What keeps me up at night

[teacup9]

When I got back from California I noticed several signs on my apartment building's front door and lobby (I am scared to rip one down) basically saying that according the lease residents can't sit or congregate on the front stoop (which I never do) and that security cameras will see who they are and somehow punish them.  I am beyond disgusted, if

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[farkaktej]

hi. They actually tried to impose the same regulation in the building Im currently in`, but didnt go as far to say that they were going to instal cameras.

Anyway, Id like to add you.

[teacup9]

They already had a camera here, anyway. Does the regulation bother you? My building has a lot of Pakastani children playing in front but mostly the elderly Russian ladies sit there gabbing. It doesn't both me, it's what they do, its part of Brooklyn. I just hate managment all together. The few of us in here were promised big things a shabbos lock, new bathrooms/kitchens, cheap rent, etc but the rent increases 5% like everywhere else and what good is a new sink and floors when crappy piping, electricity, and holes for bugs ruins it all? I asked the super about the sign and she acted like it was important to get little kids off the porch because they don't move out of the way and the elderly could trip. Honestly most of the kids do move, and her children were out there quite a bit and they get up to open the door for you. It's her husband who stands there with his coffee and cell phone blocking he door. I can't wait to get out of a building, unless your in the basement, it's nicer to be in a house.

[farkaktej]

Well, they never passed the regulation.
What I understand is they tried to pass this regulation (which all the tenants protested) because they wanted to "keep the noise down".
It really would not have made any diffrence. The drunk Polish guys would still pass out on the steps trying to collect bottles from my trash cans.

re your blogger post

[teacup9]

Watch out for those "Jews" for Jesus on the train now. They canceled my weekly shiur and brought in Rabbi Tovia Singer, a speaker/cult awareness activist to warn us about them. Apparently the JFJ announced plans to convert religous Jews for the first time. I thought they were going overboard until a co-worker and my fiance got pamphlets in the mail, and I saw them on the bus. I doubt we are good targets, but he brought up points about them taking advantage of lonely nursing home residents and younger kids away at SUNY schools. The a-holes even have Holocaust surviors on DVD singing Jesus' praises.