Your remarks and lively debates are welcome, whether supportive or critical of the views herein. Your articulate, well-informed remarks that are relevant to an article are welcome.
However, commentary that is intended to "flame" or attack, that contains violence, racist comments and potential libel will not be published. Facts are helpful.
If you'd like to make personal attacks and libelous claims against people and businesses, then you may do so on your own social media accounts. Also, comments predicting when a new business will close ("I give it six weeks") will not be approved.
Topic: these street fairs are neither street nor fair. Discuss!
ReplyDeleteOh and hear! hear! for the timing of today's fiesta. They are trying to empty out the dorms today as well, and what a circus of double and triple-parked cars on 12th Street. And yep, they are double-parked in front of the Citibike Kiosks! Yippie! Hurrah!
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of stupid things our government sponsors that may have some supporters on both sides of the debate (see, e.g., those who support bike share so long as that 100 foot rack in not in front of their door), but I know of absolutely no one who has ever defended these street fairs, or thought them to have any redeeming quality whatsoever. How long do we have to endure operating our streets for the benefit of people who do not live here?
ReplyDeleteI waited an hour at 10th and D for the M14 today. Eventually I gave up and walked to the 2nd Ave F stop. Ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteI just don't understand why it was in third ave, why not fourth? Not that its a redundant, but third is much more of a major avenue
ReplyDelete.
And again just like a couple of weeks ago on second avenue, absolutely nothing new.
Any of the non-food items they sell there I probably could get for 20% less at K-Mart. There once was a time when one could find some unusual stuff on street fairs, but those days are long gone.
ReplyDeleteBefore boarding the M14 at Union Square, the bus driver got out of his seat, approached the door and lectured us that "the streets are crowded so there will be no special stops." Everyone at once asked, "What's a special stop? What does that mean?" He sat down, we boarded and proceeded as usual.
ReplyDelete