Open Thread Wednesday 7/31/13

The flowers should be a reminder to visitors of Brooklyn Bridge Park to pick up after themselves when they leave. I was running through the park this morning and it was a real pigpen: a half-eaten pizza sitting in its box on pier one, beer cans strewn about the lawn, paper cups and napkins all around the picnic area near pier 5, more beer bottles. I don’t know what’s wrong with people but this is a nice new park and it ought to be treated with more respect.

The same disgusting behavior goes on at the Promenade every evening.

Somebody should tear down that dump and put up a hospital. Nobody wants a restaurant in their neighborhood. Besides, there are lots of the best restaurants in the world just a short drive away in Manhattan.

I was taking a sunset walk with my husband on Monday evening when I slipped on a pile of dog sh*t, partially covered by a leaf, on Middagh between Henry and Hicks (close to Hicks). I am 7 1/2 months pregnant and thankfully I fell on my butt and not on my front, but needless to say it was a disgusting experience (I got some on my hand too) that ruined an otherwise nice evening. Not to mention that an elderly person or someone in poorer health could have seriously hurt themselves. I’m appalled at the behavior of some of the dog owners in our neighborhood. Please, if you see a dog owner being inconsiderate and not cleaning up after their pet, call them out on it, because not only is it disgusting, it’s unsafe.

They did that on purpose — and in a bunch of places in The Heights. Somehow it is supposed to slow traffic and HELP pedestrians….

Oy — yet another shill who only comments about that dump that needs to be closed ASAP.

Yes…when they first put those extended sidewalks in place, i complained that not each location is ideal, for instance, Joraleman and Hicks street makes drives swerve to avoid it. Supposedly its to help people cross the street quickly..but yes, its a matter of time before an accident occurs…other bad locations, are Cranberry and Henry too.

Why would commenting on and wanting to save a hospital that I’ve used many times since I’ve lived in the Heights and depend on make me a shill?

It is ALL you comment about. You either work there, have friends or family that work there, work for a politico, have a personal vendetta against SUNY, are part of a union, OR SOMETHING. You are NOT just a random concerned resident.

Don’t know what you mean by “random” but I am just a very concerned citizen. And, no, I am not in a union.

and ALL you comment on is how they should tear it down…are you a shill for a real estate firm? hmmmmmm

Hello. I’m looking for Sunday brunch / lunch locations in Brooklyn Heights / DUMBO for a group of executives from my company. It’s not necessarily a business lunch, but it will be senior level colleagues together.I called Jack the Horse but they don’t take reservations for brunch and I imagine that’s the case for many other places. I don’t even think Noodle Pudding is open for brunch.

Can anyone recommend a good place that’s appropriate for a large group of corporate executives where I can actually secure a table on a Sunday? Any insight is appreciated.

There is more to it than that — and you know it. Just save it for a rally.

Why should there be more to it, LOL? Some people do care about the health of themselves and their loved ones.

And, they care that a fine Brooklyn institution be allowed to survive and keep serving its communities.

Why, why is that so difficult for you to understand?

You said:
“There is more to it than that — and you know it.”

What an odd and rather paranoid thing to say about me.