Cambridge is one of those streets I just never have a reason to walk down. The other day, while out taking photos, I decided to take a little detour.
It paid off handsomely, with discoveries like these:
This little garden entrance looks like a face!
Skinny house!
I love how this one is slightly crooked, and set back a little from the street.
I love the details on these gingerbread-esque row houses!
Not pictured is the man I spotted pulling down his pants and taking a shit on the sidewalk. That’s right. I saw someone shitting on a Thursday afternoon, right here on Cambridge.
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unfortunately, i’ve happened upon people shitting several times in CH. mostly on waverly.
I’ve seen it in Manhattan as well. In the middle of the day…
the photos are fabulous, but yes, I too will comment on the shitting.
there’s been several nights where there is a dump on the subway stairs at the clinton side of the clinton/washington brooklyn-bound stop.
it’s not only gross, but makes me worry about safety at that stairwell.
I’ve seen the shit on the subway stairs as well. Actually, the day after I moved to CH, I saw a woman pissing on Waverly.
next time have your camera ready!
The problem with the shit at the Clinton/Washington stop has been an issue as long as I’ve been in the neighborhood, almost 9 years! What is going on there?
I love Cambridge. It’s one of those streets that I forget how nice it really is.
love the entire post, lh. i feel like that bit about the shit has brought us together in a weird way. i’ve seen it too, but thankfully not at the c/w stop.
That’s exactly what I love most about writing CHB- the weird observations that we all share and then discuss!
That cracks me up because I always am amazed at how clean Cambridge is. Well, at least the corner of Cambridge and Green is absolutely impeccable. I feel like the people who live there must run outside every time someone drops a piece of trash (or takes a shit, apparently) to sweep it up.
Proof that shit happens. I’m here all week folks
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Shit on the subway stairs is disgusting and too common. Is this the result of the methadone users on Fulton, reminds me of Trainspotting
I’ve seen a man taking a crap on the sidewalk on dekalb.
Not good times.
Sometimes people try to go and use restrooms of businesses, but owners don’t let them. Once I was at a restaurant on Myrtle and the waitstaff let in a not very well dressed man to use the bathroom. He was there the the whole time I was eating with my wife. (45 min) Finally called the cops. The guy fall asleep (some drug was involved) and never made it to use the toilet. Dirtied himself and the restaurant’s bathroom floor as well. (No, I wasn’t watching but the place was slow enough to hear everything) This was when I understood why business owners have signs on their windows “restrooms for customers only.” But unfortunately many people have no other access to toilets at times.
That’s pretty gross. At the very least, can’t they use bushes or go behind a dumpster?
B,
I can second this. Linda, who owns the 3 Stars Landro-mat at Mytle and Wavely told me how she allowed a woman to use the bathroom–and the woman seemed to find every spot of the toilet except the hole.
Goes to say she stopped that practice. :lol
BedStuyNative ,
Have you ever seen Trainspotting? If not, go rent it and this may answer your question
That was me — I’m sorry, I didn’t know it bothered you guys–I been reading this (and brownstoner, even worse) a while, and you all seem to shit on everything on Fulton — or anything else in CH that doesn’t meet your impeccable standards — all the time anyway, so I figured, eh.
Hey there,
That was me taking the dump on Cambridge. You didn’t happen to pick it up, did you? I swore I had it with me when I left…just slipped through my fingers I guess. Anywho, while we’re on the subject, can you believe all these people that shit in the middle of the sidewalk??? Can’t people take the time to curb themselves anymore??? Honestly, I fear for the future.
i saw a woman diarrhetically discharge against a wall in the fulton st g train station with a platform full of people. thank god the train came when it did because everyone was covering their noses. it was foul.
that is just so sad.
Please kindly return to whatever utopian places you come form. This is an urban environment where these things happen. Maybe you should have tried to reason with the gentleman or offered to take him home to use your bathroom in private. I’m sure he was 100% lucid and would understand the mistake he made.
That garden face has a moustache!
Right, complaining about people taking a crap in public is so bourgeois. Everyone knows it’s to be expected once you get out of the suburbs.
jesus christ – that is so sad. My fiance spotted someone piss themselves on the G once while they were passed out. I do not know what I would of done tho about the diarehia (sp?) at Fulton.
To the people who are giving us shit because we are complaining about mentally unstable drug addicts defecating in public – get a hobby or something. You don’t know what the hell you are talking about.
well, the shit got quite the attention Lesterhead! who would have thought?!
I have plenty of ways to occupy my time thank you very much. I do not waste it whining about something and then take no action.
JD when was the last time you volunteered in some way to help these people? I thought so. You should have lived here in the 80′s my friend when only one unstable man defecating on the street was a good problem to have. So yes, I do know what I am talking about. Yes I agree, it is shocking, it is gross, it is everything people have said – but it is something that comes with living in Brooklyn. Take it, leave it or do something about it. Those are your choices. My guess is that you’ll just sit back and complain.
GobackPlease – Actually in the past year I’ve donated about $25,000 to a foundation called ‘Little Flower’ out on Long Island and here in Brooklyn which is an orphanage/foster home to over 150 kids whose parents are unable to take care of them due to drug abuse, neglect, or physical abuse. If you would like to go into that more, please feel free to shoot me your email address and I will be more than happy to share with you more details and ways for you to get involved. I’ve also donated my time to the organization and found that to be incredibly rewarding. For my upcoming wedding, in lieu of favors, my fiance and I will be donating money in our guests name to 3 charities.
Thanks for the generalization tho because I prefer people to not take shits on the streets. Says more about you than me.
You a good man JD. A good man.
Hurry up and move out to the North Fork where you belong.
I didn’t mean to offend you – it is just that you really don’t belong here.
agreed. jd, please, please, please, go someplace else.
Smell the smug! It’s so Derillicte!!
Oh it absolutely says SO much more about you!
I wonder what superficial woman would marry this putz?
Jeez. Finally a post on Cambridge (where I live) and it’s all about merde. Jeez. It is a lovely street, and the set back of the buildings gives a great sense of openness, and a lot of sky.
jd, have you left yet? please confirm when you’re packed up and gone. thanks.
Who the hell are you to tell me if I belong here or not? What are you the mayor? It was money I raised at my company? WTF?? I’ve been here for 7 years now. You people sound like a bunch of F*cking haters who do sh*t all day but complain about the gentrifiers. As far as I know, unless you were raised here, WE ARE ALL GENTRIFIERS. I was coming into this neighborhood (and Bed-Stuy/Bushwick) back in 1997 getting dimebags of weed thru mail slots.
P.S. please stop referring to me as a man.
Dear JD, I am indeed a gentrifier.
ps, Have you left yet? Please go.
Ouch! I think a nerve has been hit.
You are a class act JD. I’m not sure if there is any place that would welcome you.
Does buying pot through mail slots give you some sort of street cred? You must be SOOO cool. I would love to produce your bio….from pot head to wonderful philanthropist.
Yes, I was raised here and I happen to like the gentrifiers. They do wonders for property value.
I just don’t like you so please lease.
Wow what a bunch of ignorant fools. Shitting in public is disgusting and should not be a fact of living in Brooklyn. I can’t believe people are defending it and putting down those who are against it. If you’ve been reading this blog you’d know it’s about the good the bad and the ugly and hopes of making it better (and by better it means filling the empty run down spaces). If you have a problem with new business and living in a thriving community then leave.
OK JD, here is my badge, Your Busted ! Ha, I couldn’t resist. All this reminds me back in the 80′s seeing graffiti in the hood, “Yuppicide” & “Kill Yuppies”
Yuppies (young urban professionals, or less commonly young upwardly-mobile professionals.
Change goes on but some things never change. Wow, I kill myself at how profound I can get…Pffffffft ! Wanna hit JD ? :=)
By the way, those who like public poop, it is full of germs & bacteria that can kill .
PS. If anyone sees poop on subway steps or in the station, Please report it to the station manager.
Maybe they need to get some public toilets in this part of town. Not everyone can go all the way to Barnes & Noble to go to the bathroom, especially if they’re sick.
BTW, if anyone wants to shove a dime bag of weed through my mail slot, I would appreciate it.
No silly it doesn’t work that way. You have to go to a seedy part of town and they slip the weed through THEIR mail slot after you give them the money.
For further info you should contact JD directly. She’s the pro!
If I choose to live in Brooklyn ~ I do not have to accept people shitting in the streets
Obviously, mentally challenged people may be an acception but they would be an acception anywhere not just brooklyn
Tired of people blogging that we have to accept/expect the worst because we live in brooklyn
JD may have come off as pompous or at least naive but so does someone telling her to go back where she came from.
I lived on Carlton Avenue in 1980′s so very much know how scary the neighborhood was but that doesnt mean we have to accept/expect disgusting/terrible behaviour in 2008.
It is insulting to say socially unacceptable behaviour should be excused/tolerated because the person belongs to the working poor or lower middle class.
Oh and just to be clear, I grew up in a single parent – working poor family
So I am insulted when bad behaviour is supposed to be acceptable because your family doesnt have much money or a Dad around
i have to admit, i’m pretty sure this is the highest amount of comments ch blog has had on a single post. kudos to you lesterhead for your work on the blog – traffic is obviously increasing!
and kudos to us for making the one post about shit the most highly commented on post in ch blog history! (at least, i’m guessing it is)
This is no way the highest hits for a single post. This is nothing compared to cupcake stores opening up in the neighborhood.
P.S. I wish someone would say something witty when they try to insult me – Fucking bores.
jd, you’re still here? i thought you had left. come now, time to go.
Now you mock the forum JD, how mature.
Get out, grow up and then maybe, just maybe you can come back. Doubtful though.
I wouldn’t want to waste my best material insulting you – you’re just not worth it. Sorry.
Good luck on your pending divorce by the way.
i LOVE human feces on the street and in subway stairs! it’s so much more unsanitary than the dog shit that’s in all those yuppie neighborhoods. CH is for real, yo! we deal with real urban problems and are so much better than others who like to live in pseudo sanitary areas. i love that kids mug people, i hope it happens to me because i have no money! the joke’s really on them, huh? one thing that bugs me though, is that a lot of my hard core, true CH neighbors have been missing out on the street life. i think they might be having some sort of virtual fight on a neighborhood blog or something.
OMG I thought I was going crazy, I too have seen the pile of shit on the stairs of the Clinton/Washington C train twice. And btw I tend to avoid this train as I was attacked on a Friday at 11ish AM by a woman on that very train. No one helped me and I walked out to report the assault with a large bump on my head. I would say “heads up” but that is a bad pun. I love CH shit or belligerent trainriders notwithstanding!!!!!
dear banana, go take that sarcasm out to the street girl! we don’t need it in here. you make folks cuckle till you get preachy. that’s right girl! i said p – r – e – a – c – h – y ! you tel it like a preacher from your pulpit girl! now go on and don’t join this fight yourself. go on and get out there to those streeets and live!
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