Open Thread Wednesday 3/17/10

Why doesn’t Eastern Athletic Club on Clark Street clean up it’s facility?

I second the reco for Treasure Island in Red Hook. I moved my stuff there from Tuck-it-away and got the same space for almost half the price. It’s a much nicer facility too.

This year the wreaths and xmas decorations are out particularly late. Willow Street has a bunch of dried greens still hanging on doors and handrails. It mazes me that people have the energy to put it up but not the energy to take it down.

Harry – inside or outside? Is this something that’s easily fixed? I was thinking of joining there but this may save me the trouble of the tour, etc.

The church on the SE corner of Clinton and Remsen is not a church, but a residential coop. Presumably they have a super, though possibly not a live-in one. I think a lot of the trash comes from St. Francis students. Also, the scaffolding put up on the building at the corner when a piece of the facade peeled off (a year or so ago?) collects trash, and the stores are empty.

A couple of days ago I passed at FedEx truck parked on Clinton while a delivery was in progress. The door to the truck was open and a very Christian radio program was on, extremely loudly. I closed the door of the truck, then told the driver when he returned. He was not pleased. Driver of the truck had a moustache. Anyone here experience anything like this?

Bartmann- if you can only hear it in the hallway it isn’t unreasonable. I believe the sound has to be amplified for it to be a summons, too. Generally, for (really) loud music coming from a stereo at night, its a warning, followed by a summons, which may or may not involve the vouchering of the stereo at the officer’s discretion. The problem is, if they refuse to open the door, there’s nothing we can do. It’s not an emergency that would justify kicking in the door. You could sue them in civil court, but not for piano music in the hallway …

@WillowtownCop,
I think someone on this board wrote we are all a bunch of complainers.

When I was writing my initial inquiry I thought that I should have specified that I was not bothered by the music of my neighbors. As a electric keyboard player myself (I wear headphones so no one can hear me) I was merely curious. In September I will be getting my old Bösendorfer Imperial from Vienna where I had it in storage.

So when you respond: “if you can only hear it in the hallway it isn’t ‘unreasonable'”, it shows how conditioned we are to expect grumpiness.

Bartmann

Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 is opening to the public this Monday, March 22nd!

Early in the morning there’s an invite only ribbon cutting ceremony with state and city officials, then sometime later in the day the park officially opens for the public.

Along with the BBP opening on Monday, OZU is opening up on Clark. Yes that makes 3 Japanese restaurants within a half block of each other. Grand opening is offering a 15% discount so that counts me in to try it. I love Japanese and generally take the hike to Hibino on Henry and Pacific a minimum of 3 times a week but if their sushi passes the test…..

If you get a chance to look in the window, the interior is very impressive. I’ll take good food over nice environment but it doesn’t hurt. I’m not optimistic that I will prefer their sushi over Hibino but I’ll try to taste with an open mind.

So Monday will be a trip to the BBP along with a visit to the Grand Opening of OZU at 78 Clark. Maybe I’ll bring my camera and provide a review.

It is great to live in the Heights. Wish the weather would have cooperated better for the opening of the park but life isn’t perfect.

For the sake of consensus, I agree with AEB: compared to the Upper West Side, the amount of strollers in Brooklyn Heights is nothing. Also, more importanly, the moms in this neighborhood are pretty civilized and rarely use their strollers as steamrollers.

How about intolerance-free zoning for people like HeightsDiva?