Stuyvesant Town tenants residing at 6 Stuyvesant Oval woke up this morning to find raw sewage pouring through their sink drains causing a mess that will take dozens of work crews days to clean up.Frustrated residents were quick to call management who dismissed the mystery fluid as "dirty water" and told them to "mop it up." It wasn't until New York City's Health Department received more than eighty phone calls that crews in hazmat suits were dispersed to begin cleaning up the vile sludge.
Tishman Speyer spokesperson, Bud Perrone, had no comment. Meanwhile Tishman Speyer has set up several cots in the senior center and invites displaced residents to take advantage of the amenity.
Well. I was preparing brunch (Creamy Ham and Potato Salad) while wearing a lilac colored soft crepe sleeveless shell. By the time I got it in the fridge and my Dutch oven washed and dried, my blouse was covered in mayonnaise, mustard, and these dreadful rust-colored pooh stains. What to do? Why, a good squirt of Shout before it went in the Maytag lifted all that out the very first time! Now if I can only figure out how to get out the greasy soap stains from using these front-loading "water efficient" washing machines!
I was waiting for someone to inquire about the recipe for my delicious Creamy Ham and Potato Salad. Well. I don't have all day, so here it is...
Edna's Creamy Ham and Potato Salad
1 box (4.9 oz) Betty Crocker au gratin potatoes
3 cups water (strained if you live in Stuy Town)
1/2 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
2 cups cubed cooked ham
2 cups Green Giant frozen sweet peas, broccoli or other vegetable, thawed and drained
1. Strain Stuy Town water through a fine-meshed strainer into a 4-quart Dutch oven.
2. Heat Potatoes, Sauce Mix and strained water to boiling in Dutch oven over high heat, stirring occasionally.
3. Reduce heat; simmer uncovered 17 to 18 minutes, stirring occasionally, until potatoes are tender.
4. Remove from heat; stir in mayonnaise and mustard. Stir in ham and peas. Spoon into serving bowl; cover and refrigerate 3 to 4 hours or until chilled. Stir before serving.
There's black gold in those pipes, I tell ya!
I would like to see a photo of the same fecal water in each of those renovated kitchens, the modern and the classic. I've seen this photo a thousand times in my own kitchen.
That looks like Beulettes sink after she has bathed the dogs and the kids in it.
E-Coli Strawberry Smoothie Recipe
Ingredients:
4 large strawberries
1 tsp of sugar
1/2 cup of whole milk
1 cup of ice cubes made from Stuy Town tap water
Directions:
Blend strawberries with milk on low speed till well smooth, than add ice cubes and blend on high. Add sugar and blend on high speed for about 1 minute.
Enjoy!
You go, girl.........................
If you are going to use Stuy Town tap water, it is essential to add a tablespoon of Clorox, otherwise you may find yourself in the hospital for a few weeks!
This Website, its author, and the commentators are both refreshingly comic and seriously insightful. However, tenants are growing very concerned about health and safety factors in the complex. And that is no joke. Basic systems breakdowns--heat, plumbing, elevators, security intercoms--are deeply worrisome and make one apprehensive about future, more serious breakdowns.
Yes, we tenants really are worried because we have a landlord who is only interested in making as much money as possible while providing as little service as possible. A greedy, arrogant landlord who overpaid for the property that is our homes - for some of us our homes for many, many years - and is willing to use any and every dirty method of making us move out by a combination of intimidation, harrassment and sheer perfidy. Meantime, we have reduced services, reduced Security, constant noise and dirt from the never ending "construction" projects, noise, harrassment and offensive behavior, indoors and outside, from some of the students i.e., those who choose to behave like drunks and whores and we wonder what the next round of MCI rent hikes will bring. Not that any of the MCIs really are Major Capital Improvements. They are simply repairs and replacements that should have been done years ago, but were allowed to fall into a state of disintegration by the former landlord. Equipment that is being used to replace the old - intercoms, elevators - is inferior and unreliable. Market rate tenants are being downright ripped off, lied to and gouged. It's a loverly place to live - not! But, we tenants are not going to be driven out, no matter what Nazi tactics Tish-Spy resorts to.
MCI really stands for "Major Crap Installed". Speaking of which,I've already had to have my intercom replaced 3 times. Has anyone else experienced this?
We are paying in perpetuity for new windows that were installed about 16 years ago. They are supposedly double glazed windows with argon gas between the panes for insulation. The idiots who installed them fucked up and the windows kept imploding. We now have windows that are double-paned, but provide no insulation from heat, cold or noise. Also, they steam up between the panes and are impossible to clean. This was a MCI, as in Major Crap Installed.
WHAT A DUMP!
This happened to me about a year ago when I was living in PCV. I got up from the couch one Thursday night to discover my tub and sink - from my lone bathroom - full of raw sewage.
They fixed it, but the sewage sat in the tub till they came out on Tuesday to fix it. It destroyed the tub. Luckily we already had a new place lined up and just hadn't moved yet - we grabbed air mattresses and sleeping bags and "moved" a few weeks early!
Now I just wonder if they bothered to replace the sewage-stained tub before they rerented our apartment, and, if not, what they said the cause of the stain was to the new tenants.
Hehe. I love owning my own place.