Over on Flickr’s Prospect Heights Photo Pool, urbanstrategist says:
“A tangental view of the ProHo / CroHo skyline … I gotta take more pics in the neighborhood!”
JoshB vs the Desperate Homebuyers
Our friend joshb checks in: “got my little treatise about prospect heights and psychosis published in this week’s ny press…”:
Excerpts:
“My rent checks are addressed to a Caribbean gentleman with a toothy smile and a habit of praising God while bagging our recyclables. My landlord’s friendly, though prone to breaking repair promises: Nearly three years after moving in, our ceiling still flakes like cheap baklava. The crumbling paint is always a conversation starter…”
“A couple days later, I asked my landlord, point-blank, ‘You’re not thinking of selling the building, are you?’ ‘Oh, no, Andrew, I like you guys. You’ve got nothing to worry about.’ He smiled with teeth as bright as our flaking ceiling…”
“Am I Prospect Heights? Perhaps. I frequently drink myself incorrigible. I refuse to wear deodorant. I’m prone to shouting at arthritic Hispanic women who block the sidewalk. It is not a glamorous neighborhood, but it is home, the security blanket against the big, bad city. So it is here where I draw the line, my own Alamo…”
Link: Going Postal [NY Press]
Discuss Desperate Homebuyers: Prospect Heights Message Boards
Nostrand 3
t-fal has fun with long exposures.
Take a second to do this:
1. Go to the Prospect Heights photo pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/prospectheights/
2. Click Join this Group?
3. Go to your photos. Find one related to Prospect Heights. Look above the photo and click “Send to Group.”
4. Repeat.
Donut Box-Wielding Thugs Caught on Camera
Details on DailySlope.com, Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Caldwell Recalls Personal Details, Not Much Else
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| Image: Develop Don’t Destroy |
Captain M reports on Monday night’s 77th Precinct Community Council meeting: “I did not see Letitia … I did get see see James Caldwell speak, and it is my opinion he is a charlatan of the largest caliber …”
“He hijacked the beginning of the meeting to use it as his soapbox where he responded to ‘people talking in the neighborhood’ about how he is a racial divider, and talked about himself a lot:
1. He’s had a quaduple bypass
2. He served in the army for 6 years
3. He was proud to be wearing the American flag
4. His wife had recently been sick
5. Not ashamed to work for the community/get jobs for the community
6. He told us his birthdate
“He left some photocopies on all the chairs… one was a Daily News article from 1999 about the girl that got stabbed … James proceeds to talk about how he set up the candlelight vigil, how he talked to the mother … he dropped horrid detail about the crime that happened on ‘Park Avenue’ … all that and he forgets it’s Park Place?”
“He went on and on about how great the people were (at the Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, which hosted the council meeting), how it was a great place for the community how his brother recovered from lung cancer there….and then he forgot the name of the place. People from the audience had to fill him in.”
“Then he waent to discuss a horrible shooting that occurred on Lincoln Place …He really pulls on the emotions of the crowd…but then he forgets the name of the kid that got shot…”
“While other people were talking, James Caldwell could be seen talking on the phone, sorting through pictures, and at one point I thought he dozed off.”
“James invocates God a lot and gives up a LOT of personal information to gain support … I never thought he was a divider … I just wanted to hear what he had to say about taking $5 mil from Ratner.”
Full report: Prospect Heights Message Boards
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Luka, contemplating the cat grass
Luka, contemplating the cat grass
Originally uploaded by Atomische, a regular contributor to the Prospect Heights Photo Pool.
White Kids from Oklahoma Beaten and Called Crackers
From the Daily News: “The Browns said their ethnically and racially diverse neighbors in Prospect Heights have embraced them, and they thought New York was ‘the greatest place on Earth’ – until they started battling the school system.”
“Brown enrolled her sons, Sloan, 12, and J.T., 13, at Ebbets Field Middle School in Crown Heights… Sloan was beaten mercilessly, called ‘cracker’ and ‘white boy,’ and chased into traffic by his new classmates, his family said.”
“The abuse got so bad that Sloan routinely bolted out of the building to find his brother and run to a nearby subway, dodging verbal and physical attacks, he said.”
Discuss: Prospect Heights Message Boards
To Those of You Concerned…
JCaldwell writes in the Daily Heights Message Boards: “To all of those concerned about the next upcoming meeting for the 77th Precinct Community Council, the proper location is the Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation at the corner of Classon and Park and not the 127 Utica Ave address as posted earlier.”
“We invite all to attend.”
Link: Will Caldwell Turn Tish Out on Her Ear? [Prospect Heights Message Boards]
Image: NoLandGrab
Gunshots on Underhill Last Night?
No. Probably not. But eggs are flying everywhere, and an old-fashioned beatdown handed out on the corner of Plaza and St. John’s. metulj says: “There were a couple of teeth still there this AM… Read more…
