Ghosting America
Surveys now find that more than eight in ten adults aged 18-42 have been ghosted in their personal relationships, and two-thirds admit they have ghosted someone else.We have somehow become comfortable with public confrontation and uncomfortable with private honesty. Ghosting is the etiquette of people who want the emotional convenience of being rude without the discomfort of being seen being rude. Recent studies describe ghosting as “social rejection without explanation or feedback” and find that many people now treat it as a normal way to end relationships in dating, friendship and work. Technology has made that remarkably easy. See above: Image generated using Nano Banana
Happy Friday in Brooklyn, where in yesterday’s newsletter, I warned that this August of thunderstorms was sure to end up raining out our next parade. Well the parade’s been cancelled all right, only it’s due to a storm of permitting complications, not rain and swirling winds.
The first ever Trinidad and Tobago Parade, celebrating 64 years of independence from British rule, was set to kick off at Church and Flatbush Ave this Sunday and take over Brooklyn with the sound of steel pan music, traditional food and family activities. Organizers expected thousands of revelers to turn out for what they hoped would become an annual celebration of Trinidadian culture in the borough.
But just a few days before the festivities were set to begin, news broke that the NYPD had denied the necessary permits to the event's organizers. The parade is off as officials claimed that the parade route would “substantially and unreasonably interfere with traffic, including established bus and truck routes and would require police resources that would adversely impact the [NYPD’s] ability to maintain adequate police and emergency coverage in the surrounding area.”
Brooklyn, which is home to one of the largest Caribbean populations in America, has seen a flurry of cultural events this summer. Just a few weeks ago, the first ever Jamaica Day Parade marched through central Brooklyn, starting at the same point and following a very similar route to the one planned for the Trinidad and Tobago Parade.
It is unclear whether the parade will be rescheduled or rerouted.
You may dodge Mother Nature’s wrath, but the wrath of bureaucracy is inevitable.
It’s legal to dance in New York bars and restaurants now, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday in a humorous video shot in a bar with actor (and now, dancer) Kevin Bacon.
Spike Lee's legendary “BK Loves MJ” Block Party, a seven-hour free outdoor dance fest honoring Michael Jackson, takes place this Saturday from noon to 7 p.m. in Fort Greene Park, SecretNYC reports.
Children received backpacks and families were given food as part of a back to school program that EmblemHealth sponsored through its Neighborhood Care centers.
The New York City Fire Department’s Fire Academy has received a $160,000 check from City Councilmember Susan Zhuang, Democrat of southern Brooklyn, to purchase two new training vans, her office announced this week.
Police are searching for Jesus Acosta, 31, a Bronx resident suspected of shooting and killing two men and wounding a third during robberies of a pizza restaurant in Brooklyn and a deli in the Bronx.
Police are seeking two suspects in connection with the robbery of two men, both 19-years-old, on the N train as it approached the 53rd Street subway station in Sunset Park.
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14 years empty: Inside Brooklyn Heights’ most stubborn storefront
A “For Lease” sign hangs in the window of the empty storefront at 112 Montague St. Photo: Sophie Penenberg/Brooklyn Eagle
On bustling Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, new shops and restaurants regularly come and go, but the two-story standalone eyesore at 112 Montague St. has remained empty for roughly 14 years, ever since Starbucks moved a few doors up the block.
Nathan Royce Silverstein, a prominent real estate manager in New York, New Jersey and Florida, owns the building. Silverstein’s family has reportedly held the property since 1936 — long enough, neighbors speculate, that there’s likely no mortgage weighing on it.
Silverstein told the Brooklyn Paper back in 2016 that he was in no rush to find a tenant for the space. According to local reports, he wants a national chain with a “triple-A” or “triple-mint” credit profile. Starbucks fit the bill, but now that it’s moved on, he’s looking for another large chain on a street where small businesses are now the priority.
City Councilmember Lincoln Restler, who represents District 33, spoke to the Brooklyn Eagle about the vacancy. “We have to look at every possible tool to try to force bad, greedy landlords like Mr. Silverstein to do right by our neighborhoods,” Restler said.
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On this day in 1949, the Eagle said, “A hurricane that plowed a multi-million-dollar path across the Florida Peninsula turned inland from the Gulf of Mexico tonight and sent strong but diminishing winds north toward Georgia. The storm, which had taken three lives, injured 58, left hundreds homeless and caused tremendous property and crop damage, was slackening as it headed for the sparsely settled pine forests of North Florida and the southern part of Georgia.”
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