While crossing the incredibly unpaved St. Johns Pl (btn Rogers & Nostrand) I noticed the glint of buried trolley tracks. They’re still mostly under another layer of pavement, but they’re there. It’s pretty cool.

Go see it while you can… they may be paving it over very soon, according to posts in Where’s the f***ing asphalt on St Johns Pl? on the Prospect Heights Message Board.

Live from the corner of St. Johns and Underhill:

ENTRIES so far:

1. I didn’t know Courtney Love hung out around here! (Carnivore)

2. finally someone took out the yuppie trash!!!! (armchair_warrior)

3. Nice! (kosherdave)

4. So much for blonde ambition. (metulj)

Submit your prize winning entry: PROSPECT HEIGHTS MESSAGE BOARDS

What have you done for me lately? RBG writes in the Prospect Heights Message Boards :

“About a month ago, one of the guys who hangs out on St. Johns came over to me and asked whether or not I have a computer. When I said, yes, he asked … ‘Will you please print out my resume?’ … John Doe gave me a sheet of paper with his educational creditials and work history written out in longhand … At first, I was like, ‘WTF? He wants me to format, type out, print, and deliver this resume??’

“… while typing out the resume, I learned that someone that I’d dismissed for years as just another hustler is in fact, a licensed electrician. He has a HS diploma …”

“This morning, as I was on my way to work, John Doe was in front of his building with all the other guys, hanging out…I waved as I always do … and he came over and said, ‘Thank you for doing that resume for me….It worked…I GOT A JOB!!’… I told him I was proud of him, and commented that his new gold fronts and flashy new sunglasses…”

WHO CAN TOP THAT?? Apollonia666 can: “Last Wednesday morning, I got on the 4 at Franklin Avenue. A lady was eating fruit and when she finished, she realized that she had gotten drops of reddish juice all over her coat, which was a light cream color. I gave her a Shout wipe.”

PEFORM A RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS—MAKE A NEW FRIEND in the Prospect Heights Message Boards

On St. Johns Place there is always plenty of activity during Outdoor Loudness Season (OLS). There is a girl in the next building over that plays guitar on her roof while singing at the top of her lungs. A neighbor a few floors up plays saxophone or some such wind instrument. And let us not leave out the piano man coming from who knows where and hosting speakeasies where people sing what appears to be the Fame soundtrack well into the wee hours of the morning. Last spring I thought I would participate in OLS by filming a music video on my roof with Cuban surf rock band The Cuban Cowboys. No sooner did the George Bush piñata get strung up then did a woman in a house coat come up to the roof and tell us to shut the hell up. Perhaps she had employed a beta version of Google Satellite Maps and saw what we were up to. Just enter 11238 into the search and click the “Satellite” link on the upper right to see who the heck it is up there making all that racket. By the way, 3 days after my failed Outdoor Loudness, this lock appeared on the door to the roof.

Top floor, exclusive roof building rights. Between Underhill and Washington. Closer to Washington. Open house tomorrow and Sunday. Oh yeah, rates are down again.

Post Punk Kitchen, the vegetarian cooking show filmed in an apartment on St. John’s Place, is off BCAT until April. For now, tune in to Manhattan Neighborhood Network (click channel 67) every other
Saturday at 1pm.

Sked:

Saturday January 8th 1pm
Saturday January 22nd 1pm
Saturday February 5th 1pm
Saturday February 19th 1pm 

2 years ago on St. John’s Place.