Streetlevel: Nigerian No Time Soon in Fort Greene
Fort Greeners who’ve been waiting with bated breath for the Nigerian restaurant to open at the corner of Lafayette and Cumberland are going to have to wait a little longer. As it turns out, all the work on the ground-floor space—including new storefront windows—was done without permission from either the Department of Buildings or the…
Fort Greeners who’ve been waiting with bated breath for the Nigerian restaurant to open at the corner of Lafayette and Cumberland are going to have to wait a little longer. As it turns out, all the work on the ground-floor space—including new storefront windows—was done without permission from either the Department of Buildings or the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Oops. That kind of mess could take months to unwind.
Streetlevel: Nigerian, Not Thai, for Lafayette [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
The myth that old fogies are internet illiterate has been greatly exaggerated. You’ll find the internet to be an enormous boon when you need a walker to get around – you can just sit at home, warm and toasty on a cold winter’s night, put on some good music, order from Fresh Direct, and vent your cranky self on your favorite blog. Did all you newbies think that was your exclusive perogative? Not all change is bad, especially when it empowers old-fogeydom. Now where did I put that dementia medication…in my personal opinion, the great part about blogging is that online, nobody can tell the demented from the non. Take The What, for example….
I had no idea so many old fogies used the internet!
Hear, hear, 7:10AM!
[Signed]
~The writer who wrote the lonnnng entries above.
PS…I kind of am complaining about “change”…I just don’t sick DOB or Landsharks on everyone when I see something that isn’t *that* horrible. Figure: it’s our taxes at work churning all those person-hours so why make more work? Also, why make someone else’s life miserable if you don’t r-e-a-l-l-y need to, right?…
I’m like you…planning on being part of my community for a good long while…who knows…
7:10 here. Not complaining about change, just the fact that those bringing it these days seem to have little sense of humor, history, or perspective. People who live with their heads in the sand tend to get kicked in the butt – by stuff like subprime mortgage meltdowns, for example. They’ll be as ancient as we are soon enough, and complaining about the new influx of whatever they’re called fifty short years hence…when some academic may be writing tomes recycling our current postings (calling them societal artifacts or whatever), and complaining that they can’t afford to live in brownstone Brooklyn. Plus ca change….
BTW, walked by the said house last night and found that the railings are all gone too. I thought only the rolling gates had been removed but it looks like it was all taken out.
Well, 7:10, change happens, EVERYWHERE. My hometown changed dramatically, and I don’t necessarily “like” the new population. But that’s just the way the world turns. If your main problems in life are “hipsters” or “newbies” overrunning your neighborhood, making your property values skyrocket and forcing an increase in amenities, well then your life ain’t all that bad.
Yeah, but if we don’t feel like selling, if we just want to stay in our homes (pardon us – check the suburban thread on this same blog for why we might), we aren’t “set for life.” We’re just condemned to watching the newbies do their thing and complain about Fresh Direct and how unfair it is that we didn’t pay what they did. Personally, I’m sticking around until I croak (current projections: about another forty years), at which point the then-equivalent of Jerry Minsky is welcome to sell my house for whatever the market will bear. Or just maybe it will go to a foundation I’m establishing to offer emergency housing to jobless hipsters (assuming they, or some variant thereon, are still around at that point), along with classes on how to live within your means.
Thanks to the those “newbies” you are set for life, if and when you do decide to sell.
HERE!! HERE!! 9:05! Finally I get some relief! Finally I get to hear someone say what I have to quietly think everyday. Someone PLEASE tell these “NEWBIES” they don’t HAVE to pay these “ridiculous” prices. They can just go back to whereever they came from and live there! Tell those HOTSHOTS! They can continue to give Nassau county $10 grand for taxes or Donald Trump $10 mil for 2 rooms or communte to Philly for $800. Someone PLEASE tell “Them” That STILL 150 Years Later They are not “Doing Us A Favor” As THEY have always acted as though they were doing for GENERATIONS!! Someone PLEASE! Tell these GENTRIFIERS with their DAMN Nosy selves that MOST of US who have lived and WORKED in these neighborhoods ALL of our lives don’t care what they think! And wish they would show some class and keep their Judgements to themselves. Cause WE Will Sell our Properties, for WHATEVER we See Fit and THEY ARE NOT!!!! The Boss of US!