Curb Crawlers in Gowanus

i've heard gowanus has hookers, i've never seen them personally
i've seen gangs of them off the brooklyn bridge tho'

Idlewild wrote: Apparently your curb crawler jut woke up from a deep freeze. That box area, from Atlantic & Nevins to 4th Ave to Nevins & Carroll up to 3rd Ave was a notorious streetwalker back in the day before you gentrifiers brought up real estate values. Up until five years ago, maybe a little more.

aw man. :oops: back in the good old days you mean
yuppie scum always ruin everything with their wasabi sushi and manchego ways...

Precious Williams wrote: [quote=quijibo]i've heard gowanus has hookers, i've never seen them personally
i've seen gangs of them off the brooklyn bridge tho'

Gosh, I had no idea. Perhaps not the best place to walk my dog in future. I would have assumed that my being dressed in sweats as opposed to thigh-length wet-look boots and a mini skirt would suggest to curb crawlers that I'm not in that business. But I guess not.


But do prostitutes generally walk dogs while working???

Only if they're kidnapping them for crack. The prostitutes that were down in the box area were lucky to afford a bag of Wise potato chips much less fancy vinyls.

maybe you look like a girl that worked there from far away.

Precious Williams wrote: [quote=street shooter][quote=Idlewild]Apparently your curb crawler jut woke up from a deep freeze. That box area, from Atlantic & Nevins to 4th Ave to Nevins & Carroll up to 3rd Ave was a notorious streetwalker back in the day before you gentrifiers brought up real estate values. Up until five years ago, maybe a little more.

I'm not sure how bad it was 5 yrs ago but I've seen pleny of hookers on Nevins St. from about Dean st. to Union St. in the very recent past. Like yesterday. They hang out by the factories. I usually shoot down Nevins on the way home late at night. Not a great place to walk the dog.

I had no idea there were streetwalkers in this part of Brooklyn. Call me and my dog naive...

your dog is soooo naive!

(Actually, that's the part that made it suprising to me. It doesn't matter how *you're* dressed, but with a dog in tow? Bizarre.)

Precious Williams wrote: [quote=pitu][quote=Precious Williams][quote=street shooter][quote=Idlewild]Apparently your curb crawler jut woke up from a deep freeze. That box area, from Atlantic & Nevins to 4th Ave to Nevins & Carroll up to 3rd Ave was a notorious streetwalker back in the day before you gentrifiers brought up real estate values. Up until five years ago, maybe a little more.

I'm not sure how bad it was 5 yrs ago but I've seen pleny of hookers on Nevins St. from about Dean st. to Union St. in the very recent past. Like yesterday. They hang out by the factories. I usually shoot down Nevins on the way home late at night. Not a great place to walk the dog.

I had no idea there were streetwalkers in this part of Brooklyn. Call me and my dog naive...

your dog is soooo naive!

(Actually, that's the part that made it suprising to me. It doesn't matter how *you're* dressed, but with a dog in tow? Bizarre.)

I agree. I find that part just bizarre. My dog is quite small though (a Min Pin) so maybe the dirty sod did not see her (and imagined I was perhaps carrying a whip rather than a dog leash)


i just read on wikipedia that french ladies of the evening (honestly, that was the phrase. gotta love suddenly prudish open source encyclopedias) at one period carried french bulldogs (which seem a bit bulky, but nevermind) as an indication of their professional calling. so maybe he just thought you were a traditionalist....

quijibo wrote: [quote=Precious Williams]But do prostitutes generally walk dogs while working???

those prostitutes charge more

Please tell me Richard Gere did not say the thing about the snake.

raw wrote: Please tell me Richard Gere did not say the thing about the snake.

for true man. no lie :shock:
it's a tibetan thing

quijibo wrote: [quote=raw]Please tell me Richard Gere did not say the thing about the snake.

for true man. no lie :shock:
it's a tibetan thing

I still can't get past Gere's giraffe quote. Everytime I read a thread with quijibo, the word "giraffe" pops out and my mind goes blank. Here's another brilliant public speaker in action:
"I like the color red because it's a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire."
--California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Subject: Re: Crack ho's

Slope4-35Yrs wrote: I can't get past the geography of this:
"free-lance crack ho in the park or behind/underneath the tennis court behind the Montauk club"

You mean yuppies would pick up ho's down on Nevins and 3rd and bring them all the way up to Grand Army Plaza? Or were the ho's already up there?
Can't even picture a spot behind the Montauk club where people would have even quickie sex, but I'm probably not looking hard enough when I pass by. Ick, garbage and rats back there.

They were up here. It during the Lincoln Hotel days. there was a crack hotel on Lincoln between 7th Ave and 6th Ave not so long ago next to the music school. When I was driving car service (night shift) you'd see one or two specific ones cruising 7th Ave by base between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m.. Usually, they'd pick up car service drivers taking a break at the New Purity by Union, or they'd catch a yellow heading back to Manhattan, or some yuppie (gentrfier in today's terms) walking the streets. If it was some guy walking he was usually married and you would see them hop the iron barrier of the Montauk tennis court and disappear, or they'd hop the stone wall in the Park.

In regard to your not seeing where they could go at the Montauk, not so long ago they had a raised tennis court where you see the vacant space. It covered 3/4s of the lot, the rest was plants if memory serves me right.

Witht the Lincoln Hotel, it was a pretty stereotypical by the hour hotel. When my parents had the bagel store on 7th Ave, the store, I believe, shared a wall or a common sewer pipe with them. One time the cellar of the store became flooded and the source was traced back to the Lincoln. The owner, who seemed very nice, let us in, nothing but red walls , some crushed velvet some G-d knows what else, all around. I believe tere was a chandelier or two and a black light poster of the "African babe with the big bosoms and her lion guardian" on the wall. This was back in the early '80's. Park Slope and Prospect Heights did have a prevelant prostitution problem back in the day.

raw wrote: I still can't get past Gere's giraffe quote. Everytime I read a thread with quijibo, the word "giraffe" pops out and my mind goes blank. Here's another brilliant public speaker in action:
"I like the color red because it's a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire."
--California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

:P that reminds me of another incredibly insightful Ahnuld quote
matt drudge plays it on his sunday night radio show

"Ve vant to make shure chauldren aren't left without any buuks.
Ve vant to make sure our chauldren have dah buuks"
=D>