Events in and around Long Island City, June 9th – 14th

I love this website- such a great update.

But I’m not that excited about the PS1-WTB folks crashing our little nabe this summer. :(

in regards to the PS1-WTB people…is it really that bad? Can you notice a major change in people in the area during the summer?

There have been groups of loud, unruly, drunken 20-somethings staggering on quiet residential streets on their way back to the subway in the wee hours. They’ve knocked over garbage pails, pulled up plants, pissed on stoops, and vomited on the sidewalk on our block. So, yes, I would say there is a major change.

Maybe Brian could aim a few of his pyrotechnics at the P.S. 1/WTB savages. Now that’s one “warm up” I could get behind.

Does anyone else have a desire for a brand new beautiful gym in Hunters Point? Not Astoria, not LIC / Astoria border but right here in one of these huge old factory buildings… like a Crunch or anything really, just something I can walk to (or run to). Equinox is a bit expensive so anything but that. The Y is too far.

#10 For sure! The Warm-Up is a lot of fun and very unusual! Try it once, if you don’t like it, nothing lost.

#9 it’s ironic you want a gym closer to you, why not get ‘real’ exercise and run to the Y?

#10 you should check it out. It’s cool if only to say you’ve been there. I recommend you get there early though, after a certain time you’ll spend all your time on line. Get there early and watch the place fill up and the comings and goings of the different types of people during different times of the day.

If P.S. 1 and WTB made much more of an effort to coordinate security arrangements with the 108th precinct (who do f-all, in my view) — as any organization that brings hundreds of partiers should and would certainly have to if they were in Manhattan — I think no one would have any problem with them. It’s there complete lack of regard for neighbors and irresponsibility — disdain even? — that angers me the most. The next time I have to clean vomit off my stoop I an going to bag it up and hand-deliver it to MoMa.

Oh please. Like people don’t yell and throw up in the Village–or Greenpoint? Those summer events enrich our neighborhood and I for one am happy to have them. You’re not. Why don’t we put this tired old annual summer thread about the “invaders” aside and all agree to disagree on the topic.

Smug twit? wow…. what a jerk. I hope you get vomitted again this year.

P.S. I live 2 blocks from PS1 and the crowds never seem to do anything to our stoop, and the diner and Shannon Pot seem to enjoy the business.

Its the city, people throw up all over the place. You think LIC has a lock on that? Or that the cops are patrolling en mass at any place where people gather. Get real. This is not Nebraska. And lets not exaggerate. No one is tossing cookies on your stoop every weekend. Quit being a grumpy old man.

Was anyone else at Prospect Park last night? 20,000-some people there… if even self-satisfied Park Slope has to deal with it, LIC does as well. Part of summer in the city for better or worse.

True, if you’re gonna barf, you should aim for the street. Or maybe the river.

Where will this gym be on 47th Ave and 5th St? Is that a joke?

No. 27, good advice — aim at the street. Or WTB could set up a trough at the exit and request that their guests puke before they leave.

I always give people the wrong directions when they ask me where WTB is. Happens at least once a weekend.

That’s because (#21) – When they are over by Shannon Pot and your stoop – it is the shank of the evening — They don’t get completely wasted until they hit WTB, and the mayhem over here happens when they leave WTB in the wee hours of the AM. I’m sure there are also some who go to the warm-up and just go to the Shannon Pot or the diner afterwards and don’t come over to WTB. It only takes one bad apple to spoil the entire bushel. In this case, it’s a bunch of bad apples who are spoiling a good thing with their rotten behavior.

I’ll ask the new gym owner to post something so youcan know when it is opening and where it is exactly. This is his second gym. But it is definitely on 47th Ave just east of 5th.

Cover charges can range from $5 to $40…it depends on who the DJ is that particular night. They start cover charges at or around 7 or 8pm. Although sometimes all day Sunday they have cover charges. And on holidays too.

Clearly WTB best days are behind it.

#10 here :-) lol I kinda find it funny that no one puts their name down (even just the first), but it’s no a biggie. I don’t care either way. Thanks to everyone who wrote back – appreciate it.

I find it hard to believe that people are throwing up left and right on your block every weekend. I have not been drinking, but these exaggerations make my stomach sick.

FYI, hipsters don’t really hang out at WTB. but i don’t doubt that the crowd there gets rowdy, drunk and belligerent.

My biggest beef is not that they’re in LIC or that they *might* be spending money, it’s that they’re wasted at 4am and acting like idiots. And they’re loud, waking up everyone in a 100 foot radius.

I think the people who come early to LIC and who dine in the restaurants and check out our shops- that’s great. But the ones who roll in at 1am with the crappy car and the loud music and then depart with a trace (either noise or barf) are the ones I’m not too fond of during the summer.

Uh, yeah, “hipsters” do not go to Water Taxi Beach (or most places in LIC for that matter). It is more some combination of Euro/Jersey/Dudebro types.

#48, seriously? Perfect.

Is QueensWest the dudebro handbook of LIC?

It seems that not everyone has had the ‘WTB savages’ experience. If you did, you would not be taking light of how disruptive it is to the community. All WTB has to do is increase their bathroom count, and I don’t know… maybe provide a charge ride to the vernon jackson stop. I’m sure drunkards would pay a dollar or two to get shuttled to the subway at 2,3,4am. That would solve the problem and they are in the BUSINESS also of transporting people. But they don’t care that they unleash terror into the neighborhood and don’t feel as though they need to take any responsibility for their ‘patrons/savages’.
That’s not right. I know we are in capitalist America, but we are also in Hunters Point where tons of families and industrial business live mostly in peace. If community members approach a business with a serious concern, it’s unfortunate if they feel they don’t need to at least consider addressing the problem. Anyway, nobody seems to give a shit, so I’ll just invest in some ear plugs and an electric-vomit-cleaner-upper.

51, is right on the mark (and I swera I’m a different poster). One of the most discouraging things about this situation revealed in this thread is that some of our neighbors themselves don’t seem to care at all that others are being hassled in this way. I’d like to think that we can show some solidarity from time and time and deal with issues that endanger quality of life in our neighborhood — even if just a handful of your neighbors are getting the brunt of it. In many ways, we’re lucky that it’s “only” vomit we’re complaining about, because the situation at WTB can easily lead to something much worse unless the owners do something and the neighbors hold them to it.

52, hey jackass. Why don’t you talk to some of the people who live off of 5th Street and ask them? We’ve had crowds of very loud thugs roaming down the middle of our street at 3am, screaming their heads off, vandalizing property and acting like animals. I don’t know what tree you were raised in, but publicly urinating, puking and acting like a slob was once frowned upon. Grow the f up or shut up. Take your pick.

#52 here. I agree with #56. Short of closing down WTB what do you propose? I’m no fan of WTB, but I’ll defend their right to exist. Once people leave their facility they are no longer responsible for them. Let’s organize a neighborhood watch or do something productive instead of calling people savages and eurotrash. I am anti-public puking and pissing (humans – not dogs) and yelling. Spitting and spilled beer you are on your own with that one.

Maybe all we can do is talk to our local police precint and ask them to be more vigilent in the aea between the WTB & the subway during the late night weekend hours. That’s their job.

And someone suggested having more bathrooms made available outside the WTB area…that’s another good idea.

60, When you say “join them,” I hope you aren’t advocating vomiting on stoops also. Kidding aside, I like the idea of neighborhood watch “moles” drinking at WTB and keeping an eye out for any idiots. No one is advocated some fascist police state in LIC. Everyone should enjoy themselves. Just don’t be a moron.