Random Obseravtions of Eretz Hakodesh

Flatbush that is.... There are many observations that one can make about this new and interesting land. Feel Free to add your own. (This is not a bashing thread)

1. I kind of understand the need to sleep with noise. I live in an area where the cars do zoom by all night. When I go to a quiet area like the Catskills it is a little hard to fall asleep. It’s even harder to sneak into the kitchen and eat all the fattening food in the middle of the night. What I don’t understand, is the attraction to moving on Ocean Parkway. Not around the corner, but actually on top of it. It’s smelly loud and full of people. There are thousands of cars that drive by at all times of the night.

Now if you have ever been to the side of any highway that runs through a neighborhood, you will notice that it is less then attractive, for the most part. If you go to Queens BLVD, which is pretty busy as well, and even claims to be the BLVD of death (Lo aleinu) you will see that it is surrounded by Apartment buildings. The rich people in Forest Hills actually built a beautiful little town FAR away from the noisy street. This brings me back to who actually lives right next to this noisy avenue that gives little or no privacy to its inhabitants. Rich People. I kid you not. Rich people buy up the property, that’s right people they knock down the house that was there, cement over any remaining greenery that might have existed before, and rebuild a tall, narrow but beautiful house.
Have you ever played with Dominoes? You line them all up next to each other and click them over till they all fall down? Well that’s what the houses look like on Ocean Parkway. Tall Narrow and just asking for a little wind to knock em all over.
First of all there is the noise issue, you get the ambulances, Hatzolah, police, shomrim, hockers and others that use their lights and sirens constantly.
Then of course, as any good NY driver knows you get the honking. Every time the light turns green. That means the second the light turns green *HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK HONK HONK* which is followed by the obligatory F you and the like. This actually gets worse as the night progresses. Think about it, the later people get home the angrier they are.

Much like having a house next to an amtrack station or NJ transit, this location blows.
Don’t forget about the constant Parades, New Sefer Torah's, Riots(hey you never know), Kids hanging out on shavuos night because it is pretty cool to do that , Levayas of Huge Gedolim (C"V) and the like. This leads to no privacy.

I was at R' Avigdor Miller's zatzal's levaya and literally I was standing on some dudes porch. They had closed their shades so tightly; if you ran through the window with a baseball bat the shades would have bounced that baby back into your head.

Haven’t you ever walked into your room after a shower and forgot to clothes the shades?? You scream ahhhhhhh omg omg omg, then drop to the floor and feel for the blinds cord. Well if you live on Ocean Parkway you will be lucky if one of the 4000 people who saw you in your full glory didn’t take a picture of you and plaster it on the internet with the fateful words “Caption this." No wonder the people who live there have a house in Florida and Deal.

One other observation on these houses. If you spend millions on such a house, why do you have the K-mart special plastic chairs out front? Seriously.



Ill stop with one because I am getting the feeling most people don’t read through the entire post anyways. Hey Im not so funny all the time, deal with it.