It features a column entitled 'Your Turn', in which reporter Sylvia deMonte-Bayard asks local residents what improvement they would like to see in their community.
Well, turns out that 35 years ago, rents were already too high, which forced many out, the neighborhood was dirty, people were not picking up after their dogs, and there was nothing to do for kids except play video games.
How would you answer the question in 2018? We would love to hear your answer.
Also, does anyone know/remember Anthony, William, Carmela or Ann? Do they still live in Carroll Gardens?
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Waiting on a Shanghainese restaurant comment that would improve the 'hood.
I see that the Shanghainese theme is continuing here on PMFA.
I think Valenza is the house on 2nd Place that hasn't had a window on top floor for 10 + years...
Oh where are they now?! Yes I’d like a Shanghai’s too actually. But I’d like to see the trash problem addressed. The cans on Smith are a joke. The doors swing open people toss stuff in willy nilly. The corners of Smith and Union and President and union are the worst. Why not a different style bin? Like the ones on the metro north platforms? Anyway. It will ray like this and nothing will be done.
I am also wondering when the lenses will be put on the horrible street lamps? It’s been a few years now and we are still faced with ugly LED blue light glow. That’s what I want most of all. That and I’d like all the millelenials in my building to grow up and take a course in common neighborly behavior. Would it kill them to bring a package in from the rain?!
Hahahha. Carroll gardens is a stones throw from Manhattan and the guy says there’s nothing to do but play video games. Hahahhahaha
I was walking up Smith from 9th Street today, and passing "Public Place" (the large lot between 5th St. and Huntington St.) brought to mind a major change I'd like to see. I believe this land is owned by the city. At one point, this was going to be a park, and just a few years ago, there were large signs placed around the fence indicating it was going to be remediated and, if I recall correctly, the implication was that it would be landscaped in a more natural way to accommodate surges/flooding from the Gowanus. Then those signs were taken down, and now the upper portion seems to be an extension of the cement business on 5th St., and the lower portion is occupied by trailers and large construction equipment, with a large pile of rubble between the two lots. Does anyone know what is going on here? Why is there no public discussion of this large city-owned lot? My assumption is that the city is waiting until the remediation of the Gowanus by the EPA is completed, and then they will sell the lots to developers for high rise luxury condos, with a few token "affordable" units and a few token amenities for the neighborhood thrown in. But why can't this be an actual park, which would also help control flooding from the Gowanus?
At 16 yrs old and younger most of us werent allowed to go to Manhattan are parents weren't clueless like the libtards of today our parents had common sense, We weren't going to Manhattan to play sports, he's again referring to our neighborhood and the younger kids and the sports league's that werent always available to us.But heck we ran our own league's anyway..the best of times you new jacks could never understand...
I was 8 years old in Carroll Gardens during 1983. Kids would play on the street and everyone knew each other. I had a great childhood. Us young girls would take dance classes,we would go to the Public Library on Clinton Street or Brooklyn Heights, we would also go to the YMCA on Atlantic for Gymnastics and play in the park. And yes the rent was always too high but that was always the case.
I can remember my mother and uncle constantly complaining that the city had gone to the dogs -- "it's not the New York I knew" was a favorite refrain. The New York they missed was the '40s-'50s and most of this bellyaching was in the '70s-'80s... which was actually a heyday for NYC arts and culture, not to mention the time period the "Vanishing New York" guy is obsessed with.
And I miss the New York of the late '90s/early '00s.
Because the best New York was the New York when you were young... same as it ever was.
I love how anyone who uses the term "libtard" and claiming they're smarter usually has misspelled words and terrible grammar in their post. I guess they didn't spend any of that time they were forbidden to go to Manhattan doing homework or reading in general.
On alternate side of the street parking days, when people double park and have to block in other cars, I would like to see a return to putting notes in the dashboard with either a buzzer number or a phone number in case someone has to get out. It is just common courtesy.
One thing I love about our community is the books and knick knacs that everyone leaves on their stoops for others to pick up and enjoy! I don't know if that was happening in 1983 but it happens now and it makes even a walk home from the subway a treat -- what might I find on a stoop on the way home? And what might I leave on my stoop for someone else to find?
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