Prospective Park Place Pawnshop! - Near Franklin Avenue.

Mamacita

you talk out of your ass i understand

Wow you curse out someone on your side and then you have the gall to advertise here

Really show me what she said that deserved that comment

You make no sense - I HAVE read what she posted and there is nothing in this statement that deserved your response:

Crow Jewelry, please just let it go as I also hope others do here. You've offered to speak in person to address questions. I think that is a great gesture. I agree with whynot that there are better fights to fight and larger issues in the community to focus on.

Know that some brooklynian members will just keep arguing no matter what in a circular fashion. And you are also getting caught up in it. I'd hate to see this thread devolve and just make everyone end up looking bad.

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Crow Hill Jewelry. Several of your posts above violate the rules of this website (see below).

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haha

what a joke

is it against the rules of the board to baselessly suggest that someone in the community is physically violent and proactively involved in fencing stolen goods (AKA a criminal)?

You make no sense

read his posts, stacey. obviously he's not used to talking to people in this medium. since everyone is so highly evolved, why don't you all stop needling and engaging him? and if you can't understand why he would be defensive from the outset, i suggest reading the title of this thread.

bunch of uppity know-it-alls.

So I guess when you do it to MHA its ok but when others do it its not okay

i'll just respond by saying that i do it when he is involved in the thread and "to his face."

I am done here.

i'll follow your lead, and i hope others do the same.

happy holidays to you too.

Amen.

Hey snowboardqueen....I am respinding to this comment....

"The artist is most certainly talented.., but naive.., I dare say NOT.

The mural is controversial and a slap in the face to any working class - poor person in the community who has struggled to rise above the stereotypes of living in the "ghetto" as they try to eek out a decent and respectful way of just merely surviving.

The "bling" and wads of cash in the mural is a reality - abet a tacky reality - that most in community will never see by "any means".

And it re-enforces stereo-types of "ghetto dwellers" tacky taste if they ever did acquire any sort of wealth or material gains.

So stop feigning naiveness Mr. Artist. The only thing you left out was the Watermelons and Fried chicken.

You may be talented.., but you are also a Tasteless Opportunist - so man up and claim your crown."

You say he is a "Tasteless Opportunist. Why don't you just tell him on Facebook personally, you did friend his personal page after all. Was that just a way to keep tabs on his personal life? Better yet why don't you ask Jamie's good friend Bevin about him before making such statements.You both are friends with him anyway..Thank you

I wonder what drunk person from the community called and left harrassing voicemails on the artists phone. Slurring, making no sense, calling him "Mr. Artst" saying that he sold his soul to the devil...oh yeah and that he is exploiting children...next leave a return number

Returning to the topic at hand, at no point have I said that I like the business, or want it in the community.

In fact, (and in my traditional wordy, repetitive, typo ridden fashion), I have instead stated that there are bigger, and better fish to fry.

In fact, although I initally thought the protest in April was misguided, I was FOR the protesters when I later discovered (along with CHCA) that the business was being opened in a non-compliant zone.

....I am glad this stage of the CHCA's protest was successful, and that it has been successful in bringing him into compliance with the law.

However (you are correct) now that he is in compliance, I feel no obligation to protest his business, or those operated by the landlord.

As I have stated elsewhere, I do not believe that I will ever live in a community where I find all of the businesses to be of my liking or morals.

....I would -however- be quite psyched if I could live in a community wherein the businesses complied with the existing laws. I will join in actions that have this as a goal.

As to STRIKES 2 and 3.

Construction does not always require a permit, and I have no idea if he did the type of construction that required a permit. I hope that such matters were thoroughly investigated by the DOB in response to community complaints.

Paying a sum of money to facilitate a transaction (or cooperation, or silience) is commonplace, and I know of no law that prohibits it. I assume any exchange of funds (or lack of exchange) was consensual. If he paid someone who was not a member of CHCA for CHCA's silence, I gotta hope the transaction was in cash and the person was only in town for the weekend.

BTW, if the members of the CHCA and the readers of various blogs were the target market of this business, I completely agree: Those opposed to this business could and should simply give him the "virtual microphone" of free speech and watch him self destruct.

Public relations is clearly not his forte.

In fact, it has become clear that this owner does not give a shit about what the members of CHCA and others against his business think of it, or him.

...this is because he seems to have concluded that the future customers of his business are not us, or he beleives that there are enough of "us" who do not care whether a business is "community oriented" and we will still do business with him.

Have YOU made the landlord an offer to buy the space and open up a Starbucks? What do you want people to tell you ?

don’t lie you love my mural it’s the best thing crown heights has seen for wile wait till you see my next one I still have a lot of space on that wall you will love

And do stop buy and say hello we are very friendly people

my next mural will be much better and will focus on people livening in crow hill not crown heights soon to come my artist Jami heft is working on it should be ready soon