Gothamist: 'Cranky' Super Gets Tossed Like Trash He Tried to Protect

Rocknrope

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:04:59 -0500

#7, 20 years is not that long so that people don't remember what it was like.

NannyState

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:47:07 -0500

Yeah, he seems a bit irritable but "The crankiest super in NYC"? I think the guy with a baseball bat headed upstairs to nudge that lone rent-stabilized tennant surely qualifies as "crankiest".

Spiritof76

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:13:46 -0500

What are you, stuck in the '80s? Communism has been dead in Russia for close to 20 years. Communists wouldn't own property in NYC, mainly because they can't afford it and private ownership of property the antithesis of communism anyway. These are obviously wealthy capitalists. The guy had a point. I'd be pissed off at people leaving the front door open, too. Some of my belongings got stolen from a building storeroom once because idiot neighbors often didn't lock the front door, so a burglar had a clear shot at the room. Tenants have such a sense of entitlement. As long as they pay their rent, they feel they can do anything they want in the building.

Rocknrope

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:48:13 -0500

#4, it's the communist mentality. When you have to fight for food to keep your family alive, manners and decorum go out the window.

jzny

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:52:07 -0500

Used to live near this guy's building in Bay Ridge. I remember he had a sign taped to the glass, berating the idiot tenants, and warning them that if they didn't close and lock the front door, they were "asking to be raped and killed". Never forgot that. What a nut job.

HughGass

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:08:10 -0500

"Russian people don't mess around" And for some reason, like many Chinese, they don't get the concept of waiting in line. What's up with that?

AnnaZed

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:32:49 -0500

I don't know, if I lived thee I think I would be scared of that guy. Still, he's an old guy and that seems harsh at this time of year.

whitecastlerock

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:20:46 -0500

Seems like the guy had it coming to him...

7train

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:30:45 -0500

I'm torn. It seems like he was a little too cranky, but.....he's a senior citizen! After all those years he lost his job. I used to live at a very expensive shoebox on Upper East Side, and the super....oh boy! He would clean the hallway maybe every three months!!! It got on my nerve so bad that a couple of times I got windex, papertowels, mop, etc and did the job myself. He never got fired.