Alphabet City (betn. B&C) near park

Has Citibike made it there? Because otherwise, way too far from Eataly.

Too many good places in alpha city to give a shit about #IMBATALIANDISTEALTIPSFROMMYWAITERS

Good area, but terrible transportation and you want to make sure that you don't get too close over to D, which gets really rough, really quick. COnvenient if you want to buy some crack though.

>COnvenient if you want to buy some crack though.

Maybe the mayor of Ottawa will be paying a visit soon.

No, you're confusing mayors. Ottawa's does not do crack; that is toronto's mayor. But what's a little crack when it produces such comedic results:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/05/rob-ford-crack-video-toronto-mayor.html?test=true

I'm sorry, but can you explain the difference between Ottawa and Toronto?

You know what - don't worry about it, I'm sure they are very different somehow, there's some New Town River or something that distinguishes them, or something like that.
Anyway, Crack in Alphabet City, eh?

Citibike has reached right at Ave A on Tomkins Sq. Park

Ottawanyc your mayor is at it again:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/montreal_anti_corruption_mayor_arrested_lZlb72Z3PYoghxtKsOBu2I
Montreal's anti-corruption mayor arrested on corruption charges
Last Updated: 1:57 PM, June 17, 2013
MONTREAL — Quebec's anti-corruption unit on Monday arrested Montreal's interim mayor, a man who vowed to clean up the corruption scandals plaguing the city, on fraud charges.
Police Commander Robert Lafreniere said Michael Applebaum faces 14 charges, including defrauding government, abuse of confidence and corruption.
Applebaum was arrested at his home early Monday. He took over as interim mayor of Canada's second-largest city last November after former mayor Gerald Tremblay resigned amid corruption allegations.
"The corruption and collusion will no longer be tolerated," Lafreniere said. "No one is above the law and you cannot hide from the law."
The charges stem from alleged acts that occurred before Applebaum became mayor. While officials offered few details, they said they relate to real estate projects between 2006 and 2011 when he served as borough mayor.
Applebaum, 50, had promised not to run in the upcoming election, slated for this November. But his appointment was enough to make history: he became the first Anglophone mayor of the city in exactly 100 years.
Signs of trouble arrived soon afterward.
Anti-corruption officials raided Montreal's city hall last February. They also targeted offices in various boroughs, including the one Applebaum represented for many years.
Applebaum come just a month after Gilles Vaillancourt, the former longtime mayor of neighboring Laval, was arrested on corruption charges.
The provincial police allege that the city hall Vaillancourt led was essentially a criminal organization, with officials there allegedly enriching themselves off local construction deals.
In the neighboring province of Ontario Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who leads Canada's largest city, is facing unrelated allegations that he appeared in a video smoking crack cocaine. The video has not been released publicly.

Stay on topic. Really, hypocrisy is ugly.

>Really, hypocrisy is ugly.

I assume you have a good basis of comparison.

Yes, you.

You are comparing me to me?

it's a brilliant area, i've lived in the E Vill. for 15 yrs, on 6th btw B and C for almost 10. There's nothing that isnlt within blocks and the park is lovely. It can get to be a bit like a nightclub in the streets in evenings so make sure your place isnt above or across from a bar.
my only problem is that the housing stock is lousy and also nonexistent (rentals are way overpriced and there isn't much to buy except brokedown old tenements and a few teeny overpriced new condos. There are a few lovely old co ops around though, if you found a place you like, you're very lucky.
you'll love it and all your friends will be jealous.

it's very safe, more than most parts of the city b/c of people being on the streets at all hours.
as far as the storm, yes it is near the river and in Sandy the water came all the way up enough to flood our basement (again im at 6th near C), but that's the only time anything like that has happened in the many years ive lived here. So no idea if it will happen again,never thought of it as a particularly flood-prone area.