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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:01:43 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:47:31 +0000

I’m up for joining the neighborhod watch if we incorporate a pub crawl into it. If you can’t beat ‘em, join them…just not at the WTB.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:45:14 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:42:34 +0000

Last year or the year before a fellow from the hood almost died from a beating there. Patrons get out of control, and the WTB should be responsible for what they encourage and unleash. If there are preventive steps they can take like getting more toilets and hiring more security. They should be doing that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:01:44 +0000

#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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:15:07 +0000

Ok, I get it. But what can we, as neighbors, do about it? The WTB already offers free water taxi rides back to midtown? What else should be expected of them? There are those noise laws that Bloomberg passed…how can we enforce? This is starting to sound like the beginning of a neighborhood watch…..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:26:49 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:24:23 +0000

#51 you forgot to mention the screaming at 3am. For some reason, drunk people become very deaf and must talk to each other at the loudest volume possible on quiet streets where families and children etc are sleeping. Yes this is new york, but that doesn’t mean human beings can’t show each other some basic respect and decency. I have been drunk before and never thrown up or pissed on people’s porches. That’s just wrong.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:23:14 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:17:54 +0000

Come on – this is where you lose me. Unleashing terror? Savages? Unless there is more to this than reported here, I don’t see it. Spilt beer, phlegm, and urine (possibly of dog origin) hardy constitutes a national emergency. I agree that businesses should be responsible, but individuals need to be responsible too. Businesses can’t follow patron home to make sure that they got home okay.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:08:16 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:54:17 +0000

Oh dear, spilled beer? Someone spit on the sidewalk? Now this is serious. What are we to do?! Maybe we can get a DNA sample from the urine or the spit and run it through the database to see if we can catch this a-hole. Seriously folks!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:49:29 +0000

#48, seriously? Perfect.

Is QueensWest the dudebro handbook of LIC?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:35:03 +0000

47, I see. That explains why “Maxim” has featured WTB in its latest issue, according to someone on QW.com. Isn’t that magazine the Dudebro handbook?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:05:09 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:33:41 +0000

Clever #31.

I think the higher the cover charge the higher the entitlement to get f-cked -up. The more bodily functions. It really is a problem.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:28:11 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:58:46 +0000

43, I confess to not looking that closely at the puke to see if it was mainly PBR or a pricey vintage Napa red, so, yes, I have no way of knowing if that was the product of a hipster or some Eurotrash.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:44:35 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:29:58 +0000

OK, I’ll admit it doesn’t happen EVERY weekend. But is the frequency that important to you? I can assure you that even having to clean up hipster puke ONCE is enough to raise your ire. Give me your number and you can try it some Sunday morning for yourself if you don’t believe me. And if you’re so interested in accuracy, I estimate it has happened about 6 times last summer — either puke, piss, or a combo of both (and to be conservative, I’ll even just count that as one occurrence), or some miscellaneous act of vandalism, like yanked out flowers, a can of beer spilled on my stoop, and gobs of hipster phlegm. Happy?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:50:08 +0000

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.

By: vadim

vadim — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:14:38 +0000

#27, it’s not a joke. We are working on opening a CrossFit training facility on 47th Ave, next to the sportsfield. Should be able to start the sessions in a few weeks. If you are interested, watch the website for updates on the progress.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:47:24 +0000

#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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:50:07 +0000

Springsteen tickets cost less than that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:38:12 +0000

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.