LOUD NOISES: Greenwood Park edition
Fucked In Park Slope has the story of Ted Nugent's son's new outdoor beer garden, Greenwood Park (which is not, as FIPS says, in Greenwood Heights, but South Slope; we'll sort that neighborhood out in a guide later this week), angering everyone that lives around it by getting people drunk, people who then pee all over the surrounding neighborhood, have sex in public, and walk around hammered. A few things, since I, until a few months ago, lived a block away from this place:
Anything to liven up that sinkhole of a neighborhood: great. Things more along the lines of Toby's would be better, of course, but beggars can't be choosers.
Brooklyn Public House, a block south, has plenty of loud patrons entering and leaving. Some of them probably even pee and have sex too!
The earth-shattering noise made by tractor-trailers on 20th Street—one of the streets bounding Greenwood Park—at all hours of the day and night tells me the complaining neighbors are more annoyed that the noise is coming from people enjoying themselves than that there's simply too much noise. A truck drives down that street, and it's like its ghost is barreling straight through your soul. I lived one block over from 20th, and it was still obnoxious.
Speaking of 21st Street, the clown-car apartment on the top floor of a building near 7th Avenue, where it seems at least half of the delivery guys in South Slope live, prides itself on its ability to play loud, repetitive Mexican music for hours and hours, any night of the week. And before you ask, I know they're Mexican because they stood on their fire escape last May 5th (right after midnight), screaming "Viva Mexico!" and cackling like Telemundo characters nonstop for six hours. So if they'renotMexican, they at least want to pass for Mexican, and I've done just what they wanted.
In summation, yeah, okay, a sleepy few blocks now sounds like Avenue A on a Saturday night. But maybe the bodegas will stay open later, or even 24-hours, maybe new business will get drawn in, maybe they'll restore late-night B69 service, maybe the dead will rise from Green-wood Cemetery and solve the problem entirely.