Development Watch: 392 Atlantic Avenue

Hope these guys can build better than they can spell! There's not much publicly available information on what lies in store for the site, other than that it will be a three-unit, 6,000-square-foot residential building. As you can see from the photo on the jump, not a lot of progress has been made to date. Anyone heard anything about this one?
GMAP P*Shark DOB

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heh. i like saying "gorilla equidies" out loud. the simians supposedly base their operations out a residential block in kensington: http://tinyurl.com/27pehr

Posted by: Anonymous at May 2, 2007 12:28 PM

it's cute funny, though. makes you chuckle a little.

Posted by: phil&ted at May 2, 2007 12:34 PM

When I first read it , I thought it was some williamsburgh artist's mock up of a real sign...

I mean even the name of the company "Gorilla" sounded bogus.

That coupled with the intentional(?) mis-spelling of "equidies", I thought someone was making a ironic social commentary.

Sometimes reality is funnier than fiction.

Posted by: mr. peabody at May 2, 2007 12:57 PM

equidies also means equal days I think.
I just thought "Gorilla Equidies" was somebody's name (foreign name).
DOB permit shows store on 1st level.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 2, 2007 1:13 PM

Isn't it Guerilla Equities?

Posted by: GHB at May 2, 2007 2:03 PM

Oh, this looks REAL promising! Plug the developer's phone number into Google and you get the name of attorney Alexander Z. Landy (http://www.chevychasewholesale.com/pdf/grf303_rpt_ny_attn_list.pdf)
Plug that name into Google and you get this:
http://www.courts.state.ny.us/REPORTER/3dseries/2007/2007_03308.htm
I sure wouldn't want to be buying an apartment from someone who "breached his fiduciary duty".

Posted by: John Ife at May 2, 2007 2:18 PM

DOB applications list Dolly Williams as owner. Current? or former City Planning Commission member. Connection to FCR...etc

Posted by: Anonymous at May 2, 2007 2:20 PM

OMG, it gets better. Plug the contactor's phone number into Google and you get the name Nikoll Shkreli of the Bronx. Plug that name into Google and you get this:
http://www.manhattanda.org/whatsnew/press/2000-05-11.htm
Wonderful! A building developed by a disbarred attorney and built by a convicted chop shop operator!

Posted by: John Ife at May 2, 2007 2:25 PM

I guess it's also possible that the phone numbers have been re-assigned to others following the troubles of the folks I cite above, so maybe I'm putting too much faith in Google.

Posted by: John Ife at May 2, 2007 2:35 PM

"DOB applications list Dolly Williams as owner"

Actually the most recent permit application (4/4/2007) is " RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING CHANGE OF OWNER TO ALEX LANDY"
http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?passdocnumber=2&passjobnumber=301223316&requestid=4

Posted by: John Ife at May 2, 2007 3:15 PM

John Ife, you harness the power of the Internet to achieve my Weaselbuster of the Day award!

Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at May 2, 2007 4:51 PM

Well it looks like, through a reverse search using the developer's address that Alex Landry does, in fact, live there.

Yep, the net is a wonderful thing.

Posted by: John Ife at May 2, 2007 7:14 PM

Does anyone have a photo of the building that used to be here? I am doing genealogy research, and I believe this used to be the Hay & Feed store owned by Goetz & Sons in the late 1800's.

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Development Watch: 392 Atlantic Avenue

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