Re: [UC] Re: [Ucneighbors] Re: LOUD rock concert IN 43rd St.

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In a message dated 9/1/2007 8:14:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Don't know what advice to offer you, Ms. Mayer, other than to call Amy. Don't 
you have some pull at the President's office? You could threaten to camp on 
the sidewalk in front of her mansion and play loud Joni Mitchell records or 
bebop jazz till all hours of the night. 

Indignantly, 

Ross Bender

I view a block party on a three-day weekend that coincides with the start of 
a school year differently than Ann does (and, admittedly, it's not within 
funky-vibe distance of where I'm sitting). However, I wouldn't insult her for 
expressing her annoyance as she has.
 
Maybe that's the way they do things over at the 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])  rude neighbor list. If this is 
indeed the case, you should have just posted there rather than cross-posted 
and polluted the civil discourse over here, under what seems to be the tacit 
assumption that everybody wants to read your belittling attack on both a rather 
nice long-time neighbor and the president of one of the great research 
universities of the world. We of the Proprietary Party, grounded in the 
principles of 
William Penn as we are, respect one another's opinion whether or not we agree.
 
Al Krigman
Holier than Cardinal Richelieu



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[UC] Re: [Ucneighbors] Re: LOUD rock concert IN 43rd St.

[Ross Bender]

Does Amy Gutmann know about this??? I hear she made some reference recently
to a Joni Mitchell song, saying that inside of paving over paradise, Penn is
going to turn a parking lot into a Paradise -- about the new postal lands.
Boy, is she cute or what?

Meanwhile, here on 48th St I've been looking down at a massive traffic jam
all day with LOUD HONKING, all because Hardy Boy Williams thinks it's cool
to block off Baltimore from 48th to 51st every year to hold some dumb party.
He doesn't even LIVE here, the jerk. And while the schadenfreude of watching
frustrated motorists grind out their lives in a traffic jam provides a
little comfort, I'd rather that he hold his party in a vacant lot somewhere.
Also he's messing up public transit, as the 34 trolley can't go through.

Don't know what advice to offer you, Ms. Mayer, other than to call Amy.
Don't you have some pull at the President's office? You could threaten to
camp on the sidewalk in front of her mansion and play loud Joni Mitchell
records or bebop jazz till all hours of the night.

Indignantly,

Ross Bender
http://rossbender.org/scarypeople.html





On 9/1/07, Ann Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> It seems some kids (about the age of Penn or Univ. of the Sciences
> undergrads) have
> decided to block off 43rd St. between Osage and Pine to hold
> a LOUD rock concert in the middle of the street.  Yes, kids are completely
> blocking
> 43rd -- instead of going over to Clark Park to party.
>
> They have been at it for 5 hours, and they are getting louder.  I did call
> the police (the music
> is unpleasantly loud even though I my place does not front on 43rd) , but
> apparently
> all they did was to remove the rope blocking 43rd St.  The partying goes
> on -- as if the street
> were Locust Walk by the Penn fraternities that have similar outdoor
> parties with rock music
> blasting at maximum volume.
>
> If this happened ONLY one Saturday a year, it would be no big deal, but
> since we have just had move in, I worry that this could be the start of a
> new trend by students who have recently arrived.  We just got rid of a
> nearby group of very wild party animals who had
> raucous drinking parties on the front porch till all hours. I'd hate to
> see this pattern spread.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ann
>
>
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