Say! I got an idea. Let's grab a coupla drinks and go hang out with the dirty bastards at Noonan park.
Tell Gioia - The Super Hero of Sunnyside all about it.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
A Park for Drunkards!
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6 comments:
thanks for the tip, i emailed the guy.
i thought that i was the only one that noticed these guys. they are literally out there, intoxicated, at all hours of the day.
i made a quick run to foodtown on the morning of thanksgiving and lo and behold, there were men passed out on the ground. i can't help but to wonder why they are out drinking so early in the day?
for the most part, they keep to themselves, but i don't feel comfortable walking by them alone as a female. maybe i'm paranoid, but a bunch of drunk guys out in public never sounds like a good idea.
I've been by there just before dawn when I ran and I'd occasionally see the lads knocked out there after their previous evenings communion with Bacchus and Orpheus.
Unless you're not telling us something, those guys haven't harmed anyone, and are most likely too old and too drunk to harm anyone. Every neighborhood has them. It may not make the neighborhood look pretty, but the city is full of many different people with many different...goals, shall we say. It's everyone's park, including theirs. And their behaviour doesn't appear to deter all kinds of folks from using the park all the time.
They're pathetic sad sacks, yes. But they're harming no one but themselves. Are you absolutely certain that it's any of your business? I'm not trying to be rude, just offering another perspective.
Well, they were all hanging out, blocking the sidewalk as I tried to round the corner in front of my house. And as a male, I find their behavior annoying, slightly threatening, and a black mark on the neighborhood. Not only that, but the pack seems to be getting larger. You allow four drunks to "hang out" as you characterize it, in a public park, more will come, and it will spillover and I seriously doubt all of them will behave respectably. Something needs to be done, bc children shouldn't have to see that.
And, what about the children? This is a PARK after all - with EXPLICIT rules about drinking, drunkeness, loitering, and so on.
I'd be more upset though, if there weren't drunk mfer's all over Central Park in Manhattan, and people shooting dope in Prospect Park among the mothers...oh, wait. Say, why can't Queens get equal protection from their police department???
Maybe we should be calling the 108th Precinct and leave Gioia to his photo-ops?
Here's some numbers if you want to really get tough:
108 Precinct: (718) 784-5411
Community Affairs: (718) 784-5420
Community Policing: (718) 784-5421
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