Open Thread Wednesday

I took the bait, Davey, because I used the very same two words yesterday. I thought you were parroting me.

Nor do I. But I don’t vote in NYS anymore.

LOL Yes, I still have a valid Metrocard. Nothing more annoying than to have to get a new one after arriving at Penn Station

Spoken like a true open minded progressive liberal.

Go to the booth at the 8th avenue end. Faster service and amazingly, less bad guys! But having an emergency card is HIGHLY recommen- ded now. Penn statiom Has gone back like 70% to the bad old days. Any number of Heights residents have to pas through the terminal and I heard the complaints. at 9 PM last night I saw the reasons for the complaints. I went there with an elderly neighbor who was boarding Amtrak. Penn station was flooded with aggressive panhandlers, crazies people laying the floor, filthy conditions, no visable cops and a smell of, well you can guess. Terrible.

Small high reving engings, these aren’t the Mack or White trucks of old and a lack of some of the most basic noise suppression technology. Absolute disrespect for other’s interests.

Fresh Direct!?! Get outta here!!! Give me my Key Foods’ “check out artists” with all their sass or give me death!!!
Honestly, though, the fresh direct drivers are terrible. I hope for Montague street to be an entire walk zone in the near future, especially because the Bossart Hotel is going to make our traffic nuts when it opens. How are we dealing with that????

I complain about it regularly. I’ve called Fresh Direct and 311, and I’ve found Fresh Direct responds to comments in which they’re tagged on Twitter. I feel like there’s less noise pollution recently, but maybe I’ll change my mind when the windows are open more often.

Anyone remember when Sleepy Labeef played St Ann’s? He really caused the place to be “tore up!”….

I beg to differ. The city agencies you cite have met together and with the elected leadership of some of the buildings near the park. The police department has limited the number of hours that the amplified sound permit is in effect, inclusive of the sound check. In most cases an officer is at the event and when not, someone is on call. Permitees have been instructed to make the volume proportionate to the number of people present. I have spoken to several residents in the area since these protocols were put in place and the response has been universally positive. I am also aware that, at one extreme, there are residents who feel there should be no events with amplified sound in Cadman Plaza Park. People who are bothered by noise are advised to (1) speak with the patrol officer at the event and (2) call my office. I have received exactly zero complaints on this topic in the past two years.

If I had posted a photo from inside a church or synagogue—or a brownstone for that matter—would you still ask that question?

The point is that it’s a glimpse inside a place in the neighborhood that most of us don’t typically get to see. Please let me know if you require further explanation.

In fact you have posted a photo of inside a church right above, allowing a simple comparison between both. What is the underlying message you are trying to send? If you would not have posted the church photo I wouldn’t have asked.

You know, it’s funny, I didn’t even connect the two images that way–you can tell from my response, although I did post the mosque photo first. If I had a message, it would have been: “check it out, here’s an image of the inside of [nearby location].”

I just thought they would be interesting images to share (the event at the church and the interior of the mosque). The introduction of a comparison is purely by accident. Clever observation though!

LOL! You’re not a real person, so your customer service sucks! Joke.
Yeah, My man Deion is holding it down, but the rest are pretty rough. The thing is, every bit of rude they give to the customers usually comes back at them 10 fold. Some of the customers I’ve seen are completely out of their minds and inconsolable. And these cashiers are getting paid very little (I assume). It’s a pretty screwed situation. But I almost always have a story to tell after Key Foods…

Look, someone has to bell the cat and rent a valid calidrated Db meter stand there and take readings at various angles and distances, make a video of it then with the video record rolling, seek out the park man-agement and concert promoters and ask why the sound is enough to wake the dead. Put ALL that on You Tube, then we’ll see how permissive their policies continue to be…..

They’re all betting, the BBPC, CB 2, that everyone is too vapid and lazy to do anything but whine that some level of our wonderful govern- ment agencincia should “do something” .