tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post8358046892892813020..comments2024-03-19T04:15:46.480-04:00Comments on The Stuyvesant Town Report: Public Safety Breaks Up Hookah and Booze Party at the OvalStuy Town Reporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05538426011607971633noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-28648955455167693552012-05-15T13:36:56.218-04:002012-05-15T13:36:56.218-04:00"If you check out the Dog Map, dogs are not a..."If you check out the Dog Map, dogs are not allowed in the fountain area AND in the pathways around the lawn."<br /><br />I understand. But to use the regular pathway around the Oval, the one at Atrocities and Greenmarket sit on, is not an inconvenience.<br /><br />Some people won't be happy until they forge new paths through every lawn, garden, and tree.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-29202893851339753192012-05-15T07:44:31.702-04:002012-05-15T07:44:31.702-04:00>>They are not banned from the Oval. They ca...>>They are not banned from the Oval. They can't go by the fountain. Two very different things.<<<br /><br />If you check out the Dog Map, dogs are not allowed in the fountain area AND in the pathways around the lawn.<br /><br />http://www.pcvst.com/Portals/0/documents/PCVST-MAP%20%28Dog%20Map%29.pdfStuy Town Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538426011607971633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-53691852370303447102012-05-15T05:59:51.952-04:002012-05-15T05:59:51.952-04:00Tell the security guards to turn their security ca...Tell the security guards to turn their security cars off when sitting around in them for hours and hours.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-30628899096049993222012-05-14T23:55:40.226-04:002012-05-14T23:55:40.226-04:00"Otherwise, why even stop a hookah/booze part..."Otherwise, why even stop a hookah/booze party at the fountain?"<br /><br />Because they didn't pay their membership dues to Oval Hookah?!? And, you know, we just can't have that, now, can we!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-51757243611531067752012-05-14T23:41:00.100-04:002012-05-14T23:41:00.100-04:00They are not banned from the Oval. They can't ...They are not banned from the Oval. They can't go by the fountain. Two very different things. Are you people on drugs?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-7404839553445680312012-05-14T21:53:32.819-04:002012-05-14T21:53:32.819-04:00Vital pathwayVital pathwayTommyboyardeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-38297736452896397242012-05-14T20:29:02.581-04:002012-05-14T20:29:02.581-04:00What does preventing dogs from urinating on the fo...What does preventing dogs from urinating on the fountain where people frequently sit have ANYTHING to do with getting around the property? Your comment makes no sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-53006311887925293652012-05-14T20:26:58.399-04:002012-05-14T20:26:58.399-04:00I feel for the families who move here and pay 3-4k...I feel for the families who move here and pay 3-4k a month in rent only to live in a community overrun with pitbulls and degenerate college kids.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-16847463115252087682012-05-14T20:00:41.389-04:002012-05-14T20:00:41.389-04:00Yes, the powers that be want those rent checks, bu...Yes, the powers that be want those rent checks, but they also don't want the complex to be turned into a mosh pit of renters doing what they want, which just simply devalues a property. I mean, Public Security is out there, enforcing the rules when they can (which necessitates seeing rules being broken or being told by other residents that rules are being broken). Otherwise, why even stop a hookah/booze party at the fountain?Stuy Town Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538426011607971633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-68771521717418770022012-05-14T13:59:45.911-04:002012-05-14T13:59:45.911-04:00"The only way to deter people is to hit them ..."The only way to deter people is to hit them where it hurts...in their pocketbook."<br /><br />The reason that's not happening is because Rose needs to collect all those $3K & $4K rent checks and doesn't give a rats ass how their tenants behave as long as they get their money. Don't we all get this issue ? If it was going to change, it would have happened already.<br /><br />Rose is unwilling to offend anyone, lest they lose a paying market rate tenant. Plain and simple.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-64652214508872352892012-05-14T13:40:50.889-04:002012-05-14T13:40:50.889-04:00Banning dogs from the oval is overkill. Folks have...Banning dogs from the oval is overkill. Folks have to be able to get across the complex.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-5439463563584736412012-05-14T12:26:19.913-04:002012-05-14T12:26:19.913-04:00Actually, only two signs are needed, one on the le...<i>Actually, only two signs are needed, one on the left and the other on the right. And they can be placed near the circular plantings at the front of the fountain entrance.</i><br /><br />Three signs are needed because people also enter the Fountain area from the front middle section. The front entryway of the Fountain area is simply too large to cover with only two signs placed at the far right and the far left, as you have suggested. Not to worry, though, you will never see three signs (and probably not even two) posted because it would be unattractive and demonstrate Adam Rose's and his Management company, Rose Associates', monumental inability to run this place well, to say nothing of his and their lack of interest in doing so.<br /><br />And, as we all know, no amount of signs is sufficient to deter those with a sense of entitlement who want to do what they want to do when they want to do it or those who are willfully oblivious of all the signage already posted around here, i.e. letting their dogs into the plantings to do their business while standing in front of a sign asking them not to! <br /><br />My solution is the only sensible and realistic one possible: ban dogs entirely from the Oval and Fountain areas. And anyone found - or seen via camera - walking their dog(s) in those areas should be fined...heavily. Either write them a ticket in person, if Security is present, which is unlikely since they are almost never there, or follow dog owners/walkers via camera to their buildings and when they swipe their keycard to gain access grab their information and add a fine to their rent invoice. The only way to deter people is to hit them where it hurts...in their pocketbook.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-42514113261303436692012-05-14T12:02:05.609-04:002012-05-14T12:02:05.609-04:00For that “public” space issue at the Oval fountain...For that “public” space issue at the Oval fountain now taken over by the “Like, Yah!”’ crowd, I propose a two pronged attack. First, a flash mob of cyclists who will walk that bikes right through this group of tanorexia texting zombies and cause a similar reaction when John Savage walked his mountain bike over Buggin Out’s Air Jordans in “Do the Right Thing”. This will soften them up for the main attack, the nuclear option of a flash mob of Stroller Mafias as they wheel their two, three seat, FOUR SEAT unstoppable SUV strollers through the pathetic pre melanoma herd, causing total mayhem and destruction in their wake. Problem solved.Crazy Eddienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-50226478794606089052012-05-14T10:48:38.594-04:002012-05-14T10:48:38.594-04:00>>On another note: Why is it permissible for...>>On another note: Why is it permissible for people to be lounging on the pavement around the fountain? Shouldn't the pathway be clear so people can walk around the area?<<<br /><br />I think so. And when all of them are packed in that small area, so there's zero space to walk, it's pretty obnoxious. Not that I mind looking.Stuy Town Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538426011607971633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-22112212057030464592012-05-14T10:46:01.575-04:002012-05-14T10:46:01.575-04:00>>Yesterday I was amazed to see a blonde gir...>>Yesterday I was amazed to see a blonde girl in her 20s sunbathing and talking on her cellphone on a big beach blanket smack in the middle of one of the fenced off areas<<<br /><br />Amazing, isn't it? I once saw a similar 20-something open up the barrier in the Oval Lawn fence, with signs all over stating the lawn is not yet open, and plop herself down on her blanket in the middle of the lawn, oblivious to everything except her own world. It was a pleasure for me to call a security guard. Same attitude from her, too. "Ah, what am I doing wrong?"Stuy Town Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538426011607971633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-60417488216532115962012-05-14T08:55:09.810-04:002012-05-14T08:55:09.810-04:00I'm Anon May 13, 2012 4:13 PM. For the poster...I'm Anon May 13, 2012 4:13 PM. For the poster that asked where we moved, the answer is about 25 miles north, along the Metro-North. <br /><br />And for May 13, 2012 10:56 PM, I visit this blog because after living in Stuyvesant Town for almost 60 years, I have a vested interest, as well as family and friends who still live in ST.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-12288017778442774392012-05-14T08:53:56.682-04:002012-05-14T08:53:56.682-04:00Groundskeeping is doing a lot of landscaping work ...Groundskeeping is doing a lot of landscaping work around playground 7 (it's right behind the First Ave rental office and across from the M entrance to 447 E 14th where the show apartment is -- that's why!). Anyway, lots of new plants and bushes went in and a bunch of the grassy areas are being restored with old grass taken out down to the dirt, then raked and re-seeded. These grassy areas have fences around them (<a href="http://stuytownreport.blogspot.com/2012/04/fencing-goes-up-in-stuy-town.html" rel="nofollow">see fences here in this STR story</a>). You can still clearly see the dirt but now there are lots of very fragile looking shoots of grass popping up. Yesterday I was amazed to see a blonde girl in her 20s sunbathing and talking on her cellphone on a big beach blanket smack in the middle of one of the fenced off areas -- behind 270 First Ave and the rental office where new grass is just beginning to come up. Not sure what was up with her, there were other unfenced areas with sunbathers back there, but someone must have called Security because a guard came flying around the corner behind me in a vehicle with lights flashing to get her to move. Her "huh, what'd I do, Officer" routine was too funny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-814072153608183172012-05-14T03:36:57.345-04:002012-05-14T03:36:57.345-04:00My recollection is that the original limit was an ...My recollection is that the original limit was an aggregate weight of 40 pounds. A new pet policy could easily be put in place. However, if a tenant harbors a pet openly for 3 months and the landlord does nothing, the pet gets to stay. Even if the pet policy changed, we'd have to count on Management enforcing it.<br /><br />On another note: Why is it permissible for people to be lounging on the pavement around the fountain? Shouldn't the pathway be clear so people can walk around the area? And shouldn't they keep their clothes on?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-30852436464450867982012-05-13T23:08:11.848-04:002012-05-13T23:08:11.848-04:00"Why would ANYONE who moved out continue to c..."Why would ANYONE who moved out continue to comment on our blog? Very strange."<br /><br />Not strange at all. The person probably has very strong ties to the place, such as friends, family, good memories, etc. These are feelings that are incomprehensible to the dormies/transients/yuppes/yippes who have moved here in recent years and have no idea whatsoever of what a great place this was when it was a COMMUNITY and was well-run by responsible professionals who could run rings around the current regime.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-4304728919926224292012-05-13T22:56:29.896-04:002012-05-13T22:56:29.896-04:00Why would ANYONE who moved out continue to comment...Why would ANYONE who moved out continue to comment on our blog? Very strange.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-56935277329205748192012-05-13T22:01:17.686-04:002012-05-13T22:01:17.686-04:00Just in case anybody is constipated and needs a la...Just in case anybody is constipated and needs a laxative or is nauseous and needs an emetic, or just simply likes looking at creepy crawly videos, check out the attached link and have your barf bag handy.<br /><br /><br />http://robspeyer.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-59338218551291854942012-05-13T21:08:37.565-04:002012-05-13T21:08:37.565-04:00Just forwarded this nice example of DB hipster nar...Just forwarded this nice example of DB hipster narcissism over to the diehipster.com blog. As someone recently posted on that blog, this pharse can also be applicable here as well:<br />“To quote 90′s Brooklyn…this is L.A.M.E. (Look At Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Everyone!)”Crazy Eddienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-80255514971700521042012-05-13T18:32:15.651-04:002012-05-13T18:32:15.651-04:00Contrary to STR's post, Some of us have heard ...Contrary to STR's post, Some of us have heard that CW is looking to get operating expenses under control. That means one thing and it is not more spending.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-58253577260211268792012-05-13T18:03:33.574-04:002012-05-13T18:03:33.574-04:00" I've been told that the spending on PCV..." I've been told that the spending on PCVST is/will be increasing, and that we should see clear improvements as the months go by."<br /><br />They fed that line to Lux two years ago when he was defending Rose. SSDD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-48500582795676248112012-05-13T18:02:38.834-04:002012-05-13T18:02:38.834-04:00Anonymous @4:13: would you mind telling us where ...Anonymous @4:13: would you mind telling us where you moved to? I'm not asking for your address(!), but whether or not it's in the boroughs of NY or a different state. Congratulations on your new found peace. You have obviously made the right decision and I wish you all the happiness, good health and long life in the world! I hope I can follow the same path eventually, but for now I have to put up with Stydorm. <br />ps I wouldn't vote for any of the incumbents if you paid me a million dollars! Bloomberg and his bunch of puppets are the most worthless scum since Tammany Hall. In fact, even that wasn't really that bad because the Tammany pols treated the ordinary folk better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com