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Hey, Sterling Pl., you may want to STOP BEING NAKED
Candicissima writes: “I recently got some new neighbors on the block behind me. They seem about my age and I can’t really tell anything about them all the way across the backyards and such…except for the fact they apparently have no curtains and like to parade around appearingly naked.”
“I don’t know what to do. My room door faces the back window, so it’s like step out and bam!”
“This is a plea: if you’re on Sterling with no curtains, cover up because I have perverted friends who might try to tape you (sorta kidding)!”
“Anyone else getting to know their neighbors a little more than they bargained for?”
LINK: Really Getting to Know the Neighbors [Prospect Heights Message Boards]
FIVE Stories on Brownstone Park Place Block?
This 2-story building, which some neighbors refer to as the Kee House after the previous (or still current?) residents, was the target of a bidding war, with an opening bid of $1.3 million, as reported a few months ago on Brownstoner, and a deed for $1.4 million was recorded on July 25, according to Property Shark records. Incidentally, a $900,000 mortgage was recorded that same day, with a Mark Schildkraut of Fort Salonga, NY listed as “giving lien or ownership.”
Now, it turns out there’s a new record on the books: a building application for a three-floor extension (and 2-story rear enlargement) to the existing building, dated Aug. 24. Owner is listed as Mark Schildkraut.
Those additions would cost an estimated $105,000 ($105,000?! public records say the craziest things) and would add 4,054 square feet, and make the building a total of 5 stories, towering over the existing 2- and 3-story brownstones on that block, which is anchored on one side by the 3-story residential building that houses the Kurdish Museum (currently just about the tallest building on the block). After the additions, this pink-pillared single-family residence would be open to 5 families.
Hmm, 5 stories and 5 families… I wonder how that will go over with current residents on this block?
Discuss: Prospect Heights Message Boards
Backpacker Racially Profiled at Port Authority
Rob Paravonian writes: “This morning I began my trek to Alaska, the first leg of which involves me getting to the Port Authority bus terminal to catch a bus to Newark airport. While waiting for the next bus a man walked up to me. Dressed in a polo shirt and khaki pants … (and) wearing sunglasses indoors at nine in the morning.”
“He got into my space and asked, ‘I was wondering if you could help me.’ … He went through his half-assed spiel … He could tell I wasn’t buying it … He quickly turned around, grumbling, ‘thank you, that’s very white of you.'”
“… I said, ‘there are three other people in here you could ask’ … he just walked up to the white boy with a backpack who looked the most gullible and the most like a tourist. I see your race card and I raise you a pair of you’re-an-idiots.”
LINK: Playing Cards with an Accidental Tourist [Paravonia]
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Rhodamine's Gas Siphoning Anecdote in NYT
I know we are supposed to be aloof about this, but rhodamine’s cautionary anecdote on gas siphoning in Prospect Heights just got written up in the New York Times [Link to story]:
“Two weeks ago, Peter Carroll, a resident of nearby Prospect Heights, had his gas siphoned twice in two days. ‘I was running on fumes,’ recalled Mr. Carroll, who originally warned fellow car owners about the problem on a neighborhood chat board, dailyheights.com.”
Kudos to reporter Steven Kurutz for attributing the anecdote to dailyheights.com! That’s the second time dailyheights.com has been mentioned in the New York Times in the last 30 days or so (the last mention was a write-up on the Mama Duke’s controversy that bubbled up here on the message boards and blog).
With New Orleans in Ruins, Condi Buys Shoes
Last Thursday on Gawker.com: “Just moments ago at the Ferragamo on 5th Avenue, Condoleeza Rice was seen spending several thousands of dollars on some nice, new shoes … A fellow shopper, unable to fathom the absurdity of Rice’s timing, went up to the Secretary and reportedly shouted, ‘How dare you shop for shoes while thousands are dying and homeless!’ Never one to have her fashion choices questioned, Rice had security PHYSICALLY REMOVE the woman…”
Image source: Condoleeza Rice for President 2008
Thousands Remain Unkilled in Aftermath of West Indian Day Parade
Ranjit sent DH a link to his West Indian Day Parade pics: “thought you might like ’em! sje and I went to the parade and totally didn’t get murdered…”
“We” didn’t get killed either! We went with Quig and Quiglet to check out the action, and tried some great chicken roti (sje was right!) and fried shrimp. Along the way we ran into Laura B, who was hanging out with a friend at a Daily Heights-recommended parade-watching site. Thanks for the recommendations, message board people.
UPDATE:
At least 10 people shot in lead-up to parade
Violence blazed across Brooklyn during the traditional night of partying leading into Monday’s West Indian Day Parade as at least 10 people were shot, including one fatally, in a seven-hour span, police sources said… Newsday article]
New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes
“… corpses lay abandoned in street medians, fights and fires broke out and storm survivors battled for seats on the buses that would carry them away from the chaos. The tired and hungry seethed, saying they had been forsaken.”
New Orleans in Anarchy [SFGate]
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Sorrel in the New York Times
In the Dining & Wine section: “Restaurant Sorrel This newest addition in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, is an airy setting for the market-driven menu created by Alexandre Tchistov, formerly of 360 in Red Hook: 605 Carlton Avenue (St. Marks Place), (718) 622-1190. BAR CENTRALE A raw bar, sandwiches and antipasto are what you will get with drinks starting next Wednesday at this new spot, upstairs at Joe Allen: 324 West 46th Street, (212) 581-6464.”
"MURDER DAY PARADE": Will You Survive?
Items overheard on the Prospect Heights Message Boards about the West Indian-American Day Parade (Caribbean Day Parade), coming up this weekend (Labor Day weekend) on Eastern Parkway:
*NYPD have allegedly nicknamed it the “Murder Day Parade.”
*”Gun Play on the Parkway” was memorialized in Calypso songs of the 1970’s.
*Shootings and stabbings are commonplace, and most of it never makes the papers.
*It’s not a murder unless the victim dies.
*The last parade-related murder was in 2003, 2 years ago.
*In 1999, two 11-year-olds and an 18-year-old were crushed by vehicles involved in the caravan. In 2004, a 21-year-old woman got crushed but survived.
*Labor Day is the single biggest day of the year for trauma at the Kings County Hospital Emergency Department, beating out New Year’s Eve and Fourth of July.
*Many people have been going to the Caribbean Day Parade for years and have never had a problem with violence.
*Much of the violence is not random.
*It’s the only time you can ever find good corn on the cob in this damn city.
*The food is all incredible. Try the roti… Nothing like roti and a cold beer.
*It’s not the same since Giuliani banned alcohol sales (no more $1 Red Stripe truck).
*Some people bring rum punch in Gatorade bottles.
*Others like to bring a thermos full of rum to add to the pina coladas and other tropical drinks they sell.
*It’s scheduled to end at 5pm, but the fun (or madness, depending on your perspective) continues into the night.
*The website of the West Indian-American Day Carnival Association is www.wiadca.org.
This post sponsored by the the Prospect Heights Chamber of Commerce.*
*Note: Not actually sponsored by the Prospect Heights Chamber of Commerce.
More chatter:
Lock your Doors [Prospect Heights Message Boards]
When’s that West Indian Day Parade? [Prospect Heights Message Boards]
The Labor Day Parade [Prospect Heights Message Boards]
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