Comments on: The Hobo Nest

By: Catherine

Catherine — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the post, Michele. I was wondering what was happening with him and the nest. Please keep us filled in.

By: claudia

claudia — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

how old is he? he looks young….

By: mihow

mihow — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

He does look younger here. My guess is he’s about 60. Then again, career alcoholics age really fast and differently. But he’s definitely above 50.

By: jenblossom

jenblossom — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

A week or so ago there was a guy passed out on the ground in front of the bus stop near our place. The neighborhood is changing, and not for the better. I’m anxious to get out – this city is wearing me down and making me mean.

By: rachel b

rachel b — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

when we lived on N7 and berry I used to see so many popov bottles in the recycling. Brian came home from work only to find a strange Pole passed out in our vestibule drunk. Harmless but piss drunk at lunch time on a week day. We volunteered at Green Dome Garden for years and there was a guy Steve, who was living in the garden at night. Bottles, sardine cans and excrement we would end up cleaning up almost every day. We got the EMT and police involved. Turns out this guy had grown up in the hood, had a wife and kids. He was so sick with the alcohol that he was living on the streets. I especially loved walking up nassau to see a friend who lived on humbolt. One time Brian and i were the only people on the side walk and a guy totally stumbled drunk right into us. Just par for the course in that hood. It is really sad but most of those guys are so far gone – 30 years + of abuse to their systems that I do not think any amount of intervention would help.

Thanks michele for the post.

By: mihow

mihow — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“I do not think any amount of intervention would help.”

Yup. I have realized that over the years. There really is nothing we/you can do here. Just watch it happen.

There was another couple I would run into who lived on Greenpoint avenue proper. They would hang out outside the main G stop there. Every morning I’d have a fresh piece of human shit staring back at me as I walked down the stairs to the train in the morning. Those two sucked. I had a lot of trouble feeling badly for them. They were/are so mean. I imagine they are still at large. Who knows.

By: mihow

mihow — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It should be mentioned that the now empty lot that said man is living in was once a gas station and was bought and bulldozed in order to build another (million dollar) condo building.

By: ginar

ginar — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i remember being out at Enid’s one night- i don’t know what it’s like now but years back there was a mix of local & hipster drinkers- and as i approached the bar realized i had stepped in a puddle of something. turns out the old man propped up on his bar stool in front of me had pissed himself and then continued sitting there drinking his drink wet pants and all. seemed like it might be a low point in this man’s life except he was so drunk that i’m not sure he really knew why the bartender ended up kicking him out. it was really sad to see, and yet, it didn’t stop me from ordering my drink and carrying on. and maybe i’m only saying this because today i am suffering from the worst hangover i can remember having, but i think i’ll stop drinking now. it hurts my brain and when i can feel my brain hurting, shouldn’t i listen to it?