One with martinis and manhattans and hot jazz, yes.

A stoner party with Pink Floyd playing... I'd be asleep in 10 minutes.

People also have screaming arguments inside their apartments. They slam doors, too. That doesn't mean it's ok.

I passed one on 7th Avenue in the upper W 40s. Two dudes were blowing inside and the pungent stench that came out was ghastly. I can't imagine living upstairs from that.

So imagine that there's dozens of McDonald's opening up all over the city. Setting aside the dubious legality of most, that's what these pot emporiums are doing; simply popping up everywhere.

I make no apologies for living in a suburban Queens environment blocks away from any commercial enterprise. I hope that a pot shop opens under your window. See if you like it.

I live in Queens, but whatever. So if a bar near you tries to cater to a different clientele than it has and now has noise at all hours, that's your problem, huh?

I don't want porn palaces or "massage joints" near my house and I'd prefer they not be there. Just "not going in" isn't enough with the taxes I pay.

Lawyers should know what every street punk does: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

You are certainly a smug transplant who wears Brooklyn shirts but doesn't know anyone who was raised there. Worse, you look down on those who were.

Shady business... but when I say that I like a healthy two party system I get downvotes and accusations of being a "fascist".

It's real and authentic, unlike the nerds walking their dogs on 9th Avenue while wearing their Brooklyn t-shirts.

So tell me... Where do you knock them back? Someplace with fruity lambecs and IPAs?

Products? Cigars, beer and meat bought in Florida or Maspeth? That's a stretch, but you can tell yourself that.

My family -his grandparents and mine- are from there and took the sacraments at IHM on E3 and Ft Ham. My parents were married there. Grandpa drank at Farrell's; Denny's on McDonald occasionally, too. Our dads and uncles do and did. My brothers and cousins do and did an soon my kids will. Not that Farrell's is anything special, mind, but something tells me that you wouldn't fit in there. That's why we still stop by. No transplants.

Cops with a line of duty disability pension have their pension calculated at the last 3 years of service, including OT. Generally, accidental disability benefits are three-quarters of the retiring officer's annual salary and are non-taxable. Your George Floyd riots really spiked OT, so he's making over $100,000 tax free in a state with no income tax. in his early 50's, actuarial tables show that he's collecting for around 20 years more.

You and I- the NYC taxpayer- suffer loss of services when the pension tab is so high. A blue collar schmo from Nassau county snorting at the trough. He 's laughing at you. Trust me.

Just as some people wouldn't live in Northern Fla (myself included), some people wouldn't live in Seattle, Minneapolis, St Louis or NYC. My cousin kept his property in NYC- he just doesn't live there long enough to be on the hook for taxes.

Anyway...The location isn't the point. The point is that he's living tax free on a sweet pension and you're paying for it.

He's happy there. You probably have room-mates and live in Bushwick, and I suspect aren't happy. He's also getting paid by you. You're not getting paid by him. He pays no taxes in Fla and his NYPD pension is exempt.

He's laughing at you.

My cousin got to handle punks for 20 years and now has a $100,000 + pension at 54. That's not my idea of a life well spent but he's laughing at you from his apartment in Northern Florida (and appreciates your taxes going to support his lifestyle). Ironically his "NY pied-a-terre" is in Maspeth, and he drinks at O'Neils (referenced in the article) in the summer and autumn months before he decamps for the winter on the Gulf Coast. He's laughing at you.

I don't believe it if it's in the Post. /s

Conservative? I belong to no party.

Who said anything about race here? Only you. If it's racist you should report me and have me muted. If not, tough shit. Cope.

I was born and raised in NYC (but in SW Bklyn with its GOP Congressman) where I still reside. Lifelong New Yorker.

First they were slow to legalize. Then they were slow to license. Then they made a questionable program that doesn't give equal opportunity to get into the industry in the name of equal opportunity. Now there's a grey market and court squabbles. Is it any wonder people are leery of government being the solution?

Kemp in Georgia?

The Post can't be believed about anything....Because they say mean things about AOC and DeBlasio. /s

The Rangers won last night. They're in 2nd place. I saw it in the Post and guess what? ESPN said the same thing, so it must be true!

...and at full moon. You can't forget that...