Readers: This bulkhead is crazy
COURIER LIFE, NOV. 22-28, 2019 31
Talk about bulking up!
Park Slopers absolutely hate a
new luxury condo development that
features a massive three-story rooftop
bulkhead, and claim builders
mislead the community about the
building’s unsightly addition.
“They just kept going higher and
higher,” said Third Street resident
Sarah Unruh. “They were deceptive
the whole time.”
The fi ve-story building at 497
Third St. near Seventh Avenue
stands only one residential fl oor
above the four-story edifi ces surrounding
it, but the structure’s rooftop
elevator bank and mechanical
room protrudes well beyond its living
quarters, making the building’s
actual height roughly double its
neighbor’s.
The eyesore has not gone unnoticed
among locals.
Readers spoke up online:
If no one is moving into them why
don’t they make it into low income or
family supportive housing or affordable
housing that makes more sense
get ppl out of the shelters.
Dawn Marie Cooper
sarmiento
It was surprising that they were
able to build that right in the middle
of the slope. I’m across the street from
it and have watched it’s slow progress.
Doesn’t fi t in with the rest of the
neighborhood. Problem is, once one
developer does this it opens the gate
for this to happen in other buildings.
Brett Klisch
No wonder why people hate developers.
The council should nix any future
plans from Kaito Management.
Andrew Ottiger
It was much less of an eyesore as a
decaying boarded-up husk, right?.
Tony DiPolvere
Too much corruption hence: hideous
crap buildings in a landmark
area.
Tona Ambrosia
So interlopers from the Slope are
complaining? Then I’m all for it!
Seamus McHenry
If I had Robert Moses’ magic wand,
I’d plop a Stuy-town right down on
top of the most cherished historically
preserved spot in Park Slope.
Shawn Eng
If the building were 10 fl oors, you
wouldn’t even notice it.
Mike Cherepko
Speed up the elevators!
Three Coney Island public housing
complexes are getting 19 new
elevators over the next fi ve years
as part of a $450 million effort to
revamp the city’s public housing
stock — and residents say the repairs
are a long time coming.
“They’re always a problem,”
said Malik Moody, who lives in Coney
Island Houses on 28th Street
by Mermaid Avenue, which will
get six new elevators. “Sh– be skipping
and sometimes it takes you
to the roof and you have to take it
back down.”
The remaining 13 elevator
upgrades will service the Unity
Houses on Surf Avenue and W. 20th
Street, and the Carey Gardens on
Surf Avenue and W. 24th Street.
Readers weighed in online:
I remember back in the 1990’s
when many of the buildings had elevator
doors that swung out which
made it particularly diffi cult for seniors
to navigate especially while using
an ambulatory aide like a walker.
And the housing projects had a signifi
cant senior population so this
was an issue for many.
Tamah Lettieri
Congratulations to these residents
and those in a position that got
this (fi nally) right! Those Residents
are people...like the ones that took
to time to comment on this post, particularly
the negative commenters.
No one should be subjugated to subpar
living conditions. I grew up in
the NYCHA Pink Houses. I clearly
remember those Summers where the
elevator were out of service. Can you
imagine what the Older Residents
have to go thru, especially the ones
past the 3rd Floor?? I happy for the
residents there...
Jamal Baker
Yay! New elevators for those “upstanding”
residents to break! Thank
you for stealing my money to pay for
it! I’m grateful!
Seamus McHenry
They need to come to Gowanus
Houses too! I been stuck,where fi re
department for me out! The elevators
jump,and one time as I was getting
out the fl oor rose up! SMH.
Vera Ellen Jeffery
The city has updated their elevator
regulations making upgrades
“mandatory” so it would be “illegal”
for them not to be.
Tamar Gru
Talk about a sharp dresser
Some wacko slashed a modernday
knight in the face aboard an L
train in Williamsburg on Nov. 8,
after the chivalrous straphanger
prevented him from assaulting another
man.
The victim — who dons plate
armor to engage in armed duels
as part of the Society for Creative
Anachronisms and New York City
Armored Combat League — sustained
a seven-inch gash amid the
attack, and said Medieval warfare
has nothing on the city’s transit
system.
“My sport involves swords and
axes, but the only thing I’ve gotten
from that is a torn ACL and a couple
broken bones, and here I fi nally
get a scar,” said Zorikh Lequidre.
Lequidre said that he boarded
a Brooklyn-bound L train at Manhattan’s
Union Square subway station
at around 10 pm, when he noticed
the knave repeatedly hurling
a smaller man off the train, and
yelled at him to knock it off.
Readers chimed in online:
Thanks for telling my story, Colin!
If only more people were polite
and considerate we wouldn’t have
this problem so often!
One slight correction: That is not
the armor I built myself. That armor
came from Icefalcon armory. But I
did make adjustments and repairs to
it over the years.
Zorikh Lequidre
You Sir have indeed lived up to the
code of conduct for a knight hazah!
Salutations.
Sean Zufelt
The police should check the homeless
shelter on Union and Devoe.
That might be where the “lune” was
headed.
Jennifer Gordon
How’s that low crime rate going?
Alfred J Bev III
Who believes the subways are
safe?
Chester Lee
Normally I’d chide the victim for
not minding his business. But Zorikh
is that kinda guy. A true chivalrous
knight. Literally! F---, I know Zorikh.
He’s a righteous dude. He’s defi nitely
tough. Hope he heals quickly.
Seamus McHenry
Niw that’s life on the road!
A small community of recreational
vehicle dwellers have
turned a stretch of public parking
beneath the Gowanus Expressway
into an unoffi cial trailer park, and
it’s getting bigger by the month.
The RV owners began parking
their mobile living quarters on
Third Avenue between 20th and
30th streets fi ve years ago, according
to Zero, who said that between
15 and 30 trailers now sit in the
parking lots at any given time —
many equipped with electric generators
and water tanks.
Readers spoke up online:
This can work out but only if everyone
pulls their weight. Plumbing,
maintenance- ‘sanitary dump
stations’, just like boats - fi re safety
no open fi res near any RV- everyone
has a responsibility. Do not tolerate
slackers and equip each with crime
detractors -’marina air horns’ immediate
call of trouble. No fi rearms
-none - they invite the authorities to
mess with everyone - etc. Good Luck
and Stay Safe.
Capiton Carl
This is what I was waiting for,
some paper writing a story on the
trend. And inevitably, some bureaucrat
will see a chance to ruin it for
the people that fi gured out a clever
rent hack. Before you know it traffi c
agents will be ticketing them and sanitation
will be hauling them away.
Nice going Brooklyn Paper!
Vladimir Cousteau
Cool! But wait until the Statists
want their cut of the action.
Seamus McHenry
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