Vandals Strike Oval Lounge

When Beulette and her latest beau,Billy-Bob, have a few bottles of Southern Comfort under their belts there's just no knowing what they'll do. Billy-Bob was telling me how it would be real easy for him and Beulette to get into one of them apartments right over the OvalThingies. In fact, when he was tagging that building it occurred to him to slip into the bathroom window of the nearest apartment, but before he could do that he lost his balance and fell off the ledge. He plans to go back when he's sober (should say IF he's sober - ever.) That lad has squozed himself into some pretty tight places (I'm not being crude here all you folks with minds in the gutter)because he just loves looking around other people's apartments and seeing if he can borrow anything worth pawning. I guess those folks with the 25-watt lightbulb brains over at TishSpy didn't think about boys like Billy-Bob being on the prowl when they designed them amenities. Billy-Bob and Beulette aint no rocket scientists, but they sure can think faster than them there TishSpy people - and they aint averse to a little night prowling! Lock your windows and load your shotguns you guys in the apartments immediately over the OvalWhatevertheyares.

By the way, Luxie, Beulette and Billy-Bob don't like the term "vandals." For your edification, the politically correct terminology is "free-ranging urban outdoor artists." Thank you.
Can't all be fancy schmancy web designers. Hmph!

While I enjoy the banter and lightness of this site, and especially Beulah's riffs on life on the Oval, I need to say this, after weeks of checking this site almost daily....

I think Lux Living is the only vehicle that surfaces some real, key Stuy Town issues. The "official" Stuy blogs are useless or filled with the same complainers every day, mouthing off about every little gripe or annoyance. Or worse - the official site may be monitored by TS for future action against complaining and vocal tenants.

So, when we use this Lux site only as a joking space, or a place to comment facetiously on situations, I feel we miss the opportunity to do something about our bigger concerns: dirty drinking water, vandalism on the Oval, threat of foreclosure, rent stabilized people being displaced without cause, etc etc...you know the problems.

Maybe we could hold back a bit on our stand-up routines and focus a little more on ways to deal with these issues...there really is no other place to mount a campaign or do anything concrete that might improve out lot. It certainly is useless to call the TS office!!

Just a thought from someone whose sense of humor is dissipating under the constant onslaught of Stuy Town abuses.

Thanks for listening.

Actually, Anon, what I was trying to get across in my banter about Beulette, etc., is the fact that the Oval Lounge, etc., could very easily be used by someone who has a mind to to get into one of the apartments which are directly over the lounge. If some little twerp can climp up there to tag, same little twerp could probably find his way into a window. We did have a cat burglar several years ago in Stuyvesant Town (I am NOT joking now) who used to enter top floor apartments from climbing down from the roof. In the end he fell and was killed. This was back in the 80s and I'm sure you can check it out. If someone has the nerve to swing from the roof, you can betcha life someone will have the nerve to shin up from the roof/ledge of an Oval Amenity.

Response to anon: Agreed. It's time to get serious. Before a building collapses, or leaks produce a gas explosion, or a major fire; before there is a major crime, or injuries in a falling elevator, or a mass poisoning from tainted,water, or deaths from hypothermia, or more drugs being sold in the complex or more "working girls" setting up shop in the buildings, or something even worse....how do we get reporters and regulators onto this site to know what's really happening. It's not 10,000 trees, or grafitti taggers,or the irrelevancy of the Oval Amenities. It allowing more than 25,000 people to live in harm's way. It's that simple.

I agree with anon but must say that because it's so oppressive here I often look forward to Beulah's comments since she can always make me smile. Her unique style of pointing out very real problems is a welcome distraction to me. But I also believe there are enough of us to join together, share ideas and find a way to fight for our rights.

What we need to do since we're anonymous and we should not use our names here is to designate a meeting place where tenants can meet and discuss the possibilities.
I live on 14th Street and rarely walk through the Oval area unless I'm heading uptown. Today I walked through and I must admit, it was gorgeous. Colored flowers, leaves and trees turning made a magnificent scene. As I walked past the courts en route to First Avenue, I realized that many of the problems, except for brown water that we talk about here, don't seem to be evident. It is indeed a lovely place. So some of us are geographically challenged while others are not.

Many of the comments you see on this website are contributed by posters who use the TA forums as well.

Lux Living is a parody blog. Let's not get our metaphors mixed up here. The point of the website is to be as politically effective by satirizing the absurd management practices of TS that are making ST/PCV a less livable place.

I've seem more half truths posted here every day under more pseudonyms that I can even keep up with. I wouldn't advocate a turn to legitimacy as there's more truth here than fiction in the current form.

Maybe start a spinoff blog ??

It's true that Stuyvesant Town is very pretty with the fall foliage and people walking through the grounds may think we have absolutely nothing to gripe about. However, the pretty flowers and trees mask the underlying decay and give no hint of the serious quality of life issues that some of us are living with. Existing with I should say because being woken up by rumbling dumpsters and construction racket every night and early every morning is not exactly living. You can walk through a park (or even a cemetery) and see lots of beautiful trees and gorgeous flowers, and while it is nice to have them here their presence tends to distract from the grim realities of life in Stuyvesant Town.

You would think that with all the issues in ST , the tenants' association leadership would want to organize protests etc. Well think again. Take a look at the forums on the STPCV TA website to read how nonresponsive they are.
Luxie maybe you can report on this and get them to do something

I had no intention of disputing the deteriorated quality of life that Tish-Spey has created with its insane management practices when I said that the Oval area and routes to First Avenue via 16th or 18th Streets looked unblemished. What I meant is that not everybody in Stuy Town experiences the same thing. The dumpster issue is one of the most offensive of all, well maybe next to the incessant planting and replanting and breaking ground and repaving and breaking ground and dirty water and strewing the back forty with all kinds of paraphernalia. I was shocked when I read in the T and V a few weeks ago that some Tenant Association bigwigs said the noise of the dumpster doesn't bother them. What nerve!!!!!!!!!!

What can we do and what do we want to do? Perhaps we can begin by identifying ourselves honestly by which section of Stuy Town we live in

You say some Tenant Association bigwigs said the noise of the dumpster didn't bother them? I didn't see that. Are you sure it was a TA bigwig? Doesn't sound like something such a person would say. Are you sure it wasn't just some tenant (who may or may not be a member of the TA) who must be one of those people who can sleep through an earthquake?

Southeast Section, I can guarantee you that I won't give up my anonymity. Let's get real, you want Bud Perrone at your front door ?

Hey LUXIE.. does that say TAKI182 above the OvalLounge ???

Nah. It says FREE THE STUYTOWN 20,000