Open Thread Wednesday: September 12, 2012

Minions?

We need to redo our small bathroom and are looking for good, reliable and reasonable contractors. If you have a recommendation, please let me know.

Interesting to know there were Dylan sightings in the neighborhood back in the day. Thanks for the response, Homer.

Democratic Primary is tomorrow – Thursday 9/13.

I think of Bob Dylan as “The poor man’s Tom Petty”.

Can someone help me here: There is a dog that is let out in the owner’s backyard on Pierrepont Street every day at regular intervals from 6:00 am who barks constantly. I can’t tell which house it is but it’s on Pierrepont between Montague Terrace and Hicks Street on the southside of the street. The dog probably arrived about six months ago and this is constant. If you are the owner, please be considerate of your neighbors. With the windows open, your dog’s barking causes my dog and other dogs in my building to bark and awakens the entire side of my building.

Thanks for your attention to this.

@ SPM – You mean Pirerrepont Place and Hicks Street and NOT Montague Terrace which runs between Montague Street and Remsen Street.

C, where is The Dining Room? Not familiar with Kevin Barry’s old space.

I just had an unfortunate exchange with a young man walking 4 dogs. My assumption is that he is a dog walker based on his age, amount of dogs, and the vastly different breeds he had with him.

We were walking towards each other and as I passed a tree square occupying 1/3 of the width space of the block, I politely walked towards the curb side to make room for him to go by. As we got about 3 feet from each other (now equidistant to two trees) one of his dogs ran to the tree in front of me and started smelling the trunk. Another dog on his other side started the pee smelling ritual on someone’s stoop.

So the entire width of the block is now choked off by his leashes stretched from one side to the other. I stopped and kind of smiled (a little dumbfounded) for a few seconds, he looked at me with an attitude as I just stood there waiting… he then looked back at the dog now setting up to pee on the tree. I looked at him and said, “excuse me, can i get by?” He quickly yelled at me, “why don’t you just walk around?” suggesting I walk into the street around the tree. At this point his other dog is now peeing on the stoop as well. I said, “so dogs get more space on the street than humans now?” He belligerently said, “yes” and walked away with complete indignation.

I’m not going to post a picture of this person as the BHB seems to remove imagery and/or video of people doing bad things (not cleaning up after their dogs, etc.) but I’m pretty sure he is walking some of your dogs.

Besides his rudeness, trees are affected by dog urine, as are the plants above the soil and the dormant ones below…. And for the love of baby Jesus, stop letting dogs pee on people’s beautiful brownstone stairs and stoops. It causes damage, smells and is just indecent. Please be sure your dog walkers are following basic rules that are in place to protect our neighborhood and personal property (finding one with some manners would be nice too).

“Don’t forget – tomorrow is a primary election day.”

How could we? Phone calls, flyers, knocks on the door… I’ve started telling campaigners that I’ve had it: I’m going to flip a coin.

to add on from before… I think Kevin Barry’s was one big L shaped bar with two entrances, one on Willoughby and one on Lawrence. It looks like their will be two seperate bars their now. Dining Room is on Willougby and, walking by before, I saw a crew and work being done on the Lawrence street side. I’m guessing they’ve split the space into two seperate bars. Two for one. Not bad. Not sure if either will be worth going to, but at least it’s an option for the Metro-Tech work crowd, hotel row and all the new high-rises in the area.

And now for something completely different, has anyone ever had the air or dust tested inside their home? Wondering if there are companies/individuals who do this.

Has anyone read the fall issue of Brooklyn Magazine? In its “Neighborhood Power Rankings” Brooklyn Heights is No. 12 out of 20. It fell one spot from the previous issue, with this cited:

“When a hot-dog cart set-up on Montague Street in June, residents responded on a local blog as though homeless junkies hand burned down their homes. A hot-dog cart!”

“Minions of the Moon” was an excellent book by John W. Campbell, not to be confused with “Minyans of the Moon” by David on Middagh.

I noticed yesterday that the B&B Empire place on the corner of Clinton and Atlantic, home of the infamous Montreal Bagels, is “closed for renovations”, whatever that means.

Also, the addition to Sahadi’s on Atlantic Avenue is due to open on September 26th, though it looks like it might need more time.

I was thinking the same thing Lisa.