From a comment e-mailed to Daily Heights by an unregistered user of the Prospect Heights Message Boards:
Read description (black leather attache case??) and more grisly details in the Prospect Heights Message Boards
Is Prospect Heights the "Neighborhood of the Year"?
Candicissima writes: “Curbed.com has open polls for the neighborhood of the year and no other place in NYC deserves it more than Prospect Heights (and DH). So, go vote! Voting closes at noon on Sunday.”
A Battery Through My Window
rita writes in the Prospect Heights Message Boards:
“someone threw a battery through our parlor floor window. i woke up this morning to a perfectly centered hole through two panes of glass, and shattered glass all over our apartment.”
“it must have happened at some point yesterday – we got home around midnight, so it must have been before then. so i ask the DH community, WTF?”
“i doubt it’s personal, but … were they aiming for our dining room chandelier (which is visible from the street) as a symbol of us gentrifying the neighborhood? or is this just the urban equivalent of hitting malboxes with garbage cans?”
Nestor's House on Christmas Eve, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, NY
Nestor’s House on Christmas Eve, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, NY
Originally uploaded by dailyheights.com.
sje writes: “My excellent neighbor Nestor always lights his house up, and this year is no exception: on Underhill at Bergen.”
Where are the best Christmas lights in Prospect Heights? [Message Boards]
How Did You Get There?
Oiseau writes in the Prospect Heights Message Boards: “…I ended up riding over the Brooklyn Bridge with the cars. It was the only way to ride over that bridge, other wise you had to walk it.”
“I yelled at Marty to get some bike lane police, and then turned around because my derailer cable broke and Bicycle Station was open real early and fixed it quickly, amazingly, because I was about to give up…”
“Then I found some abandoned pregnant cat on Dean St., and couldn’t take it to the animal shelter, not that that is a good thing, but at least it’s warm, but with the traffic and all, I just gave it some food.”
“And you?”
Is the Strike Illegal?
The word “illegal” has been thrown around pretty loosely, and over and over again, at every opportunity, in the media. And now, by the anti-strike crowd (by now, that crowd numbers approximately 99% of Brooklynites, MTA employees excluded). One of the other “messages” that keeps surfacing in the local media is the claim that the international TWU had advised the NY branch NOT to strike. It would be nice to verify these claims, but like pretty much everybody else, we spent an extra 5 hours today negotiating traffic and logistic hassles brought on just in time for Christmas (at least UPS is still delivering).
Oh, hey… there are about 50,000 comments on this in the Prospect Heights and Park Slope message boards… let’s take a look:
IT’S ON – TWU STRIKES!! (Chaos ensues in more than 100 comments on the Prospect Heights Board)
WAR STORIES: How did you get there?? (Prospect Heights Board)
I would TOTALLY start an illegal taxi service… if I had a car.
"Carroll"ers to Bruce: You're a Scrooge
… “On the 12th day of Christmas, Bruce Ratner took from me/
12 months of taxes/
11 blocks of sidewalks/
10 acres peopled/
nine cultures mixing/
eight unclogged …
Prospect Heights on the Colbert Report!
EmilyM writes in the Prospect Heights Message Boards: “Stephen Colbert has been doing a 434-part* series on the congressional districts and last night, while we were all at Festivus, he did ours! He talked about Eastern Parkway, the Caribbean Day Parade, and interviewed Major Owens. It was pretty funny.”
Catch it before it drops off the front page of the Colbert Report (click here for links and more info).
Worst Case Scenarios: What if They Strike Tonight and Scabs Take Over?
Brooklyn Subway Refugees
Scenes from summer 2003, originally uploaded by CatsFive, who wrote: “During the 2003 blackout, the subways, which run on electricity, all stopped. Lots of riders had to exit the subway in some pretty unusual ways.”
OK, we got a temporary reprieve… last we heard, the latest deadline is tonight at 12:01 am. To get you in the mood, STACEY posted the following tidbit (about the strike from the early 1900s) in the Prospect Heights Message Boards:
“Subway motormen on the BRT had gone out on strike on Nov. 1st, 1918. Dispatchers and supervisors were pressed into service as replacement workers. That day, dispatcher Antonio Luciano was assigned as motorman on the Brighton Line that ran at that time from Park Row over the Brooklyn Bridge (which had train traffic at the time) and Fulton Street to the current Franklin Shuttle. He had never before operated elevated trains in passenger service.“
“… Luciano had to navigate an S-shaped curve on what would later be called the Franklin Shuttle at Malbone Street. The speed limit at the location was posted as 6 MPH, but those on the scene later reported that he roared through at what must have been 50 MPH. The first car held the rails, suffering only minor damage, but the second and third cars derailed, the second being demolished and the third nearly so. About 100 passengers lost their lives, though Luciano was spared.”
Don’t PANIC: Prospect Heights Message Boards
You missed the Daily Heights FESTIVUS Party…
alafairnadia writes: “yay festivus! … we got: newbies; stacey as festivus elf (and is getting free drinks next happy hour…); random airings of grievances; feats of strength. we lacked a pole. we had veg. burgers.
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