there's an element of that, no doubt, but if someone's out to mug people then there's not any way of carrying yourself that's going to put them off. i was strolling confidently down devoe street in williamsburg on my way to a friend's party, turned the corner onto olive street, and shazam. a guy with gun pedalled up on his bike and demanded my bag. no amount of self-possession or savvy is going to prevent something like that.
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago) link
best quote ever
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
people will think you're talking on your cellphone.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
Pretty sure it wasn't a mugging... evidently someone was after him about, uh, something between them.
― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 14 May 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link
We found a place on McKibben yesterday. How is the consensus two years later? It's about three blocks from the L at either Montrose or Morgan. I've been out there a few times and never had any problems.
― snumbers (snumbers), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
anyway, i was mugged twice while i lived there, tho both involved walking home alone drunk in the middle of the night.
also: if it's the building i'm thinking of, have fun in winter. the windows are all busted and the heat's a joke. also one or all of your neighbors will be in a band that practices in their apartment.
― p@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― snumbers (snumbers), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alicia Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link
the salsa music all day is grating, yes.
― p@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Wednesday, 23 August 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Currently on the hunt for a 2BR off Bedford or Lorimer. Keep your ears to ground, people!
― snumbers (snumbers), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Three years later, any thoughts on the Montrose and Morgan L stops?
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Monday, 29 June 2009 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Morgan is mckibben lofts aka 20 year old hipster dorms neighborhood but tbh I think I went to bushwick like 5 times total after I moved because I hated it so much so who knows what it's like now?
― tehresa, Monday, 29 June 2009 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link
"east williamsburg"
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 29 June 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
they should just call it "east manhattan"
West Hamptons
― tehresa, Monday, 29 June 2009 07:26 (fourteen years ago) link
east new york is the new bushwick
― velko, Monday, 29 June 2009 07:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I know of a few students (NYU, New School, FIT) who have tentatively started to move into the area but all the accounts are so far conflicting. any thoughts?
― buzza, Sunday, 20 November 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
I live near the Graham and Grand L stops now and I walk over to the Morgan area occasionally for galleries or to get breakfast at Tina's, and sometimes venture more towards Jefferson and DeKalb stops. I can't say I'd want to raise a family there, but I'd probably have moved there at 23. Still pretty heavy crime, lots of muggings, etc. Obviously the post-college/art school folk have been moving there for years and as long as the rents keep rising all over the city that trend will continue, but I don't know if the kind of expanding gentrification we've seen in the last decade can go on forever. Depends I guess whether there continues to be an influx of rich europeans buying condos, the job market, crime, various other economic factors.
The other thing is that a lot of Bushwick is just ugly, but so is Williamsburg and that's not stopping people.
― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
why do you think it can't go on forever? lots of people want to live in a nice walkable city and there are like, 2-3 in america.
― iatee, Friday, 9 March 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
also recall that williamsburg used to be UGLIER and now it's sort of pleasantly undergrown, I guess...
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 9 March 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
those are fair points I guess, but the question is whether there's an endless supply of people with MONEY who want to live in a nice, walkable city.
I guess there are parts of Williamsburg that are "pleasantly undergrown" but I find my part just plain ugly. In the areas that are more condo-ized (Bedford, McCarren Park, etc.) there's at least a kind of fascinating decadence to the contrast between the new luxury buildings and their surroundings. But most days on my way home I just think "why are we paying so much rent to live here again?"
― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 March 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
because you are 5 minutes away from manhattan
― iatee, Friday, 9 March 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
willmbrg/bushwick both p ugly
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 March 2012 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
geenpoint too
greenpoint has some quaint areas
but really all of them are just evidence that the nyc market responds more to context and convenience than the beauty of the housing stock. that's why infill development can be ugly as fuk and still make money.
― iatee, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
dont u have like 20 threads on this topic already
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
ya I didn't start this one iirc
― iatee, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
just trying to help hurting understand why he is willing to pay so much money to live on the l train
― iatee, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
a: 'the l train'
i dont think you have any idea what hes talking abt tbh
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
okay dude what is he talking about
― iatee, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
hes just going *sigh* this place is ugly is there really even a point *kicks rock* then youre all well according to housing density stats blah blah
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
I'm trying to get him to understand the beauty of housing density
― iatee, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
im sure he can access all of yr threads abt that if he wants to but damn man people have other concerns
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
he asked whether bushwick etc. can gentrify forever
― iatee, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
u should try drugs
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
haha are you really resentful @ me for not doing enough drugs, youve been trolling me since the drugs threads
― iatee, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
bushwick is good for that
― buzza, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
im resentful of you talking abt housing density in every thread on ilx and i think drugs might help you cool out a bit
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
you know we agree on a lot of stuff on ilx and whatever beef you have w/ me atm is one-sided
― iatee, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
just stop yglesiasing up every thread! this is said by someone who has a high tolerance for yglesiasing
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
feel like you think my yglesiasing is getting in the way of your yglesiasing
― iatee, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
i used to live above BNCC lol true story
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:22 (six years ago) link
in fact i lived there when Wale shot the video for "Bad" there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TIIu9CERgI
not really sure where else to post this without feeling awkward, but: our house on lawton street caught fire last week. my roommate's room, our kitchen and living room were totally wiped out, ditto the upstairs kitchen and living room, and every bedroom in the house got at least some measure of smoke and water damage. everybody has had to move out and is in the process of extracting and trying to clean/save anything not blatantly soaked and sooted to the bone. this has not really been very fun in a lightless house with face masks and headlamps. the worst thing of all is that our cat passed away of smoke inhalation, which i really don't even want to talk about. we're hoping it was quick and relatively painless.
i say all this as a preamble to, there is a gofundme for all us housemates (save Shuj4 H41d3r who lived downstairs of me - if you follow him on twitter you know he got his act together sooner to set up a fundraiser [plus had separate additional expenses to deal with] and has also shared this one). i hardly would ask any of y'all internet cats here to donate but please consider sharing, and more in the spirit of ILX, coming out to the bar-room fundraisers this friday! happy hour at marcos (broadway & malcolm x) from 2 to 8 followed by band showcase at The Gateway from 8:00 on. come have a drink, bring your friends, spread the word! i will be the frequently unshaven man wearing stupid hipster aviator glasses.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
jeezus Doc, what a bummer. hope things go well, fast!
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
Sorry about your losses. Someone on your page should probably spell Rafael Espinal's name correctly.
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
ah jeez, sorry doc - that’s awful, especially your poor kitty
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
fuck
sorry for your cat but really good news that no humans were hurt
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
thanks, y'all. it's been tough but this has definitely reminded me how many people care and want to help - have not had to worry about places to sleep and stuff like that and that takes a ton of what would be nightmarish stress out of the picture. i was at target to buy a rolling suitcase and some underwear/socks and saw a dumb t-shirt with an "I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends" motif and i was like, right on.
and MV, i'll pass that on to to the guy that set up the gofundme, appreciate it.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 1 March 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
aw man i'm sorry dc all the best to you, that is awful. im glad you all are safe and im sorry about your cat
― marcos, Thursday, 1 March 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
oh no doc i am stunned and appalled to hear this
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 1 March 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
damn, sorry man
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 2 March 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
you all are terrific. recognized a few ILXor names in the donation list and was really touched. y'all didn't have to do all that! <3 <3 <3
still getting by okay. couchsurfing while i work through cleaning/reboxing/purging the stuff that i did haul out of the place. hopefully when that's done there's enough space in my friend's spare room for me to crash while i look for an apartment, but i've also had several other offers of places to stay in march so that's one big worry taken out of the picture.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 2 March 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
good luck doc - glad you've got people who can help
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 March 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
Best of luck Doctor. Fire and the aftermath is such a devastating thing to have to go through, I know. I'm very glad you've got so many good people around you. Hang in there.
― Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 2 March 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
https://bushwickdaily.com/bushwick/categories/community/6047-the-life-of-a-polyamorous-hasidic-swordfighter-in-bushwick
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
xp to many other threads: shit that could be in the onion, HEY JEWS, poly people, etc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
Well that was enjoyable
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
very disappointed this does not mention the swords at all after first reference, what would carly rae jepsen think
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Thursday, 9 May 2019 01:01 (five years ago) link