Earlier, we noted that someone smacked a large piece of dog poop on the Citi Bikes docking station on East 13th Street and Avenue A. This angered Larry Watson, the owner of Percy's Tavern on 13th and A.
"I think this behavior is disgusting! As a dog owner, I hate when people don't bother to clean up after their dogs in their own neighborhood ... but this a childish," he told us. "Whether you agree with the bikes or not, protest or support it in an adult form. I cleaned it off!"
Good thing Larry did that. Dog poo + bike racks can = exploding heads.
ReplyDeleteLarry is the man. BTW, from the GVSHP newsletter:
ReplyDelete"GVSHP is very supportive of efforts to encourage non-polluting forms of travel and dedicate more public space to pedestrians and bicyclists, and believes that a bike share program can and should be a great asset to our neighborhoods. But we are deeply concerned that the dozens of bike share stations that have recently been sited throughout our neighborhoods were not required to go through the same public review and approval process for changes in historic districts that a small property or business owner would have to go through for a much less substantial change. We believe stations can and should be located in our neighborhoods. But we also believe that fairness, as well as proper oversight, require the same analysis and the same opportunity for public comment for bike share station siting that is required for other changes in historic districts."
nice job larry its nice to see that someone uses some common sense
ReplyDeleteProtest is one thing being a pig is another
Larry's the best, showed what it means to be a "Neighbor" during Sandy!! I'm not a fan of this "citibike" campaign, but come on "Dog Shit", Honestly???
ReplyDeleteWait, I'm supposed to be mad because the five cars that usually park there are displaced?
ReplyDeleteOriginally, the bikes were shown on the instop tattoo parlor side of 13th Street. But what's the difference.
Glad for the placement of a bike stand in our neighborhood.
Protest doesnt work. Nobody cares. Excrete the change you want see in the world!
ReplyDeleteAre people upset that these bike things are present at all? Or are people upset for the standard mentally-defective leftist reason that this program is sponsored by a big bank?
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ReplyDeleteI wouldn't even classify it as lazy leftism. It is the typical faux-progressive NIMBYism that runs NYC politics. Folks in the neighborhood are more upset these bikes than they ever will be about Stop & Frisk or [fill in the blank with real social issue that doesn't directly effect non-Avenue D residents of the East Village].
"Whether you agree with the bikes or not, protest or support it in an adult form."
ReplyDeleteI think he might be suggesting that people should jerk off on the bike racks instead.
Wow! A big welcome to the "anon" hyper-reactive teabaggers here. Great posts.
ReplyDeleteThanks Larry.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to pass by Percy's Tavern and grab a burger and beer once CitiBike goes live!
Juvenile, though it may be, I doubt there would be any article if that person just expressed their dissaproval in a politely worded note . The poop got us talking about it even more, and we definately know how that anonymous person felt, when we wouldn't have otherwise. Come on folks, this aint Ev, thats a real estate term intended to gentrify. Its LES, the home of punk, hardcore and squatter riots, lets grow a pair people and stop being such stoltifyingly obediant citizens. Isnt that why.you left ohio/utah/wherever?
ReplyDelete@Indignant Native:
ReplyDeleteThere's a myth that EV is a real-estate term, but in order to be useful to real estate, it would have to date from the early gentrification period, and it goes back before that. I remember seeing it on a map from the 50s; the "East Village Other" goes back to the 60s, before the punk and hardcore and squatter riots that you so fondly remember from your youth.
How far before that it goes back, I don't know. Obviously the neighborhood was named for EVGrieve, but I don't know how old he is; and if it's a family name, the term could be even older than that.
Also, failing to use apostrophes doesn't make you punk, unless your keyboard is broken, in which case you're punk for using a broken keyboard. (My keyboard is broken: the key doesn't work.)
Oh, one other thing. We don't actually know what the person who put that there thinks. My theory is that it was put there by a sled-dog owner, afraid for his business. More to the point, I have no idea why we should care what that person thinks.
ReplyDeleteSomeone should shove that shit in the perpetrators mouth.
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