Sometimes the name of a restaurant can make it or break it.
But with a name like Easy Come, we hope that it makes it — and that there are other offbeat, and sexually charged words on the menu.
Easy Come
The $4,000 Mystery
Earlier this summer, a $4,000 solar trash compactor was installed on 4th Avenue between 86th and 87th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. (We would like to applaud the BID’s choice of solar power and it would be even cooler if all of the businesses within the BID were powered by a clean form of energy.) The 86th Street BID installed this BigBelly with the idea that by using the compactor, the busy corners would no longer be plagued with a large amount of trash bags.
Having said that, the couple of seconds that we spent passing the compactor on our way to the subway has left us confused, because the corner directly behind the above compactor looked like this.
As you can see, a lot of trash is still on the corner, which is directly outside of the subway entrance. We didn’t notice any signs about who should be throwing trash into the trash compactor, and we are quite honestly confused as to who should be using it.
Are people now supposed to place their random pieces of litter inside the compactor instead of the corner trash cans? If so, it really doesn’t seem like a wise idea to allow the many random skell, transient, or other unintelligent people who pass through the area to have access to such a powerful piece of machinery.
Or, is the private company that was hired by the 86th Street BID, to keep the area litter free, supposed to bring the trash from the corner trash cans to the compactor and compact it all?
Either way, it’s clear that not many people have used the trash compactor, and people are treating the compactor as if it is an unstable bomb that is ready to blow up at any moment — no one goes near it, and not even one scratch/piece of graffiti has landed on it since being installed in July.
The Bay Ridge Spite Wall & The Forest Of Death
When we last posted about the Bay Ridge Spite Wall, the owner of the wall was fined $12,000.00, had begun to dismantle the upper portions of the wall, and covered everything with a blue tarp. Thankfully, Hurricane Irene tore down that tarp so that Ronald Reagan can stop rolling in his grave. (If you’re new to this discussion, you can learn the history of the Spite Wall here, or watch a Fox 5 news report of it here)
The scores of cinderblocks from the upper portions of the wall are now an unmortared wall facing the street — because even a grumpy old man who built things illegally on his neighbor’s property still likes to build forts – Gatorade has been brought into this against their will and it raises the question about whether or not the Bay Ridge Spite Wall should be rebranded the Gatorade Spite Wall of Bay Ridge? Plus, the evergreens planted along the sidewalk are now all dead, leaving the site to looks like a forest of death.
It stands as a sad visual of the horrible bureaucracy that is the City of New York, and it appears that only Harry Potter can save us now…
Bay Ridge Crack Houses Go Corcoran
The beautiful new townhouses that were built upon the site of the former Bay Ridge Crack House have officially jumped the shark and gone up for sale at Corcoran.
The three townhouses have been rebranded as lofts, particularly the Lofts of Bay Ridge, and are listed at $799,000 starting. If they don’t sell out by Thanksgiving, we imagine that Corcoran will official rebrand all of Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton as Southern Park Slope South.
Total sidenote here, someone should inform Corcoran and the developer that the now defunct Bay Ridge restaurant The Loft is where a man was found shot to death in a bathroom. So the whole Loft/Bay Ridge thing might not be the best choice of words, aside from the fact that the buildings are semi-attached row houses.
Oh, and to any potential buyers, the brothers who used to deal drugs out of that house, and their clientele of misfit junkies, still roam around on that block. We’ve seen them personally, and don’t have the time or desire to constantly post photos of each time a car has broken windows on that block – good thing those “Lofts” come with a garage!
The Two Dumbest Hurricane Irene Preparations
We know that people in NYC aren’t often asked to prepare for a hurricane, but we’ve been left scratching our head at two preparations that other people did ahead of Hurricane Irene. We found these preparations simply lacked any and all common sense — kind of like running out of a burning apartment with arms full of clean socks (which we must sheepishly admit that we have personally done).
Someone tethered a concrete statue of the Virgin Mary, that weighs approximately 100 pounds, to a brick pillar, with a pair of elastic stockings. A toe-nail normally rips stockings, so should that statue have toppled over, the stockings would have simply ripped and allowed the statue to fall to the dirt floor – where it probably wouldn’t have been hurt, regardless of the stockings being there.
Someone else, or perhaps the very same person (these things were a block away from one another), wrapped their compact vehicle with several clear plastic bags and meticulously taped it all together. The decade-plus old paint job couldn’t have been what they wanted to protect, and we’re 100% positive that the vehicle doesn’t normally get wrapped up and covered in the event of a regular old rain storm.
But, everyone has their own things that need to get done in order for their mind to relax and have a good night of sleep, so we hope that these people had a wonderful night of sleep during Hurricane Irene. To each his own.