Reply With QuoteBesides, you can either ignore the dealers or say: "Excuse me, what did you say? I couldn't hear you." in a very loud voice --
that usually sends them scurrying
Been years since I tried to score down there, they always had such poor quality to offer. Sticks and stones in a bag.
Besides, you can either ignore the dealers or say: "Excuse me, what did you say? I couldn't hear you." in a very loud voice --
that usually sends them scurrying
I don't mind pushers (especially as it was just weed), it was te eexcessive eagerness. Also, I waas dressed as the middle-aged professional that I am, I was surprised I was approached at all. Must be lot of Wall Steret guys who score around there, I guess.
I would have guessed that in such a studenty/touristy area the quality would be low, yes, not that I'm in the market - just booze for me these days.
The fountain is great as it is. If they realign it, they are going to change the whole thing to be a "look but dont touch" bland piece of shit. I love that you can play in the one thats there now. Hell it fits the character of the neighborhood that is doesn't line up uniform to the street pattern. All they need to do is repave, Completely redo the bathrooms, clean the fountain, plant some flowers and leave it alone
I agree. Just fix up some of the other things and leave the major overhaul plans alone. Take the money and put it some place else more in need.
Y'all gotta understand: this "renovation" isn't about the people who use the park on a regular basis. It is about re-making the space so that it's more suitable as NYU's front yard and graduation platform.
Y'all don't want all those parents who come to NYC looking at campuses to walk into the Park and get scared for their little kiddies before they write that $40,000 check(payable to: NYU), now do ya?
Ain't broke, don't fix it.
Clean it up a bit.
The pot dealers could go legit, Amsterdam-style, if the city built a nice glassy European park pavilion for licensed dealers to sell joints one at a time for consumption on the premises. Quality control by city inspectors: no seeds, no sticks.
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Last edited by ablarc; May 11th, 2006 at 09:42 PM.
It's been a while for me. What do people use to clean their pot with now that there are no Yes or Led Zeppelin double album covers to use?
Things have come a long way, BR ... now you just get nice clean buds with none of those nasty stems and seeds ...
^ Officer, arrest that man!
Forthwith.
Fifthwith.
Say THAT three times fast.
Anywho, so long as they get rid of the "Asphalt Lumps" they thought would make a good skate park 9who thought of that?) I am cool with it.
They also need to freshen the plaza and whatnot, but aside from that... who cares.
And so long as the guys down there don't sell anything but green to begin with, I do not see much harm. It is when other elements, on the same side of the "line" but radically different in import and impact, come to sell is when I would worry the most.
The one thing I always found strange was the RV police moble precinct that used to always be parked on the perimeter. I never saw a cop in or around there and never saw an arrest. Yes, they may have been undercover, but why would you want your RV to be in plauin site if that was the case?
Weird.
The RV was the command center for all the cameras that have been installed in and around WSP (just take a look at the wires draped across the lamp posts above the sidewalks). Don't need many cops on foot when everything is viewed on cam.
Passed by two days ago- the park was in the process of being commandeered for the ceremony. Blech. Made me palpably mad as I passed and thought of the renovation/ruination. Some apparently homeless guys were being paid to sweep every stray leaf and dust particle to make it pristine enough for the primped bourgeois masses due to arrive. I hope it poors rain all over their poofy hair on graduation day.Y'all gotta understand: this "renovation" isn't about the people who use the park on a regular basis. It is about re-making the space so that it's more suitable as NYU's front yard and graduation platform.
What's wrong with a major city institution like NYU 'commandeering' its adjacent open space for a ceremony once a year?Originally Posted by MidtownGuy
Churlish, sir, way churlish!
Once a year might be fine. Combined with the way they are commandeering the entire Village with crappy architecture, and especially with the plan to PERMANENTLY (not once a year) alter the park to meet THEIR needs, I shall revel and roll in my churlishness around this matter.
I'm not mean spirited, just pissed at the way the attitudes toward public space have been evolving.
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