tk: “Please don’t attack me for posting this.”
Screaming on Vanderbilt Last Night
Cupcake writes in the Prospect Heights Message Boards:
“Did anyone else hear terrified screaming on Vanderbilt last night, around 12:15am? I was woken up from a light sleep by a woman’s horrifying screams: two long screams, and a short scream that ended abrubtly. I was so disturbed I called the kids at Happy Hour, figuring they were still up, to get some advice.”
“On the advice of Kate and Candicissima, I called the 77th Precint to report it. Some cops came by my place around 1am and I tried to describe as best I could what I heard, where it was coming from and what time it occured. The younger cop looked highly skeptical, but the older cop assured me they would check it out.”
Did you hear it too? Report here:
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You're Zealots… But in a Good Way
Congratulations to Prospect Heights on its new status as Neighborhood of the Year over on Curbed.com. This honor was bestowed upon our beloved ProHo (“ProHo?” inside joke, long story) on the basis of a democratic, scientific, statistically valid and meaningful poll in which anyone with an Internet connection can cast a vote:
“With 158 of 427 total votes (and some help from the zealots at DailyHeights), the cup passes from Fort Greene to Prospect Heights,” the Curbed people wrote.
Naturally, fans of DUMBO, LES, and SoBro (South Bronx) were fuming that Candicissima got out the vote, and now we’re all pouring champagne from our solid gold Curbed Cup into the gutters of “windy, desolate and dirty” Vanderbilt Ave. in front of its “ghetto” supermarket, “weak” bars and “segregated schooling, crime and awful restaurants… it might have fallen under a demilitarized zone in Ghostbusters.” (Actual real comment)
“Max” snarkily (and sharkily) retorts: “I agree this is totally a fraudulent poll. If you can’t trust a random internet site for valid scientific answers to such questions as ‘which neighborhood is best?’ or ‘who would totally win in a fight, a whale or 15 sharks?’ then how are we to live our lives?”
What you have to say in The Prospect Heights Message Boards
Excuse Me, But You're (Allegedly) Masturbating on the (Alleged) Q Train
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.