Dan Garodnick vs. Microbeads

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-nyc-lawmaker-proposes-statewide-ban-microbeads-article-1.2379304?cid=bitly

Dear Dan,

Thank you for taking up the important battle against microbeads.

Please don't forget us here in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. We are dying in a manner of speaking. And certainly Affordable Housing is on life support.

Yours sincerely,

STR

P.S. - I think the current photo of you in the News, showcasing your serious and concerned look, is much more impressive than others of the same type I have seen, as impacting as those photos were. Definitely use this photo for promoting yourself to the voters for a higher office than the one you have already.

ST/PCV Dog Policy is a COMPLETE FAILURE

Seen the other day along the walkway corridor between the 500 East 20 St buildings, a frequent dumping and pissing area for dog walkers:

Now for a closer look at what was left behind: (Apologies for the graphic nature of the photos.)

Left side:

Right side:

Dog piss and shit stains and actual turds all over the complex! Thank you, CWCapital and CompassRock, for maintaining this place so impeccably. And thank YOU, Rob Speyer, who changed the no-dog policy here during his (failed) reign! Wish I could package these turds and send them over your way.

And now the chess tables are gone

Work will also start on the other side of the Oval, where more chess tables exist.

Adam Purple 1930-2015

Not a Stuy Town story, but a New York one. Long-time New Yorkers will know him by sight. Another piece of NYC gone.

http://thevillager.com/2015/09/15/adam-purple-legendary-gardener-84-is-dead-was-biking-across-williamsburg-bridge/

NYU Volleyball Event at Playground 11

http://nyugradhalls.tumblr.com/post/129026895485/what-volleyball-in-stuytown-date-sunday

Now, what happens if the volleyball courts are already taken by non-NYU grad students? Will they be asked to leave? Will admittance be only for NYU grad students? Will ST/PCV key-cards be checked?

UPDATE: Sunday, post-5:30pm. Well, it didn't turn out as anyone expected. LOL. Four very nice Asian students, two guys, two gals. That's it. No bros. No shouting. No beer hidden away somewhere. They could have used some more players! All is safe and secure.

That's said, there was NO ONE checking who entered Playground 11. One gets the feeling that CW is trying to save money everywhere.

STR posts, the world shakes

Perhaps my "Stuy Town is a Disaster" post from last week has produced some movement on the part of management. The chess board area between Oval Cafe and Oval Study that I complained about is now under demolition as I write this.

Now, here's the question: What is going to take its place?

Please choose one:

1) New chess tables and chess area.
2) Nothing. Management, pissed, is telling STR and residents: "Take that, bitches!"
3) Vending machines.
4) Student housing.

Stuy Town is a Disaster

I really think that no one cares. Perhaps some residents do, but that's about it.

Here's the morning Stuy Town sweeper zamboni cleaning up the Oval. Problem is that it does a lousy job (photo shows how lousy: all the leaves still remain after the zamboni's passage) and spreads noxious and harmful fumes in the air.

The photo may not truly tell the tale but this dog is huge enough for a child to use as a horse, fifty pound weight limit be damned. Public Safety has really dropped the ball in enforcing the complex's dog rules. We all know that, of course, but the question is whether the lack of enforcement is due to Public Safety or orders from above.

 

The chess table area between Oval Cafe and Oval Study is disgusting. Dog urine (pictured in photo), smudges of dog feces, cigarette butts, spilled drinks, food stains, flies, fleas, mosquitoes--it's all there to enjoy! The chess area and chess tables are never properly cleaned, with only Mother Nature's rain providing any type of effort. Management should post signs that no dogs are allowed inside that area, not only to stop the urine and crap stains, but also to prevent dog owners for placing their fidos on the tables!

A homeless man finds a nice place to sleep in Stuy Town. I don't begrudge him the sleeping quarters, but the question becomes how is it that our award-winning camera system and the eagle eyes of Public Safety did not see this?

I dunno. If it were my job to make sure Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village is maintained as best as possible (meaning, professionally), I would be supremely embarrassed with results like these, which are NOT atypical. And if I were a renter paying 5K or so for my apartment, I'd be furious. Even so, at 2K or thereabouts, we should demand that something be done to make ST/PCV more of a nice clean place to live instead of a slum. And where's the TA in all this? Its officers live and walk around the complex, no?

So is Our Man Dan for These or Against These?

In Dan Garodnick's district, forthcoming.

"YIMBY can now reveal the latest plans for the site, which have changed significantly, and the entirety of the building above the retail base will be condominiums. The project has also received a significant height boost, and is now slated to stand 64 stories and 803 feet tall, with Pelli Clarke Pelli serving as the design architect."

http://newyorkyimby.com/2015/09/revealed-138-east-50th-street-803-foot-tall-midtown-condo-tower-designed-by-pelli-clarke-pelli.html

A reminder of Dan's history on these excessively tall buildings:

http://stuytownreport.blogspot.com/2015/07/is-this-crazy-or-what.html

Well, at least we have a home...for now

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3218600/Four-thousand-sleeping-streets-New-York-homeless-crisis-caused-beggars-making-75-day-cheap-drugs-end-tough-policing-cleaned-city.html