Make Us Neighborhood of The Year!

Curbed.com has open polls for the neighborhood of the year and no other place in NYC deserves it more than Prospect Heights (and DH). So, go vote! Voting closes at noon on Sunday.

oh snap! Prospect Heights is in the lead ...keep it up peeps.

Congrats to D.Goldstein for the Fighting Man Award

If we win it, I'll...bring candy to Wednesday's happy hour at Indigo! (I'm broke, man. What else you want?) 8)

Subject: someone ratted us out

they said the reason we're in the lead is because someone posted the voting on their dailyheights site...

Subject: Re: someone ratted us out

ltjbukem wrote: they said the reason we're in the lead is because someone posted the voting on their dailyheights site...

Um, good for us?

Subject: Re: someone ratted us out

JamesOnDean wrote: Um, good for us?

OF COURSE good for us !! Good for the entire community ... in a number of ways ... think of what Prospect Heights was in the 1980's ... it's quite, quite remarkable ... and congrats (again) to Andy (and to Candissima for bringing this to everyone's attention) and DH in general ... you guys are great.

Cheer up JamesOnVandy (oh, sorry, Dean), or whatever.

Yeah, that comment was pretty dumb. We care enough to click over and vote in the poll--was that person hoping for a scientific survey? :roll: Dude, it's just the interwebs...

EmilyM wrote: Yeah, that comment was pretty dumb. We care enough to click over and vote in the poll--was that person hoping for a scientific survey? :roll: Dude, it's just the interwebs...

Yeah totally. There's a bit of sour grapes over there cause I publicized the poll and we're kicking ass. Well, it's not password protected, so what's stopping any other neighborhood from doing the same thing? Oh, that's right: they suck! Go Prospect Heights! 8)

What? No props for Fort Greene? What's up with that? What are we, old news now?

escap wrote: What? No props for Fort Greene? What's up with that? What are we, old news now?

You guys had your year in the sun. It's our turn now!

why?

i voted ph .

So now we're getting accused of ballot box stuffing, huh? I wrote this as a comment for Curbed, but decided to hold off on posting it:

2005 was the year of Prospect Heights, no question about it, for the reasons Candicissima described and much more (see the Sunday NYT profile of Prospect Heights from two weeks ago). The rapid transformation of this neighborhood has just been awesome, and sometimes frightening, to behold. And in a lot of ways, our experience is a microcosm version of what's happening in the city at large, particularly in terms of the real estate/socioeconomic trends that have gripped the city and are really just unprecedented and unparalleled in America.

So the influence of Daily Heights in the alleged ballot-box stuffing in this poll is just a symptom of that change... we're just along for the ride. These happen to be real people who are fiercely proud of a neighborhood that's been tremendously underappreciated for years, and is now battling the forces of change that you all are experiencing, too. Their pride is really remarkable, considering that PH is definitely not the "coolest" or "tonyest" neighborhood in New York, and never will be. And yes, they really do read Curbed. A lot.

Getting out the vote is not ballot box stuffing. The fact that we're cohesive enough as a neighborhood to turn out this kind of voting block (largely thanks to Andy's hard work, but also due to DDDB) is only further evidence that we deserve to win this year.

Go DH! Go Proho!

dailyheights wrote: So now we're getting accused of ballot box stuffing, huh? I wrote this as a comment for Curbed, but decided to hold off on posting it:

2005 was the year of Prospect Heights, no question about it, for the reasons Candicissima described and much more (see the Sunday NYT profile of Prospect Heights from two weeks ago). The rapid transformation of this neighborhood has just been awesome, and sometimes frightening, to behold. And in a lot of ways, our experience is a microcosm version of what's happening in the city at large, particularly in terms of the real estate/socioeconomic trends that have gripped the city and are really just unprecedented and unparalleled in America.

So the influence of Daily Heights in the alleged ballot-box stuffing in this poll is just a symptom of that change... we're just along for the ride. These happen to be real people who are fiercely proud of a neighborhood that's been tremendously underappreciated for years, and is now battling the forces of change that you all are experiencing, too. Their pride is really remarkable, considering that PH is definitely not the "coolest" or "tonyest" neighborhood in New York, and never will be. And yes, they really do read Curbed. A lot.

you should post it

The ire over there is hilarious. "You non-readers are ruining the integrity of our public internet poll!" They need to make a New Year's resolution to get that pole in their ass looked at by a professional!

Candicissima wrote: The ire over there is hilarious. "You non-readers are ruining the integrity of our public internet poll!" They need to make a New Year's resolution to get that pole in their ass looked at by a professional!

agree hehe. how would we know about their cheesy ass poll if we didnt read their thing right .

Well, as John Lennon once said,

"Power to the People, Right On!"

they are just a bunch of cry babies.