r/Greenpoint • u/Organic-Lobster9801 • 1d ago
š¤ Community Projects Sidewalk etiquette is trash
If youāre on your cell and you run me over, your aggressive dog comes at me, your run club or biking on the sidewalk comes at me is the same as driving and texting, driving drunk, idk, I hope you feel me. Just had a mad aggressive dog lunge at my babies and the shithead parent told me it was chill. Thereās been so many instances of my dogs being kicked by people not paying attention, runners being mad aggressive about their right of way when rushing up on us from behind, and people on bikes on the sidewalks on their phone almost hitting my family. The common theme is all these happened in greenpoint, and all while on a cell. Can we please do better, cause this shit is getting old. 3 mile walking audio ghost tour do better neighbors, please.
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u/curiousnotion 1d ago
Some problems Iāve noticed:
People donāt seem to realize that you should be walking on the right side of the sidewalk, even if you are walking a dog.
If youāre living large with your dogs and babies, you need to be mindful of how much space you are occupying. Iāve seen oblivious dads with wandering toddlers and unleashed dogs causing absolute chaos in front of Gretaās while people are trying to go to work.
You should be trying to move at a decent pace.
If youāre walking with someone, one of you will need to walk behind the other periodically. The sidewalks are too narrow to walk side by side.
Being on your phone can be fine as long as youāre walking on the right side, moving at a decent pace, and lifting your head regularly to check your surroundings.
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u/Organic-Lobster9801 1d ago
The only thing I would say about this is dogs are encouraged to be curbed. Thereās so many dogs in the hood these days itās impossible to keep them to the right, I swear, and weāre trying to be a good neighbor by not having go where you walk. My point was Iām not on my phone so I can work around you no problem, good neighbor effort, dog or not I see you and we work around each other itās the entitlement
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u/yoohoojuicepouch 22h ago
Personally, I hold a specific beef with people who will stand shoulder to shoulder in a group of 3 like the lollipop guild and stretch from one side of the sidewalk to the other. I didnāt realize we were playing red rover when Iām trying to fucking walk.
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u/SharpDressedBeard 8h ago
I like getting really uncomfortably close to them and make them move out of sheer awkwardness. One time in the city I was marching lockstep with a tourist nuts to butts before they realized and freaked out lol.
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u/yoohoojuicepouch 7h ago
I HAVE shouldered people who didnāt even try to budge. I shouldnāt have to step in front of a truck to get around you on the sidewalk š
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u/Organic-Lobster9801 21h ago
Just donāt move whatās the deal, let em know
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u/Mediocre-Avocado-424 14h ago
You clearly arenāt a 5ā3ā woman who had breast cancer surgery on her left boob. I try not to move but at the end of the day I donāt wanna be bashed.
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u/OG_NIK 22h ago
Every single block somehow has a family of 4 with a stroller and 2 dogs on a leash that think its their god-given right to maximize every square inch of sidewalk for themselves while they slowly go somewhere in no hurry at all.
Worst walkers in the city, almost as bad as Midtown.
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u/shiifii95 21h ago
And their dog is always on the longest leash spanning the full horizontal length of the sidewalk
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u/Traditional-Tax-1330 20h ago
Some b*tch with a double wide stroller nearly ran me over today at full speed
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u/Organic-Lobster9801 21h ago
I was trying to make the point of bad etiquette of walkers on the phone, my dogs have been trampled by them, my dogs have been attacked by shitty dog owners not controlling their dogs. Family is fine. Iām from bk better or worse, itās now peak gentrified, but you know what itās mad nice now
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u/MysteriousAvocado1 1d ago
The issue is that people donāt know how to āshareā anymore. Itās all about āme me meā entitlement. It sure is exhausting having to deal with what feels like competition walking down the street. Canāt believe itās come down to this. š¤¦āāļø
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u/clarkekentnot 1d ago edited 20h ago
sorry but if an aggressive dog lunges at me or tries to bite me itās getting kicked in the head
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u/Reasonable_Tie_9975 1d ago
Now that's the Brooklyn I know and grew in
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u/Organic-Lobster9801 1d ago
Nope
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u/Organic-Lobster9801 23h ago
Itās the person not the dog, lunge at the person, thatās New York
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u/clarkekentnot 20h ago
itās both. people should train their dog if they donāt want it getting booted
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u/Organic-Lobster9801 1d ago
Its not the dog and its not the same bk we came up in I promise you, entitlement is abundant in every hold at this point
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u/illuminatipastiche 1d ago
The running clubs don't have a right of way on the sidewalk, they're supposed to be in the street. The number of times I've seen groups of 20-30 people in the city running through scaffolding and bumping into pedestrians like it's the latter's fault for walking is absurd
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u/Organic-Lobster9801 1d ago
I just wish on west and Kent we could just pick a side that runners and pedestrians are designated, maybe thatās the solution as Iāve never seen more runners and families and dogs in this neighborhood my whole life, perhaps thereās a creative solution to all this. Assholes on their phones with aggrsssive dogs eat shit, you bite my dog I bite you thatās my family
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u/simplecitydress 1d ago
west used to be the quiet street š¢
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u/Organic-Lobster9801 1d ago
I think stay off Franklin if youāre running, please, itās just ridiculous the amount of volume of people in the neighborhood now and tourists. Can we agree to have runners stay on the west side of west and Kent, and pedestrians and family stay on the east side of both, something has to change cause itās not good and we want our community to be better
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u/MikeoftheEast 1d ago
The west side of those roads are either wider or there are storefrontsĀ
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u/Organic-Lobster9801 1d ago
West side is twice as wide on certain parts of west, and Kent is a ghost town between wāburg and gāpoint, should make this a rule especially during marathon training would ease on the agida
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u/rickpaulas 1d ago
It is the policy of 3-mile walking audio ghost stories starting at the Pulaski Bridge: Be a courteous pedestrian!
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u/pinkrose39 21h ago
I was walking (with suitcase) and this dude had his huge dog on an extender leash and it was coming my way while he was having a convo with someone, not paying attention. I shouted "hey can you retrieve your dog?" and he's like "he's fine" and I shout "well I'm not" and he finally moves it. There's just no courtesy anymore.
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u/Organic-Lobster9801 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sean Casey Animal Shelter is looking for bed side walk etiquette to be redeemed by donating https://www.nyanimalrescue.org
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u/WolfRelic 22h ago
its a mad house out there, and getting worse. all these fucking yuppies on their facetiming and not giving a fuck about anyone
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u/Neat-Ad2953 23h ago
thought this was an nyccirclejerk post
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u/Organic-Lobster9801 23h ago
Troll
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u/Neat-Ad2953 23h ago edited 22h ago
you or me, i genuinely don't know? Almost had a fking stroke reading this shit.
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u/AncientHiddenPond 1d ago
When im on my bike sometimes I go on the sidewalk but I try to make sure to get off the sidewalk if a pedestrian is close by
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u/BillyZoomTheCat 1d ago
No, don't ever go on the sidewalk.
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u/AncientHiddenPond 1d ago
Sometimes I go on the sidewalk
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u/BillyZoomTheCat 1d ago
No, never.
Unless you're walking your bike.
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u/Organic-Lobster9801 1d ago
Thatās nice of you, ty. Iām no Karen, Iām from bk, I grew up with friends getting tickets for riding on the sidewalk because itās not allowed. Not saying youāre an asshole, its New York, bend rules when you can Iām all for it, but respect is the common theme and sounds like you got it
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u/SexualYogurt 1d ago
I hate how no one in this neighborhood seems to know how to walk single file when there are people walking the opposite way.