Note No. 1:
Hey, Apt. #2. A fire escape is not a terrace. I understand you need to smoke outside. Really. But listening to your experience of body issues and freshman year in Italy dealing with pasta is really dull. People in this building work early in the morning. S.T.F.U. Thank you. ❤️The note writer in the second missive is now more agitated.
Day after day. Hearing your difficulites with life when you are spoiled brats is awful. Stop making hard working people listen to your crap. Move back with your jefk off Boomer parents in NJ, CT or LI. TY
This is what I mean, what we've lost, what happened to the NYC where people would just yell SHUT UP ASSHOLE!
ReplyDeleteI have to say those passive aggressive notes were pretty mean. Knock on her door and discuss this like adults and stop acting like a little bitch.
ReplyDeleteThere are also youths who are considered the Bridge and Tunnel crowd and they hail from regions north of New York City such as Beacon and they are now living in Manhattan. But they never get mentioned anywhere. It's not just LI, NJ, CT and PA.
ReplyDeleteYeah, don’t forget upstate, by which I mean anywhere north of the Bronx
DeleteSo sneaky how boomers have to hide behind an anonymous note. Total boomer behavior, afraid of their own shadow. How about not EAVESDROPPING on your neighbors and minding your own business.
ReplyDeleteEavesdropping is when I stand outside your window and listen to what you’re saying inside your domicile. Not the opposite. You have no ex expectation of privacy when standing outside talking and I’m listening from inside my own home and can’t not hear you. I could take your photo too. Totally legit. Remember you’re only reasonable expectation of privacy is in your own home.
DeleteSays anonymous.
DeleteGen-x here. I live across the street and **four floors up** from someone whose voice carries this way and I don’t even know which building she’s in, let alone which apartment, so I have some sympathy for the note-leaver. It don’t think it’s sneaky to leave a note for someone who is obnoxiously loud and, based on their persona, would almost certainly not take a polite request to pipe down seriously. Not wanting to deal with someone’s narcissistic behavior up close and personal isn’t the same thing as being afraid of them. If you find that numerous people are avoiding you maybe the problem is your personality or behavior, not their reluctance to talk to you or try to bargain with you about it.
DeleteAlso, no one should need a personal invitation from their neighbors to get them to stop loudly monologuing on the fire escape. It’s boorish behavior whether anyone says so or not.
Dang, that's harsh!
ReplyDelete@ 9:47 Did you read the article? The note says "go back to your jerk off Boomer parents". So, not likely that a "Boomer" wrote it, as your knee jerk reaction indicates. BTW, the "Millennials" are approaching 40 so they're up soon in the ageist blame game.
ReplyDeleteI guess Gen Z never had kids.
Sorry, meant Gen X, the forgotten generation.
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha
DeleteWait. What? Did you say something? Asked the forgetful one in the boomer generation
That hurts
DeleteDamn, seems like a few people need a therapist here and there.
ReplyDeleteLol the note writer is correct. People need to stop being inconsiderate assholes and if they are any means of telling them like a note is 100% acceptable
ReplyDelete@anon 9:47 AM
ReplyDeleteWhen someone your age starts talking you think the whole city wants to hear how amazing you are. Your not yet matured child brain talks like they are still in grade school (oh my god). No eavesdropping required I can assure you. I called an entitled condo owner out on his baloney at 3:00 AM with his drunk GF a "fucking cunt" which got him indoors in seconds. See, boomers can be very direct, especially after asking nicely, TWICE.
Why didn't the note writer just talk to the perp?
ReplyDeleteJust here for the Beacon NY comment
ReplyDeleteFrankly, notes like that would only want to make me continue, and more loudly. I agree, what happened to a good old fashioned STFU! (Also, knocking on the door and having a discussion? Really? Like do you believe you can actually rationalize here?)
ReplyDeleteI've spotted a few ladies sporting Upstate NY collegiate apparel in and around the East Village before. Sweatshirts with "University of Buffalo", "Syracuse University" or "...Rochester..." aren't commonly seen in the EV but they aren't rare either.
ReplyDeleteYes, regions slightly north of the city rarely get mentioned in any Bridge and Tunnel discussions, while residents of Connecticut whose path from the city has a similar upward trajectory are viewed similarly like that of Long Island and Northern NJ as being outsiders to a certain demographic in the city.
In terms of the Hudson River Valley as being "Upstate", any place within 2 hours of commuting time to and from the city isn't really this foreign land with no connection to NYC.
@9:59-
ReplyDeleteA harsh response in NY would be if the bent apt dweller threw his/her feces at the noisy asshole. A note, not so much.
I’m just glad they used all caps, which should make it easier to read by their rude neighbors in Apt. 2, a/k/a Upstate.
ReplyDeleteFrom this boomer/genxer who is so sick of the ageist, divisive, constant name calling: old school EV method of tutoring the repeatedly clueless was screaming at them no matter the hour and if they persist, throwing boiling water. Harsh but very effective.
ReplyDeleteHi boomer/genxer, there's a gap in between boomers and genxers, it's a no man's land that I'm happy to belong to. So actually you can be in between, but you can't really be a boomer/genxer.
DeleteYou know you’re from upstate New York when:.
ReplyDeleteYou have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You thinks Stewart’s Ice Cream is better than Häagen-Dazs.
You have serious debates with your neighbors over whether Wegmans or Price Chopper supermarkets are better.
Freihofer's Is your favorite bakery.
You have shoveled snow out of your driveway more times than most married couples have made love to each other.
The closest famous person you know of lives nine hours away from you.
You truly believe that New York State only has one professional football team, the Buffalo Bills. It actually has three.
No matter how hard it has ever snowed you have never had a Snow Day.
You're tired of explaining to people that when you tell them that you live in New York that you don't live in New York City.
You love to talk about the weather.
You make fun of the South when they get snow
You brag about your local orchard's apple cider donuts.
You argue with professional maptographers on EV Grieve about the geographical boundaries that define upstate New York.
You vacation in Vermont because you consider it to be is a southern state.
You break out a T-shirt and shorts on the first warm day of the year.
You've been stuck in traffic behind a tractor.
You drink more maple syrup and beer than water.
You measure distances in hours.
You know that Schenectady means "Place Beyond the Pines"
You only recognize two seasons: winter and road construction season.
You’ve been to more Dave Matthews concerts than Dave Matthews himself has been to Dave Matthews concerts.
You’ve seen hundreds of lakes, but you’ve never actually seen the ocean.
Wegmans the best hands down.
DeleteGiants and Jets play in NJ, so actually only the Bills play football in NY
Delete20-25 years ago we called anywhere above 14th st Upstate .
DeleteThanks for the laugh Giovanni!
ReplyDeleteThis post makes me want to move to BEACON.
ReplyDelete@Giovanni. Bravo sir. Pure genius.
ReplyDeleteLOL @ NJ, CT or LI. it's way more likely OH, IA, or TX.
ReplyDeleteI have to say, the neighbor who wrote the notes sounds like a nightmare.
ReplyDeleteLOL, Giovanni - you made my day!
ReplyDeleteI went to a Price Chopper in Ulster County once. My god, it was like entering the Land Of Plenty! I've never seen such wide aisles and food food food everywhere! I contemplated for a second how I'd fill a UHaul with groceries to bring back to the EV, but then remembered I don't have a kitchen or cupboards, so the dream had to die.
@ Giovanni
ReplyDeleteThis map shows all the urban areas in New York State that are categorized as cities.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/32/29/99/322999106f3d4a6265767bafc3c70917.jpg
Where is Upstate has always been in contention. Beacon is only 90 minutes north of Midtown Manhattan vs a place like Plattsburgh by the Canadian border in the Adirondacks which is much further away.
@ Eden Bee
I have no comment regarding the narrator of this video, but it is informative here and it captures the experience in the fall walking up the street along the restaurants and shops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXH6wTuZxwE&list=PLN6w2e1SxE1lcWkzrc8wN3xNmHZnujqWG
Long time residents might want to leave for Beacon to get away from the woohoos of the rooftop parties in the EV. 20 somethings might also want to follow course after experiencing wrath from their neighbors for hanging out in the fire escape or just hanging out on the rooftops. Instead of staring out and seeing other windows and buildings in Manhattan, they might want to rent or own a penthouse which gives them breathtaking views of the mountains and river.
Due to its popularity as a scenic place in the hinterlands not far from NYC, Beacon is actually inundated with too many inhabitants who are former city residents including those who used to live in the EV that have been an issue for the long time residents. Sound familiar!
@ 5:56 AM
Hell's Kitchen is the Upstate EV?
Ulster County has the City of Kingston that rivals Beacon on the other side of the river. This rivalry is about who is cooler, more hip with their scenery, shops and restaurants. Kingston is bigger and bolder. More food options reminiscent of New York City's foodie scene and the late Anthony Bourdain has his picture in one of the restaurants because he ate there. I think Kingston has better food than Beacon but the downside is the lack of accessibility for NYC visitors. There are no trains that take you there directly from Manhattan as easy as 1,2,3.
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