Thursday, June 7, 2018
The Event
Some photos taken last evening of "the Event," which in this case was a movie showing GREASE. Not much attendance, children bored and playing with each other, bicycles not being stopped by a usually absent PS. Oh, yes, and our loops still filled with discarded garbage and, for the mattresses, illegally disposed.
The mattress and garbage disposal anywhere on the loop is becoming a sanitary and cosmetic problem. It looks disgusting. They actually designated the spot in front of my building”a bulk garbage site”. They need to build a disposal shelter or something for this move out trash. The place looks like a dirty slum.
ReplyDeleteI walked by, 100 people tops... But everyone loves the events! Get real Rick, and get acting Keith (your political future depends on it).
ReplyDeleteHe can only act if more people show enough interest to attend his meetings. And if you cannot attend, then send him e-mails as to how the noise affects you in your apartment.
DeleteIncorrect. If one person tells Powers they are affected, he should be acting.
DeletePeter Stuyvesant continues to post their inane foolish articles and ads that have nothing to do with life here. Today it is free bicycle helmets being given out in the village. What a crock they are.
ReplyDeleteJust a note that I cannot pass posts that "creatively" make a pun out of someone's name. If I did it in the past, it was not intentional.
ReplyDeleteDuring Grease and movie before that last night noise from whistles of soccer coaches and screams of shirtless pre teens playing football somehow louder than movies.
ReplyDeleteGuess meeting on Tuesday about noise not so productive.
They know EXACTLY what is going on around here, and DO NOT CARE!
ReplyDeleteI know O/T, but I'd like to do a major shout out to Sgt. Pascal (I apologize if I don’t have the correct spelling of his last name) and his PS crew who responded on the dime to a beyond crazy lunatic who was first kicked out of McDonalds, and then Associated, late morning today. He was on the Stuy Town side of 14th street, screaming insults with included racial epithets and also, as told to me by a woman witness on the street, spitting, a felony assault offense. They escorted him off the Stuy Town 14th ST side since they really did not have legal grounds (the witness did not pursue it further) to hold him for arrest. Well done guys.
ReplyDeleteAnd if anyone thinks I'm an SPS troll/cheerleader, just go to the TA FB page and see my most recent posts re the Oval Events.
Correction, it's Sgt. Pascale, not Pascal. Thanks
ReplyDeleteAnyone hear about the unprovoked Pit bull attack on (2) ST women? Owner told to muzzle dog after last attack on another dog but he doesn't comply. Why is he still living here? Why is the dog still here?
ReplyDeleteTransient Town Gypsy Village
ReplyDeleteSpeyer wins.
Whatever the numbers, it doesn't matter much to Management. They will just say that these are the bitchers, and that most tenants welcome the changes.
ReplyDeleteRe the Oval movies, in addition to violating the quiet enjoyment of one’s apartment and these being commercial events (no ID checks) forbidden by NYC zoning law, this poster at the TA FB page has made a very valid point re another law (Federal) violation as well
ReplyDelete“If y’all are gonna cite law, ANYONE wanna Andreas that StuyTown shows movies meant for personal viewing?!?! Yeah, they don’t get the version that is suppose to be for *group* viewing and violate that FBI warning every week ...”
Didn’t CWC/CompassRock get into trouble as well with them showing NFL games at the Oval as well? Hey SPS, you are so busted. Keith Powers, here’s’ another law violation for you. FBI!
If the story of a pit bull attacking two women on property, I’d say the lawsuits will begin. Any halfway decent lawyer will find this blog and see that management doesn’t give two shits about enforcing dog rules, and those women will win big!
ReplyDeleteFor the concert, the concert stage was moved close to the center of the Oval, the music is now blasting, MUCH louder than last year.
ReplyDeleteThese cretins actually put on the headline of their weekly email that they are giving us a double dose of movies. They disgust me with their crap entertainment
ReplyDeleteTonight they have sent another email blast advertising the concerts and movies. They have some fucking balls! Doing that while knowing that hardly anybody goes to those things (and that number includes a lot of outsiders who stroll in for free "entertainment", pickpocketing, etc.) this is a great big MIDDLE DIGIT from Rick. I have never seen him at any of these sparsely attended shit fests. Rick clearly has the utmost contempt for the people who live here.
ReplyDeleteWe need a Tenants Association. A real one, not one that is in name only and is only interested in collecting dues (for doing nothing) and schmoozing with politicians and getting into photo ops.
ReplyDelete3 27 what owner - how do we know if we dont know whom and then we can avoid. there is a nasty person with a do living here and he is mean and angry. i could describe him.
ReplyDelete>>I have never seen him at any of these sparsely attended shit fests. Rick clearly has the utmost contempt for the people who live here.<<
ReplyDeleteOf course, it being FREE and offering such entertainment, one would think the entire Management team would be there to support these events. I assume they were there?
I hope that Powers doesn't turn out to be the wimp that Garodnick was. Garodnick would never take on Management because REBNY owned him.
ReplyDeleteThe high volume of the movie last night was definitely an act of malice by Hayduk and co., especially considering what a very sparse audience there was. Willing audience, that is. I'm glad I don't live near the Oval, but I could hear it very clearly on 14th. It's bad enough that these "events" aren't even legal on a property zoned for residential use, but to act so vindictively because s many people who live here have complained, is really hitting a low mark. Nasty. No wonder they have to resort to all kinds of gimmicks to try and snare new renters. This may be a big town, but its also a small town inasmuch as word of a nasty LL gets around.
ReplyDeleteWalked past tonight’s concert and counted, and there were 71 people there. That number included 28 kids that could have cared less about the concert and were just happy to be running around. Of the 43 adults out there, about half of them were just socializing and drinking wine. They would probably be doing that anyway without the nuisance of a concert.
ReplyDeleteSo Rick, I ask you, are these ridiculous events really being pushed at the expense of thousands of people living at the oval for a total of 20 interested people? If you think so, I once again implore you to move you and your family away from PCR to a building facing the oval and playground 10 (for the ridiculous ice rink noise).
The lawsuits are coming Rick. Be prepared to open the wallets for a whole lot more than the $100k a month you are paying for that environment killing truck of yours. Even your Boca resort won’t want you back after this is said and done.
>>So Rick, I ask you, are these ridiculous events really being pushed at the expense of thousands of people living at the oval for a total of 20 interested people?<<
ReplyDeleteHis bosses say so, and they are pleased. Do I have to remind people that I saw "suits" walking around the Oval, then stopping, pointing at the Oval, laughing and saying that the Oval was a "great resource"? They were not talking about how great the Oval is for birds, squirrels or trees. The great resource was making more money.
A great resource. Suits. Hayduk is their man. The concerts are a success. To them.
So residents don't care, or they just think the voices against the concerts are just you typical bitchers. These residents don't face the Oval. They don't care because everything is me, me, me. If they are affected, then they care. But, otherwise, no.
I was walking at the Oval, as I usually do, and I saw a lot of chalk marks/drawings on the ground. A lot. The rain still hasn't taken them away. Obviously, they were made by this kid or that one. Doesn't matter. Their parents don't care. Perhaps the parents are medicated. They don't care and "children are children." So what if the kids are Lord of the Flies children? "What's it to you, mister?"
ReplyDeleteAnd that is what we have: A lot of people--residents, workers here, etc--don't care. I see this lack of caring every day.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who grew up here over 40 years ago and has lived here that entire time, drawing on the sidewalk with chalk has been the norm. Kids of every generation have done it. It has nothing to do with parents these days being medicated yada yada yada.
ReplyDeleteI agree with almost everything you write, but come on with this one.
The place is becoming increasingly slum like as this student/transient demo increases.
ReplyDeleteI can’t help but recalling the happy, smug faces of our local politicians Garodnick, Kavanagh, and Hoylman as they were at our first meeting with Blackstone. Turning us over to the Devil. And never looked back.
ReplyDeleteThe concerts are not necessarily a success. Hayduk and company will rent these apartments in their own creative ways no matter what they offer or don’t. The advertising and holding of these concerts is just a PR gimmick . Plentiful never ending pool of students, tourists, short term residents and city subsidized.
ReplyDeleteCome on STR, you lose credibility in your fight when you complain about kids coloring with chalk on the sidewalks. Kids coloring with chalk on sidewalks has been happening here and everywhere else since the invention of chalk.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate all that you do but I can't take you seriously when you bring things like this up as thousands of people struggle to find peace and quiet in their homes. Keep the fight going, but don't go off on ridiculous tangents like this. Both yourself and the blog lose credibility when you fight the innocent practice of kids coloring with chalk.
Anyone know what happened to Sergeant Grace?
ReplyDeleteWere the photographs of the Oval taken after everyone had left? Looks like a bunch of stragglers. The photos of the mattresses scream 'SLUM!!!!!" OMG, Rick Hayduk take yourself and your kin back down Florida. We need some class around here!
ReplyDeleteSTR, NOBODY cares. There is a notice in my lobby asking people not to leave stuff on the ledges as giveaways. Of course, the shelf is full of ..... guess what? Stuff people are giving away! I think that because Management shows tenants such disrespect and contempt, some folk just sneer at any notices from them. My mother always told me that when it comes to respect, you get as much as you give. That's probably why so many of us would like all of Management to jump in the river - with weights on.
ReplyDeleteWHEN DOES THE PROMISED "CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE" BEGIN?
ReplyDeleteThe anger is building. For excellent reasons.
Predators. Dictators. An historian recently compared them to "paternalistic colonials" who "know better what the natives need."
Re: Chalk drawing on the ground. I don't know what neighborhoods you grew up in, but excessive writing with chalk on the ground (and I mean excessive--all over the place) was not done in Brooklyn or Queens where I lived as a kid. Never. And we are talking about working class neighborhoods.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to it, but it is parenting skills that are lacking. My take. Sorry.
>>Were the photographs of the Oval taken after everyone had left?<<
ReplyDeleteI wish! LOL. That's one reason why one of the photos shows GREASE playing.
Long term Gypsy Village Transient Town residents should wake up and stop complaining.
ReplyDeleteIt's no secret environmentally conscious Black$tone designated specific locations for exiting transients to discard mattresses for re-use by incoming transients.
Speyer's failed business plan to rake in multiple billion dollar windfalls booting your historic PCVST middle class community out of your PCVST homes is being successfully realized by Black$tone.
Garodnick, PCVST TA Board and de Blasio, all elected to specifically defend you against the likes of Blac$tone, literally in-writing guaranteed your extinction.
It's Over! It's Done! Speyer Wins! You Lose!
My wife grew up in queens (Woodside) in the 60’s-70’s, she played with chalk. Most of my family grew up in Brooklyn (Bay Ridge and Marine Park) during the same period. Chalk was used in both those neighborhoods.
ReplyDeleteAgain, stick to your fight and leave this petty shit to yourself. And if you want to argue about parents these days not being on top of their games, I won’t disagree with you, but not for letting their kids color on the sidewalk. Better than spray paint, which was used by many resident kids to deface this property in the 70-80’s.
Again, I repeat, I have NEVER seen this amount of chalk doodling on the sidewalks wherever I was, even in Stuy Town until this year, and maybe last. My experience seems to go against what you state, if what we are talking about is the same thing.
ReplyDeleteGo to the Oval Fountain, east side. Chalk marks all over, not just here or there. All over. To a lesser degree, same thing near the flagpole on the 20 St loop, west side.
Parents or nannies, same thing for some of these kids. No one cares.
>>Again, stick to your fight and leave this petty shit to yourself.<<
Must I remind you that this is my blog, and I can post what I want? If you don't like it, don't read. It is not "petty shit" to me, just an observation. The world isn't falling apart because of chalk doodling. Again, just an observation.
"The world isn't falling apart because of chalk doodling. Again, just an observation."
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't bother me so long as it is actually chalk that washes off in the rain, and not that fucking spray paint that is a permanent eyesore. I agree that some of the parents need some parenting themselves. They think their little buttercups can do no wrong. I think this is especially true of the parents who waited until it was almost too late. Just my observation.
@ June 9, 2018 at 7:26 AM
ReplyDelete"Better than spray paint, which was used by many resident kids to deface this property in the 70-80’s."
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I call B.S. on this lying P.R. troll.
We moved in during the 1980's after years of patiently waiting on the famous PCVST list. At that time NYC was covered with graffiti and crime was exploding everywhere. But not here in this historic, once-special place. PCVST was immaculate. Trashcans were rare, pretty much limited to playground areas. At the same time, you could search for hours without locating a speck of trash on the ground anywhere throughout the complex. First time visitors walking into PCVST were shocked entering a different world they may have heard about, but did not know actually existed. They could not stop talking about it, always asking how they could ASAP put their names on the waiting list. Before Speyer, the legendary "80-acre Oasis" description was accurate.
It was not until Speyer hit this place like a bomb that PCVST transformed into an open air junkyard. Dogshit everywhere, spray paint graffiti everywhere, garbage everywhere, discarded mattresses everywhere, increasing petty crime, eroding QOL, harassment, etc., all became integral parts of a PCVST resident's daily life experience.
STR thoroughly documents a 10-year history of willful neglect, abuse, exploitation and degradation of PCVST infrastructure over lorded by a succession of greedy, predatory, billionaire oligarchs. For simple comparison, perform www searches of PCVST images and crime stats 1950-2007. The stark contrasts are like day and night. Why else is STR constantly attacked by P.R. trolls pushing their phony lipstick on a pig agenda that cannot withstand honest truth or historic fact. Right now it's night, soon (15 years?) to be permanent lights out for PCVST fading into history.
Graffitiing at that time (70-80’s) was called tagging, and it was notorious in the community. I know because I was friends with many guys who did it and I witnessed it firsthand. I was also classmates with a guy who’s family was thrown out of here for his tagging on a building. MetLife didn’t mess around when it came to that stuff, and they had no problem tossing vandals.
ReplyDeleteThe difference was that the staff was out there immediately scrubbing that shit off the walls and floors to keep this place spotless. I remember how it used to infuriate the kids when their tag was gone within 24 hours.
This place was spotless back then because of the staff. We were the same little shits back then as the little shits that run around this place today.
Here are some of the activities that kids liked to do around here back in the day (aside from tagging), and ask anyone who has grown up here, they will verify:
- Riding on top of elevators
- Purposely getting elevators stuck between floors
- Throwing things off the rooftops
- Hanging out on top of the garage vent structures
@12:30 PM: You are so absolutely spot-on correct! I've lived here for 37 years and was on a waiting list for several years. It was very, very rare that there was any kind of vandalism and there was zero garbage and dog shit on the property. People really valued being a resident here and nobody wanted to screw things up for themselves and their families and risk getting evicted. Evictions were rare, but they happened. The Management back then consisted of a Property Manager (Bill Potter) and a very well organized, unionized maintenance staff. The people in the back offices were efficient and no-nonsense. The place ran like well-oiled machinery. Apart from the fact that the Management was very competent (and didn't have to waste time with stupid PR and advertising stunts!) the people who lived here had much more respect for their neighbors and for the property in general. We also had a pretty good tenants association.
ReplyDeleteEverything did a 180 degree turn since the property was sold to the loathsome Speyer and subsequent predators. The "Property Managers" we have had since then haven't been fit to lick Bill Potter's shoes. They have all been absolute garbage.
Agree with all posters about the deterioration of ST in the past ten years. Although the management companies before Blackstone, were evil and incompetent, I find that the property has deteriorated immensely during the 2 or 3 years of the Blackstone reign. It looks like a slum now.
ReplyDeleteAnd it will get worse, particularly with the summer. Outsiders now head over here to partake in the Oval and the cafe because there is nothing stopping them. PS just wants to be friends and not much else. That new fence around the Oval is nice but outsiders just go through it. And I am only speaking of outsiders here, not the many more residents who live here, legally or not. Some are slobs and just don't care. Paying high rents, some feel why not?
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