Open Thread Wednesday

Can anyone recomend a place in the neighborhood where I can donate women’s clothes and shoes? Thanks.

Housing Works on Montague just next to the Kiehls on the corner of Henry. They’ll take all of it.

Maybe instead of the typical passive-aggressive online shaming we see so much of today, you just mention it to the manager.

Agree. A checker-bagger’s life is one of repetitious toil with zero compensation other than a paycheck.

But, yes, some are nicer than others–more responsive. The hardest time I have is with those who say nothing, absolutely nothing. But it seems that, at least at Key Food, the checkers have been taught to greet customers–and do so more often than not. In my experience.

Let’s not talk, however, about the looming life-size figure stationed near the store’s entrance and which I take, for a too long split second, to be real and obtrusive.

How’s that for EXQUISITE
complaining?

Doesn’t that guy have a name? I always regard him with a great deal of suspicion.

There’s also the Salvation Army drop on Atlantic and Bonds.

Yes, I was probably put off by this particularly incident because I did smile and say hello and thank you and still got the complete silent treatment (literally not a word).

But yes – the mannequin greeter. I like that someone takes good care to dress him in new outfits and accessories. I don’t know his name but they’re clearly proud of him.

Key foods can do whatever it wants because they have no real competition. The Garden of Eden is more of a specialty/finer foods market (and dirty in my opinion), and Gristedes is so overpriced I hate to even walk through their doors. The manager of Key Foods could punch me in the nose and I’d probably still shop there.

This was explored over a decade ago and was dropped because of the regulatory hurdles involved in crossing over a federal interstate (the BQE). I don’t think it will ever happen.

Not that key foods is clean, but garden of Eden always seems nasty to me. Just look a little closer. And there’s always this:

“The grocery store with the most black marks against it during the same time period was the similarly highfalutin Garden of Eden in Brooklyn Heights, with 20, records show. Among other things, inspectors who visited the outpost — where the motto is “Temptation in Every Aisle” and Roquefort Papillon cheese goes for $28 a pound — found crusty meat residue on numerous surfaces and mold and grime on the seafood area’s ice machine.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/stomach-churning-violations-city-high-end-grocery-stores-article-1.1485146

Does anyone have rough guidelines for how early you need to try to stake a claim to see the fireworks from the north heights? I’ve been out of town in previous years but am in town this year and am trying to figure this out.

I don’t need a spot for a blanket or anything but would like to be able to stand somewhere to see them.

Trader Joe’s is still the best nearby option in my book. At least for prices and cleanliness. You just have to go at odd hours to avoid the lines.

Agreed they’re ubiquitous but rarely added after the fact so maybe that entails a decade of red tape? I don’t know.

But I do know this was told to me by a Conservancy board member, not someone working for the park corporation. And they told me this about 7 years ago — before Regina even had her job or the bridge was conceived of.

I would say pre-lunch. But I wouldn’t be tempted – it is really hellish here on the 4th when the fireworks are here.

Yes, I remember the plan, I think it would be a good solution to alleviate some of the park traffic off the mostly residential streets, if it could be done.