quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

yeah the only bad incident me and my gf had over a year of living there was when this 14 year old girl kind of shoved this other girl into ari so she stepped in a puddle, but 14 yr olds, what are you going to do

they need to go to saraghina and chill out w/ some pizza n wine

I'm sorry, I take that back: one of them says in a photo caption, "The house was like a muse"; also they described themselves as "street-wise". So apparently "people like us" means total idiots.

it is generally more killy over there than most of ny but ny is p safe altogether so idk http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map

once the bodega next door burned down

oh hmm and the week we moved out some guy got shot in front of our apartment while we were home

there was a p bonkers incent that happened on my friends corner where there was a shootout between two guys in broad daylight then a cop rolled up and started shooting at them from his car - i read abt it in the nytimes and sent it along to my friends, they had no idea loll

so I'm wondering if losing your $300 security deposit + losing a bass guitar + getting braces is a good exchange for free publicity from the times + street-cred for having been robbed

hmm

the quality of being a neighborhood boundary pedant only comes from transplants to that area fyi

― dayo, Thursday, July 7, 2011 11:33 AM Bookmark

This isn't true.

kinda amazed that there have been no reported murders between 24th and 29th and 6th and 9th ave since before 2003

that map is p fascinating, wish it was up to date

no snitchin

also, it seems like being asian means you're only about a third as likely to get killed as a white boy so i am converting

A little ammonia would wash off that fingerprint powder, and maybe they could lock the doors next time? I wonder how much the rent was....

whole buncha asian murders in the LES tho

you know, that's not really a quiddities one; that's more like a buncha young kids getting fucked up and in over their heads and is generally redeemed for me by the last line.

― brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Thursday, July 7, 2011 10:59 AM Bookmark

This is my reaction too. Sucks for those kids and they didn't do anything to deserve it -- it's not like they were buying up brownstones to evict people, they were just trying to bring peace and love vibes and alittle naive about the block they were moving to. Plus they met at Brooklyn College -- not exactly ruling class.

i remember when some guy got killed outside your apartment in a bar dispute hurting

a guy got killed outside of my friends apt in chinatown while i was there

a guy got killed in a salon across the street from my old apt, i was out of town tho iirc

You mean on Coles? I don't remember a murder, but there was a time a drunk off-duty cop shot some dude in the leg at Lucky 7's. There was also a shooting at that club on Newark Ave the night we moved in (again, in the leg! Six times in the leg!) and we could hear it from our window. My car got broken into a couple times. Home invasion robberies are some extra fucked up shit though.

i called the police on a knife fight outside of my apt, they didnt really look like they wanted to stab each other tho tbh

yeah feel like home invasions are super rare

I mean living a block from a block with constant gun battles is considerably worse than anywhere I've lived, and I've lived with a crack house two doors down.

in boston an apt full of drug dealers i knew got home invaded, but thats obvs special circumstances

Haha a drunk cop shot someone at Lucky 7's? That's funny to me. What club on Newark did someone get shot in?

i called the police on a knife fight outside of my apt, they didnt really look like they wanted to stab each other tho tbh

― ice cr?m, Thursday, July 7, 2011 11:55 AM Bookmark

lol

"Come at me!"
"No YOU!"
"Fuckin scared?"
"YOU fuckin scared!"

kinda suspect theres prob not actually constant gun battles there

Laurel I don't remember the name -- it was next to the Vietnamese Restaurant, like two blocks from where we lived (2nd and Coles)

i feel bad for those kids tbh no matter how corny their band is

last year i lived next to a crack house but i felt p safe the only bad thing was having ppl dump stuff in our garbage all the time

ppl moving to nyc and then bragging about being in the proximity of gunshots is the worst part of ppl moving to nyc

kinda suspect theres prob not actually constant gun battles there

for one thing you have to wonder what the 24/7 cop is doing while these gun battles are going on

which, to be clear, is not what i'm accusing you guys of doing -- just a tangential point

The whole night-time home invasion/pistol whipping thing is FUCKED and makes me wonder if it was completely random or if it was a bit too obvious that these guys had expensive equipment etc and were a little clueless.

xp Coles, hmm. Is Paradise Deli still there, am I thinking of the right corner? Or is that another block out?

yeah the knife dudes just seemed v drunk and like they had hurt each others feeling to the point one of them may have been crying

if it was a bit too obvious that these guys had expensive equipment etc

duh!

ppl moving to nyc and then bragging about being in the proximity of gunshots is the worst part of ppl moving to nyc

― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Thursday, July 7, 2011 11:59 AM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

new york is the safest big city in the usa iirc!

there were multiple ppl in my news feed on fourth of july being all "fireworks OR GUNSHOTS?? lol i'm talking about ON THE STREET WHERE I LIVE IN NEW YORK. it's crazy!!"

idk, maybe i know too many ppl from the midwest

it was prob fireworks, just based on the fact that it was the fourth of july

fwiw crime is one of the worst things for people and anyone who glorifies it is a repulsive barbarian

hurting, i was almost certain SOMEBODY got killed in lucky 7s, maybe i'm misremembering.
and i don't think anyone's bragging here! I'm sure as fuck not! I want ZERO to do with hostility and violence in my life and there's nothing sexy about proximity to it.

My reaction to gunshots on the night I moved (coupled with someone screaming "murder!") was not really braggin, it was more like "fuuck"

yeah dont think anyone here is really doing that

i mean these stories are also interesting

fucks sake i'm not even a hardman ONLINE

do we have a "most fucked up situation you escaped from without being hurt" thread?

idk but would read!

yeah, wd. contribute too!

I was two threads over when frogbs had 51 put in him

it shook me to my very core

that never happened by the way he took himself out