ocean Bay Park and Atlantique. Frankly, I could be happy anywhere on Fire Island, except prolly Ocean Beach.
re: Fire Island -- About 4 years back, we went with some friends for the day to walk around Sunken Forest on FI and then walked over to Cherry Grove to picnic on beach and do some swimming (yes, our friends are two now-married moms and their kids). We had a great afternoon at the beach and then went into town to get food before taking the ferry back. We ate on this balcony overlooking an outdoor bar with a dance floor. The floor was largely empty except for one guy in chaps. Even now, every once in a while the farmhand reminds me of the beach trip where we saw the "butt guy."
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anywhere in brooklyn - one of the houses in the Greenpoint HD - preferrably milton or noble st, or that big ass loft bldg down in red hook where they shot the real world
jesus you have some low rent fantasies :-/ (i dont mean low rent literally of course). actual house and apt fantasies arent exactly healthy to have. i dont even watch those stupid hgtv shows anymore because they caused me to feel bad about my lot in life lol, when i should probably just be thankful im living in the nicest place ive ever actually lived in the real world! im one of those people who hate hate hate change of location when it comes to moving and get attached to where i live. which completely flies in the face of the true nature of being an aquarius, strange. i was thinking about it on the train, a realistic thinking about it, and if i do have to move ill probably look for shares along the R or N line anywhere all the way out to 95th street in bay ridge. the R also goes to queens from the other side of manhattan right? but i think the way more expensive areas of queens? im not worried about amenities, one can find the amenities that are suitable to themt anywhere in the city if they bother looking (well someone like me can with my type of amenities anyway.. no desire for wholefoods, but i do want to be within walking distance of a regular supermarket, not a fauxdega type korean market where everything is kinda sorta overpriced...), i'd prefer to have one roommate who is clean but not anal, maybe two roommates is fine too. but no 5 or 6 or 7. did that and will never do that again, while the fun times were mega fun, the bad times were awful, especially when there's a revolving door of who lives there, etc. ive never had a potential roommate ever check my credit, and none have ever even asked to look at paystubs or bank account info. i could provide letters of recommendation. i can also stock an entire room complete with almost every video game system that has ever existed if that's a plus lol (that btw turned out to be a negative for many hahahah). also when looking for rooms Duke magically morphs from a pitbull to a mutt mix (is that shady? he's totally NOT pure pitbull so im not lying). my roommate now never even asked to meet duke! i brought him over on day one and it was totally fine. i really didnt want to have to worry about possibily uprooting Duke again while he's alive, and im still banking on somehow making it work if i can even with a major rent raise... i mean, he's OLD. he's not gonna live that much longer (tho who the fuck knows, maybe the secret longevity to a dog's life is Alpo and not expensive moonface dog food! that would explain how the fuck my grandmother is still alive btw!). if i do have to i dont think ill have too much of a problem finding a place to live in a share.. i did lol the one time, this one apartment in harlem, i met 2 of the other people id be living with and when i called them the next day they said "we dont think you're fun enough for this kind of apartment". uh, . akward, i was like okay, thanks but i thought you were all crackheads the second i walke in anyway (tho i was ready to take that room cuz at the time i was sorta desperate, but luckily my friend manda had an extra room in her 5 bedroom apartment open).
gah, okay, NOT thinking about this anymore until i have to. anything can happen between now and the next lease. i only smoked FOUR cigarettes today. i'd have already been up to 14.
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maybe even park slope but lechecal says too many trust fundees over there.
no, i think moreso just clueless generous parents (yes im jealous), not people with actual trust funds. but who knows. when i think trust fund, the last thing i think of are ANY of my neighbors. i mean, ive seen their decor (when they live windows open), outfits, choice in pets, and their husband and wife choices, trust me, none of them have trust funds. the kinda of taste that comes with trust funds just aint there. plus a lot of trust funds have crazy ass drug habits. i dont really see that around here, like you do see in places like the LES and Williamsburg. sorry to stereotype, but it's true.
the gay guys who have them are usually flat out up front about having them (are very braggy about it in groups of people). but yes, i dont know i imagine it might be hard to tell, except for when people have an amazing apartment, blow tons of money, and well, dont have jobs or are interns? that's usually the easiest way. but yeah that's probably just rich parents supporting them, but i view trust funds and parental allowance as essentially the same when it comes to that kind money.
Unless they tell you it's impossible. The wealthiest/trust fund friend of mine ever, practically lived like a street kid until she married and had kids. She bought her clothes from a 2nd hand place like Salvation Army. Was completely cheap with the bill at restaurants, etc. Drove her old car for nearly 20 years. It was only when she got married/had kids that she decided to buy the beautiful (but not outrageous) house, get the new car, buy furniture and live like a grown up. The 2nd wealthiest lived like a college kid forever, in fact, still kind of lives like a college kid except that he lives in his own house up the road from his wife's house!
I must have led a very sheltered life. I especially never met any gay guys who had trust funds or lived like they did. And I bet I have 'visited' many more of their apts than Rob has. Except once I did go on couple of dates with guy who was a ronzoni or one of those pasta companies. but never saw his place.
I did get a veterans check monthly when I was in college after my father had died. and my younger brothers got them too. Is that like getting a trust fund?
i respect trust funds more. trust funds are more gossip girl and 90210, and parental allowances are more dawson's creek and minnesota blues (i know that last show doesn't exist, but i was blanking on a moonface equivalent of 90210)
I know one gay guy with a trust fund, but he lives in a very modest walk up apt. in the WV which he bought 20+ years ago, dresses pretty regular/average, has a quirky art career, and only ever talked about 'the money' to me once when we were drunk! It's only when he travels, which is quite a bit more than the average person, that you might get the impression he has 'money'. But I don't think he's nearly as wealthy as the other two I mentioned.
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I did get a veterans check monthly when I was in college after my father had died. and my younger brothers got them too. Is that like getting a trust fund?
um no. that's just straight up welfare. (but my subsidized government student loans are also a form of welfare, so im not hating or anything)not that im against it exactly since your dad was a "veteran" but way too many people are called veterans and it's nuts thinking about much tax money goes to all that crap! but i still think if someone served in war they should be thusly compensated, and their families, etc. sad when you see them on the street. so yeah i dont think that was a trust fund and you probably deserved the checks. i cant imagine them being totally outlandish in amount.
cobbles two examples of trust fund people... the one who lived like a homeless person?! but had a ton of money? um, okay, that's called greed by not circulating that money into the economy, so she only used it when she felt good and ready to stop her homeless person act? wtf. character FAIL! the person living like a college person for the rest of his life, in a house down the street from his wife tho, eh. while pathetic, he's probably at least circulating that money around and probably thinks his wife is a leech. which she probably was if they got together BECAUSE he had a trust fund. if i was blessed (cursed) with a trust fund id probably do something similar to what he is doing if i was stuck with a gold digger for a wife or husband. your other friend tho, vile that she played the role of the homeless destitute person that whole time :-/ (supposedly almost everyone at the original woodystock in the 60s) were just like her. probably the same people at OWS (tho i agree with many of their ideas..) but i didnt see too many legit poor people down in that park.
*rob*
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I know one gay guy with a trust fund, but he lives in a very modest walk up apt. in the WV which he bought 20+ years ago, dresses pretty regular/average, has a quirky art career, and only ever talked about 'the money' to me once when we were drunk! It's only when he travels, which is quite a bit more than the average person, that you might get the impression he has 'money'. But I don't think he's nearly as wealthy as the other two I mentioned.
well he sounds quite level-headed. probably realized if he didnt live that way he'd be broke by 40? i know of a heavily trust funded woman i used to hang out with in jersey. like a LEGIT millions of dollars, huge house, everything. next thing i know im doing free yard work for her, selling paintings (REAL artwork.. not sure who she sold them too exactly), and warning the other people who used to chill at "the mansion" STOP GOING TO NEWARK 3 TIMES A DAY TO BUY CRACK FOR THIS LADY! she had the money to had her own gaggle of young 20 something year old gay guys do everything for her! one was only there JUST TO RUB HER BUTT BEFORE SHE WENT TO BED! to me it was an eye opening experience the vapidity of gay culture and the ways in which that vapidity is exploited. please dont ask me what or why i was there, i was a very naive individual at that age. luckily once i am officially aware of what the real deal is im good at extracting myself from such things.
I got like $24 a month. but that was before you were born.
I do admit what bothers me is friends that are kinda counting on their 'inheritances' from very frugal working class parents who never spent a dime(and still don't but are sitting on accumulated $$) and the friends are kinda spendthrifts.
does spendthift mean they basically spend everything they have? i think i got that from my grandmother, literally. awful. it's not even like it's easy to NOT do that. my grandfather basically forked over his whole paycheck to her most of his life (minus his fun money). but then most of what he handed her went straight to rent and food, and the rest was her fun money. she called it her pay. every friday night she'd be waiting at the kitchen table eagerly for her pay! then run out to bingo after friday evening grocery shopping, of course first stopping at the candy store for her weeks worth of lottery tickets. broke by sunday. rinse, repeat, rinse repeat. but when she did win the lotto (which was often enough for me to usually always have the most amount of video games of anyone i had known at the time, minus obviously spoiled children) she shared it me as long as i kept it a secret. i can't even bring this issue up with her without her being a total beotch and asking me who wiped my ass as a kid. i guess she's right, but still, what a terrible way to grow up because while it wasnt abusive, i think i learned extreme poor money management. i've even read books on how to break the cycle, no luck. anyone here have parents with bad money skills and yet somehow wasnt that way as an adult? i dont want to be one of those people who blame their family cuz of how they are (i find that sorta barfy) but it seems like the case with 99% of people i know.
i can't believe you are watching all those freaks. i thought it was all done last week? they are still fighting and debating or whatever it is? maybe my roommate and his boyfriend got tired of it all too cuz when they get home they put on music and funny shows, last few weeks it was all that political crap. while i dont particularly feel obama is going to help the country financially anytime soon if re-elected, i dont want any of the republication freaks to get elected as they seem to just want to tear apart the social fabric of some of the FEW great accomplishments our country has made in the last 50 years. that cant be good. they need to focus on the things that have been going wrong in the last few decades not focusing on gay marriage and birth control. i am NOT a liberal (i dont even know what the term exactly means as i have zero political education other than what ive gleaned off the internet), tho of course my judgement could be clouded like legion says about the new york based media that tends to distort things. who knows, im sticking my head in the sand this election as ive done for the last 35 years. not a single thing any possible person from any party possibly getting elected could actually HELP in anyway, it's just more dragging down down down. not being able to escape the whole circus-like atmosphere just turns more people off.
you see the thread on the other site today - re: strong place and what used to be there, cobble? written by suzanne spellen whoever she is. Mention that the huge house on Henry by Kane was occupied by the hare krishna. Do you remember that? I have vague recollection of them being around but not specific? then they moved down to livingston which I do remember because some would go to the YWCA on atlantic avenue?
OMFG it's exterminator day and my dog went nuts cuz they ran to spray, they spray once a month. :-/ i thought he was barking at something else, then realized, went to the door and noticed almost everyone on my side of the building in this corner just signing off on the paper and not letting the exterminator in to spray. grrrrr. ive seen LESS roaches in the last month or so, but still. ive been letting him in for the last 3 months. i didnt let him in this time cuz maybe if the others arent spraying it means the roaches went back to the other side of the building? they are doing construction. and it smells and they use cheap ass spray that i dont think works. roaches are kept away by keeping a clean apartment and garbage not in your apartment and praying someone else in your building is a pig so they stay in their apartment. i should have let him in, but i signed the paper. i was just about to get ready to watch porn and take a bubble bath and make dinner. (not in the mood to smell that while cooking. they actually SPRAY in the stove and inside the burner areas! that's narsty, ive never seen exterminators do THAT before) i need to lift that stove up and take it apart and im going to do a thorough cleaning this weekend (have the place to myself). i know it's going to be gross, my roommate said oh no dont do it youre gonna freak out. well yeah i dont care, it needs to be cleaned from the inside out! serious question, how do you clean an over exactly? my grandfather (who did the cleaning growing up) used to clean the oven with oven cleaner... that shit seemed nasty but it cleaned it... never in all my years of living anywhere else have i seen anyone actually clean the over (the inside and lift up the range and clean it...) that cant be good, but i want to clean it. and clean it properly. how do i go about it? ive heard of self cleaning ovens, what are THOSE? ill google it. gonna go relax with a bubble bath, today was a stressful day.
Sue who? ; ) No, I haven't seen it, I'll go look. Thanks for the 'heads up'!
Yes, I do remember the Hare Krishnas living there. One of my best friends in 5th grade was in a Krishna family, she/they lived nearby. She took me there for some holiday or another. I hated the food and my parents weren't 'thrilled' with my going there, so I never went back. I heard a rumor back then that George Harrison had visited them!!!
life of a nurse. wash is done when get home including all your scrubs. windows washed. (some of them). dinner purchased and prepped. comes home - practices violin and prepares lunches to take to work for next 5 days (cooks vegs, chicken etc and puts in container some of which get frozen) to save a $ and eat healthier. now a glass of wine . bed little after 10 and get up 6:23a
oh, and now watching episode of family guy or one of those animated shows off netflix.
made his own lunches. I bought those banana leaf or some leaf covered rice thingies with some unknown substance in center and some bokchoy in chinatown this afternoon so that is dinner. easy.
I get tonight off dinner duty. BH has a regular Tuesday night thing, so it's 'fend for yourself' night! : P Otherwise, I cook all/most of our meals and he takes leftovers some days.
Yes, I read the 1st installment. I like the design, it seems to fit in pretty nicely. I think it'll be ok. I love the detail she goes into, especially about nearby buildings/streets.
well i used this over everyday, as does my roommate. so it's heavy usage. not like my first oven in the apartment i lived in for 4.5 years. i never even turned the damn thing on and just kept my journals in it (and my shoes in the mini fridge!) when i moved in with my ex i didnt have unsupervised kitchen privileges (that sounds more awful than it should) so i rarely used it there too. when i lived in harlem i wasn't a fan of the conditions of the kitchen so i never used it. it wasnt until living in park slope here that i started using ovens, real dishes and silverware, etc without having to be "supervised". ive never used the dishwasher here, those are absurd. ive never seen my roommate use it either. the only function i can see it serving is storage for dirty dishes at a dinner party? even still we always clean our dishes immediately even when people are over for dinner. (it's an open kitchen so you can still interact with your guests in the living room, which i guess is the point.. it's for people without maids and help).
that's another thing on my wish lists if i have to move and find another share, i hope im allowed access to the kitchen and everything in it (minus other peoples food btw) which actually has been a problem here, but just a FEW times. i sleep walk and 2-3 times i woke up in the middle of the night and ate food that wasnt my own. i find that deplorable btw and apologized profusely cuz i wasnt aware i did it. somehow i managed to get the child safety lock off the fridge (there is on the this fridge, but not since my roommates dog passed away... she used to somehow be able to OPEN THE FRIDGE with her snout and eat everything on the lower shelf!) when i first moved in i forgot to put the safety lock on and she got into the fridge, and then my dog would obviously get in on the action. how a small frail old beagle was able to do that i dont know. WHOA, if i ever do it again i could totally like blame it on her ghost or something hahaha. omg dont i sound like THE ideal roommate for some stranger out there!??! when i fell UP the stairs in harlem and knocked out my front two teeth i told everyone a spirit pushed me up the stairs! they were like WHOA that's spooky, who do you think it could have been!?! i didnt say what KIND of spirit!
I went to the beach yesterday and collected all sorts of treasure!
I found:
-shark eggs
-sea glass
-a load of black bivalve shells (shells that look like the SHELL oil company logo)
-razor clam shells
and a large piece of drift wood.
I thought I finally found a piece of Ambergris which would be like finding solid gold,
but it turned out to be an old piece of foam from a boat hull.
I have yet to find a horseshoe crab shell this year,
this is distrubing because these creatures have been coming ashore in these parts for about
300 million years and now I hardly see them anymore.
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Groan at the 'Brooklyn is like Paris' story. I think I just threw up a little...
oh i went and peeked over at that... i kinda barfed a little too. why cant people just let different areas have their different flavors? ive been to paris hundreds of times on the internet, and one of my favorite movies of Mary Kate and Ashley's Passsport to Paris, and im sorry, paris is NOTHING like brooklyn.
I'm very sad. I just had a good bye dinner with Fulgencio. I've never met anyone sweeter, OR HOTTER than him. We've known each other since 2001. It was because of him and his daughters bautismo up on Throop and Broadway that I found Brooklyn and Bed Stuy. I'm not sure I've really ever loved someone as much as I loved him.
I found a note behind the front bushes today written by littlelegion.
It was asking the "invisible man spirit" to be friends with him.
I had a hard time getting to the note and I thought I might just leave it alone there.
Then I thought that he's in a magical age when anything is possible so I wrote a response in big scrawling letters with a piece of charcoal.
I wrote:
YES in big letters with a big X underneath.
I know he saw it but he hasn't said anything to me about it yet.
also with paris and other european cities they LOVE just pushing the poor and working class further and further out of the core in concentric rings. sorry, but new america should NOT be designed and emulated on that. pushing the poor and working class out to outer ring suburbs is INSANITY! im not a fan of concentrated public housing poor (that has always been a disaster) but pushing people out in concentric circles via the european model is fucking really stupid. do we really want to emulate that kind of thing? i give credit for mixed use housing in this city, believe it or not there are a lot of apartments for the working class (chary about how legit they are and who's backs they scratch, but whatever, ideally it's better) maybe not in the same complex, but in the same neighborhoods i think it works out. look at all the rich neighborhoods in manhattan, most are super close to housing projects and not much problems at all in fact those housing projects are usually better maintained and run. it would be awesome if we had true middle class housing for single people who make more than say 18K a year in this city, but oh well. you can make upto like 35 K but you need to have kids, sometimes even TWO! but i give it props to at least keep some people within the core centers of this city, unlike snotty europe who just wants to throw them all into far flung areas outside the city and, well, let's be honest, totally destroying the neighborhoods of people in those areas cuz poor people feel like they are being pushed out. if i was pushed out of somewhere i lived all my life id be acting up as fuck too! when i was forced out of chelsea to harlem i acted up as well and felt like a second class citizen. of my personal example is completely absurd on all kinds of levels, but it's still my personal example.
That's sad to hear about your goodbye dinner with Fulgencio dibs.
I feel like we know him pretty well here from your discussions on the OT about him.
I don't think we ever really say goodbye completely from those we love.
Everyone lives on in our daydreams, thoughts, remembrances and dreams. It's almost like we live side by side with our loves even if they're not part of our daily routines any longer.
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life of a nurse. wash is done when get home including all your scrubs. windows washed. (some of them). dinner purchased and prepped. comes home - practices violin and prepares lunches to take to work for next 5 days (cooks vegs, chicken etc and puts in container some of which get frozen) to save a $ and eat healthier. now a glass of wine . bed little after 10 and get up 6:23a
LMFAO at your description of life as a nurse!! but im assuming "practising the violin" is code for giving a BJ! (nursing students LOVE to give blow jobs... at least it was where i went to school for those in the nursing program!) no personal experience, but it was a given fact and everyone knew about it. supposedly they would never fully give themselves, but were the best out of any majors at playing the violin!
I'm also somewhat depressed about being in the house now. There are very few dessert options left in the fridge, despot the fact that Fulge and I had panacotta dessert
"...im not a fan of concentrated public housing poor (that has always been a disaster) but pushing people out in concentric circles via the european model is fucking really stupid. do we really want to emulate that kind of thing?"
So true,
I think the French even have a nice sounding name for the place they put the poor people outside of the city:
Le Banlieue
as if that makes it any better.
wah!!!!!! dave loses one of his 45 thousand tricks on the side.
::smallest violin::
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I feel like we know him pretty well here from your discussions on the OT about him.
and the pictures of him in drag looking like a busted up over masculinated version of the chiquita banana lady! sorry dave, but those drag pictures you posted of him on "halloween" screamed a 365 day a year thing, NOT just halloween. i never saw ANYONE dress in drag on halloween (and lots of people do that) get it so, um, well... perfectly tranny?
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I think the French even have a nice sounding name for the place they put the poor people outside of the city:
Le Banlieue
as if that makes it any better.
lol. isnt that the name of a speakeasy in Bushwick!??!? (im kinda serious)
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I'm very sad. I just had a good bye dinner with Fulgencio. I've never met anyone sweeter, OR HOTTER than him. We've known each other since 2001. It was because of him and his daughters bautismo up on Throop and Broadway that I found Brooklyn and Bed Stuy. I'm not sure I've really ever loved someone as much as I loved him.
I need a live-in cat sitter from Friday, March 30 - Sunday April 1. MUST BE WILLING TO STAY IN MY APARTMENT. MUST BE GOOD WITH CATS. MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE GIVING A CAT MEDICINE HE DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE.
Please, take this seriously. I'm really anxious and upset right now that I can't find a service that can deal with Mr. Bu and his medicine. I need someone really trustworthy who will make sure Mr. Bu gets his meds. I am willing to pay the person $150. Do any of you have someone SUPER who you would recommend and really trust?
btw, i forgot to ask you today, i need to get my NY tax refund ASAP, what was i supposed to fill out again? it was some extra paperwork, i think the W4 or something? which i have, is it just that? thanks for not reminding me it's like 2 weeks to tax day btw :-/ if someone didnt ask me today if i did my taxes i would have completely forgotten i didnt send in the new york state yet.
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I need a live-in cat sitter from Friday, March 30 - Sunday April 1. MUST BE WILLING TO STAY IN MY APARTMENT. MUST BE GOOD WITH CATS. MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE GIVING A CAT MEDICINE HE DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE.
OMG! that's the exact date of my trip to south cari!!! does that mean youre gonna come with me!?! i would totally do it if not for this trip. jeez you are paying 150 dollars. if i cancel my tickets and postphone them is there a cost? i could use the 150 dollars and im sure i can just get tickets to south carolina next month instead. im very good at giving animals medications and ive watched your cats before and didnt destroy your house. i am almost certain tho you are going to get multiple offers from people on here who will be willing to do it for free. (i really really really would) but i think cancelling this trip would put bad karma points on my soul than i cannot afford right now.
Cobbly, I figure if they live in, he'll have to come out from under the bed at some point to eat, drink, use the litter box. If someone just stops by, they'll spend an hour trying to get him out from underneath the bed before the medicine fight begins :-(
because cats are more high maintenance to give meds than dogs, cobble. duh! im sure it involves round the clock care, that only people with years of experience can give.
He'll get used to whoever stays here and will demand some affection from them (he's a lover boy at heart) and will at least be visible to hold down and be medicated each day.
Boarding is cheaper, but I can't find a place that doesn't have some scary reviews....kitties coming home with fleas or scary infections, being left in tiny carriers for hours at a time instead of a roomy cage, etc.
Snappy, do you want me to post to parkslopeparents Yahoogroup? The page I gave you is their website, the Yahoogroup is different. Just write up your ad and I will post it (it's free for me).
snappy -- call Dr. Maddon's office. Some of the vet techs cat sit and one might be able to move in for a few days. They could certainly give the meds. 718-788-0500.
Snappy, if that doesn't work out, let me know. My niece the waitress may be able to do it--she has done a lot of pet-sitting. She is in St. Croix now but should be back soon.
The grass is riz,
I wonder where the birdies is.
Up went pussy cat and down went he;
Down came pussy, and away Robin ran;
Says little Robin Red breast, "Catch me if you can".
I saw robin in backyard yesterday.
Tofu pancakes...blech! Blasphemous to pancake lovers everywhere!
yeah, dumbasses. they should have thrown on a blazer, hopped in a towncar and gone to le grenniole
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hah, good luck with that
http://tinyurl.com/7fug5lk
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My daughter's birthday card (with check inside) from our aunt took 2 weeks to get from CT to us. Actually 3 weeks because the letter carrier put it in the wrong mailbox and those people were away last week.
Rob, your rent is mad cheap.
no, it's NOT. other apartments are just absurdly overpriced. why is it SO hard for people in this city who are stuck somewhere between section 8 and moonface 8?
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uh, they live in the other 95% of NYC you barely know exists.
I applied for a driver license, a learner permit, or a non-driver photo ID card, but I have not received the photo document. What can I do?Wait approximately two weeks after the date that your application was processed or the date of your road test to receive your photo driver license by mail. If you are in another country, you must allow more than four weeks for your document to arrive. If you applied for a new photo document with a change of address, allow approximately six to eight weeks to receive the document.
so i have to wait 6 - 8 weeks cuz it was a change of address as well? the lady there told me 2 weeks!
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http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/roo/2901712630.html
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You wont pass a single credit check though so it's a moot point. You'll end up living with roommates for the rest of your life (unless you move in with family of some sort or a bf).
Yep. Though I knew about Ditmas Park before I moved here, I just knew about it 30 years ago, and had to catch up on what was going on now.
rob, I bet you anything you could find a studio apt. for just you and Duke not far from me/kens/Six. It's not that much further out.
And after all your sh*tting on me when I was distressed over my move, I'm gonna give it right back to you and say: Get over it, get off your ass and figure it out.
DH, I bet he could get a letter of rec from boss, and letter of rec from roommate and put together enough other documentation to get a place. But he'd likely have to save some money and be able to show some cash in the bank. And the rent for any new place should be lower than what rob is paying now. (Meaning realistically he can't afford to keep paying so much as he is now anyway.)
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So I understand the birthday card story, rf.
lol @ $1,200 in greenpoint. the ones i saw for $1900 were also rat traps
Would be nice to have a blizzard like we did in march 1995.
oh fuck no dont even say that cuz it will totally happen when im on the stupid train causing delays. amtrak supposedly SUCKS when it snows.
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Twenty fucking five to one
My gamblin' days are done
I bet on a horse called Bottle of Smoke
And my horse won
*rob* you can get your own place but you have to leave the fashionable environment you like so much.
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Rob, do you know what your roommate plans to do? Would he also move, or look for a new roommate if you left?
Rob, do you know what your roommate will do? Will he move too or look for another roommate?
Have you looked into changing banks? Silly to pay $20-30/month just for fees that other banks don't charge. 2 packs of smokes!
[I know, I know, I must be new, here.]
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redacted.......nobody likes whiners about medical stuff.
1. in this shit economy i had so much trouble finding a decent job for my over-educated, under-skilled ass. but now that i'm a nurse i'm makin paper. and i can talk a bitch under the table about BIO.
2. nurses always tell me how they went through school with 2 kids so i should be able to. but fuck that cause they barely even knew what DNA was back then. the circulatory system is easy. you should see the shit we need to know NOW.
3. bitch please, i'm 23 and i just bought a house. i'm a nurse.
4. i don't know how you can work in a hospital. they are nasty and they scare the shit out of me. and produce an insane amount of industrial waste. gross.
taken from urban dictionary....
*rob* nurses start in NY at pretty high salaries. For some reason 65,000 sticks in my mind. That is not 1% but they can make pretty good money, especially if they choose certain specialties. Also, people can live pretty well in this city, not the hoi-polloi, but if you live in certain parts of Brooklyn, like Dyker Heights, Kensington, Ditmas Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst....you can have a decent apartment for much less than what you pay. in Queens, you can do even better. Now that you know that you hate Staten Island, (based on that one incident), you can check out those other places. Also, places on the border of NY in NJ are way cheaper too. (i.e. Newark, Jersey City, Union City, Weehawken).
Ditto, Arkady. My mother is a nurse, my sister a nurse, many of my cousins. Nurses develop huge amounts of medical knowledge and while the doctors make decisions about care and medication, it is the nurses who do the lion's share of the care and this saves lives. I appreciated the nurses in visiting Ms. L. the new mother in the hospital. (She was pretty sick after the delivery). The nurses were great to her.
BTW, my sister's otherwise smart husband seems to her to have a very low amount of practical health knowledge, just basic stuff. I reminded her that we grew up with a medical professional and she thought about it and realized that my mother really is very knowledgeable about a lot of those things and taught us a lot. Maybe also that influenced us growing up and made us curious to learn also.
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Thanks, jessi. It helped that it wasn't just me and the therapist. I went to the hospital and in the same area were a group of people getting therapy at the same time. We got to know one another and have developed a cameraderie. Many of these people have some pretty serious injuries and were going through the same thing.
Well, *rob*, there ARE mean nurses and it is pretty bad when you meet one and they are taking care of you. (I experienced that in London, unfortunately). But you can't paint the whole profession with the same brush.
Yeah, I don't know Pete. They told me growing up, "Be a nurse or a teacher; the best things for a woman." Of course, I proceeded to completely ignore their advice. Also, my father noticed that I was a hippie idealist and he thought the best way to help people was to join the police force. Well, ah...... ok. I took the police test just to get him off my back.
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Otherwise, I like nurses, they're usually very good, kind and helpful.
[now back to nurses]
Waste baskets emptied — check!
Kitchen tidied — check!
Bed made — check!
Recycling and trash taken out — check!
1 job applied for—check!
Email regarding my volunteer work sent—check!
Cripes, I'm being waaaay too productive today. I better slow down or I won't have anything else to do this week. : P
I had to be hospitalized in London when I had a freak accident which crushed a toe. Not pretty. I waited 45 minutes for an ambulance (talking to my retired brother in NY the whole time, giving me instructions -- he is retired NYFD battalion chief with EMS training). When I finally got an ambulance to the hospital, I got good care from doctors there where I had to get surgery, but nursing? OMG. With the exception of one ANGEL by the name of Alma (I will never forget her) they weren't anything to write home about. But I was lucky enough to find the one in the bunch who was. I don't know about the NHS (National Health Service) over there. It is cheap (paid by taxpayers for nationals and for me much cheaper than it would be here) and basic medical delivery is good but nurses not so much.
Nixay on Dyker Heights. I know that the Brownstoner crowd loves to rag on Dyker Heights, but to a good number of folks in our region Dyker Heights is considered a top area, and rents and housing prices reflect that reality. It is one of the most "suburban" neighborhoods in NYC. Iit has no subway line and virtually no apartment buildings. Rentals are in 3-4 family homes. It is a car culture (again: think suburbia).
It was an orthopaedic ward with mostly old dames who broke hips. I was actually in a group ward. The nurses were mean to the old ladies. I wanted to bash them. I actually found myself advocating for these cute old broads who were a bit gaga from the medication and being treated like bad children from the largely immigrant nursing staff. Next to me was a little old dame named "Birdie". She kept saying "I'm fed up."
Hmm..... didn't realize that about Dyker Heights. All private houses doesn't work, Neither does not having a close by train. I guess like Mill Basin.....
ok back to work.....
Later.
Yes, the "N" is walkable, as well as the "D" line. However, to make those walks twice a day as part of a commute is really a drag. The train trip to southern Brooklyn is long enough, and then to add 15-20 minutes each way is not fun.
little slow here today so i was just looking at manhattan rentals on craigslist. once again, it is pretty ridiculous that you can get a nicer one bedroom in the 2000 - 2500 range in manhattan than brooklyn. i don't get it.
ideal neighborhoods (in order of best to least best that id prefer living in)
financial district or battery park city
tribeca
far west village
hells kitchen
boulevard east in NJ, guttenberg - weehawken
park slope proper
lower east side / east village (but not on any of the moonface weekend parade routes)
jersey city waterfront / newport
UES
morningside heights (west of broadway)
harlem (preferably on riverside drive below 96th street)
and YES i know my above list is fantasy land.
neighborhoods i will tolerate if the price is right and my dog likes it:
south slope
bay ridge
washington heights
union city, NJ
west new york, NJ
cliffside park, NJ
fairview, NJ
north bergen, NJ
south slope
washington heights
bay ridge
absolute NO's even if if the apartment was 100 dollars a month and had a jacuzzi
williamsburg
bushwick
greenpoint
UWS proper
Soho
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I've been saying that for a long time and no one believes me
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That's not even remotely Harlem. I believe they call that the Upper West Side, one of the most expensive parts of the city, especially on RSD. Good luck with that.
Morningside good, but UWS bad? Tribeca good but Soho bad? LES good (but weekdays only on certain blocks) but Williamsburg bad? UES ? Park Slope = Hell's Kitchen but South Slope = Union City, NJ? Wash Heights (twice) but not Bushwick?
You are the only person I know who won't live where it's actually affordable, because your dog needs his own room, and has neighborhood preferences. Right.
I have neighborhood 'preferences', too! I'd PREFER to live in Cobble Hill! : P
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I can tell you about Washington Heights. It is really nice. Laid back. A train. Also pretty Latino, Dominican mostly. I really like it there. The housing is prewar coops and rentals. All huge apartment buildings. I always feel different when I go up there. Like it is very laid back. It is an old neighborhood. Not up and coming anything. There are more young, white people with some money than before because they have been priced out of a lot of places. And lots of the originals -- Jewish, German and Irish oldsters and their families who stuck around. The Dominicans dominate the further east you go. My friend lives up near the Cloisters right along the Hudson River. It is beautiful.
Hells Kitchen - expensive, Lower east side, expensive and shitty. Below 96th street is NOT HARLEM and is $$$$. Harlem is now $$$$.
Sunset Park is Latino too, but not Caribbean. It is mostly Central American and Chinese. I also like this. AND near Greenwood Cemetary. Around the high 20s and 5 ave.
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I had jackhammering here through the night. Who the hell knows what they are doing here now. Something right outside my house. Jackhammering at night. Then Atlantic Ave is torn up completely putting in new watermains. For Atlantic Yards. The gas/water/electric infrastructure is being upgraded for AY.
I quit fighting this. I have a white noise machine.
I disagree. He's got Park Slope proper on the good list, along with Tribeca, Morningside Heights, tony West Village, JC waterfront and UES. No , no moonfaces settling around Columbia University.
And, my point, rob, is you have no criteria and you don't actually know what many of those neighborhoods are like (or even where some of them are). To the extent you are posting your apartment/neighborhood issues here because you actually want help, the rest of us could help you more if we actually understood your criteria.
He doesn't want help, he wants to b*tch and complain. But, of course, you are right, Slopey. If he wanted actual help, there is much to be had here.
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I saw a 'great' video of Romney stuttering and tripping over himself about cutting funding to Planned Parenthood.
Unfair! He's been there on the interwebs! : P
No , no moonfaces settling around Columbia University.
i lived in morningside heights for 10 months. completely different kinds of moonfaces. actually i dont recall ever thinking any of the students up there were moonfaces. moonfaces NEVER lived in tribeca, and now they can't afford to anyway. and wtf are you talking about? i know exactly what every single one of those neighborhoods are like. obviously i cant afford that, but that's why i said in my post FANTASY neighborhoods. you need to learn to read
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Including Harlem below 96th along Riverside Drive? What's that like? And why is that, um, neighborhood, better than the UWS proper? (HINT: It IS the UWS proper.)
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Ft. Washington Ave. from GW up to 181 to 184 or so. Also, area by clositers is pretty nice too.
Snort! It really seems very disorganized, like a bunch of drunk people are 'driving'!
Drunk: Senor, how many bumps do I have on my forehead?
Sober person: (Counting) six, seven, eight, . . . . um, seventeen.
Drunk: Good, only three more lampposts until I get home.
Snort!
Lately, for entertainment, I've been playing devil's advocate with myself when I watch the news. I try to listen to Romney et al as if I were a repub. And I find myself bashing them even still! ; ) (Don't say that, you lunk head! Oh g*d, he's stuttering again! Nooo, don't touch that subject, it's a live wire! etc...etc. Mentally tallying the votes lost at each turn!)
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(What am I saying? I don't want MY hood degentrified!!!!)
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Gentry (origin Old French genterie, from gentil, "high-born, noble") denotes "well- born and well-bred people" of high social class
the people infesting city neighborhoods these days sure as fuck are not well-born and well-bred people or high social class. :-/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/cat-got-your-brain.html
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Rob, I am teasing. How many times have you referred to yourself in the OT as a de-gentrifier or commented that you are degentrifying park Slope? That is what I am referring to. But in jest. I would certainly welcome you and your dog to South Slope. There's a dog run at 6th Ave/18th Street, I believe.
Oh g*d yes, those are great. One of my great aunts used to live in one of those.
Midtownish - a very large loft in the Flatiron/Ladies Mile area.
Uptown - an old mansion on Riverside Drive, uptown, 116 or above, into Harlem.
RE Porn, the old Bailey Mansion in Harlem, a giant Victorian pile of stained glass and woodwork.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/nyregion/a-glimpse-into-huguette-clarks-manhattan-apartments.html?hpw
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W/D isn't fantasy land, that's a given, Pete!
lol
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A pied-a-terre in Manhattan? Fine, that I could do. My home? No. I'd sooner live where Legion lives. It has: a) people who actually speak with a New York accent, b) beautiful homes and c) you are by the ocean.
There, good! Now see, you can do it. Was that so hard??!! OY!
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1. Dream location in BK, money no object.
Also, 2. dream location for weekend house.
1. Difficult choice -- maybe a 5-story brownstone facing that little park in Cobble Hill. Or 3rd St. between 7/8. Or So. Portland. If I worked at home, a big ass apartment in 1 BBP with water views.
2. Montauk, overlooking bay or Springs near Louse Point on Napeague Bay.
Congress Street!
Excellent choice, Arkady! Now that's thinking big!
Montauk, that's where my dream beach shack will be one day. Sigh.
No second home - fantasy is just private plane & pilot to take me to visit friends' places.
Oh right, my dream beach shack could be on Nantucket, too! So many choices!
Sounds like you want a house in Saltaire, dp. Nice. I like Montauk for the variety -- great bay swimming plus ocean surf, good biking, lots of plain old weirdness, though it's gotten hamptonified since we used to go there regularly. On a quiet lake in Adirondaks would be nice (except for black flies).
If I could live anywhere in Brooklyn, I'd have to go with my favorite house on St. Marks Ave, here in CHN, or that large top floor apartment at the Montauk Club, which has the wrap around terrace. I also have another favorite on St. Marks, on a different block, but it's not across from the park, which would be really nice.
Fave 2nd home - somewhere in the Blue Mountains in Jamaica, of course. Tuscany would work, too.
Here in the US, I have my dream home in the Catskills picked out. High up on a mountain.
or that big ass loft bldg down in red hook where they shot the real world
Yes, very nice. Hmm, I was thinking more like maybe Atlantique or Lonelyville or if I could get in...Point o'Woods, but it'd be too stuffy.
Saltaire has rich people you'd actually enjoy talking to, dp.
Oh, and a house masseuse! So there! ; )
Really? You mean some are worth making the effort of speaking to??!! ; )
I've stayed in Saltaire, Kismet, Point o'Woods, Ocean Bay Park and Atlantique. Frankly, I could be happy anywhere on Fire Island, except prolly Ocean Beach.
I'd stay away from the Hamptons and places like that. Not my crowd.
And a cook, but no butlers. I don't like having them lurking about! Except maybe on the beach at cocktail hour, that would be a help! : P
and I would pick a nice place in bk hts/cobblehill/or maybe even park slope but lechecal says too many trust fundees over there.
anywhere in brooklyn - one of the houses in the Greenpoint HD - preferrably milton or noble st, or that big ass loft bldg down in red hook where they shot the real world
jesus you have some low rent fantasies :-/ (i dont mean low rent literally of course). actual house and apt fantasies arent exactly healthy to have. i dont even watch those stupid hgtv shows anymore because they caused me to feel bad about my lot in life lol, when i should probably just be thankful im living in the nicest place ive ever actually lived in the real world! im one of those people who hate hate hate change of location when it comes to moving and get attached to where i live. which completely flies in the face of the true nature of being an aquarius, strange. i was thinking about it on the train, a realistic thinking about it, and if i do have to move ill probably look for shares along the R or N line anywhere all the way out to 95th street in bay ridge. the R also goes to queens from the other side of manhattan right? but i think the way more expensive areas of queens? im not worried about amenities, one can find the amenities that are suitable to themt anywhere in the city if they bother looking (well someone like me can with my type of amenities anyway.. no desire for wholefoods, but i do want to be within walking distance of a regular supermarket, not a fauxdega type korean market where everything is kinda sorta overpriced...), i'd prefer to have one roommate who is clean but not anal, maybe two roommates is fine too. but no 5 or 6 or 7. did that and will never do that again, while the fun times were mega fun, the bad times were awful, especially when there's a revolving door of who lives there, etc. ive never had a potential roommate ever check my credit, and none have ever even asked to look at paystubs or bank account info. i could provide letters of recommendation. i can also stock an entire room complete with almost every video game system that has ever existed if that's a plus lol (that btw turned out to be a negative for many hahahah). also when looking for rooms Duke magically morphs from a pitbull to a mutt mix (is that shady? he's totally NOT pure pitbull so im not lying). my roommate now never even asked to meet duke! i brought him over on day one and it was totally fine. i really didnt want to have to worry about possibily uprooting Duke again while he's alive, and im still banking on somehow making it work if i can even with a major rent raise... i mean, he's OLD. he's not gonna live that much longer (tho who the fuck knows, maybe the secret longevity to a dog's life is Alpo and not expensive moonface dog food! that would explain how the fuck my grandmother is still alive btw!). if i do have to i dont think ill have too much of a problem finding a place to live in a share.. i did lol the one time, this one apartment in harlem, i met 2 of the other people id be living with and when i called them the next day they said "we dont think you're fun enough for this kind of apartment". uh, . akward, i was like okay, thanks but i thought you were all crackheads the second i walke in anyway (tho i was ready to take that room cuz at the time i was sorta desperate, but luckily my friend manda had an extra room in her 5 bedroom apartment open).
gah, okay, NOT thinking about this anymore until i have to. anything can happen between now and the next lease. i only smoked FOUR cigarettes today. i'd have already been up to 14.
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Tell me about it. Until 5 months ago, I'd lived very nearly 90% of my ENTIRE life in Cobble Hill!
maybe even park slope but lechecal says too many trust fundees over there.
no, i think moreso just clueless generous parents (yes im jealous), not people with actual trust funds. but who knows. when i think trust fund, the last thing i think of are ANY of my neighbors. i mean, ive seen their decor (when they live windows open), outfits, choice in pets, and their husband and wife choices, trust me, none of them have trust funds. the kinda of taste that comes with trust funds just aint there. plus a lot of trust funds have crazy ass drug habits. i dont really see that around here, like you do see in places like the LES and Williamsburg. sorry to stereotype, but it's true.
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I did get a veterans check monthly when I was in college after my father had died. and my younger brothers got them too. Is that like getting a trust fund?
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I did get a veterans check monthly when I was in college after my father had died. and my younger brothers got them too. Is that like getting a trust fund?
um no. that's just straight up welfare. (but my subsidized government student loans are also a form of welfare, so im not hating or anything)not that im against it exactly since your dad was a "veteran" but way too many people are called veterans and it's nuts thinking about much tax money goes to all that crap! but i still think if someone served in war they should be thusly compensated, and their families, etc. sad when you see them on the street. so yeah i dont think that was a trust fund and you probably deserved the checks. i cant imagine them being totally outlandish in amount.
cobbles two examples of trust fund people... the one who lived like a homeless person?! but had a ton of money? um, okay, that's called greed by not circulating that money into the economy, so she only used it when she felt good and ready to stop her homeless person act? wtf. character FAIL! the person living like a college person for the rest of his life, in a house down the street from his wife tho, eh. while pathetic, he's probably at least circulating that money around and probably thinks his wife is a leech. which she probably was if they got together BECAUSE he had a trust fund. if i was blessed (cursed) with a trust fund id probably do something similar to what he is doing if i was stuck with a gold digger for a wife or husband. your other friend tho, vile that she played the role of the homeless destitute person that whole time :-/ (supposedly almost everyone at the original woodystock in the 60s) were just like her. probably the same people at OWS (tho i agree with many of their ideas..) but i didnt see too many legit poor people down in that park.
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I know one gay guy with a trust fund, but he lives in a very modest walk up apt. in the WV which he bought 20+ years ago, dresses pretty regular/average, has a quirky art career, and only ever talked about 'the money' to me once when we were drunk! It's only when he travels, which is quite a bit more than the average person, that you might get the impression he has 'money'. But I don't think he's nearly as wealthy as the other two I mentioned.
well he sounds quite level-headed. probably realized if he didnt live that way he'd be broke by 40? i know of a heavily trust funded woman i used to hang out with in jersey. like a LEGIT millions of dollars, huge house, everything. next thing i know im doing free yard work for her, selling paintings (REAL artwork.. not sure who she sold them too exactly), and warning the other people who used to chill at "the mansion" STOP GOING TO NEWARK 3 TIMES A DAY TO BUY CRACK FOR THIS LADY! she had the money to had her own gaggle of young 20 something year old gay guys do everything for her! one was only there JUST TO RUB HER BUTT BEFORE SHE WENT TO BED! to me it was an eye opening experience the vapidity of gay culture and the ways in which that vapidity is exploited. please dont ask me what or why i was there, i was a very naive individual at that age. luckily once i am officially aware of what the real deal is im good at extracting myself from such things.
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I do admit what bothers me is friends that are kinda counting on their 'inheritances' from very frugal working class parents who never spent a dime(and still don't but are sitting on accumulated $$) and the friends are kinda spendthrifts.
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Yes, I do remember the Hare Krishnas living there. One of my best friends in 5th grade was in a Krishna family, she/they lived nearby. She took me there for some holiday or another. I hated the food and my parents weren't 'thrilled' with my going there, so I never went back. I heard a rumor back then that George Harrison had visited them!!!
BH's best friend lives in those buildings now!
made his own lunches. I bought those banana leaf or some leaf covered rice thingies with some unknown substance in center and some bokchoy in chinatown this afternoon so that is dinner. easy.
One of my best friends in 5th grade was in a Krishna family, she/they lived nearby. She took me there for some holiday or another....
and then we were at band camp... :-/
lol
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don't need to clean oven if don't use it.
well i used this over everyday, as does my roommate. so it's heavy usage. not like my first oven in the apartment i lived in for 4.5 years. i never even turned the damn thing on and just kept my journals in it (and my shoes in the mini fridge!) when i moved in with my ex i didnt have unsupervised kitchen privileges (that sounds more awful than it should) so i rarely used it there too. when i lived in harlem i wasn't a fan of the conditions of the kitchen so i never used it. it wasnt until living in park slope here that i started using ovens, real dishes and silverware, etc without having to be "supervised". ive never used the dishwasher here, those are absurd. ive never seen my roommate use it either. the only function i can see it serving is storage for dirty dishes at a dinner party? even still we always clean our dishes immediately even when people are over for dinner. (it's an open kitchen so you can still interact with your guests in the living room, which i guess is the point.. it's for people without maids and help).
that's another thing on my wish lists if i have to move and find another share, i hope im allowed access to the kitchen and everything in it (minus other peoples food btw) which actually has been a problem here, but just a FEW times. i sleep walk and 2-3 times i woke up in the middle of the night and ate food that wasnt my own. i find that deplorable btw and apologized profusely cuz i wasnt aware i did it. somehow i managed to get the child safety lock off the fridge (there is on the this fridge, but not since my roommates dog passed away... she used to somehow be able to OPEN THE FRIDGE with her snout and eat everything on the lower shelf!) when i first moved in i forgot to put the safety lock on and she got into the fridge, and then my dog would obviously get in on the action. how a small frail old beagle was able to do that i dont know. WHOA, if i ever do it again i could totally like blame it on her ghost or something hahaha. omg dont i sound like THE ideal roommate for some stranger out there!??! when i fell UP the stairs in harlem and knocked out my front two teeth i told everyone a spirit pushed me up the stairs! they were like WHOA that's spooky, who do you think it could have been!?! i didnt say what KIND of spirit!
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I found:
-shark eggs
-sea glass
-a load of black bivalve shells (shells that look like the SHELL oil company logo)
-razor clam shells
and a large piece of drift wood.
I thought I finally found a piece of Ambergris which would be like finding solid gold,
but it turned out to be an old piece of foam from a boat hull.
I have yet to find a horseshoe crab shell this year,
this is distrubing because these creatures have been coming ashore in these parts for about
300 million years and now I hardly see them anymore.
Groan at the 'Brooklyn is like Paris' story. I think I just threw up a little...
oh i went and peeked over at that... i kinda barfed a little too. why cant people just let different areas have their different flavors? ive been to paris hundreds of times on the internet, and one of my favorite movies of Mary Kate and Ashley's Passsport to Paris, and im sorry, paris is NOTHING like brooklyn.
*rob*
I found a note behind the front bushes today written by littlelegion.
It was asking the "invisible man spirit" to be friends with him.
I had a hard time getting to the note and I thought I might just leave it alone there.
Then I thought that he's in a magical age when anything is possible so I wrote a response in big scrawling letters with a piece of charcoal.
I wrote:
YES in big letters with a big X underneath.
I know he saw it but he hasn't said anything to me about it yet.
*rob*
*rob*
I feel like we know him pretty well here from your discussions on the OT about him.
I don't think we ever really say goodbye completely from those we love.
Everyone lives on in our daydreams, thoughts, remembrances and dreams. It's almost like we live side by side with our loves even if they're not part of our daily routines any longer.
life of a nurse. wash is done when get home including all your scrubs. windows washed. (some of them). dinner purchased and prepped. comes home - practices violin and prepares lunches to take to work for next 5 days (cooks vegs, chicken etc and puts in container some of which get frozen) to save a $ and eat healthier. now a glass of wine . bed little after 10 and get up 6:23a
LMFAO at your description of life as a nurse!! but im assuming "practising the violin" is code for giving a BJ! (nursing students LOVE to give blow jobs... at least it was where i went to school for those in the nursing program!) no personal experience, but it was a given fact and everyone knew about it. supposedly they would never fully give themselves, but were the best out of any majors at playing the violin!
*rob*
So true,
I think the French even have a nice sounding name for the place they put the poor people outside of the city:
Le Banlieue
as if that makes it any better.
::smallest violin::
quote:
I feel like we know him pretty well here from your discussions on the OT about him.
and the pictures of him in drag looking like a busted up over masculinated version of the chiquita banana lady! sorry dave, but those drag pictures you posted of him on "halloween" screamed a 365 day a year thing, NOT just halloween. i never saw ANYONE dress in drag on halloween (and lots of people do that) get it so, um, well... perfectly tranny?
*rob*
I think the French even have a nice sounding name for the place they put the poor people outside of the city:
Le Banlieue
as if that makes it any better.
lol. isnt that the name of a speakeasy in Bushwick!??!? (im kinda serious)
*rob*
True, the official nurse's crest features Tulips on an Organ.
rob, he's 10 times the man that you are!!!!!!
no doubt, no doubt. i never claimed otherwise. but he's still 10x the drag queen i could ever be too!
*rob*
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I'm very sad. I just had a good bye dinner with Fulgencio. I've never met anyone sweeter, OR HOTTER than him. We've known each other since 2001. It was because of him and his daughters bautismo up on Throop and Broadway that I found Brooklyn and Bed Stuy. I'm not sure I've really ever loved someone as much as I loved him.
*rob*
and it's quite addictive,
like Shakespeare meets the Sopranos with a lot of nudity.
...anyway, everyone wears these faux fur collars with everything.
Fur makes everything seem more intense.
I need a live-in cat sitter from Friday, March 30 - Sunday April 1. MUST BE WILLING TO STAY IN MY APARTMENT. MUST BE GOOD WITH CATS. MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE GIVING A CAT MEDICINE HE DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE.
Please, take this seriously. I'm really anxious and upset right now that I can't find a service that can deal with Mr. Bu and his medicine. I need someone really trustworthy who will make sure Mr. Bu gets his meds. I am willing to pay the person $150. Do any of you have someone SUPER who you would recommend and really trust?
*rob*
I need a live-in cat sitter from Friday, March 30 - Sunday April 1. MUST BE WILLING TO STAY IN MY APARTMENT. MUST BE GOOD WITH CATS. MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE GIVING A CAT MEDICINE HE DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE.
OMG! that's the exact date of my trip to south cari!!! does that mean youre gonna come with me!?! i would totally do it if not for this trip. jeez you are paying 150 dollars. if i cancel my tickets and postphone them is there a cost? i could use the 150 dollars and im sure i can just get tickets to south carolina next month instead. im very good at giving animals medications and ive watched your cats before and didnt destroy your house. i am almost certain tho you are going to get multiple offers from people on here who will be willing to do it for free. (i really really really would) but i think cancelling this trip would put bad karma points on my soul than i cannot afford right now.
*rob*
Getting a cat to take medicine is nothing like getting a dog to take medicine.
a'ight, ingrate.
*rob*
Thanks, Legion...keep thinking!
for 150 dollars / 36 hours...
dogs take adminster their own meds you know!
*rob*
http://parkslopeparents.com/index.php?option=com_sobi2&catid=305&Itemid=212
Several people with recommendations.
*rob*
I'll just take that to mean you're a huge fan of Santorum and the far right religious extremists.