Open Thread Wednesday 10/5/11

Does anyone know if Bevacco’s menu is available online?

Tony’s famous pizzeria from Futlon st. is coming to the heights on Court St. Good to see.

@WillowtownCop, I’m curious to hear your opinion on the Wall St protests and the police response. I know it’s off topic for this blog, but you always have such reasoned responses on police behavior.

Went to Bevacco tonight. It’ s so funny… There was almost a wait — people in this hood are DYING for a good restaurant. I will not ‘review’ it till we try it again. The waiter was TERRIBLE. That, however, should improve with practice. The food, well, I will try it one more time before I give an opinion. It’s only day two for them.

@ Monty:

Protests in the past that have succeeded have clear goals, respectable participants, and a leadership structure of some sort. Think of the Civil Rights movement. People wanted to be treated equally. They wanted to go to the same schools and sit at the same lunch counters. Check out some photos of the people who did the sit ins back then – they were dressed like they were going to church – on purpose. The “radicals” were working women on buses that people could see on the news and relate to.

I bet if you went down to wall street right now and said, ok, you win, what do you want? What would make you happy enough to go home? no one would be able to answer you.

People are dissatisfied with not having jobs, but look at the people who are dissatisfied. They probably all went to college, borrowed a ton to go, and now are 23 and can’t find a job – here’s the catch – that they are willing to do. There was an article in the times yesterday about how farms upstate can’t find workers. A friend of mine with a law degree just joined the army because he couldn’t get a job at a firm. they were happy to have him.

yes, the economy isn’t doing so great, but it’s always had its ups and downs. no one wants to admit that they might have put themselves in this position – its so much easier to say, i didn’t get the job i wanted as soon as i graduated from college because some faceless banker ruined the economy, when the real reason is i’m an entitled brat and am not willing to do most jobs, at least the ones that require the removal of my facial piercings.

and now the professional agitator types have shown up and tried to make it the hippies vs. the police – and the rag newspapers are happy to accommodate with ridiculous headlines like “cop hits protester with -gasp! baton.” That’s what batons are for, and that’s why people storm barricades and walk on the bridge where they clearly were told not to go – to provoke cops and then stick a cell phone camera in their face to record the reaction but not what actually caused it. what happened to being on the side of the unions? don’t they think wall street screwed us too? i wonder how they feel about all the overtime that’s being made by the police that they hate so much. that money is not coming out of the pockets of the millionaire bankers – its coming out of city money that the little people whose side they are supposedly on benefit from most.

and while all this is going on, the bankers slip out the back door to their helicopter and jet back to the hamptons without a care in the world.

Typical narrow-minded and bigoted opinion one would expect from a cop.

A belated response about windows: if you live in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, even if your building is not older than the 1920s, you are required to get permission from Landmarks to replace your windows. If you replace them without permission, you are liable to be fined and will have to replace the new windows with the old ones.

On another note, what’s happening with the annual Cranberry Street Festival? Here it is the second weekend in October, and no word on whether or not this will take place this year. I understand that the Jewish Holidays may conflict with the CSF. Just wondering…

“the bankers slip out the back door to their helicopter and jet back to the hamptons without a care in the world.” @willowtowncop – they don’t have to slip out the backdoor to escape, they are most likely in midtown or even Stamford! If they are going to protest (and not just symbolically) they should at least do it where the “culprits” are making their money.

@ WillowtownCop,

Your post is so ridiculous, I don’t know where to start. Try this:

Read & heed our First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, still the highest law of the land. (Hint: Focus on the part about the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances!) I guess they don’t teach this stuff in the academy or in your refresher courses!

@WillowtownCop- You said that the purpose of the civil rights movement was that they wanted to be treated equally. Well, that’s the same reason for THIS protest. They also seek equal treatment in the same breaks and subsidizing that the wealthiest receive. Now you can no longer say you don’t know what it’s all about.

Also- the cops permitted the protesters onto the bridge and waited until they were half-way across before telling them that they weren’t allowed to do it. It was a trap- I guess you didn’t hear that part of the story.

Don’t forget, sir. They are out there protecting the rights of your brothers and sister in law enforcement, which are under attack like nearly all union employees these days. I’m frankly surprised to see you not fully supporting the protesters.

What do you expect, the cops are just stooges for the powers that be.

Now, now, Lucifer, remember the goal of working-class solidarity to which even the cops can be won.

I am not part of the 1%. I am not part of the 99%, I am living financially responsible and have taken jobs below my pay grade when I was out of my “regular” job. I don’t know why my taxes should pay for people who lost their money by investing badly in either stocks or real estate. On the other side I dont know why my taxes should pay for wall street companies that have made quite some profits over the years. Some of the bonuses people there are making considering what situations they were in just recently are just a slap into the face of John Doe. Quote od the day: “We need the high bonuses to keep the talent”. People may ask where were they before the crash?

Sorry, I am with willowtown cop here.

on a different note: did the meters go up with the installation of the muni meters? I thought it used to be a quarter for 20 min, now it seems to be a quarter for 15 min. I might be wrong.

I think in the end everyone’s just looking to get laid.

I think hoppy just cut through a thousand layers of rhetoric in one sentence.