Trouble Afoot at 65 South Elliott Place?
Here’s an email we received on Friday afternoon along with the photo above: We have lived across the street from 65 South Elliott place for the last two years. when we moved in we noticed that the building was abandoned. our neighbors told us that the owner had passed away about a year before we…
Here’s an email we received on Friday afternoon along with the photo above:
We have lived across the street from 65 South Elliott place for the last two years. when we moved in we noticed that the building was abandoned. our neighbors told us that the owner had passed away about a year before we arrived and his family has not decided what to do with the building. about a year ago a homeless man started to take residency on its porch. he is a fixture in the neighborhood and seemed
harmless so people on the block seemed to turn a blind eye. This morning a bunch of contractors arrived and have been busy boarding the house with plywood. Can they do this without permission from the LPC?
We’ve got a query into LPC but on its surface this certainly looks like a no-no. GMAP P*Shark DOB
“The reality is you don’t know his history, his true mental state, or what he’s capable of.”
Indeed, Mckrdootz. Perhaps you could read that sentence back to yourself.
“It’s frightening to think people consider a homeless person sleeping on private property as an okay situation, and an okay idea for that person to interact with their children.” – as compared to whom? domiciled revered catholic priest?
I think this house has an interesting history. The Chinese owner was not allowed to buy this house because he was Chinese. A Catholic nun – sister – purchased the house for him and then sold it back to him. I’d love to hear more about this man who, I think, moved to Brooklyn from the west coast and then eventually brought his family here. What was Fort Greene like back then?
I saw this guy sweeping the porch last week and he saw me and just mumbled something along the lines of “someone’s gotta take care of the place. No one else is”. Poor guy, I know it’s not his house but I do hope he finds a new place to live. It looks like he did take care of it to the extent he could.
I guess you would rather see homeless drifters move in and set the place ablaze.
It’s frightening to think people consider a homeless person sleeping on private property as an okay situation, and an okay idea for that person to interact with their children.
If you want to make a difference, get that homeless person to a shelter, into a program, off the streets. Turning a blind eye isn’t helping him, despite how nice he is to your kids. The reality is you don’t know his history, his true mental state, or what he’s capable of.
If that person went berserk and killed your children, who would you blame? No doubt you’d go after the owner of the house where he set up a home on their porch.
I hope it isn’t Julius or the last remaining Triplet….the other two are now dead. Never knew their names.
Vagabond was the term we used back in school for people sitting in on classes unofficially (not even claiming to audit). I like hobo too — but then you’d need to write and read their special signs.
hobo & hobette has always been my fav. endearing terms for the homeless.
*rob*