tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post2422430631896513735..comments2024-03-28T03:47:41.338-04:00Comments on EV Grieve: A private party in a public Tompkins Square ParkUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-66636667214615686872013-07-06T00:32:21.134-04:002013-07-06T00:32:21.134-04:00Yeah, those kinds of beugoise attitudes are the a...Yeah, those kinds of beugoise attitudes are the antithesis of this neighborhood's native character. Very disrespectful, entitled and contentious. The opposite of neighborly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-26382687751210684782013-07-04T19:45:10.897-04:002013-07-04T19:45:10.897-04:00Dezr PMS,
We hope you get over those monthly cra...Dezr PMS, <br /><br />We hope you get over those monthly cramps real soon and sorry to hear you hate our park so much. Obviously this group of people having a party in the park disagree with you, since they would have picked another park if it were really so crappy. Many of us are in the park every day, and what you described sounds more like Woodstock than TSP, so perhaps you are having flashbacks in addition to brain cramps which is causing you to be just a bit cranky. In the meantime, please don't tell us to stop caring about a park that you obviously asre much too evolved to enjoy anymore like the rest of us. We just want it open to all, including the pan handling tattooed tourists peeing on fences and eating dead squirrels, except for the vegan ones who stick to eating nuts and berries.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />The Real Residents of the EV who actually enjoy TSP<br />The Real Residents of the EVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-92199634282499162952013-07-04T18:38:05.062-04:002013-07-04T18:38:05.062-04:00You know, we have a beautiful park. Junkies nodd...You know, we have a beautiful park. Junkies nodding out on the benches. People pissing on the fences. People too brain dead to know anything about sanitation fouling the bathrooms. Tattooed tourists pan-handeling all summer. A pea brained jerk playing a boom box so loud that you can't read or relax. And you people, unencumbered by any thought process or intelligence think that the problem is some people having a kids' birthday party for a few hours. I have lived down here for 50 years on and off and find you pathetic. Get a F---in' life or get out of our neighborhood.psmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-10555046801464802392013-07-04T06:11:58.087-04:002013-07-04T06:11:58.087-04:00Help save the East Village! Sign up for the EV Gr...Help save the East Village! Sign up for the EV Grieve NeigBrohood Watch Club<br /><br />In an effort to clean up the East Village (or to keep it nice and crusty depending on your individual preference) sign up now for one of the EV committees below:<br /><br />EV Park Watch: Report in any time someone puts up yellow tape for a private party in TSP so EV can immediately post and we can make sure the tape is removed (peacefully if possible) _____<br /><br />EV Tree Watch: Report all old dried up Christmas trees disposed of more than 6 months after Christmas, photographic proof required _____<br /><br />EV Bar Watch: Report any loud bars, or eerily quiet ones, openings, closings, liquor license requests, health inspection reports, SantaCon and other drunk yuppie activities etc. _____<br /><br />EV CitiBike Watch: Report on adults putting children in the little baskets, vandalism, broken racks, flat tires, sticky substances on bike seats (StickyBikes), and how local bike shops are coping with the either loss of (or hopefully) increase in business ______<br /><br />EV Developer Watch: Report in anytime a developer tries to close a community garden, builds on a mystery lot, builds a really ugly building that looks,like its from another planet (The Cooper Union Death Star) or renames the neighBrohood in order to jack up rents (e.g BroHo, Midtown South, East Greenwich Village etc.) ____<br /><br />EV Crusty Watch: Report on the ongoing tribal activities of the East Village's least popular resident population, especially the ones with kombucha drinking pit bulls and pet rats ____<br /><br />Fake names used to post your most memorable comments ____________________<br /><br />Astrological sign _____________<br /><br />Favorite hangout ______________<br /><br />Why you are qualified, or not ____________<br /><br /><br /><br />Giovannihttp://urbanmyths.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-37201891229819623722013-07-03T22:10:30.697-04:002013-07-03T22:10:30.697-04:00The ability of a select few to rope off a section ...The ability of a select few to rope off a section of a public park is only enabled by the public's willingness to accept it.<br /><br />Next time this sort of shit is pulled, folks ought to just walk right through the private party and challenge the usurpers to DO something about it. They won't. They CAN'T.<br /><br />Oh yeah, before I forget: WHOSE FUCKING PARK? OUR FUCKING PARK!!chris flashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-15645689360568427532013-07-03T09:35:11.700-04:002013-07-03T09:35:11.700-04:00But if the crusties or Occupy Wall Street were hol...But if the crusties or Occupy Wall Street were holding this private party, even with a permit, Bloomberg's white shirt Gestapo officers would be all over them.<br /><br />And rob's comments FTW! 9:35amnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-25916081878926674742013-07-03T09:22:09.431-04:002013-07-03T09:22:09.431-04:00Hooker, you're pretty funny, but looks aren...Hooker, you're pretty funny, but looks aren't everything! How about everyone just cordons off a section of the park so no one can else use it? I swear its like NYC is turning into one of those podunk towns in Long island where everyone puts their towel on the beach chairs all day so no one else can use them. Aren't your tax dollars paying for that park space too, or should we send the IRS to your house for an audit? The drum circle is there every weekend for the past hundred years, they practically have squatters rights, the difference is they let anyone who wants to join them and they don't give other people who come near them dirty looks and attitude. These pricks need to go rent a private space if they want to have a private party. McDonalds does it for anyone with 50 dollars and no one complains. But these idiots wanted to take over public space for themselves, totally unacceptable. Next time that yellow tape is coming down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-84786924300004947352013-07-03T01:15:08.653-04:002013-07-03T01:15:08.653-04:00I'm laughing at both sides of this: those arro...I'm laughing at both sides of this: those arrogant enough to have and pay to have a section closed & those arrogant because they can't take an extra 45 seconds to go around them...Mark Hand The Catchmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04880357758792913275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-12811839896691833742013-07-02T06:29:22.837-04:002013-07-02T06:29:22.837-04:00even with a permit you are not allowed to block a ...even with a permit you are not allowed to block a pathway or close a playground. you should call 311 and be specific about blocking pathway or playground if you see this again. Park staff should have seen and stopped this. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-32755325034330082962013-07-01T22:00:42.429-04:002013-07-01T22:00:42.429-04:00I read the link about obtaining a permit. It didn&...I read the link about obtaining a permit. It didn't mention that you could tape off a section of the Park.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-64252526487798735762013-07-01T20:29:30.933-04:002013-07-01T20:29:30.933-04:00Well waterballons make great last minute party fav...Well waterballons make great last minute party favors... get out of attending such a drag looking party by just sending a gift in your place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-46409758714832006812013-07-01T12:42:54.569-04:002013-07-01T12:42:54.569-04:00Back in the early 90's there was a "party...Back in the early 90's there was a "party picnic protest" in TSP to protest this "more than 20 people need a permit" rule after someone in Central Park got a citation for having a birthday party (for his dog, ironically) with 20 people (must have been time to fill those quotas). About 20 parties gathered of only 19 people each with a "social butterfly" flitting in between picnics.<br /><br />I understood the permit was for larger parties in picnic areas or on a lawn, but not cordoning off the pathways through parks. Sounds like these folks took it beyond the usual etiquette level.<br /><br />Dan Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11472801052363861457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-22782663832573096972013-07-01T12:40:29.899-04:002013-07-01T12:40:29.899-04:00Sayre's cute joke missed the underlying human ...Sayre's cute joke missed the underlying human motive. It's a relation between psychologically near and remote -- Cohen and Greene's footbridge dilemma. That's why it's tough to motivate people on big principles or even on desperate human issues if they're distant from them personally. But it's also why it's wise to be considerate towards those nearest to you. robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07464179798705084025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-81179042516821885702013-07-01T08:00:18.698-04:002013-07-01T08:00:18.698-04:00This is a perfect example of Sayre's law: &quo...This is a perfect example of Sayre's law: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." shmnychttp://quilas.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-86198599461108139972013-07-01T00:35:48.826-04:002013-07-01T00:35:48.826-04:00What better way to alienate your neighbors and inv...What better way to alienate your neighbors and invite their resentment than holding a private party in a small, heavily-used park? What kind of entitlement wouldn't even care, like a movie-shoot? Why didn't they hold their party in the children's section where the rest of us can't go anyway? Just to show the locals how indifferent they are, or how special?<br /><br />At least performances are public, standing in a long tradition of public performances in TSP well back to the 1880's. Will private parties in TSP be the latest trend? David Schwimmer's private Memorial Day cookout commandeering the entire nonbandshell? Gregg Singer's private cocktail hour at the 9th Street exit Friday evenings? Shaoul's 100th eviction victory celebration, featuring the uprooting of the Hare Krishna tree with a jackhammer, while the plebs observe from a distance? robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07464179798705084025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-53332102592597283982013-06-30T23:04:17.881-04:002013-06-30T23:04:17.881-04:00Hate to be a spoil sport to all the spoil sports h...Hate to be a spoil sport to all the spoil sports here, but IT'S LEGAL!!! Yes even you to can get a permit and have a party or a wedding, etc, etc, etc...............Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-72662869646870772912013-06-30T21:43:27.544-04:002013-06-30T21:43:27.544-04:00someone should have taken the yellow tape down.someone should have taken the yellow tape down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-23117015784586926722013-06-30T21:41:31.560-04:002013-06-30T21:41:31.560-04:00Wait a minute. Did those people have a standard pa...Wait a minute. Did those people have a standard park party permit, or did they pay more serious money to get a permit to use (for private use) a section of the park? A standard party permit _does not_ allow you to block off a section of the park as your own. (However, I think the more elaborate rental permits do allow you block off areas.) It's worth asking what kind of permit was granted to this party. <br /><br />Yes, I was walking home and I ran into that party and I almost just lifted the tape and walked through. It seemed remarkably rude to to tape the path and, no, not at all a good idea, esp. considering there are plenty of places in the park to hold a party in a fashion that doesn't interfere with usual park activities like, oh, walking through the park. Grrrr. <br /><br />I thought, well, maybe it's an official park function, someone is getting an award for being the best gardener, or something like that. Had I know it was (probably) just misuse of a standard park party permit, I would have walked right through the tape and had words with the partiers. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-25598600791557459542013-06-30T16:43:09.400-04:002013-06-30T16:43:09.400-04:00It's called a permit, dummies.It's called a permit, dummies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-14705595571909339302013-06-30T14:24:18.515-04:002013-06-30T14:24:18.515-04:00People need to read how Bloomberg cruelly monetize...People need to read how Bloomberg cruelly monetizes city parks with people's rights nowhere in sight: <br />In 2004, I spoke with Adrian Benepe, who was then the parks commissioner, about the desire of hundreds of thousands of Americans to protest the Iraq War and the Bush administration by marching through the streets of our city for a rally at Central Park’s Great Lawn.<br /><br />Mr. Benepe and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg were adamantly, passionately opposed to letting protesters set foot in the park. We have, Mr. Benepe said, resodded and relandscaped. <br /><br />Allowing tens and tens of thousands of foodies to descend on Prospect Park’s sylvan Nethermead for the commercial Great GoogaMooga festival is another matter altogether. A march to the Great Lawn was about free speech and dissent; GoogaMooga is about good old commerce.<br />http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/a-curious-costbenefit-analysis-of-a-park-fund-raiser/?ref=nyregionvzabuserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11547457692788084346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-24694288857836649602013-06-30T13:53:05.210-04:002013-06-30T13:53:05.210-04:00Why not ask East Village Parks Conservancy for a c...Why not ask East Village Parks Conservancy for a comment?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-85813890776025724212013-06-30T12:35:09.673-04:002013-06-30T12:35:09.673-04:00Laura-do you know who the permit was issued to? Wa...Laura-do you know who the permit was issued to? Was it from the 9th precinct ?Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04362859175287085919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-64981460981091038942013-06-30T12:33:19.858-04:002013-06-30T12:33:19.858-04:00I agree that we should guard against a park conser...I agree that we should guard against a park conservancy, I just don't see this as a precursor to that. Their discussion about putting up the tape probably ended with "Well, let's just see what happens."shmnychttp://quilas.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-27538693251499651122013-06-30T12:30:38.449-04:002013-06-30T12:30:38.449-04:00So with all of this reporting by folks who were th...So with all of this reporting by folks who were there and reporting back here, nobody thought to dial the 9th Precinct and ask "What's up with this?".<br /><br />Sheep in Wolf's clothingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-44831842739798851112013-06-30T11:46:43.407-04:002013-06-30T11:46:43.407-04:00Putting up tape like that and making it a pointedl...Putting up tape like that and making it a pointedly exclusionary space is a dick move. People hold kids' parties by the back of the sprinkler park every weekend day, often two of 'em side by side. And nobody's going to come in there and cop refreshments, and if they do, so what, give 'em some. They don't put up caution tape to say "This is OUR private event so get out."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com