Blight at 4th Avenue Fast-Food Building

A 4th Avenue resident wrote in to let us know that the former KFC on 4th Avenue and Warren has become an abandoned eyesore over the past few months:

The site has become a dilapidated “work area” with a now broken fence and crack den-like features. Even by New York standards, it is pretty terrible and definitely an eyesore. There was one pile of trash that grew on the sidewalk in front of the site for months that included meat, diapers, and an assortment of liquor bottles. They have talked about cleaning up 4th Avenue but this is the most obvious example of neglect that seems to permeate the trash strewn corridor (at least between Atlantic Avenue and Union). Residents have to walk by this (literal) garbage everyday and making sure not to step in the aforementioned items strewn about the sidewalk is an unpleasant daily ritual.

City records show that the DOB has had a stop work order on the site since mid-October because of a busted construction fence (click through to see a photo of it) and it looks like the owner owes $4,000 in fines. There were reports that the building was going to be turned into a McDonald’s, which seems borne out by permits issued in the fall to McDonald’s Corp., but maybe those plans have been abandoned?
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