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

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  • Justine Swartz

    The poster says friable asbestos- look it up.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    An absurd aberration. Abominable.

  • HereToStay

    The vast majority of folks that live here are welcoming the new, family-friendly and smaller library that will be focussed on the residents of the Heights. I have spoken to hundreds of people about it. Only loonies that like to protest nonsense because they are jealous of developers who make money are against the new library. MOVE ON…

  • HereToStay

    We got delivery and threw it in the trash. But that was a while ago; may be better now.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    The problem is you know only a little bit on the subject and fill in the rest with speculation and paranoid exaggerations. All in an an attempt to bolster your position on the library sale. In my opinion it only weakens it as it makes you out to be a ranting kook.

  • Justine Swartz

    People who can’t argue facts call names.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    What I said are facts.

  • Justine Swartz

    You argue characterization,
    not information.

  • Moni

    The RE developers swallowing up our libraries and hospitals don’t give a rat’s a$$ about the public interest. The library replacement will be as inadequate
    as they can get away with.

  • Mark

    you belong on myspace

  • Reggie

    Hey, Puffy, can you name a branch library that did expand? I can’t, which is why I don’t think this is a real concern. Libraries get renovated, libraries get replaced, but libraries don’t expand.

  • Andrew Porter

    “Will be set up”? How old was the wording you obviously cut and pasted this from?

  • Andrew Porter

    I lived (and worked) through the renovation of the St. George Tower, 111 Hicks Street, from 1973-78. The noise, the dust, the sound of empty dumpsters hitting the pavement at 4am. Unfond memories…

    Just keep repeating, “This too shall pass.” Eventually, you’ll start to believe it.

  • Andrew Porter

    And alliterative!

  • Andrew Porter

    Like stir-fry, but not as tasty?

  • Andrew Porter

    Hey, you leave my Matchbox toy collection alone! Then there’s my Lionel trains:
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/292369fca24b0705e095d172103743a7cc36282a60c26636fe8f45252602cec4.jpg

  • Justine Swartz

    Like Junk Food, not nutritious.

  • bklyn84

    Should it ever prove useful note there’s a terrific children’s museum in Utica that has a Lionel exhibit—I donated my trains to them about three years ago. It was nice knowing future generations would have a chance to enjoy them as much as I did.
    http://www.museum4kids.net/Trains-HO-Lionel.htm

  • bklyn84

    I need to put a big qualification on my recommendation about the Utica museum. Tonight I came across this relatively current article about management problems at the museum. I’m not sure how the old exhibits are being handled!
    http://www.uticaod.com/article/20150811/OPINION/150819960

  • StudioBrooklyn

    What’s “MySpace”? 🙃

  • PUFFY

    Hey Reggie boy
    How about the Brooklyn
    Heights Public Library.
    Yes, I know
    OOPS

  • PUFFS

    While info is essentially correct per
    BPL’s Kristi Maduro, odd that Ms.
    Simon would chose a relatively obscure site to post this info. and not
    facebook or her assembly site?
    As to the signs, and they are there,
    BPL claims to have no knowledge of
    their existence or how they got there.
    Your typical and efficient BPL
    bureaucracy in “action”.

  • Justine Swartz

    Too bad Claude puts your important timely letter Last
    on his blog :-(

  • Andrew Porter

    I looked it up:

    Capisce is a correct form as well as Capisci.

    The form of the verb Capire are:
    Capisco for “I understand”
    Capisci for “You understand”
    Capisce for “You (formal), he, she, or it understands”
    Capiamo for “We understand”
    Capite for “You all understand”
    Capiscono for “They understand”

  • Andrew Porter

    Well, heck, I want to hold onto my trains.

    If I donated them anywhere, it’d be our own, local, Transit Museum. Or I could just sell them off on eBay. But they’ll have to pry my trains from my cold, dead hands when I croak. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/95b375d411cca6bb90e82d1e19f4bbc71f855997516c92f26dff01b8202de507.jpg

  • JS-1

    We have the 2000 or ’01 Continental SC in dark blue. It’s great but it has the separation between the driver. Fast car.

    At the time they bought it, I pushed them to get an Azure.

  • JS–1

    This is about believable as the lies from Christie Todd Whitman (the Belle of Lawrenceville) on the “safe air ” at 9-11!!! Simon is sort of a Hillary/Whitman mixture anyway…

  • JS-1

    The collector/specialty vehicle field is a multi billion dollar industry involving hundreds of thousands of average Americans. And a short mention here is no abuse.

  • JS-1

    I’m sitting here wonderin’ matchbox holdin my clothes…

  • JS-1

    Boo…we were always an American Flyer family . One faction always has the pre-war German or Austrian super detailed trains

    Hey, anyone remember the Gilbert Hall of Science?

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