Long Island City weekend 7-train service resumed & other linkage.

I don’t get why opening a high-end bar in an obscure corner of a tanking neighborhood in a global economic depression is a good idea.

i’m looking forward to dutch kills. I want that $15 “what recession” drink. Make that a double.

Why are there still boxes of books littering the streets? Don’t you condo owners have any respect for the neighborhood? You’re turning it into a ghetto.

#7 The reason you have snow and ice-free sidewalks is because you pay a rather large maintenance fee to have someone to take care of it. I don’t think it’s out of respect to the neighborhood. We keep our sidewalk clean but sometimes the old timers may literally be a little too old to get out and take care of their sidewalks as soon as your buildings’ maintenance guys do it. By the way the law is that we have 24 hours after a snowfall I believe.

The snow fell overnight Sunday in to Monday which was over 24 hours ago. Take a walk around today and see how many houses have shovelled. Very few on my walk to the subway this morning as oppose to all of the apartment buildings.

And, yes I do pay a hefty maintenance fee which covers shovelling, but that’s what I want. If you want to live in a house you have to be prepared to do your part too. Or of course, as # 9 says you can pay someone to do it for you.

No. 9 has never shoveled a sidewalk in his life. Can’t get salt on those tassel loafers.

turns out there was some interesting stuff in those boxes.
http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2009/03/madoff-papers-all-over-lic.html

now that I read that, I remember that one night on the news after the Madoff scandal broke, there was a piece that mentioned that Madoff kept his old books at a warehouse in Sunnyside.

interesting nonetheless.

15, your landlord is probably someone who lives in one of the towers. Maybe #9?

#16, I think my landlord lives in Manhattan, actually.

# 17 You don’t say if you’re a new comer or old-timer so not sure which side of the fence you’re on in terms of saying “new neighbours”. Are you saying the new comers are critical and intolerant? Or are you saying the old timers are?

It seems an old-timer started this out by accusing the new condo owners of turning the area in to a ghetto. Sounds like s/he is pretty critical and intolerant if you ask me (a new comer, for the record).

You have a voice now, but it’s an anonymous one.

Yeah, I shouldn’t have said that earlier. I was wrong to say that my chimp can consume a $15 drink. She’s never had a $15 drink, although she’s had a $10 drink, and I, meanwhile, assumed cost was not an issue. I admit that however reasonable such an assumption seemed at the time, it was nevertheless scientifically irresponsible to make that statement. Therefore, I withdraw the conclusion until further research, and please accept my apologies. My bad.

I need a drink, $15, and a date with Townies chimp.