Here’s a selection of a few comments left by GL readers in the last seven days:

What GL Said to BL About Blogging, Pete Hamill, Etc. “I’ve long been admirer of Pete Hamill. It depresses me to hear him saying something so—I’m sorry—stupid. It makes me think he’s become uninformed and out of touch, too stuck in his 1950s-1970s view of the journo world. Newspapers and reporting are in a very different place today than when he pounded the sidewalk. The main reason I started my blog “Lost City” was because those editors Hamill speak of refused to, or were not interested in, covering the New York stories that I felt were important.” [Brooks of Sheffield]

The Number Two Problem on Bergen Street. “About a month ago I had to chase a young drunken newly minted college boy type from shitty op the doorstep of my neighbor’s house in Williamsburg! (Northside). When the neighborhood was poorer and not hip this crap never happened…Its like it has become a stink hole of drugs booze and shit in their kakhis or 7evens scene that killed the east village.” [Anonymous]

Pumps & Lawsuits, but No Answers at Roebling Oil Field. “You knuckleheads amuse me. brooklyn’s waterfront neighborhoods were heavy industry for 150+ years – back when my great grandfather was born here – before you people found them fashionable. where do you think everything went for those 150+ years? IN THE GROUND! get used to it.” [Anonymous]