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• Outraged

  When will this disgusting display be relocated to E. Flatbush or Bed-stuy?

  I’m sick of being a prisoner in my own home. Getting back after 9PM? Outrageous! I pray for rain every year.

• BP bus?

  Does anyone know if the Comm Council Boro Park bus will be running at all?

• Purim VS Labor Day?

  I remember when I was but just a young Child; my older brother would sometimes ask for a favor; with that favor he would offer a dollar. Of course, wanting to honor my older brother and the dollar was not so bad either, I shined his shoes, ironed his shirt etc…
  When it came time to pay, he would (most of the time) give my younger brothers the same payment with out doing a thing. Of course I would protest “It’s not fair, how come I had to do something to get a dollar while they did not do anything”. The reply I remember very clearly till today, in fact I use it many times in my day to day life. It goes like this,
  “What is the different to you if someone else gains, you got what was promised to you. This that I want to give your brothers also has nothing to do with you”. (i.e. Because they also got does not mean that I got any less).
  The opposite is true when it comes to the way we, the Jewish communities are being treated here in Crown Height by the Police department.
  This coming Monday will be the Labor Day parade, it’s no secret, we all know its coming and we all know what’s going to happen…
  Now, as I will walk down the street on Monday, I could not help but notice that every single corner, Pump, No standing any time, double parked and even on side walks will have parked cars. I also notice that they have been there for quit a few hour’s (with no occupants in the vehicles) and were not legally fined, (no ticket).
  Like my story above, I could say- What do I care that they can get away with it, it’s one time a year, they will come make some noise and go on there way. Am I really that hatful, that I can’t let somebody else enjoy?
  And this is were this Case becomes different then my Story above.
  I remembered March 21th 2008 (Hebrew calendar Yud Taled Adar, PURIM). If you don’t Remember, I will remind you. On that day the Jewish people have a costume of Sending gifts to there fellow Jews (this was put in place to show unity between Jews). A helpful way to get these beautiful, sometimes large gift to a fellow Jew, is using ones Vehicle/Car.
  What usually happens when a whole community is moving from place to place giving each other stuff (with there cars), is that you will find double parked cars, cars parked by pumps, cars parked on corners, as people load and unload there gifts (while wishing there friend a happy and Freilich Purim etc…).
  The different on this day is that there is not one block (no exaggeration) with out a Police car, giving out tickets to Jewish drivers.
  That is why this Monday, I ask my self- What is going on here, why can this community get away with illegal crimes, while our community gets hit with fines right and left?
  I thing my older brother would have to agree with that.

• Ben

  I agree with Outraged, afterall it is an observed holiday, Is there anyway to go in and out of the Sechuna?

• Purim VS Labor Day I Agree %100

  When will there be a huge uproar about us (the tax payers…) being treated like 2nd class citizens?

  And then we have to beg for permission to make a Lag Bi’Omer parade.

  Shame on the NYPD

• rhhh

  Does the kingstomn ave subway station run on monday?

• sick to my stomach on Labor Day in CH

  I was woken up this morning (Labor day) at 4:45 a.m.by the sounds of party horns and what sounded like people stamping their feet. I got out of bed and peered out my window on Eastern Parkway and New York Avenue, to see what looked like thousands of people shlepping along. I had never seen a sight like this. They were accompanied by police. I had never seen this site before at this time of day for this ‘parade’.
  The only thing I could think about was the story with R’ Levi of Berditchev going to the market place New Years eve and seeing all the drunks all over the streets, and he screaming out to G-d “look at these people on their New Year and look at Your people on our new Years. For this reason alone G-d should only give us a wonderful year!”
  This annual parade should take place in an area where there are lots of open areas with neighbors who don’t understand why the residents of kan tziva feel the way we do.
  Not only do we want Moshiach Now, we NEED Moshiach Now!!!

• Heshie

  What do our neighbors think of Simchas Bais HaShoevah? Closing the street, dancing all night until 6:00 AM, being prisoners in their own homes? Drinking and separation of the sexes on city streets?

  Oh my! Shouldn’t there be outrage over closing Kingston Avenue for several nights? WHen will the neighbors get to reclaim their sleep?

  My dearest Outraged: The parade celebrates Carribbean culture, not Black. Bed Stuy is not the place for the parade. And remember, the politicians held off renaming Eastern Parkway after the parade.

  Listen to the Rebbe and love all people.

• Yehuda

  Heshie – no one wants to hear impartial sense here. We wear blinders and look only in mirrors. We proudly wear the label “victim.” Our motto is gimme-gimme. And the only Maamar Chazal we live by is – Bishvili Nivroh Ho-Olam.

  So keep your moh-dehrneh, ballabatishe, boich-svoro to yourself, while you “lig in gashmiyus” and let us whistle while being warm in our special bath of ….