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Williamsburg Photo Du Jour: Metropolitan Avenue
Another day, another tree twat. That’s life in the wacky 11211 for ya!
Miss Heather
A Girl And Her Blog
It would appear that politicians (and the developers to whom they are beholden) have done a smashing job of removing “urban blight” (READ: the working class/poor) from north Brooklyn. Who needs nuclear bombs when re-zoning, complicity and bureaucratic incompetence/apathy will do the job? Nonetheless the end product is more or less the same: a community whose quality of life has been compromised.
Follows is a revue of developer-induced blight in north Brooklyn I captured yesterday, April 5. I have entitled it After The Gold Rush.
The sad reality is re-zoning, tax bennies, and easy credit have done little to benefit my neighborhood. There were once businesses that gave people decent, well paying jobs. Affordable rental property was once in abundance in Greenpoint as well. No more. Thanks to our city’s leadership much of my wonderful neighborhood has become a wasteland peppered by vacant lots, failed condominiums cum overpriced rental property, illegal hostels and super-sized tourist destinations operated by and for the affluent.
The time is long overdue for north Brooklyn to be developed in a manner sensitive to the needs of the people who constitute this community, not the ones Mayor Bloomberg’s rich cronies envision living here.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Miss Heather
P.S.: This one’s for you, Bob.
New York Shitty Day Ender: Word Of The Day
Filed under: Williamsburg
Chutzpah (IPA: /ˈxÊŠtspÉ™/) is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. The word derives from the Hebrew word ḥuá¹£pâ (חֻצְפָּה), meaning “insolence”, “audacity”, and “impertinence.” The modern English usage of the word has taken on a wider spectrum of meaning, however, having been popularized through vernacular use, film, literature, and television.
In Hebrew, chutzpah is used indignantly, to describe someone who has over-stepped the boundaries of accepted behavior with no shame. But in Yiddish and English, chutzpah has developed ambivalent and even positive connotations. Chutzpah can be used to express admiration for non-conformist but gutsy audacity. Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible ‘guts,’ presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to.” In this sense, chutzpah expresses both strong disapproval and a grudging admiration…
See: the following missive from Metropolitan Avenue between Union Avenue and Rodney Street.
—Miss Heather
So let me get this straight. This person saw fit to take the time to:
A. make and post fliers requesting that the “pretty” woman he saw leave a television on the curb* give him the remote control that accompanied it. Presumably for free.
B. set up an email address so in the event that the aforementioned woman…
- actually finds said fliers
- puts “2 + 2” together
- is not creeped out that this man knows what she looks like and
- decides to give this gent the remote control in question
…she can contact him.
Wouldn’t it have been easier simply to take down the make and model of said set and purchase an universal remote— or I am I missing something here? Thoughts anyone?
Miss Heather
*This is just plain creepy. Seriously.
Williamsburg Photos Du Jour: Happenis On Metropolitan Avenue
Filed under: Area 51
Looks like someone decided to give Bernie a grill. NICE.
Miss Heather
North Brooklyn Street Art Du Jour: Naughty Bits
Bedford Avenue
North 7th Street
Shortly after I took the above photograph a worker at this site (which is located on Kent Street) asked me if this was supposed to be a flower. I saw no good reason why I should disavow him of this notion.
Miss Heather
Bi-Borough Photos Du Jour: People In My Neighborhood
Filed under: Brooklyn, Crosstown Local, Greenpoint Magic, Long Island City, Queens, Williamsburg
Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg
Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg
Vandervoort Avenue, Greenpoint
Anthony Street, Greenpoint
Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint
Crosstown Local, Queens
5th Street, Long Island City
44th Drive, Long Island City.
Miss Heather
Williamsburg Photos Du Jour: Broken Heart & A Spade
Filed under: Williamsburg
From Metropolitan Avenue.
Miss Heather
Williamsburg Photos Du Jour: Pretty In Pink
Filed under: Williamsburg
I have no idea who is responsible for 651 Metropolitan’s new paint job and to be perfectly frank I really do not care. All I’m saying is if more development blight in north Brooklyn received this kind of treatment my neighborhood would be a much more colorful— and perhaps even prettier— place.
Miss Heather
P.S.: A very big New York Shitty thanks goes out to my colleague Queens Crap for bringing this gem to my attention!
Subway Photos Du Jour
From the Queens bound platform of the Crosstown Local at Metropolitan Avenue.
From the Smith – 9th bound platform of the Crosstown Local at Metropolitan Avenue.
From The Queens bound platform at 21st Street.
From the Manhattan bound platform of the E/V at 23rd Street – Ely Avenue.
Miss Heather
Real Estate Insanity: East Williamsburg Style
As found in a bodega on Metropolitan Avenue.
Miss Heather
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