You may have noticed some activity of late around the neighborhood's NYU dorms... it's all in preparation for...
Fall Welcome Week!
Sunday marks the Residence Hall Move-In Day... so you can expect some traffic and parking restrictions in and around the NYU dorm area — the Third North Dorm on Third Avenue between 11th Street and 12th Street, Founders Hall on 12th Street between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue, and University Hall on 14th Street between Third Avenue and Irving Place.
Move-in times are staggered throughout the day between 7 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Something to keep in mind in case you were planning a trip to Whole Foods Market Union Square, Trader Joe's or Bed, Bath & Beyond ... or anywhere on the map below...
[Joking!]
Oh crap.
ReplyDelete"I'm baaaaa-aaaack!"
And the nightmare begins anew.
Oy vey. Isn't Fourth Avenue also closed on Sunday?? If these douchebags did not need to show up to a dorm room with a minivan full of crap that is thrown out 7 months later, it would not be such a problem. I arrived at college every year with nothing more than my father's Army duffle bag.
ReplyDeleteIt's like welcoming a plague ship. Starts the fires here comes The SS NYU!
ReplyDeleteLocusts swarming
ReplyDeleteYes, the nightmare begins again - all those thousands of students, who are being dropped off by parents who are SURE that their precious little one would NEVER over-indulge (much less deliberately!) at a bar, nor carry on as if they're the only people in the world.
ReplyDeleteI wish NYU would hold an info event (or hand out leaflets, at least) reminding BOTH the students and their parents that (a) other people live here, (b) MANY of those other people are long-term residents, and (c) not everyone is 19 years old, and the world does not run on the standards of 19-year-old behavior, and (d) other people deserve to be treated with respect. As in: Imagine if mom & dad lived down the block, instead of in Indiana or wherever.
@10:50am: When I moved into a dorm I needed ONE set of sheets, a quilt, a couple of towels, some clothing & my shampoo/deodorant/hairbrush. None of which required spending a fortune at Bed, Bath & Go Broke.
I've found most NYU students to be pretty cool through the years. And most are more enlightened then the usual bro swarms. And not every NYU students tries to go to some bar.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, the labeling of an entire group of people whom certain individuals deem safe to make broad generalizations about...it's that time of the year again.
ReplyDeleteWell, Anon@10:50, last weekend was the end of Summer Streets until 2018. Oy Veh, indeed. Here come the grippers of EV Grieve with the litany of their resounding hatred of NYU students and I am sure SVA and New School students as well. I see their return as an economic positive for small businesses, and yes chain stores, in the neighborhood. And I wonder how many of the grippers will be on the streets in 7 months sifting through what is thrown out to rescue items for themselves. I am just so tired of the relentless hostility to students--stop generalizing be specific.
ReplyDelete@2:10pm: Yes, it IS exactly right to make broad generalizations about entire groups of people (which, BTW, you yourself did in making YOUR comment!) when those generalizations are TRUE.
ReplyDeleteI don't see packs of 50-year-olds staggering down the block every weekend, drunk out of their minds. It's somehow those in another *certain* age group who I see falling-down drunk, screaming at each other (or at no one in particular), howling & singing at the top of their lungs at 4am, and vomiting on the streets EVERY. SINGLE. WEEKEND.
Call me biased, but I'm calling it as I see it (and have seen it for many years now) right outside my window.
@2:16pm: Let me be specific: I hate all the YOUNG DRUNKS who are out and about in this neighborhood every single weekend. And if they're not associated with the college dorms, do let me know who they ARE associated with, please. Enlighten me! And, FWIW, I would never go picking through the stuff these kids discard every spring. What you might try being outraged about is how much WASTE these students generate.
And you also might try not being so "relentlessly hostile" toward the long-term members of this neighborhood! Some of us remember a time when this wasn't "dormitory alley" and can also remember when we had neighbors who were respectful of other people's need to sleep so they can go to work in the morning.
That welcome RA sign appropriately has an ambulance in it.
ReplyDelete3:27pm...This is not in defense of drunken people causing havoc. Regarding making broad generalizations: I said "certain individuals" which is by definition specifically noting it was indeed NOT everyone. Anyway, you're ok with labeling an entire group (in this case an entire student body) as all the same; point taken. You must have interesting perspectives on race, ethnicity, religion etc....I know, I know it's DIFFERENT in those instances for you...or maybe not🤷🏼♂️
ReplyDeleteSorry to disappoint you Anon@3:27. I am a long term resident in the East Village (if 1968 is long term enough for you). I've noticed that when some one disagrees with anyone on this blog, they are immediately attacked as not being a real, right, true, long term, resident. I, too, dislike the bar culture which to dominate the EV from Thursdays to Sundays. Next time you go to a community meeting or run into one of the candidates for City Council, ask for what they specifically intend to do. I see Mayor de B, is planning to appoint a Night Life Czar. Another sinecure which will achieve nothing I am willing to guess.
ReplyDelete@4:55pm: You know nothing about me, so go ahead and label me racist or whatever you wish; it has nothing to do with me, but it makes you guilty of what you accuse others of!
ReplyDelete@4:58pm: Has talking to candidates or city council members gotten you anywhere on this issue? Because I've lived here nearly as long as you have, and all the talking I've done with candidates or council members over the past decades has apparently been a waste of my breath; I don't see ANY movement or even interest on the part of ANY elected officials to help this neighborhood not just devolve into a drunk-a-teria. They make lots of nice noises, but not I see no change for the better.
Oh, fuck; just when I was starting to enjoy the city. Shit.
ReplyDeleteAt 3:27 PM, Anonymous said:
I don't see packs of 50-year-olds staggering down the block every weekend, drunk out of their minds. It's somehow those in another *certain* age group who I see falling-down drunk, screaming at each other (or at no one in particular), howling & singing at the top of their lungs at 4am, and vomiting on the streets EVERY. SINGLE. WEEKEND.
If there were packs of 50-year-olds staggering down the street drunk out of their minds, we'd probably take steps to get them help. Why not these budding alcoholics?
I wish someone would have helped me when I was falling down drunk in the streets; my whole life might have been different. Moreover, I wish someone would tell these kids that drinking isn't cool, and you don't look as cool as you think you do. That's what they're clueless about.
@Scuba Diva: I agree with you that someone should help these "budding alcoholics." It seems to me that NYU & New School would be perhaps the "someones" to do take some action in that direction, since so many students live in their dorms in this neighborhood. (Perhaps they do and I just don't know about it.) But if you think some other entity should be doing this, I hope you'll identify which entity.
ReplyDeleteWhat I *do* know is that there's a regularly scheduled AA meeting DIRECTLY across the street from the 3rd North dorm, but I wonder if any college students attend those meetings, or whether the students have that mindset that says "Me? I couldn't possibly be an alcoholic!"?
I've been perusing the public data on liquor licenses. This year there have so far been 229 on-premises alcohol licenses approved in zip code 10003, and 102 in zip code 10009. By comparison, in 2007 there were only 31 on-premises licenses approved in 10003, and 28 in 10009. Some higher powers have decided that we need endless amounts of alcohol in the East Village.
ReplyDeleteOMG a lot of Keyboard Warriors on this site .It is a blog read it or not
ReplyDelete@11:30pm: I have wondered who exactly decided that this neighborhood (10003) would be allowed to become the alcohol ghetto it now is.
ReplyDeleteidk, seems like there has been drinking all summer. Is life better here than home?
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