have you walked around pad actually? it's totally deserted and quite uneasy even now, after they've been trying to clean it up for what , 7 years? it was waldo - artists welcome movement for a while....
now, trump actually can speed it up, believe it or not. might even wrap up the station, artistically that is, to prevent prospective buyers from fainting...
but, yah, i always liked it meself too....

oi-wei! are they going to demand parks 'n libraries from trump and hovnanian? how about THEIR pilots? do corps fulfill their agreements downtown? it sounds like a real socialist land here over in jc. it seems the powerstation cant get cleaned up for decades either....if it were in newport - bet it would be long decontaminated at least?

it just gets tiresome - ok you bash newport for lefrak, but hey, there are 10k people living there. how do you like when people bash jc? so, it's the same. lighten up, try the pastries at kims ;). babo's my favourite - great gelato and teas. if only they put up a gourmet coffee shop.... haveta truck from manhattan...
we're just worked to death and tired and don't want to go anywhere ...is that so hard to understand?

actually i moved to newport from bklyn heights. i also tried park slope. the brownstones are pretty, but apts are old, dark and often badly insulated. moving to hi fl with spectacular view of manhattan for the same price as heights, but all new was tremendous. granted large windows cause heat loss - but that's true of all large glass apts, everywhere. besides my heat bill in heights was even worse. the bozos often pissed by the gate and sat on the stoop, once i opened the door - and the guy was seating there, leaning against it - almost fell in.... tell yah, no bums around makes me quite content. juss thought you fellas should know that some people like newport - predominantly those who live there, naturally.

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did you mean shyamalan? where'd you get that?

i am glad to hear that once upon the time there was a newport neighbourhood association. i think that with new condos coming online there will be more interest in it. curious, if sonia will delete your post, if you bring this to everybodys attention at nwa board;)? i doubt if she'd care for competition...
she finally posted that nwa membership requires filling out an application and verification of working/living in newport -
http://www.newportwaterfrontassociati ... /bb/showthread.php?t=2183
apparently the members will meet in the living room of one of the apts - makes me wonder, how many members Do they have at present? 25? 50? i am dying to know how many people represent newport and us all living there. apparently it's a well kept secret;).

resistance is futile - you will be absorbed by the BORG! prepare for upload....

so how do you like a host of new joinings with praise to the chairman?
i eyeballed the bbs member number - about 700 total, of which only 500 logged in since jan 2005. pretty pathetic, considering the 10K resident population. of course, anybody can register - there's no requirement to actually live in newport. so-o strange for a community association?! but then, i've seen posts, even from sonia - saying we have members and non-members here (i assume of nwa?). however recent inquiry of how to become a nwa member yielded: just register on the board. by that logic, those people banned from the board, are banned from their community association! would you imagine that? just for asking, why the post was deleted? draconian laws of new order: one q and you are OUT!

i seems to me that anybody who logs in to nwa board is considered to be a member(???). it also seems to me that only people from newport who live and/or work there should be allowed to become active community association members. and when they move out (like a lot of renters do) - they should no longer be allowed to be active members. the active members on community board should have voting rights and be polled regularly on all issues. including the moderation of the board. who are the trustees of this board, who determine rules? - nobody knows. do they actually have a list of active members - not just people registered on nwa? - nobody knows... what kind of community board is it ? on top of that - no head of the board should be a moderator! moderator is supposed to be a third party - impartial and keeping the tempers low. sonia just declares 'that was against the rules, that was trolling - we have the right, we're not going to discuss it'. that's pretty undemocratic and obnoxious and there is no recourse. granted, she is busy - but that is not an excuse for banning people who want to raise issues or don't like what's going on. a community board should be a sounding board of the community and should not be controlled by one person - that smacks of dictatorship and censorship.

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what cracked me up, was that i actually posted that i loved living in newport! a ti-iny happy voice among the flying rotten eggs.. . all those complaints really got to me. there are so-o many more much worse places to live in an' around nyc !
and here i was living happily for years, completely unawares of all that froth on the boards and - w-a-am!
that was quite an irony .
but how do we get the freacking member numbers? is there someplace they have to tell? see, way i reason it - once everybody knows, how few people are members - it'll seriously deflate her baloon. besides, if they're just a 10% - there's no way they can claim to represent anything but a minority.
ps i loved cafe spice the first year - with $25 entrees. great goan curries. there were no indians in site . not many customers in general. now it's a diner and a desi social club with nothing much interesting to eat. pity!

i don't care if she banned me. besides sc it was just an endless string of complaints about smth or other and quite pointless bashings of lefrak. like in any rental building people find problems, but it's all kinda political at the same time. i found it very distasteful. what bothers me, is that they claim to represent the community. most renters don't give a hoot anyway, and condo's are too few. of course, all condo owners will be members of their association and collective members of joint condo association. now THAT in my view will be a legit slice of community that is there to stay and really care - although at this point it will be only 2 buildings out of 9. that's why i want to know, how many members nwa has - with sonia at the helm, i will never join them, and i don't want her to speak for me either. however, she could be unelected, no? question is , who'll want to step in? but she definitely acts like a queen bee in permanent residence - off with this head, chop the hands of that one...

i also think that your posts were quite polite and certainly not deserved to be banned. i was banned from that board 'cause i helpfully mentioned the existence of kannekt during the intense shoreclub postings....- which turned out to be a deathly offense to sonia. it is not even in the rules - that you can't mention any other bbs's. and kannekt happens to be a very useful waterfront board, at that.
i am not a member of nwa, though i live in newport. what i want to know is how many people from newport are members vs how many people are living in newport. i do not think that nwa is representative of people living there and it is very misleading for them to claim that they represent the community. is there any way to find out, how many members they have ?
why should that be a secret? at least they should post it on their board, no?