Open Thread Wednesday

Not just Clinton Street.

Sad, but true. Clinton just happens to have a lot of Bridge-bound traffic backups and drivers somehow believe that holding their horns down will improve the situation.

A made up story.
1. Fascati’s wasn’t around in the late 60’s.
2. How would old men in Carol Gardens know WTF Fascati’s is, they wouldn’t get the “joke”.
3. It’s not even funny.

Yes I am from NYC, I never heard of anyone putting Parmesan on pizza, after its baked. thought it might be a common practice elsewhere. Perhaps the reason the Fascati’s crew seemed so reluctant to honor the request is they never heard of it either?

With all the very serious conditions effecting, and threatening, the Heights, you people are using Time and space on the availability of….Pizza Condiments?!!!!

What geniuses.

I’ve taken the survey and will follow up on what happens when the results are tallied. Certainly, the outcomes should be published.

I’ve seen, as regular installations throughout the five boroughs as well as in other parts of the country, two condiment shakers on the tables of single-slice-vending pizzerias: one contains crushed red chili peppers, the other contains finely grated parmesan (usually like the terrible kind that Kraft sells in cylindrical jars that don’t need to be refrigerated).

To me it seems unusual for places that sell pizza by the slice not to have these condiments sitting out, readily accessible to customers, very much in the same fashion that coffee shops usually have a surface piled with sweeteners and cream and other stuff people do to mess with their coffee, as well as lids and sleeves and napkins. It’s just part of the “takeaway” setup.

Arch needs to get out more

Car horns, beeping backup alarms, motorcycles with altered exhaust pipes, police cars with earth-shaking “rumbler” alarms all fall into the problem category.
It’s a sign of head-in-the-sand officialdom when the NYC DOT removed NO Honking signs a few years ago because “no one was heeding them.” It’s time to revisit that decision. At the same time, one needs to acknowledge this as a difficult infraction to enforce, but also see this as a cultural behavior problem. Plus, as more and more people use cars that really don’t move much and beaten by people walking, this is truly a time for rethinking why these problems persist and multiply.

It’s true, I work too much…

I was saddened by the news that there will be no more BHA House Tours. Apparently it’s gotten much harder to get anyone to open their houses to complete strangers in this ever more paranoid time. No disrespect to posters here intended…

So the prime subject we should use time and attention on is….pizza and condiments. This acccording to certain geniuses present.

Uh, in the absence of anything else, why don’t we get back to the disgraceful treatment of peter Liang. At last night’s BHA show, there were tons of people bleating for more security on Joralemon and elsewhere. This while they, and several DAVOS attendees here,
maintain that what happened to po Liang is just fine.

Here we have the mental flat lines in City Hall and at One Police Plaza
issuing sidearm which by basic design its unsafe for police to have their Finger on the trigger!!! Then, they outsourced replacement internal parts. Send these guys to the next bilderberg….please

Tell you what, I’d take back every striker design and issue the cops S&W Governors!!!

Then we’d see how big these BBP “Gangstas” would be…..

With all the very serious issues facing our area, why are we using more time and attention on…pizza and condiments!!!

Let’s address something of some real importance.

Well, what struck me was that the BHA has;
1) Placed a series of minor figures on the board, this because whenever
there is political/social turbulance, the (remaining) old families place
essentially minor social climbers/careerists up front who above all,
have no visible connection with any casino person or entity.
2) There has been a real decline in the quality of both attendees and
BHA activists. There has been a big downturn from a recent as last
year at Grace Church.
3) Someone has instructed the visible figures to dig in their heels and
to adopt either a this-is-our-policy hard message or to give superficial-
ly polite non responsives to concerns/suggestions.

I looked for it, but you didn’t come through.