When you live in Stuyvesant Town, Manhattan's most luxurious apartment complex, oversleeping is just not an option. This morning residents on 14th Street were gently nudged awake by two of Tishman Speyer's new "Leaf Consultants" and their droning leaf blowers as part of their continued wake up service.
Beginning at 7AM sharp, these energy conservationists blew and blew and blew the entire courtyard for nearly an hour ridding it of that...dust? If you think the noise in this two minute video is irritating, try listening to it reverberate through a courtyard for an hour. It's goddamn divine!
We are not sure what Stuyvesant Town's anti-broom stance is all about nor are we sure why the employee(?) on the right feels he/she doesn't need to wear a uniform. What are we sure of? That Fall is right around the corner and we can't wait for the new 812,363,475 trees they planted to begin losing their leaves.
Video submitted by a red-eyed Sty-Spy
For a city that once prided itself on dealing with quality of life issues, I am astounded at the seismic decline in the quality of life in Stuy Town over the past year.
The noise is constant, inconsiderate and - before 8am - possibly illegal. If it's not trucks locked into reverse mode and beeping at 6:30am, it's leaf blowers or workmen shouting to one another at 7am, or mandatory rise-and-shine on Saturday mornings at 8am when the construction on the ridiculous so-called "amenities" resumes at full scale.
And the complement to all these is the baleful cries of the drunk grad students at 4am each and every Saturday morning, to alert us that the bars of the East Village have closed and the vomitorium parties are about to commence in stairwells and hallways. Amazingly, all this noise seems not to rouse the keystone cops security force which used to prevent such stuff in the past.
At what point do the tenants say, "Enough is enough?" Just wondering....
I cannot for the life of me understand why the City's laws concerning noise pollution, which were enacted by our schoolmarmish mayor about two years ago, do not apply to Tishman Speyer. Do they have some special immunity or waiver? The noise starts so early in the morning and continues almost round the clock. Dumpsters full of bulk waste and construction debris are emptied at all hours of the night. The quality of life absolutely sucks and I wish that some tough investigative reporter would come in break some TS balls! We tenants of Stuyvesant Town are absolutely helpless in the face of corporate might and bullying. It's as if STPCV is a little fifedom owned and controlled by a malevolent, tyranical dictatorship. And this is America?
With apologies to Joni Mitchell...
Woke up, it was a Stuy Town morning and the first thing that I heard
Was an earth mover out my window and the sound of drilling too
It came a-reeling up like Armageddon and crashing as the trash bins dropped
Oh, since you’re here,
We’ll cover our ears,
Here’s some heavy-duty ear plugs
Woke up, it was a Stuy Town morning and the first thing that I saw
Was pile of bricks beneath me and a fleet of golf carts, too
And the lawn mower army joined the din, along with the all the leaf blowers
Oh, won’t you stay
We’ll listen all day
Til’ we’re deaf and lost our marbles
Now my curtain opens on a new construction zone
And the streets are repaved all the day
And beepers beep
And workmen shriek
A big ol’ Cowboy YEEEE-HAA!!!
Woke up, it was a Stuy Town morning and the first thing that I knew
Was a garbage truck beneath me and a pavement cutter, too
And the sound poured in like broken glass and shattered all my senses
Won’t you stay,
Please don’t run away
It gets quieter at lunch break
When my curtain closes and my nerves are blown away
The club kids they start passing through
With drunken glee
Loud soliloquies
Each night and weekend mornings
Pretty baby, won’t you,
Wake up, it’s a Stuy Town morning!
It's like watching a crippled person dance. I feel dirty now.
Bravo Original Oval Boy! The Clintons named their daughter Chelsea after that song. Perhaps Sarah Palin will name her next child Stuy, It's as absurd as Trig, Track, Willow, Bristol or Piper.
Trig, Track, Willow, Bristol and Piper are the names of Beulette's dogs! How nice of Ms. Palin to name her kids after a bunch of rotties!
Dear Beulah,
Giving Sarah Palin the honorarium of "Ms." insinuates that she is pro-women, when in fact, she has set back women's issues by about 50 years.
I'd much rather vote for Beulette as VP--she's shown that she's a self-made, entrepreneurial woman who can support herself and her children. (Not to mention that she seems to have gotten the primest of prime spots for her trailer in the Stuy Town Oval.)
For Beulah:
The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator
http://politsk.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah_13.html
To Girl:
Thanks for the Baby Name Generator. It's the only funny thing about Scare-ah Palin.
For the last two days, there has been a dump truck unloading sand at 5:20 AM (yes, am) in front of the playground in the 20st loop. The banging, and clanging and roar of the truck can wake the dead.
Why is this allowed @ 5:30 am?
And for this they want $4K a month, TS has to be joking....
TS's idea of "Luxury Living" is a [b]travesty of a mockery, of a sham [/b]!
To Haywood U: Welcome to Utopia, Honey. Didn't anyone tell you about this place before you came here? Didn't you do a little research? You aint seen or heard nothin' yet! We've been listening to those trucks for over a year. It's the TS soundtrack. Wait til you hear the braying students turning the complex into a vomitorium in the predawn hours of Saturday and Sunday.
Or 'til they start renovating the apartment above you at 7 am without any prior notice. Who needs an alarm clock when you can have a jackhammer right over your head. Funny thing is, they never seem to work in the afternoons. hmmm.
How about the continual ongoing paint fumes, silent but deadly!
Dear Picasso,
Perhaps you have met some of the painters who work in Tish-Sty.
I see them sitting for hours in the hallway, staring into space. Are they trying to contact their muses? Given that you have had many muses yourself, I was hoping that you could enlighten me.
Who ever took this video I know where you live!!