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Crown Fried Chicken on Washington and Prospect Shuts its Doors

Posted by dailyheights on Tuesday 11 September 2007 at 2:39 pm

liftandcut writes: “Sucks that Crown Fried Chicken closed. Those guys who ran the place were nice dudes. Compared to other Kennedy and Crown Frieds I have been to, it was definitely the best. Clean, and relatively good food that I believe was Halal.”

As a partner in an establishment in Brooklyn, I know how stressful it is to run a business, and how hard emotionally and financially it is to have the spectre of losing a lease looming. Hope those guys do well in the future.

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD!

This corner lot be an interesting space to watch. Read more on this thread: Shocker - Crown Fried Chicken on WA/Prospect is no more [Comments: 4]

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Strangers Peering Into Fire Escapes (Underhill Ave.)

Posted by dailyheights on Monday 10 September 2007 at 4:06 pm

Reported by: UnderTheHill (Newbie)

Joined: 13 Sep 2006
Posts: 27
Location: Underhill btw Sterling & St. Johns

I got home tonight and noticed by the mailboxes that a tenant put up a sign that she saw someone peeping into her place through the fire escape in the back of the building during the early AM hours.
There was a followup note by another tenant that the same thing happened to them, and comments written on both by at least 5-7 other tenants that this too has happened to them during this week.
The two main writers did write that they called 911 to report this, because when they saw the person and screamed, he ran up the fire escape to the roof.

Link: Stranger Peering Into Fire Escapes (Comments: 17)

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Beyond Pathetic: Passing Fake $20s at a Prospect Heights Stoop Sale

Posted by dailyheights on Saturday 8 September 2007 at 11:52 pm

UPDATE: At least two other stoop sales got burned by this guy (or these guys) this past weekend. See the thread for details: stoop sale counterfeit $ scam– beware
Report by: spec* | Newbie | Joined: 23 Aug 2007
Location: prospect heights

a few folks had a stoop sale today on the corner of park and vanderbilt. turns out when one of us tried to use some of the $, she learned we had been given two fairly undetectable counterfeit 20$ bills in the sale– and given back the counterfeiter 15-18$ in change on two separate occasions.

obviously we’ve been scammed for the cash. we think we know by whom– and i think this person’s been going around and doing this at many stoop sales in brooklyn. just a warning to check the 20$ bills for all those stoop sale-ers.

these counterfeit bills are shiny and a little smaller and do not appear real when held up to the light. not everyone is honest in our hoods and it sucks to have our wholesome little sale soured. it’s just not cool, it’s illegal, and it’s not like we’re raking in the dough selling off our two dollar books and cds to bolster our student loans.

stoop sale enterpeneurs, beware!

Link: stoop sale counterfeit $ scam– beware Comments (5)

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Terriers Beware: “Light-Skinned Asian” Skateboarders in BoCoCa

Posted by dailyheights on Thursday 6 September 2007 at 12:20 pm

Author: corbinbernsenfan
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:54 pm (GMT -4)

I for one think that skateboarders can reach speeds of more than 50 mph… I was walking through BocoCa last wed and several light skinned Asian men flew by me on these boards almost killing my Boston Terrier. Police in this area should really not hesitate to bring in these characters and charge them with whatever crime they probably committed.
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Prospect Height Bikers: Learn How to Ride

Posted by dailyheights on Wednesday 5 September 2007 at 8:08 pm

liftandcut
Wannabe ProHi Mayor

Joined: 12 Jan 2006
Posts: 308
Location: 48 paces from Ripple.

Okay, so what’s the deal with you people? As a driver, day after day it amazes me how inept so many of you are at riding bikes in the streets of the city, particularly in this, and surrounding neighborhoods.

Here’s what I see: you don’t ride at the speed of traffic, preferring to leisurely pedal at 5 mph, without a care in the world. You often ride two, or even three abreast, in order to better facilitate conversation with your biking buddies as you make your way down streets. You even ride against traffic on narrow streets and get mad when honked at. You have been seen riding so far from the curb and parked cars that you end up in the path of moving cars. You don’t use headlights at night (illegal), hand signals, bells, and you almost never look over your shoulders.

To top it all off, most of you don’t even wear helmets, which baffles me.

As a former bike messenger, daily driver, and native New Yorker, the only thing that makes me curse out loud in my car is how so many of you bike like you’re on a sun-dappled, suburban sidewalk. It makes me furious, really.

I don’t know when this happened in New York. Used to be, bikers and drivers had an understanding, and a certain rhythm in the streets of this city. Sure, there have been accidents, and middle fingers flipped, and filthy words hurled, but jeez, at least traffic used to move.

Last thing I have to say to you “bikers” is: learn how to ride those super cool, retro metro, “I bought this $25 bike so I can sport a $100 Kryptonite chain,” bikes. It would make a lot of pedestrians, and drivers a lot happier.

Link for readin’ and commentin’: ProHi Bikers: Please Learn how to Ride (BK ain’t the ‘Burbs)

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Law & Order Filming on Friday

Posted by dailyheights on Tuesday 4 September 2007 at 1:19 pm

sarahb writes on the Prospect Heights Forum | DailyHeights.com Message Boards:

“Came back from long weekend to see fliers everywhere that Law & Order will be filming on the Plaza Street/Butler/Sterling corridor on Friday. Wonder what the plot line is? Savage attack by Lucky the poodle? Death by Mighty Meat Wind?”

LINK: Law & Order filming Friday

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