“I was responding to Aray’s comment that essentially said anyone moving in to a neighborhood must assimilate and in no way disrupt or alter the historical culture. “

Uh, no. Not calling the cops doesn’t suddenly mean every other choice is “working with him.” Neither calling the cops nor demading he turn the music off is working with. That’s not a difficult concept to understand.

This is a bad take, particularly as ice cream trucks aren’t “obscenely loud,” nor did she try to “be upfront and work with him” (she told him to turn it off, then straight up lied and said it was illegal).

Help me, I don’t understand your comment well enough to respond correctly. Are you saying this woman is calling the mayor’s office because an ice cream truck is playing a song is simply displaying a part of her culture? Her NOT making a fuss over something so trivial is cultural assimilation? What value does this ‘me…

Oh you fuck right off with that shit.

You’re the one who brought in the irrelevant discussion of how many times a day something happens in effort to challenge the train comparison, I was just humoring you.

I will agree as a black person that we are pretty much a welcoming people much to our downfall.

Nope, it’s not. I never said that, or it’s opposite. I said it’s NOT about her whiteness, it’s about her feeling entitled. Black people, in my experience, usually welcome all sorts of people. BUT THEN, those guests plant flags, declare war on the neighborhood culture, start calling the city, complaining about…

You’re trying too hard. The train comparison was showing how ridiculous it would be for her to ask any other business to change its operations because she is annoyed with an occasional sound. Plus, the ice cream truck in my current neighborhood, and my childhood neighborhood on the other side of the country passes…

You are correct. It is illegal, but the article mentions the city doesn’t think it is so big a nuisance that its interested in enforcing this rule, and the illegality of the noise doesn’t change the sentiment of the woman’s entitlement.

K, so it’s cool when white people bitch about black people moving into “their neighborhoods,” then? Got it.

She didn’t ask him to turn it down, tho. She asked him to turn it *off.* Entitlement!

Exactly. So her opinions need to stay centered on the property she owns, not temporary, intermittent music coming from a business she does not own.

Did you read the posters above describing the concept of people coming into a historic neighborhood with long-established, cultural norms, and then trying to change those norms to meet their preferences? Race/gentrification/ social issues have everything to do with it. Colonizers/Columbusers/Gentrifiers frequently…

Who’s down for an ice cream truck depot heist?

True story, I dated a guy who lived down the street from the ice cream truck depot in the West Village. Around 5pm, every summer evening, they all roll out as an adorably coordinated sugar-fueled cheer army. The jingles were always delightful because even though they were loud, they just sound like happiness.

I remember learning about it in school—so this is a curse of every age!

Somewhat unrelated, but we are now getting to the age where younger people don’t remember 9/11, and I’m finding it so weird. September 11th literally changed the direction of my entire life (I’m 31), and when just-out-of-college co-workers look at me like I’m a dinosaur when I say I was in Iraq, I can’t get my head…

That Tom in the alley has been looking shifty, I bet he’s behind your cat’s Instagram woes.