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Carnivore writes in the Prospect Heights Message Board:

“So Idlewild, alafairnadia and I stopped in here after dinner tonight. Great spot. The atmosphere was nice, the beer selection excellent, and there were a variety of sitting areas for different moods (the overall vibe was extremely mellow).”

“They have a bar food menu that looks really promising (we were assured that the restaurant kitchen will have a much more extensive menu once it opens). Plus the staff actually shooshed someone who was yelling annoyingly!”

“The music was a little random, but I’m sure that will vary. Overall, I think this is a spot I’ll be returning to often. It would also make a great spot for happy hour (hint! hint!).”

More opinions on Flatbush Farm on the Prospect Heights Message Board

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:36 pm

i thought that the blackout in 2003 was romantic… lights out at 9pm, everyone drunk, doing it, and yelling “who’s your daddy?”…
i mean, that’s what was happening in greenpoint. disregarding disaster, good times.

Thinking about buying in Brooklyn and signing away your life to a mortgage holder? That’s just one level of humiliating serfdom that’s in store for you. As dds580 writes in the Prospect Heights message board: “Sadly, all the utility companies treat us like lepers rather than customers…”

“When I got my house, I did not get a water bill for almost a year, nor even on the prior owner’s name. A year later, I got a bill for a couple of thousand plus penalties. I tried to negotiate a deal with them since a never got a bill, but they would not hear of it.”

“The bills were supposedly accurate because they were an ‘actual’ readings of the meter – I couldn’t find one in the house, and when I would bring this to their attention, they would sarcastically ask me if I knew what a meter look like. I could not get them to come to inspect their meter.”

“… It turns out there was no meter in this house. I was still being held responsible for the missing meter. I had to get a plumber, and paid to have a meter installed. Once I had a meter, I fought them to have a refund on the outrageously high bills … After a year two years, I finally got them to credit some money … but I could not get credit for all the time they overbilled me, because of a ‘statute of limitations’ on the time I could get some credit for…”

“If you need something from the electric company, they want to charge you for everything, even to do a reading on Saturdays. They act like dictators. As such, they demand they are always right, and we have no right to complain or anything else.”

“I have a friend from Dominican Republic, and his family bought a generator to send to their relatives because they experience blackouts on a regular basis. I wish we could do the same thing so we would not have to do business with the utility companies here.”

Be happy you’re still renting in the Prospect Heights Message Boards

DH regular armchair_warrior has been swarmed by Realtors(TM) who want to list his building: “today i got my third realtor asking me if they could list my building with them. they all said they been waiting around for me. i vist that building like few times a week at diffrent times.”

And putting it on craigslist only added to the feeding frenzy, leading AW to ask, “Are realtors vultures?”

Eh… not exactly. As doctorj points out: “Realtors are definitely not vultures. Vultures feed mostly on the dead. So unless you expect your project to tank… I would say realtors are more like leeches. Or maybe more like Plasmodium falciparum, which has different life-cycle strategies for infesting different hosts.”

Go to the Prospect Heights Message Board to find out: Are Realtors Vultures Or Leeches?

… and gosh, why don’t they advertise on this site?? (Note: This is sarcasm. The joke is that realtors would not want to advertise on a site where they are being called leeches. But you know what? The only thing worse than being called a leech is not being called a leech.)

Cars: Of course.
Bikes: No.

communitybuilder writes: “The no bikes rule in Green-Wood Cemetery is bizarre, nonsensical, and most of all, a real shame. Why can’t I go with my old Brookyn cousin by bike to visit his parents’ graves?”

“That was our plan a couple of summers ago, but we weren’t allowed. Green-Wood management didn’t think biking to the grave site was ‘compatible with the decorum’ of the cemetery. Rather, they preferred us to visit the cemetary in an exhaust-spewing, loud, broken down ’87 Toyota pick-up. Rolling up in that piece o crap vehicle, we were given carte blanche to drive anywhere we wanted on the grounds. Rolling up on bikes, we were treated like criminals.”

“I think this rule is so ridiculous that I actually wrote Green-Wood’s management a letter a few years ago urging them to change the rule. I hope other people might write them too. Their response to me was that they view bicycles ‘as recreational in nature.’ Try telling that to the 130,000 New Yorkers who now use bikes to commute to work at various times during the year…”

“I know it seems weird to some people to get exercised about not being able to ride a bike around a graveyard. But it’s actually a common thing in other cities. I’ve done bike rides through the old historic cemetaries in other big cities, and it’s fantastic…”

“As to this idea that Green-Wood is all about decorum… the cemetery was originally conceived as a recreational area as well as a place to bury the dead…”

Time to give back Greenwood to the biking public? More info in the Prospect Heights Message Boards

Leozoeypiper writes: “I think that all of the adults but one have been spayed/neutered. The sterilized cats have an ear tip so that they can easily be identified. The kittens are on our list to trap … we hope to get them soon. We do not have fosters available (we have tried …) for them so we have to wait until they are old enough to be spayed/neutered before trapping them. Please let us know if you would be interested in helping. We need more volunteers since we are finding more and more cats and kittens in our area that need our help every day.” More info in the Prospect Heights Message Boards

Okay… so Curbed got the scoop on the biggest July 4th story from Prospect Heights. But if anyone had asked us first… they would have found that roof sex is rather pedestrian to switched-on PH people, nearly two-thirds of whom admit that they have done the nasty “in the heights”:

have you ever had sex on a roof?

Yes 61% No 38%

Paging Masters & Johnson!!! Results of the poll in the Prospect Heights Message Boards

Today at Gorilla I met this guy who is opening a restaurant called Flatbush Farm in the old Bistro St. Marks space… the bar is already open and the restaurant will open soon. Will be American cuisine w/ a natural/organic focus. Saw flyers around the nabe too.

Watch this thread: Prospect Heights Message Boards

Haha… Be sure to update your business cards.

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Discuss on the Prospect Heights PARK SLOPE NORTH Message Board

… and pictures men in biohazard suits removing the bodies of dead animals from the alleged laboratory, located on a stunning pre-gentrification block of Hanson Place,from Jeepbastard:

John Lee writes: “In the early eighties, crack ruled the streets of Brooklyn, and as you can see from this image, Hanson Place was very different… The street was a drug-dealing haven and many abandoned apartments were stash houses. …”

“Over time, several of us had become friends with some of the people that worked in the building. When pressed about what they did for a living, they would dissuade us from asking about it. They would hint that it was a laboratory when their guard slipped. Then one day, one of the workers we were friendly with disappeared … his co-workers mentioned he died suddenly. They seemed really spooked about his death …”

“Shortly after that, more workers in the lab began to die. They just packed up quickly and moved out. The howling of the monkeys fell silent. We assumed they took them all with them, but we were disturbed to see them bring out human and animal body bags from the building and put them in two different vehicles.”

“… Ask anyone from Fort Greene who was here before the gentrification and they will tell you about the painful blood curdling screams that erupted every night from 80 Hanson Place, echoing down to 4th Avenue on a quiet night…”