Open Thread Wednesday

By on October 18, 2016 11:59 pm in open thread

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  • StudioBrooklyn
  • DIBS

    I’ve never driven mine up to NYC. I have PA plates. Kinda a purplish gray two door coupe. I hear Ganso IS very good.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Ah, you’ll have to drive out here for the rumored Henry St Alehouse meetup.

  • DIBS

    I might be found at Monteros on Nov 3

  • StudioBrooklyn

    I might not. Prior commitment that particular evening!

  • DIBS

    Perhaps eating at the bar at Sociale on Friday. In the black Borsalino.

  • JS-1

    You have a Bentley? So do we. What type – model do you have?

  • DIBS
  • DIBS
  • DIBS

    Yours?

  • Reggie

    I was curious to read “the facts” so I clicked on the link provided and the website doesn’t even have spin. Did you know even that, Sue?

  • DIBS

    Exactly.

  • Lauren

    Hi, I’m a reporter with the Brooklyn Paper and writing about the opening of the new cinema. Can you give me a call at 718 260 2511 so I can get your thoughts on it?

  • Justine Swartz

    “We moved the staff from the old [Heights] library to work on setting up the new library, and the service for those last few weeks was really inadequate,” said Brooklyn Public Library spokesman David Woloch. ”
    BY CAROLINE SPIVACK reporter Brooklyn Paper Oct 17, 2016
    reporting on the interim library at Our Lady of Lebanon which opened July 26, 2016.
    The Interim Library is deficient and inadequate. Only 77 occupancy limit. It is almost impossible to get the books you need for research and/or pleasure. BPL admits it!
    The promised and mandated safe access entrance for the Disabled at Our Lady of Lebanon has not been constructed. The New York Office for Civil Rights has deemed the non-compliance of the Brooklyn Public Library is appropriate for investigation and is doing so.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Ok. If I happen to walk by and see you, I will come say hi.

  • KXrVrii1

    Actually, the interim library is already set up, and quite pleasant.

  • Reggie

    Glad to. When is the item calendared for?

  • Justine Swartz

    Perhaps you guys should get a room?

  • DIBS

    Temporary situation. Anyone who has any grasp on how the real world works understands these things happen from time to time especially during moves and transitions. Including the handicap access. Grow up.

  • DIBS

    Why? Is it deterring from your ridiculous library rants which you need to post at the onset of every Wednesday OT? I think people are a lot more sick and tired (except crazy Sue) of you than some friendly banter here between a few people.

  • DIBS

    Bring Sue. She seems like a lot of fun.

  • Justine Swartz

    THREE AND A HALF YEARS AGO: BPL and the developer David Kramer knew the handicapped entrance is unsafe, dangerous, full of potholes and a cracked walkway. They did not care.

  • DIBS

    Frankly it’s not very high on my radar. I probably haven’t been in a public library since high school. You seem to have picked your battle to rant and foam at the mouth over. Good for you. Someone has to fight the hard fights. Or just make it harder for things to progrress out of spite. Maybe if there were fewer lawsuits, it would have progressed faster as it inevitably will. SMH

  • Banet

    Pretty sure Ganso closed a few weeks ago.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    I don’t think so…I ate there in early October. Could they have closed since? Their website has no such indication. http://gansonyc.com/

  • Banet

    Glad to be wrong. Ah. Found it. Ganso Ramen is open. But they closed Ganso Yaki and Ganso Sushi. :-/

  • Roberto

    Not discounting the countless good things, New York City is also the city that never ceases to interrupt peace and quiet. For those interested in a public works project that will certainly impact those necessities, the Rehabilitation of the BQE (Including the Triple Cantilever Structure) will be discussed by DOT officials on Tuesday November 1, 2016 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
    at NYU’s Poly Tandon Auditorium in #5 Metro Tech.
    Use the Ground Floor Entrance.
    Ask how truck traffic will be re-routed through local streets and how much additional air and noise pollution will accompany the traffic.

  • Tony

    I welcome a new library. The BH library was closed for approximately 3 years when I was in graduate school and then for another 2 or 3 years around 10 or 15 years ago. There were often daily closings due to malfunctions of the heating/cooling system. Ideally we would have fully functioning libraries all the time but that is not the case in this situation. I like the fact that it will be in a bigger, newer building. If something goes wrong with the AC in the building there will be a lot of people complaining (condo owners). I assume that will be more effective than the current situation in which the library patrons would complain to a city administration incapable of a solution.

  • AEB

    Kogane is good; another example, I think, of the Johnsonian (Dr., not Lyndon) maxim about the wonder of a dog walking on its hind legs–it doesn’t do it well, but you’re amazed that it does it at all.

    That is, the food is better for it being in the nabe than it might otherwise seem. Portions also tend to be very small in relation to cost; be prepared to order plentifully.

  • redlola

    i can call you too. i have thoughts.

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