by CornerBoy » Tue Sep 28, 2021 9:09 am
newera_212 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:00 am
CornerBoy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 7:11 am
you are right- its a maintenance closet or room where they would normally have the facilities head have his office there. you're so on with the mgmt and its oversight. this aint the 70's! dumpy room little room. I pass by every day as I make sure to veer offthe FDR cut west a block and run a few blocks through those projects and then rejoin the Fdr running path. they started to recognize me and woudl bullshit with me after the 15th time. i made sure to keep my head down the first several times. they never invited me in but they woudl engage in 1-2 min convos. big scary serious motherfuckers. the times i would speak to them was when the door was open so I guess no heavyweights were there when i was. just tons of 50 year olds that were HUGE and some wore union jackets or lumberjacks lol jeans and work boots. cpl older guys dressed nice.
That's awesome. Don't need to share too much personal info if you don't want to - but do you live down there / in that neighborhood? I've applied for the Knickerbocker Village lottery several times in the past - never got in. I
used to pass by there myself at least 4 days a week for work, this was 2015-2017'ish, and every single day as early as 6 AM the social club door was open with people inside. Literally rain or shine. I even remember driving by in torrential, pouring rain and the door was open with people in there. There used to be a big italian flag hanging from one of the terrace balconies on the top floor - not directly above the club, but on the same side of the building up toward Monroe Street. That was there up as recent as last year.
Another time I remember I was visiting a co-worker in the Two Bridges NYCHA's - right there on the other side of the manhattan bridge - and I decided to take the long way specifically to walk by the social club and creep around. When I hit Market Street I saw that there were younger looking guys 'flanking' the club on both sides of the door, and 2 other younger looking guys standing right at the corner of Cherry Street. I quickly kept it moving
I live just off of Greenwich Street somewhere between murray street and canal so If I take a seven mile run, I will either go up the West side highway or loop around by the ferry amd run up the FDR where I would take a detour and pass by these guys who look pretty fucking scary. Much tougher looking than the old Bensonhurst crews....
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you are right- its a maintenance closet or room where they would normally have the facilities head have his office there. you're so on with the mgmt and its oversight. this aint the 70's! dumpy room little room. I pass by every day as I make sure to veer offthe FDR cut west a block and run a few blocks through those projects and then rejoin the Fdr running path. they started to recognize me and woudl bullshit with me after the 15th time. i made sure to keep my head down the first several times. they never invited me in but they woudl engage in 1-2 min convos. big scary serious motherfuckers. the times i would speak to them was when the door was open so I guess no heavyweights were there when i was. just tons of 50 year olds that were HUGE and some wore union jackets or lumberjacks lol jeans and work boots. cpl older guys dressed nice.
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That's awesome. Don't need to share too much personal info if you don't want to - but do you live down there / in that neighborhood? I've applied for the Knickerbocker Village lottery several times in the past - never got in. I
used to pass by there myself at least 4 days a week for work, this was 2015-2017'ish, and every single day as early as 6 AM the social club door was open with people inside. Literally rain or shine. I even remember driving by in torrential, pouring rain and the door was open with people in there. There used to be a big italian flag hanging from one of the terrace balconies on the top floor - not directly above the club, but on the same side of the building up toward Monroe Street. That was there up as recent as last year.
Another time I remember I was visiting a co-worker in the Two Bridges NYCHA's - right there on the other side of the manhattan bridge - and I decided to take the long way specifically to walk by the social club and creep around. When I hit Market Street I saw that there were younger looking guys 'flanking' the club on both sides of the door, and 2 other younger looking guys standing right at the corner of Cherry Street. I quickly kept it moving
I live just off of Greenwich Street somewhere between murray street and canal so If I take a seven mile run, I will either go up the West side highway or loop around by the ferry amd run up the FDR where I would take a detour and pass by these guys who look pretty fucking scary. Much tougher looking than the old Bensonhurst crews....