New York NYC April Meet-Up

[Calzone]

Sadly Puck Fair will be officially closed on March 28th.

We have to find a replacement pronto, and even though we are planing a April Meet-Up in Philly some want to keep the NYC Meet-Up to keep it's monthly meeting.

Anyways we are favoring the later part of April for the Philly Meet-Up; Friday April 15th is the ICP Symposium; and I say the April NYC Meet-Up would be good to be either in the middle or beginning of April.

What say you?

Cal

 

[jwlee]

How about April 3? -John

 

[jsrockit]

We have to find a place. I can't commit to finding one in two weeks.

 

[Calzone]

We have to find a place. I can't commit to finding one in two weeks.

John,

You are not alone in finding a new place. What can I do, or lets do the legwork together some time while shooting.

Cal

 

[jsrockit]

That's a good idea Cal.

 

[JeffNYC]

It's possible that April 3rd might be a bit too early to secure a new place...

 

[zauhar]

Here is a nice compendium of likely destinations:

http://gothamist.com/2014/03/05/best_dive_bars_nyc.php

 

[jsrockit]

Here is a nice compendium of likely destinations:

http://gothamist.com/2014/03/05/best_dive_bars_nyc.php

Unfortunately, a lot of these are actually really popular... even tourist attractions.

 

[jsrockit]

It's possible that April 3rd might be a bit too early to secure a new place...

Let me guess, you're out of town on that day? 😉

It might make sense to try loreley again if we can't find something else quickly.

http://www.loreleynyc.com

 

[zauhar]

Unfortunately, a lot of these are actually really popular... even tourist attractions.

Figures - there is just no way to keep the riff raff out!

 

[Calzone]

Let me guess, you're out of town on that day? 😉

It might make sense to try loreley again if we can't find something else quickly.

http://www.loreleynyc.com

John,

Although Helen hates Loreley's it will do until we can find a place to call home.

I think of this as a work in progress.

So yesterday I met the guy again walking his turtles in Central Park. He says his name is Chris and that he has had his turtles for around 19 years. He says he is there every day once in the morning and once in the afternoon, but only twice I have seen him. Kinda hard to believe that he has been walking his turtles every day because only recently have I run into him. I say only recently he is walking his leased turtles because otherwise I would of seen him over the years. Anyways a new tourist attraction in New York is born.

I'll be scoping out a new bar that is under the radar. I say we try to stick to Madhattan if we can.

Yesterday I saw something going on just two blocks downtown on Lex from where I live. There was this ghetto postering going on between two black men in their 20's. One man was just in front of me and Baby-Dog; the other was just across Lexington Avenue.

The guy in front of me yells out and shuffles aggressively, and I for a moment believe I am in danger of attack, as the man looks behind him and sees me and Beagle-Face, but then it becomes clear that this man is tiffing with the guy across the street who is egging him on.

"Now you're alone. Why don't you come over here? You adfgjkkytr."

The man in front of me pulls out his cell and calls in his crew, "I'm by the projects get your axx down here now. I have him."

Anyways I kinda figure out that there is a pretty high probability that the guy across Lexington Avenue likely has a gun because he was reluctant to cross Lex and go mono to mono, and I need to make some space between these men.

Meanwhile I'm seeing all these new hipsters in my hood.

Cal

 

[Range-rover]

As you guy's know I'm not a Manhattanite, I'm up here kinda in be boony's so I leave
the bar searching to you guy's, just make sure you pick a place where's there's
room for my legs!

 

[zauhar]

John,

...

Anyways I kinda figure out that there is a pretty high probability that the guy across Lexington Avenue likely has a gun because he was reluctant to cross Lex and go mono to mono, and I need to make some space between these men.

Meanwhile I'm seeing all these new hipsters in my hood.

Cal

Cal, are they rich tech-type hipsters, or poor art-type hipsters?

If they are tech-type, they might be driven out, after they huff and puff about the authorities not adequately protecting their asses, and after they bemoan the lack of gratitude shown upon their arrival. If they are art-type, they are no immediate threat to rents, but they may still amplify the 'gentrification pathway' , which I envision as a complex network just like a biochemical pathway, or maybe something like response to a pathogen.

I have to say that my daughter thinks I got the gentrification ball rolling in our West Philly neighborhood when I moved in back in the 90's, even though I don't qualify as a hipster. She even wrote a paper about it in college!

Randy

 

[Calzone]

Cal, are they rich tech-type hipsters, or poor art-type hipsters?

If they are tech-type, they might be driven out, after they huff and puff about the authorities not adequately protecting their asses, and after they bemoan the lack of gratitude shown upon their arrival. If they are art-type, they are no immediate threat to rents, but they may still amplify the 'gentrification pathway' , which I envision as a complex network just like a biochemical pathway, or maybe something like response to a pathogen.

I have to say that my daughter thinks I got the gentrification ball rolling in our West Philly neighborhood when I moved in back in the 90's, even though I don't qualify as a hipster. She even wrote a paper about it in college!

Randy

Randy,

At my age the term hipster applies to young people, but in my neighborhood perhaps they could be just called clueless. I don't think the term hipster is derogitory, and I consider myself a "Vintage Hipster," but also know that I too can be clueless.

Many of these young people don't have any idea of their surroundings. I reported in another post of how this hipster shoved a 40 year old local at the 103rd and Lex stop and had to beg for his life as he was pinned against a wall.

Maggie gets all these reports of muggings and rapes of students at Fordham's Bronx campus. The last episode was a rape and robbery at gunpoint.

Cal

 

[gdmcclintock]

Hipster means never having to say you're clueless.

 

[Calzone]

Hipster means never having to say you're clueless.

George,

That's a good one. Is that your quote? I need to know to give you the credit.

Cal

Postscript: How did I make it to 58? Anyways those kids going to Fordham in the Bronx unfortunately are really unaware of their surroundings. Welcome to New York I say.

 

[zauhar]

Cal, why did the hipster shove someone?

I don't picture that, hipsters are not violent no matter what their subcategory .

 

[Range-rover]

George,

That's a good one. Is that your quote? I need to know to give you the credit.

Cal

Postscript: How did I make it to 58? Anyways those kids going to Fordham in the Bronx unfortunately are really unaware of their surroundings. Welcome to New York I say.

Because their all out of towner's and they don't know the area, I see them getting on my train at
Fordham, their in little wolf packs. 😱

 

[Calzone]

Cal, why did the hipster shove someone?

I don't picture that, hipsters are not violent no matter what their subcategory .

Randy,

Evidently this hipster shoved a guy on the subway. Perhaps the local was not walking fast enough or wanted to get around the local who was in the hipster's way. Also know that this event happened in East Harlem which is gentrifying at an alarming rate.

Also I have been pushed and shoved by all kinds of people, and depending on my mood sometimes I either shove back, go crazy or one time I elbowed this woman right in the nipple (inadvertantly because she was pushing me down a crowded staircase). I didn't aim, I wasn't looking, and I only learned that I hurt her because she was cursing at me in Spanish, and I cursed her right back in Spanish. I just swung my elbow really hard to send a clear message. BTW the staircase was mobbed and was a sea of people.

As far as shoving and pushing on the subway the worst is the Bedford stop on the "L" train (hipster haven), and anywhere on the 6 train. They say that more people ride the 6 train in a day than the entire Washington DC Mass transit.

Anyways the word entitlement comes to mind, and sometimes I find myself hard pressed to restrain myself from the good old days (1970's). I kinda give a lot of credit to the local for restraining himself.

The way Maggie explained it to me the hipster knew what he did was wrong, and he suddenly saw a severe beating coming.

At the Bedford "L" Maggie repeatedly reported getting pushed from behind from hipsters when we lived in Williamsburg.

Cal

 

[Range-rover]

There was another stabbing on the 2 train yesterday upper westside, you just have
to be aware of your surroundings. What amazes me about some people is they
wear their headphone and pay to much attention on their phones as well.