lock you doors

restless native

Subject: Re: lock you doors

Anonymous wrote: September 5th, Labor day, will bring another parade down Eastern pkwy.
Not sure if many of you are aware of this, but it is not the safest day in out neighborhood. I can't remember a year WITHOUT a murder taking place,, so be careful and LOCK YOUR DOORS

Since when did "Lemarseillais" start posting anonymously? :?:

sweet tea

please note that the post you quote is over 2 years old.

MOD NOTE: there's no evidence i'm aware of to support your statement.

em26

This thing looks fun.

I ain't afraid a no ghost.

Screw the horror stories. Use your fuckin' brain and just stay the hell away from the drunken , drugged up , out of control crowds. Do your own thing , have fun. Don't make yourself an easy target by walking around there like a p**** - yeah I said it - just be aware of whats going on around you , and know when to leave. Don't be up there at 1am , around drugged up drunken people and wonder why your ass got hit from behind. (Not your ass as in derriere , you know what I mean, dammit)

I live right off Eastern Parkway , so no matter what , I have to walk through the festivities to go anywhere. Unless I stay inside for the whole 3 days? I don't think so. So , I'll be there and maybe I'll bump into some of you. (Literally, as crowded as it sounds like it will be those days.)

themfa

shouldnt you have your doors locked anyway? Regardless of the day...

:roll:

dw438

OnEasternParkway wrote: [quote=Livetotravel]I really can't understand the negativism of some of the posts on this thread - if I weren't practicing Netiquette these days I'd flame a couple of these posts as something other than open and accepting - but I promise to be nice and not mention how ------ I think some of the content is.

If I lived on the Upper East Side and knew that every year a lot of violence, including murders, happened with activities peripheral to the St. Pat's or Columbus Day Parade, there's a chance I would approach that event and day with some trepidation. I now live on EP, and while I enjoy the parade and Labor Day in the neighborhood, it's certainly a time to be wary and keep your wits about you.

Does that make me "------"?
Hey the Puerto Rican Day parade's coming up next June.
Should I bolt the door and hide de wimmen now?
This is all ridiculous.
99.9 percent of the time ethnic parades are cool.
You get your yahoos with guns on Labor Day, drunks on St. Pat's, ass-pinchers or worse on Puerto Rican day. It's gonna happen when millions come and celebrate. It's in the statistics. .01 of all celebrants should plan to spend time at the Tombs as a guest of Mr. Bloomberg. It's inevitable.
I've had some of the best food in my life on Eastern Parkway on Labor Day.
And about the only heritage I share with the West Indians is the hatred of those colonial English bastards ... and the love of the dark brew of Mr. Guinness of Dublin, which exports well to the tropics.

brookfetish

when is the parade this year?

sweet tea

anybody going to j'ouvert?

alafairnadia

sweet tea wrote: anybody going to j'ouvert?

I am. it'll wake me up anyway, so might as well attend.

sterling2000

I'm originally from a small town in Western New York State of roughly 125 people. My next door neighbor was a (white) folk musician and avid steel drum player, and he's actually been coming down to this event for years. You can't imagine a bigger fish out of water with this white, bearded, short, rural hippy blowing into the Brooklyn area every Labor Day weekend.

All that being said, I've never heard a scrap of fear from the guy. He crashes on strangers' floors in CH, does the whole j'ouvert scene, hangs locally, crashes parties, etc., etc.

My experience with my kids around Washington/E. Parkway has always been great, too. Yeah, there are crowds, but there are also crowds at the NY State Fair. The only thing I bemoan are the big sound system trucks in the absence of more live musicians, but there's actually a pretty good Carribbean link over the past 50 years to the whole sound system thing if you consult your early ska and earlier history.

It's good family fun, and NYC is still the safest place to have a good time.

t-fal

Having been to both events many many times, I say the NYS Fair is far scarier than the West Indian parade. Especially on tractor pull nights.

arlette

Labor Day Parade is the best parade in NY. Great food.....music....costumes. As with anything that involves drinking.there might be a few idiots who cant hold their liquor but for the most part..there are isolated incidents. Alot of Politicians so heavy police presence in any case. As long as the weather is good.....go and enjoy yourselves.

dinkyla

Yeah, people get shot at the West Indian Day parade every year (I say this as someone whose only memory of the sound of a gunshot comes from that parade wen my dad was a vendor), usually way late in the day when it is super crowded, down in the crown heights part of it.

The odds are still pretty good that you won't get shot, though. 3 people shot when like 5 buhzillion people are running around drunk, stoned, happy, dancing, and horny is pretty good. Don't people always get killed at Carnival parades, too?

dinkyla

I always thought j'ouvert was spelled juve.

Now I feel stupid.

mr. tips

Shooting at West Indian Day Parade

leet

Yup.

Shooting seems to be a feature of the across-the-pond version of the West Indian Day Parade, too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6966127.stm

evan

hopefully people come post about what an awesome time they had, cause i myself had a great time. we started off around 11am at washington ave and walked far east on eastern, i picked up some mauby and bake and shark, drank a bunch of sorrel as well, and chatted with lots of friendly and easy going folks. a great day.

dewalt_russ

I missed the whole thing. Had to go to work at 8:30 this morning. Didn't get back until 8 at night. All I caught was the traffic.

In addition to the shootings, we saw reports of one woman losing a finger. Anyone know what that was all about?

carnivore

I had great fun at j'ouvert last night/this morning and at the parade today. The brief "stampede" at 5 or 6 pm near Franklin was a little freaky, but that was over as quickly as it began. It was kind of weird how they spaced the floats out this time. It seemed like there were sometimes huge gaps with no music, which I haven't seen in past years. I don't know whether that was related to the shooting. But the food was still good, the music was rocking, and the overall mood was great as always. My main lesson for next year is not to show up at j'ouvert until at least 4 am.

dinkyla

I dunno -- maybe I was just unlucky this year, but my food experiences this time around were all terrible. Sorrel was good, though.

alafairnadia

I kept having beef empanadas from the latino vendors. worked for me. I generally love the carib food but had my fill last night at j'ouvert with the hilarious and lovely doubles vendor (he was giving samples to the cops who were (silly!) eating pretzels instead of baked & salt fish or doubles).

I got sick of waiting for j'ouvert at 3:30 a.m. and walked off. got a little irritated by the lack of crossing at franklin during the parade ... even through the subway (I had a friend from out of town visiting (and carrying a suitcase!) or I would have used my unlimited metrocard to make the crossing anyway). the silence from 1:45 til almost 3 p.m. was very freaky - no clue what that was about. and the big stampede just made me clutch the DH'ers I was with in fright and hope that the stampede didn't get much bigger. and then my mother called.

sweet tea

glad i missed the stampede, but gladder i went to the parade and stayed awake for j'ouvert. (though carnivore is so right -- next year i'm getting up at 4 and going out, rather than staying up waiting for things to get rolling.)

ate VERY well -- two different kinds of doubles, shark and bake, fish cake, sorrel. mmmm....

brooklynbound

That stampede was quite a rush.

cool the kid

There was a stampede??? Where???

I was there for about an hour. Good times, got a lot of good photographs

raulism

pitu wrote: 'Fraid Parade? Don't be.
BUT
The Brooklyn Museum Panorama competition on Saturday might be the place to go to get your feet wet...not sure how that is intersecting with Target First Saturday...

http://www.panonthenet.com/articles/ny/2005_panorama/firstsaturday.htm

I went to the Panorama competition-- it was $35, so it's probably not the best way to get your feet wet. But it was really exciting to see the full potential of steel pan music.

Monday for me was a let-down. There were just tons of kids walking in the parade in street clothes. Panorama was a complete contrast. All the groups worked all year for their ten minutes on stage, and the energy was really high, and musically it was stunning. The groups are mostly youths who practiced many many long hours for no money.

In any case, I just posted three videos at http://www.youtube.com/rauldougou - they aren't the best quality, but I did manage to record the winning group, Pan Sonatas.

I was impressed that the tuner of the instruments gets prominent credit.

Oh, at one point the announcer said that this is the biggest pan competition in the United States, and that it's right here in Brooklyn. I heard a person hooting loudly with Brooklyn pride, and turned around- he was a white guy of course...