On a hot, humid July 20th, 2011, Stuy Town's renowned mini putting green was put to rest. It will only be missed by the babes who sunbathed there and the perverts who drooled.
RIP
(But, please, don't put a Food Truck or a concession stand in its place!!!)
Update: A commenter wrote about the possibility of there being a new addition to the lovely Oval surroundings--Oval Compost.
Well, the Oval already has Oval Compost, right by Oval 19. Nice, rich, aromatic smells....
Update July 24: I've a hunch that the former Oval Golf will now be a security guardhouse.
One of the many idiotic "ammenties" that were thrown into Stuyvesant Town. Goodbye and good riddance. BTW did ANYONE ever really use it as a putting green?
ReplyDeleteI tremble to think of what Pimp-the-Project Ro$e is going to put there! Probably a hot dog stand.
ReplyDeleteOnce in a very rare blue moon a child or two would play there for a couple of minutes. Otherwise, it was chiefly used as a sunbathing deck--or rather, mound.
ReplyDeleteNew Oval Amenity: Oval Compost. Wait for it...
ReplyDeleteWe already have Oval Compost! I'll try to get a photograph of it.
ReplyDeleteWon't be too hard. There is crap everywhere today.
ReplyDeleteActually, I would love an Oval Compost! It would be a really good way to dispose of our food waste, and create soil. I would even love to have gardening plots that residents could adopt, even grow tomatoes, kale, peppers, eggplant--all gorgeous plants and delicious as well.
ReplyDeleteFunny, there are more children there now, playing in the mud and dirt with toy trucks, than there ever were playing golf.
ReplyDeleteOK, so Oval Compost has already "been done." Time to move on.
ReplyDeleteI hear through the grapevine that the putting green will be turned into "Oval Vomitorium."
Unlike the other "amenities," this one will be open to all, free of charge. Just another benefit of residency!
"Coming home from a long night of all-you-can-drink pub crawls on the LES? Feeling a bit...full? Having a hard time keeping up with your compatriots in the 'who can scream at the top of their lungs' contest at 2:47AM??? Then we have an amenity for you...Oval Vomitorium! Puking in the elevator and all over the mailboxes is so...well...2010. Pay a visit to Oval Vomitorium. Open 24/7."
I hear it will be an old bathtub from a recently renovated apartment and a towel dispenser. The mudpile stays...
I await!
ReplyDeleteVomitorium Update:
ReplyDeleteBad news. Looks like Rose will not move forward with Oval Vomitorium. I, for one, am very disappointed.
Apparently the old saying: you can lead an entitled YUNNIE to the Vomitorium but you can't make him/her puke. Some things never change.
Apparently, after a great deal of market research (MCI to be filed in '13), they determined that dormies paying $850/mo. for their flop were just not willing to go to a central location to heave. They cited comments from Carrie College as summing up the sentiment of their target market; "Like, why should I walk all the way over there when I can just do it on my shoes on the elevator on the way home?!? I'm in there anyway and I don't have to clean it up! Daddy, I need new shoes..."
Another loss for the community.
$850 a month? Have you seen the new rents on the Stuy Town web site? For two people to turn a one bedroom into a dorm with a fake wall will cost them each about $1,700 each, not counting the wall. No charge for Oval Compost.
ReplyDeleteI was assuming 4 yunnies in a 1br. Two illegal walls. Free internet. Oval Compost--extra. And, as we all know, Oval Vomitorium is now a thing of the past. It makes me sick, I tell ya....
ReplyDeleteIt should take Rose about 4 years to turn the putting green into something really dumb like a "gourmet" lemonade stand. They can't do dick with any type of efficiency.
ReplyDeleteVery wrong about Rose.
ReplyDeleteIt's already "Oval Mud."
Now it's Oval Mud, but I fear what they will eventually put in there. Lady Maya is an "expert" on using space. So, there's a space there. It's going to be used. Somehow.
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a freshly dug grave. Is Rose pimping out the property as Forest Lawns East? Where do I go to buy a plot? Oval Undertaker?
ReplyDeleteI heard that The Frenchmen has started selling headstones...
ReplyDeleteUpdate:
ReplyDeleteThe frame for a concrete foundation has been put in place and electric conduit has been laid.
I'm getting my finger ready to gag myself once I see what permanent defilement is cemented in place...
A security guardhouse. It has to be. Can't be ATM machines. Not yet, anyway.
ReplyDeleteSurrounded by trees and plants, this will give the guardhouse easy viewing access of the entire Oval. Security cars can pack themselves in better to the enlarged pathway there. A win-win situation!
ReplyDeleteI swear there HAS to be someone who thinks up of these things for Rose Associates and gets paid for the displeasure. But who? Fess up, Adam!
ReplyDeleteNow we know what it is--"Oval Contraceptive."
ReplyDeleteA 24 hour condom/Red Bull vending machine "oasis."
Shrubbery will be planted to shield the uninitiated from those who "choose to use" in the immediate vicinity of the dispenser.
Playgrounds 3 and 10 have ASTRO TURF which is good for golf....so why are they chasing the golfers out? How about the folks with kids go to the Oval insead? We should all be happy.
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