New York Shitty Day Ender: I Just Want My Neighborhood Back

BrooklynSerpico comments (in regards to this post):

Anyone finding themselves today saying, “I Just Want My Neighborhood Back”?

http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/mtv-greenlights-pants-drama-pilot/#more-60072

I will not lie to you, dear readers: I have had a long day. On top of the errands I had planned for today (which included dropping off a print for BARC’s upcoming fundraiser— the deadline is tomorrow, by the way) I was awakened by a very unpleasant olfactory sensation. It was not Greenpoint either. Rather, one of our cats had experienced some, um, “distress” and decided to leave it in the bathtub. This, in turn, was inspected thoroughly by one of her fellow felines. Exactly which one, I do not know. But he (she?) managed to step in it and leave poopy paw prints all over our bathroom. Diarrhea is not the way I like to start my day— at least not in my own home, anyway. But I endeavored to persevere. I even got an ice cream to cheer me up. It worked. Then I went home.

When I arrived back in Greenpoint I bought groceries. This is in and of itself not problematic.

Save, of course, when you have to dodge electrical cables, “film people”, minders and various hangers on telling you where you can and cannot walk in your own neighborhood.

Pair the previous with the fact you are carrying groceries (as I was) and it becomes quite rage inducing. This post goes out to the fine folks at MTV and the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting. I suspect I speak for a number of my fellow Greenpointers when I write that it would be greatly appreciated if the latter would cut my community a little slack. Some of us actually have to live here.

Regards,

Miss (the woman in the green dress who walked by your camera willfully and deliberately picking her nose with her middle finger) Heather

P.S.: Had I felt more up to the occasion (and had a few buddies in tow) I would have pulled my usual tactic which is shouting en masse (and very enthusiastically):

Do you need any fluffers?!?

It has been my observation nothing creeps out effete film folk more than highly agitated, sweaty 30+ something women offering such “services”.

P.S. #2: As a Greenpointer I find this (which comes courtesy of Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York) grimly amusing. That’s right folks: they recruited Williamsburgers to make Greenpoint look, well, like Williamsburg.