Open Thread Wednesday

Brooklyn Heiights = Hollywood Heights!!! There must be 10 blocks hijacked for shooting today. Is there anything that can be done to reduce this onslaught. I’ve lived on Clark for 8 years and its just getting worse.

There’s a LOT you can do about it!

While a gaggle of local chamber of commerce/NYC bureaucracy/pro film industry press and ‘artists have unlimited rights to pursue their art’ types, will tell you you have to sit still for ANYTHING, communities Nationwide have successfully placed very effective limits on how much disruption film crews can inflict on a town or neighborhoods. But this includes mounting legal objections aimed at local, always connected to c of c’s governments as to what they permit. Without the realistic prospect of being dragged in to court they can run as wild as they want…also you have to call on the carpet local roll-over associations who maintain they can’t do anything. Often it comes down to neighborhood people just refusing to be shooed away like children for a clear shot or placing signs in Windows or refusing to halt thief daily routines to exactly suit….but it all takes personal involvement…and most people just want to complain…then they meekly comply with the modern Babylon.

“Hijacked?” They are city streets and the city has decided that it would prefer for a period of time to use its streets for economic development purposes rather than allowing residents and others to store their private property on them for free (to offer a different perspective from Mr. Smith).

“The city decided”(!)…what a classic line!!!…hey, who voted for this? Who was even consulted? …NOBODY….

The darlings of the new Babylon….and it IS in every was a Babylon, read the last few days news what an absolute acid this “industry” is on society.

But that “little” aspect aside, I see, I and everyone else has to sit still for endless disruptions and some of the most arrogant behavior on this planet.

There ARE neighborhoods and municipalities where none of this goes on because the people won’t allow it.

And there’s no other way to generate their “contribution”? (How about a lower tax structure AND less overbearing bureaucracy if you start or move a business to NYC?)

Let me tell what happened in BH the night of the election;

I came back from the Hilton via Rock Ctr what a scene…got back to BH people were arriving from Javits crying..it’s like 1 AM, so I began to shout up at Windows Trump had won! People were screaming, cursing. Of course, that’s fuel to do more. Finally one woman up 8 floors became so distraught she leaned out too far. She began to fall…only her husband saved, her just barely. Well… So I quickly called four friends who were still up and we went around the Heights singing/ shouting….”Ding ding the witch is dead”(!!!!)

This went on till about 3:30 AM.

So, AEB, did you like that little story?….

That’s how representative government works. The current and previous mayor (who could not be more unalike) both supported this practice. It may go all the way back to Giuliani. The City Council has not passed any laws limiting film production in NYC. All of these people were elected by voters.

Tip of the hat to the Joralemon Street resident who was watering her tree bed the other day with a hose. The extremely dry autumn has been tough on the area’s trees and plants. Everyone should do their part to give them a healthy drink now and then.

I just wish it was for something better than Madame Secretary.

Time to post more BH historical postcards! Here’s the Temple Bar and Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank Building (the low one) at the SW corner of Remsen and Court. At far right you can see the edge of the Garfield Building, whose postcard I posted a few weeks ago:

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Did you ever make it with Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney?

I’ll take a 6am movie shoot over what happened in that anecdote any Wednesday morning.

Interesting. Do you have a link to an online source?

You’re going downhill, not uphill, on Hicks. There is already a traffic light at the intersection with Clark.

The real problem is that cars on Pineapple can’t see approaching cars on Hicks over the hoods of the cars parked on the west side of Hicks. Innumerable fender-benders, sometimes worse, at that corner!

There’s a speed bump on Hicks north of Pineapple that really works.

TheRealDeal reports rising commercial rent asks in Brooklyn, doesn’t mention BH:

http://tinyurl.com/yd43eqlu

I first met Mrs Muldowney I guess in the late 60’s. She was a great highly intelligent driver and overall great competitor.
The alliance with Kalitta finally fizzled. The heart like a wheel film, while a far better than most movies about racing figures, doesn’t begin to convey the range of her life and the quality of her driving. But there were and are many great women drivers. There were always girl hot rodders from the start. During the 60’s and on of course there was Shirley Shaban, the drag on lady, then there was Paula Murphy, who was great!, Then there was Barbra Hamilton who was famiously blocked by the NHRA. There were dozens of others over the years. I think there were one or two Women as alternative Jet car jockeys….all great memories.