So, how, one might wonder, does a couch in Red Hook end up atop a bus shelter? The GL tipster who sent us the photo explains:The couch was in the apartment when i moved in a year ago and out of sheer laziness kept it even though hand me down fabric couches skeeve the hell out of me. After I realized I NEVER sit on it because of that “who knows how many strangers farts have been blasted on here,” well, it had to go. Sunday night I rounded up a few good drinking buddies from the neighborhood and a strapping visitor from San Francisco, and within two minutes, the offensive couch was out of the house and on top of the bus stop below. It would have been too easy to render it useful by leaving it on the ground, and Red Hookers, especially after drinking, are always up for capers and shenanigans. The bus stop is often a target for the simple fact it’s opposite two local bars.
We also have the ending of the story below, sent in by the same tipster late yesterday. Someone, alas, took the sucker down.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Michael // Oct 24, 2008 at 10:31 am
Why can’t Red HooK have one of the nicer, newer Cemusa bus shelter?? This would never have happened had the newer bus shelter been in place.
2 karl // Oct 24, 2008 at 11:04 am
This bus stop actually has had a lot of chair art over the last few months — there was a week or two where 3 chairs, painted florescent orange, showed up neatly arranged on top of the bus stop. A day or two later the chairs were inside the bus stop, arranged in the same exact manner. Makes you look at bus stops in a whole new light.
3 Nicole // Oct 24, 2008 at 1:47 pm
When I caught the 61 this morning, the couch was back on top of the bus shelter. Apparently the local lushes set things to right.
4 Nicole // Oct 24, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I believe the chairs were two hot pinks and a red, Hot Karl, and not flo orange…
And as to the prior chairs, they were initially place inside the bus shelter and marine-glued to the sidewalk by some pretentious art school types who had a grant. Something about creating public seating. Unfortunately, the giant chairs took up all the space under the shelter, rubbed paint off on to people’s clothes, and left no room for little old ladies to hover in the rain. Criticism had to be lodged, marine-glue undone.
5 MsHook // Oct 24, 2008 at 2:30 pm
We DO have some of those new shelters, actually. And they are also full of shite because Van Brunt St has not a single garbage can. It’s a long, long walk with dog poop in your hand, let me tell you….
6 AJ // Oct 24, 2008 at 2:49 pm
The chairs were flu0rescent pink and well documented on flickr… happily used by MTA riders…
7 Kyle // Oct 24, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Too bad. I coulda used a couch.