tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post2624988088295614474..comments2024-03-29T01:38:51.887-04:00Comments on EV Grieve: Looking at NYC's 'fratty heat spots'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-20105415299498838042014-12-03T01:23:27.399-05:002014-12-03T01:23:27.399-05:00Grievey, you need CL's "sanctimonious&quo...Grievey, you need CL's "sanctimonious" on your byline. That's awesome. And , as for a snide, snarky, sanctimonious commenter being my neighbor, are you kidding? That's the kind I love. Sorry , kid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-60577228461694478182014-12-02T22:38:38.564-05:002014-12-02T22:38:38.564-05:00Cindy Lou Who strikes the nail right on its head!Cindy Lou Who strikes the nail right on its head!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-79153134467791020352014-12-02T21:53:03.919-05:002014-12-02T21:53:03.919-05:00Cindy Lou, please sober up before posting. It help...Cindy Lou, please sober up before posting. It helps us to understand you.<br /><br />What kind of woman defends fraternity brothers in this day and age, seriously? You're aware that they are gang-raping us left and right, yeah? And perhaps at best leaving vomit all over the sidewalks? If you are down with this why are you here? This is New York fucking City. There are like a dozen southern states where you can get you roofies and date rape on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-16094923546978365142014-12-02T20:56:54.003-05:002014-12-02T20:56:54.003-05:00So, in addition for comments being moderated, the ...So, in addition for comments being moderated, the comments, snark and snide or otherwise, here have to be approved for it to pass and be considered humorous by a sanctimonious commenter. And these are your neighbors. At least the frat boys are just passing through.Cindy Lou Whonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-21007368044768307922014-11-11T19:58:32.485-05:002014-11-11T19:58:32.485-05:00Every day I send thanks to the Universal Goddess f...Every day I send thanks to the Universal Goddess for having blessed us with a place like The 13th Step. It keeps the a**holes pretty much penned in and away from the places I like to frequent. Of course, I'm not an immediate neighbor and thus not exposed to the puking and urinating I'm told is going on nightly. My sincere condolences to the people who have to put up with this. Walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06416518509228779720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-26395349248918807872014-11-11T18:10:36.495-05:002014-11-11T18:10:36.495-05:00Don't hold your breathe G, 13th Step will be o...Don't hold your breathe G, 13th Step will be out on the sidewalk funneling Santa-conners into their armpit of a bar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-83164450399372331032014-11-11T17:07:14.071-05:002014-11-11T17:07:14.071-05:00We're forgetting all-you-can-drink brunch at P...We're forgetting all-you-can-drink brunch at Poco!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-15265548512221201242014-11-11T15:18:46.493-05:002014-11-11T15:18:46.493-05:00If the owners of The 13th Step really want to show...If the owners of The 13th Step really want to show the neighborhood that they are not just a hangout for rowdy drunk frat boys then they should announce that this year they will be a No Santacon bar and ban all patrons who participate in the annual drunkfest. <br /><br />Every year The 13th Step has the biggest crowds of drunk Santas clogging up the sidewalk, requiring several police cars and officers to be stationed all day outside your bar just to keep order. <br /><br />I challenge you to join the other bars and restaurants in the area that post No SantaCon signs and restrict entry banning all SantaCon participants on Dec 13th if you are truly serious about showing residents of the East Village that you are a responsible neighbor.Giovannihttp://urbanmyths.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-18933446574551837142014-11-11T09:20:43.174-05:002014-11-11T09:20:43.174-05:00Every review site has reviews that call this place...Every review site has reviews that call this place a frat hole. Let's see the owners say it's not when 2,000 drunk bros decend upon it next month. Yup. Neighborhood joint lol. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-71034251241727537372014-11-11T07:15:13.661-05:002014-11-11T07:15:13.661-05:00@9:17 sucks when their own customers speak the tru...@9:17 sucks when their own customers speak the truth, doesn't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-17246779445891431552014-11-11T01:18:57.154-05:002014-11-11T01:18:57.154-05:00@Notorious, @7:52pm: Fantastic and utterly accurat...@Notorious, @7:52pm: Fantastic and utterly accurate characterization of that dump!<br /><br />@9:58pm: Your frat friends are missing you at the 13th Step.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-1599338251538433632014-11-10T23:48:40.552-05:002014-11-10T23:48:40.552-05:00After shopping at the Westside Market (great chees...After shopping at the Westside Market (great cheese selections), I walked past it (the 13th) around 7.30 PM tonight on the way home. You know a place is a shit Frat hole when, on a Monday (!) night, they have an intimidating bouncer/door guy stationed out front. During the summer, walking by it on weekend afternoons, the foul stench emulating from it was indescribable. Yet I saw people sitting on the tables outside, ordering food and drinks. Good grief!Crazy Eddienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-77274998905452153572014-11-10T21:58:37.472-05:002014-11-10T21:58:37.472-05:00Before I begin, I would like to put to rest a dirt...Before I begin, I would like to put to rest a dirty dispute: the difference between Beirut and Beer Pong. Let me start off by saying that they are different. Whoever tells you that Beirut and Beer Pong are one and the same probably also told you that he was popular in high school. Neither of these statements are true. A great deal of confusion could be avoided if Beirut was always referred to as the version without paddles. Beer Pong uses ping-pong paddles. Hence, Beer PONG — get it?" <br /><br />Beirut/ ruit, is a popular drinking game, that some less informed people like to call Beer pong ( beer pong is a totally different game). <br /><br />Materials: 6-8 foot table <br />22 solo cups <br />3 ping pong balls <br />beverage of choice <br />water for the water cups <br />2-4 players <br /><br />In ruit you set up 10 solo cups on each side of a table. Arrange the cups in a pyramid formation, 4 cups, 3 cups, 2 then 1, all of the edges of the cups touching. Fill the cups with any beer you want, preferablly filling the cups at least half full. Also have two water cups to wash off dirty ping pong balls. After your set up a player from each team can shoot for first shot. After this is won players continue to shoot one team at a time, three ping pong balls into the opposite teams cups. When one team sinks a ball, the other team drinks the cup that the ball landed in. This process is continued until one team makes all of the other teams cups. There are many variations of the game, and other little rules regarding rearranges, bounces, when you pick up cups and so on... depending on who you are playing with. <br /><br />"The difference between Beer Pong and Beirut is that Beer Pong refers to any variation of the game that uses paddles to hit the ball in the cup, while in Beirut, the ball is thrown by hand, " said Jason Keith, head of the National Beer Pong League.The Beer Pong Expertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-763111586795533142014-11-10T21:17:19.258-05:002014-11-10T21:17:19.258-05:00This is more a study of the number of times people...This is more a study of the number of times people use Yelp to attack bars they don't like, and the people who frequent them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-85193314334853816212014-11-10T19:52:04.121-05:002014-11-10T19:52:04.121-05:00From Complex's list of the 25 douchiest bars:
...From Complex's list of the 25 douchiest bars:<br /><br />"This frat-centric basement bar is damp with shame and sticky with discarded Natty Light. It's also stuffed with bridge-and-tunnel folk who all derive comfort from the vintage photos of the NYC skyline plastering the walls. They are slamming their glasses together, toasting to having escaped the suburbs of Jersey and Long Island, even if only for a few hours. After one too many games of Beirut (that's what classy frat boys call beer pong), the photos will also serve as a reminder of their locale when their internal GPS draws a blank. The 12th step is the mark of an alcoholic who has overcome addiction. The 13th step is for frat boys who wear alcoholism like a Boy Scout badge, utterly resigned to their douchey lot in life. Or, who after one too many games of beer pong, can no longer count."<br /><br />http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/05/25-douchiest-bars-in-nyc-right-now/the-13th-stepNOTORIOUSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-85878572372591949242014-11-10T19:20:06.808-05:002014-11-10T19:20:06.808-05:00The 13th Step can kiss my Irish Asch!The 13th Step can kiss my Irish Asch!Hannigan O'Flannigannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-7841667428189750042014-11-10T18:38:38.918-05:002014-11-10T18:38:38.918-05:00Is the article satire? He describes the 13th Step ...Is the article satire? He describes the 13th Step as old world charm aimed at locals! PUH-LEASE!!!!!!! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-38458423727225250972014-11-10T18:18:01.611-05:002014-11-10T18:18:01.611-05:00How interesting that a Google search on Asch's...How interesting that a Google search on Asch's name brings up a piece on Grieve from FOUR years ago on the same topic:<br /><br />"The fact that we are being labeled frat bars and bad for a neighborhood's character is totally uncalled for and, for that matter, just plain ignorant.""<br /><br />Oh REALLY?! FOUR years and NOTHING has changed.<br /><br />13th Step owner discusses frat rap<br />http://evgrieve.com/2010/07/13th-step-owner-discusses-frat-rap.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-39149305657398787012014-11-10T16:41:31.516-05:002014-11-10T16:41:31.516-05:00Anonymous 10:44 - I'm with ya the whole way. T...Anonymous 10:44 - I'm with ya the whole way. This 'hood use to have a specific great vibe BECAUSE of all the things you mentioned. Yum is right. Can't teach people respect - gotta just take control of what you can. Some good ideas, thanks.Scoobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-43345755177339714282014-11-10T15:55:23.148-05:002014-11-10T15:55:23.148-05:00I wonder if deBlasio gives a flying you-know-what ...I wonder if deBlasio gives a flying you-know-what the East Village is "FRAT RAT CENTRAL"? It's DEFINITELY "Animal House Redux" at the 13th Step, courtesy of Michael Asch (an appropriate last name).<br /><br />BTW, I wonder where Asch & his partners-in-crime live? Bet it's not anywhere near where they do business! Noooo, 'cause they don't want to see/ hear / smell that shit, right? They just want to get rich from it.<br /><br />I bet Asch spends his time laughing at the stooges who enrich him - laughing all the way to the bank with their money in his pocket.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-39443850515426527442014-11-10T15:52:12.091-05:002014-11-10T15:52:12.091-05:00At some point one of the bros will get killed, eit...At some point one of the bros will get killed, either by binge drinking or getting hit by a taxi or something, and all of these blackout drunk bars will become a trending news story. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-66127008853942224762014-11-10T15:29:32.399-05:002014-11-10T15:29:32.399-05:00I'll take the drug dens over the frat bars any...I'll take the drug dens over the frat bars any day. The difference between the drug dens of the past and the frat bars of today is that the frat bars are much, much louder, the customers get in peoples faces in the streets, and these guys fight each other and scream for cabs in the middle of the street. <br /><br />The drunks yell and throw up and urinate everywhere. At least the drug users and dealers were more discreet so as not to get arrested. <br /><br />What the frat boys do is legal and tolerated by the cops, and they have no fear of arrest and they just don't care that people live here, for them the world is one big Animal house and they are the wild animals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-11103319047563762712014-11-10T14:41:16.492-05:002014-11-10T14:41:16.492-05:00The bars being argued about are a lot like crackho...The bars being argued about are a lot like crackhouses were, well down here more like crack-apartments were. They serve a purpose for their clientele, and the folks that are selling the products there can turn a good profit thanks to the lowly nature of their customers. <br />Unfortunately, they make life miserable for their neighbors by their very existence.moehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17231055609852347970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-83042723975153537222014-11-10T11:47:55.682-05:002014-11-10T11:47:55.682-05:00I'movin to da Bronx!I'movin to da Bronx!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-44993425925538132342014-11-10T11:20:31.354-05:002014-11-10T11:20:31.354-05:00Fuck the 13th Step. It's an embarrassment to t...Fuck the 13th Step. It's an embarrassment to the East Village. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com