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-- Time Out says the nicest block in New York City is South Portland Avenue between Dekalb and Lafayette in Fort Greene. No, seriously, they do.
-- Tony Bourdain revises his famous eating rule: "Fish on Monday? I eat it all the time--but at sushi bars--where the quality is apparent and at Le Bernardin or at any restaurant where they specialize in and have made their reputation on seafood (like Esca) and at restaurants where consistent quality is assured. So I guess I’d like to hedge on that rule."
-- After they killed Nicole DuFresne, the assailants went home and laughed about it: "some of them laughed and one girl joked that duFresne 'was just a bullet away... They were making fun of her (duFresne). They were joking."
-- Babs to audience member at Monday's concert at MSG: "Shut the (expletive) up! Shut up if you can't take a joke!"
-- Sweet and sort of sad: the public make-out session planned to celebrate Columbia's Gay Day was only lightly attended.
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Hmm, that is a pretty weird list. Other than 20th between 9th and 10th, I can't agree with any of those picks. I have to say it: this is utter and irrational reverse-snobbism. Having grown up on the UES, I am completely aware of that neighborhood's deficiencies and I understand that there were various criteria taken into account by TimeOut. But, damn. No 78th between Park and Lex (or any of the other 50 quite townhouse streets)? Was price weighted?
It's nice to live in Jake Boobkin's coveted below-14th-Street-or-Williamsburg Green Zone of Awesomeness, but when I stop by my parent's house I do notice that it is, you know, a lot nicer.
Luke - 100% agreed. Expand the list to top 30 prettiest blocks, and I might buy it. Not one block in Brooklyn Heights? In historic Prospect Park South? On the UES/UWS? Riverside Drive? Forest Hills/Jamaica Estates? Surely you jest.
I'm also a tremendous fan of Fuller Street in Windsor Terrace, if anybody knows where that is. I'm obsessed with it, really.
Today I was at National Wholesale Liquadators buying a electric plug and a black guy rudely bumps me from behind. I say "excuse you" and he says "you are excused" and talks on his motorola ear thingy and I say "what the fuck asshole!" and He's like "I'm gonna put a bullet in your head!" Now, I got kinda shocked that the dude would go that far and he looked like he was sorta packing. I was thinking either to say "go ahead and shoot me" or I was gonna call the cops but I let it go and just got the fuck out. Why do black people want to kill everyone?
one thing that caught my eye from that list was that all but one of the top 10 scored a 6 in 'New York-ocity'. If yr going to include such a vague and ambiguous category, then at least vary the scoring a little bit to fool us...
>>>'m also a tremendous fan of Fuller Street in Windsor Terrace, if anybody knows where that is. I'm obsessed with it, really.
You mean, Fuller Place? Check Webster Place, about 3 avenues toward the Gowanus Canal...between Prospect Avenue and 16th just south of 6th Avenue...beautiful houses with porches each painted a different pastel color. I'm surprised that didn't make it.
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Re the duFresne case: I was taken aback this morning when I read that Anthony Ricco was representing one of the defendants. Several years ago, I sat on a jury that heard him argue another murder case. Suffice it to say that he is extremely skilled in
raising reasonable doubt in his listeners' minds.
Kevin Walsh - you're good! Fuller Place, indeed. I love it there.
Also a huge fan of the Ditmas Park streets: Dorchester, Ditmas, etc. Green and beautiful.
Barbra Steisand (or Babs, as you call her) may be talented, but she's far from classy.
Babs is from Williamsburg, were you expecting classy?
Ms. Streisand looks good for sixty four.
yeah, yeah, work done but whatever, she still does look good. Much better than Ann Coulter. Let's see her at that age. Notsa so good.
Notsa a spicy meata ball.
jj - Blame it on the gangsta rap and 40s
boring picks by time out... how can they not include ditmas park/PPS ??
Gothamist:
Have you ever seen Portland? No, seriously, have you?
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing on the Time Out picks re Ditmas area... not to mention, they gave the Red Hook street a "6" for transportation, the same as the Manhattan address on the upper west side that followed... um, really? Red Hook has transportation as good at the UWS? Yeah right. Maybe in their Fairway-colored dreams.
Brooklynbee, you can't be serious - they gave a high score to Red Hook for transportation? That is easily one of the worst places for ingress/egress in Brooklyn. You'd have an easier time getting to Manhattan from Midwood or Bay Ridge than from Red Hook - at least as far in as Coffey Street. I'm not trying to come down on the n'hood, but please don't try to sell some place to me as the next big thing when it's inaccessible and, frankly, kind of depressing.
Babs was born in the 'burg, but I'm pretty confident she grew up on or near Ocean Parkway. Yes, I am the master of insignificant facts.
i personally love that grand, leafy block of s. portland - the first time i saw it i was immediately impressed. it's gorgeous! as i'm sure are many other locations left off the list, for whatever reasons. however, i think that "zeitgeist" may apply moreso than "utter and irrational reverse snobbism".
dumbass, the red hook street got a 2 for transportation.
#5, Convent Avenue - an interesting choice! I live two blocks from there and have always found it to be incredibly beautiful... Despite the neighborhood, though, it's mostly just small bodegas and chain restaurants. And it would be nice if something in the neighborhood other than two pizza chains, McDonald's, about ten Chinese restaurants and one mexican place at 143rd & Broadway would actually deliver to us. I used to say that you could live in your apartment for days in Manhattan and not ever have to leave (thanks, delivery!), but our little part of the island is definitely the exception to that rule!
Still, if you're relying on architecture alone, the block is gorgeous. Here's to hoping when I'm actually at a place in my life where I can buy instead of rent that it's still as affordable as it is now!
I live on that stretch of West 20th and it is indeed gorgeous. Especially now when the leaves are changing, or in spring when they're flowering and the wisteria is in bloom.
Barbra went to Erasmus Hall, which should put her somewhere around Flatbush, no?