Does Amy Gutmann know about this??? I hear she made some reference recently to a Joni Mitchell song, saying that inside of paving over paradise, Penn is going to turn a parking lot into a Paradise -- about the new postal lands. Boy, is she cute or what?
Meanwhile, here on 48th St I've been looking down at a massive traffic jam all day with LOUD HONKING, all because Hardy Boy Williams thinks it's cool to block off Baltimore from 48th to 51st every year to hold some dumb party. He doesn't even LIVE here, the jerk. And while the schadenfreude of watching frustrated motorists grind out their lives in a traffic jam provides a little comfort, I'd rather that he hold his party in a vacant lot somewhere. Also he's messing up public transit, as the 34 trolley can't go through. Don't know what advice to offer you, Ms. Mayer, other than to call Amy. Don't you have some pull at the President's office? You could threaten to camp on the sidewalk in front of her mansion and play loud Joni Mitchell records or bebop jazz till all hours of the night. Indignantly, Ross Bender http://rossbender.org/scarypeople.html On 9/1/07, Ann Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It seems some kids (about the age of Penn or Univ. of the Sciences > undergrads) have > decided to block off 43rd St. between Osage and Pine to hold > a LOUD rock concert in the middle of the street. Yes, kids are completely > blocking > 43rd -- instead of going over to Clark Park to party. > > They have been at it for 5 hours, and they are getting louder. I did call > the police (the music > is unpleasantly loud even though I my place does not front on 43rd) , but > apparently > all they did was to remove the rope blocking 43rd St. The partying goes > on -- as if the street > were Locust Walk by the Penn fraternities that have similar outdoor > parties with rock music > blasting at maximum volume. > > If this happened ONLY one Saturday a year, it would be no big deal, but > since we have just had move in, I worry that this could be the start of a > new trend by students who have recently arrived. We just got rid of a > nearby group of very wild party animals who had > raucous drinking parties on the front porch till all hours. I'd hate to > see this pattern spread. > > Any advice? > > Thanks, > > Ann > > > > >
