Bed Stuy Photos Du Jour: ON

December 21, 2010 ·
Filed under: 11206, Bed-Stuy, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, Street Art 

Taken December 21, 2010.

Miss Heather

New York Shitty Day Ender: Live From The Town Hall Meeting Part I

I just back from the Town Hall meeting organized by Steve Levin and Senator Martin Malave Dilan. I will be uploading footage throughout the evening so check back in! In the meantime, I will leave you with this image (from the Polish Slavic Community Center) to contemplate.

So slowly— but surely— the footage is uploading!

Part I: Stephen Levin explains why this Town Hall meeting is being conducted and why neither the DHS nor HELP USA are present. Synopsis: This was intended to be a “community meeting” to form a strategy to fight said homeless shelter. (Curious given NY1 was present replete with a van and reporter.) Mr. LevinĀ also touched upon the “fair share” issue and in so doing mentioned our waste water treatment facility. He stumbled a bit as to how much and whose shit we get. My answer— and mind you, this is a hobby for yours truly: a lot. As to whose poop we process. This following map (which can be found at the Visitor’s Center at the Newtown Creek Waste Water Treatment Facility).

We get Wall Street’s shit. The Empire State Building (from whose observation deck which our most famous landmark is purported to be seen): their crap, is our crap! We also get the merde and vomitus from the East Village and Lower East Side. Be it from “uppity bohemians”, the “frat folks” they allegedly oppress or otherwise. All I’m saying is much of Santacon 2010 puke’s and piss found its way to my backyard. Simply put: we get a lot of shit.

  • Mr. Levin clarifies what an “assessment center” is. E.g.; homeless men will be bused in or travel here by subway, spend anywhere between two weeks or a month (so as to be “assessed”) before they dispatched elsewhere. As he put it: a big revolving door.
  • Mr. Levin talks about the homeless/unhoused problem here and why HELP USA’s shelter will not help our local homeless problem. In fact, it will exacerbate it.
  • Mr. Levin speaks about a proposal he made to the former head of the Department of Homeless Services regarding our homeless population.

Part II: Stephen Levin goes into the 3/4 house (as opposed to halfway house— I honestly didn’t know there was a difference) at Clay Street as being problematic in and if itself and continues to explain how the homeless shelter as proposed by HELP USA will not help our unhoused.

  • Levin mentions that he has met with residents of the Greenpoint Hotel/SRO 3/4 house— whatever you want to call it— and they have made it known their living conditions are appalling.
  • Steve Levin takes a hands-up vote as to who is for and who is against this shelter. I refused to film this— but I can attest not a single person present was for it.

Part III: Miezsko “The Coffee Man” Kalita (who is also the Public Safety Chair of Community Board 1) speaks and gives a recap of how Community Board 1 has tried to initiate a dialogue with HELP USA repeatedly and to no avail.

Part IV: Levin explains how the building in question, 400 McGuinness Boulevard, falls under the loft law.

Part V: Rent stabilization is an abomination— or this guy is very confused. I honestly cannot tell which.

Part VI: I am concluding this post with this clip because what this woman, who hails from Community Board 3— in Bedford Stuyvesant— has to say about their dealings with the Department of Homeless Services is illuminating. We should be very grateful she took the time to share her experience with us. Seriously.

  • Do not fool yourself; what happened in her neighborhood can happen in ours. What’s more, it looks like we will have a rather nasty fight ahead of us.

The rest the the footage from tonight’s meeting can be found here.

Miss Heather

From The New York Shitty Photo Pool: Broadway Junction

December 6, 2010 ·
Filed under: 11233, Bed-Stuy, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, Bushwick, Bushwick Brooklyn 

Taken by Noah Devereaux.

Miss Heather

New York Shitty Day Starter: Wrapped

December 5, 2010 ·
Filed under: 11206, Bed-Stuy, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, Street Furniture 

Taken by Noah Devereuax.

Miss Heather

From The New York Shitty Photo Pool: Coming Soon

November 30, 2010 ·
Filed under: 11205, 11206, 11237, Bed-Stuy, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn 

Taken by Noah Devereaux.

Miss Heather

Spotted In Bed Stuy: The New World

November 24, 2010 ·
Filed under: 11206, Bed-Stuy, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn 

It has been a rather eventful week for yours truly. While I could go into a blow by blow account methinks the following statistics will suffice. NOTE: save the first bullet point all incidences have come to pass in the last six days;

  • Number of days without heat: 55
  • Number of visits from HPD: 2
  • Number of individuals found smoking heroin on Chez Shitty’s stoop: 1
  • Number of times the NYPD has been summoned: 1
  • Number of times my upstairs neighbor has called the landlord: 2
  • Number of times the landlord called the previously-mentioned woman “pretty”: 1
  • Number of electrical outages in the public areas of Chez Shitty’s building: 1
  • Number of visits from the Fire Department: 1

The latter most came to pass at 10:30 p.m. Monday night. Yours truly awakened yesterday morning more than a little dazed and confused. I needed some peace and quiet— so I headed to Flushing Avenue without delay. It has been my observation that a walk around Woodhull is therapeutic on such occasions. It is peaceful? No. Quiet? Hardly. But it does makes one feel better about his/her condition, e.g.; it can always be worse. It was on Park Avenue that I spied the following.

I imagine some explanation of what you are looking at is in order. Here it is.

Ahoy!

the chap you see at right exclaimed

Would you be happening to be doing laundry? I have happened upon this pair of pants. (holding them up, so as to showcase the hind parts which revealed, um, some not-so-gentle wear and tear and “added value”) As you you can see they have a hole in them. Would you perhaps like to fix them?

The gentleman agreed, threw down a skein of yarn and, well, you can see the rest for yourself.

Just as you are probably are, I was wondering what the fuck was going on. As I was walking away I got my answer:

Welcome to the New World. It is conveniently located next door to Paradise.

Miss Heather

New York Shitty Day Ender: FITZCUSTOM

October 21, 2010 ·
Filed under: 11205, Bed-Stuy, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn 

From (the other) Bedford Avenue.

Miss Heather

Bed Stuy Photos Du Jour: Bottoms Up!

October 15, 2010 ·
Filed under: 11205, Bed-Stuy, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn 

Speaking as a Greenpoint resident, I can attest that I see empty liquor bottles— lots of them— on a daily basis. What I have never seen, however, is an artful arrangement of said items. This brings me to the image above (which was taken at DeKalb Avenue).

This is truly impressive.

What’s more, the person(s) responsible for this have seen fit to separate the bottles from the cans. NICE!

Miss Heather

New York Shitty Day Starter: Hello Again

October 15, 2010 ·
Filed under: 11206, Bed-Stuy, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn 

From Spencer Street.

Miss Heather

Bed-Stuy Photo Du Jour: Liquid Love

October 14, 2010 ·
Filed under: 11216, Bed-Stuy, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn 

From Bedford Avenue.

Miss Heather

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