Open Thread Wednesday

By on October 27, 2015 11:44 pm in Brooklyn Heights, open thread

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  • Willow Street Watch

    Everyone tonight should visit 112 Willow, I don’t want to brag, but our home base has the greatest Halloween pumpkin show in the entire downtown area! The residents of 112 have carved, placed and lit an array of hobgoblins which are the best treat for the eye, and everyone’s sprit,
    In the Heights this spook season.

    The residents after they produced the necromancy devices, decided to have a spook parade on Willow before placing the pumpkins in careful order on the stoop. One tennant, of Austrian background carved a sound of music pumpkin!! Go see 112 and also the great house on Hicks bet Pierrepont and Clark.

    (I have two of Zacherly’s albums and I was tempted to make a Halloween hits mix to play in front of our house as competition..)

    A dinner was served for three..at Dracula’s house by the sea….really I now have like 150 to 200 Halloween/spooky theme 45’s and album cuts for a fright rock/vintage Halloween music mix….

  • KnickNack

    Anyone living on Columbia Heights near the Standish? The construction noise is unbearable. Every single morning they are clearing out demolition debris and tossing it in the back of a garbage truck. The noise is just insane. Not to mention the workers are yelling and laughing at each other. The whole thing is unbelievable. Sorry for vent, but I often work from home and this has been making life pretty depressing in BK Heights.

  • Emily Pulaski

    For all the people complaining about the idea of new high rises near the neighborhood, all I can say is that maybe with some new people moving in we could actually keep a restaurant open longer than a month.

    Also, that reminds me…I need to eat at Galito’s more often. Their food is so good! Can’t let them close!

  • Emily Pulaski

    We joked about the “dog frightening machine” they seem to have installed out front.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    1. Gallitos is also a great place for families. The staff are excellent with kids.

    2. I hope the people moving into the new condos are locavore yuppies who are also looking to buy local art from local artists. Because I am one. And this is a capitalist society. Whatever. I’m cool with whatever. Hi neighbors!

  • Roberto Gautier

    It helps to place details to bolster your complaint. Include the time that the construction takes place, identify the company doing the work, check to see whether there is a work permit, report the noise to 311, your elected officials, the Brooklyn Heights Association, the Brooklyn Eagle, the Community Board. See if your neighbors are also disturbed. Have them echo your complaint. Noise is the number one quality of life complaint in NYC.

  • Concerned

    I’d blame the building owners who are charging ridiculous rent with 10 year leases for the restaurant issues in the neighborhood. At this point, the only restaurant that can afford a spot is a big chain, so the lack of high rise traffic may be the only thing that is keeping a TGI Fridays or an Applebee’s from moving onto Montague.
    Galito’s is solid, though. Hopefully the high rises don’t come, or Galito’s might have to compete with Taco Bell’s 4th meal…

  • DIBS

    Whether the rent is ridiculous or not is one thing but anyone who has ever opened a retail business wants a long lease so that they will know the terms over a longer period of time and can budget accordingly

  • Heightsman

    I do and it’s painful. I saw it coming. They need to gut the entire place and it’s going to take time. I am sure the permits are all in place and they are very punctual each morning to start at the right time. If you look around the Heights these days the number of construction dumpsters is amazing (in a bad way).

  • Heightsman

    Queso fundido con chorizo….hell yes.

  • HereToStay

    I second your comments on Galito’s – we order delivery from them all the time. Skirt steak is a little expensive, but wonderful. Sorry to say I have to take back previous good comments about Friend of a Farmer. Last weekend we made an early reservation for 4 at 5pm and friends came in from UWS to dine with us. We arrived to a locked door with a few people sitting inside having drinks. We kept trying to pull the door open (a hand-written sign on the door said ‘WE OPEN FOR DINNER AT 5″) and finally an nasty and angry woman came to the door to see what we wanted. She said, “We open at 530.” And I said, well I made us a reservation a few hours ago AND your sign here says you are open as of now. No-go. Unreal. Will take some time before I can try again. If at all. And yes, I know, there are bigger problems in life…

  • MonroeOrange

    Hopefully Friend of Farmer actually reads this…as this is the second time a complaint about the rudeness of the staff has been noted…not acceptable for any business, especially one with another location, who should have been able to hit the ground running….

  • Willow Street Watch

    What did you expect? Any business which caters to a group of mindless yuppie or trendzoid types can behave pretty much behave any way it wants. I never get behavior from any business and certainly not any restaurant because I don’t associate and absolutely not dine with mindless people.

    Try to associate with and yourself become a better more developed person and you’ll receive better respect and service.

  • GHB

    WOW! You really know how to %$#@ up a sentence!

  • MonroeOrange

    i have no idea how to interpret this latest rant? are you taking medication and if so, please do not operate a motor vehicle.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    “I don’t associate…with mindless people.”

    I am TOTALLY mindless, and through our interactions here could easily be considered one of your associates.

  • Concerned

    I’m not sure of your point. Yes, the price of the rent is one variable. And yes, the long lease is another variable. In my statement, the two variables were both part of the same equation.

  • CookieGuggleman

    Guess they successfully kicked everyone out.

  • Heightsman

    All but two. Rent controlled.

  • Roberto Gautier

    If you’re interested in supporting the ban on tourist helicopters in NYC, there is a rally on the steps of City Hall on Thursday, November 12th at 12 noon. Contact StoptheChop for details.

  • Willow Street Watch

    Well, the types in the Standish, weren’t exactly benefits to the Heights. By the time this present renovation came about the Standish had some good people, but it has a much larger sector of non culture bearing elements who didnt and couldn’t contribute to any high civilized area, and certainly not an neighborhood like the Heights… So their loss is, well…..

  • Willow Street Watch

    Sorry, my word processing has some kind of intermittent problem .
    But if anyone can focus nonetheless on the meaning, it’s a very valid one:

    The service one gets is dependent on the person you are. Make yourself a better person and you’ll generally receive better treatment, provided you have the discernment to associate with appropriate surroundings.

    In the post I was responding to, was protesting a poor level of service. I only pointed out that if you insist on patronizing any sector which is aimed at or somehow has attracted the typical ” young urban (sic) professional” or any trend driven clientele you’re likely to have service which is inferior because the establishment has adjusted its goods and service to less decerning clientele.
    For example, I don’t dine at any establishment until it has achieved a certain level of reputation with people I regard as my social, cultural…and intelligence level. I don’t dine at any establishment because its “new”. No wonder you get inferior, rude service; they are serving a group of really mindless trendzoids and behave as such.

  • Willow Street Watch

    I’m only saying that the kind of person you allow yourself to be, and the settings you allow yourself to be placed in, generally determines how you will be treated.

    But of course, I have to also make the observation here that a city or a neighborhood or a nation isn’t streets or buildings or some internet hubs..it’s people and the levels they achieve depends on:

    ONE THING

    THE QUALITY OF THE HUMAN MATERIAL A SOCIETY/NATION CONTAINS. This, and only this is the single root of what occurs in any society or our world. Outside of devine influence. If you have better institutions, or a society as a whole, raise the level of human material the society, or select institution contains.

  • Brixtony

    A mind is a terrible thing to waste. However, taking one out of the compost, even on Halloween, is a bit much. Be careful feeding the troll in the John Birch Society mask.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    “compost”?! so trendzoid.

  • ColumbiaHeightster

    No thank you.

  • Willow Street Watch

    Don’t flatter yourself. Your two above friends and you, I suggest read the below post.

  • ColumbiaHeightster

    “The types in the Standish”???? Are you serious? Even for you, that is disgustingly judgmental. And how can you presume to possibly know and understand the personalities of everyone that lived in that building? I usually take what you say with a grain of salt, because you’re awful, but this really is too much.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Friends?! I don’t know or associate with those people. Just you.

  • MonroeOrange

    as someone who has lived in the heights their whole life…the only person who doesn’t contribute a benefit to the heights is you WSW. You are not worthy of the heights, which has always been an accepting neighborhood, regardless of social status.

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