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August 25, 2009

Gowanus Building No Longer Dissing Wall St.

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The old power station near the corner of 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue has lost its message. As per the bottom photo above, last year the top of the building had been tagged "No More Corporate Bullshit! Fuk Wall St." The building was one of the parcels in the area bought by developers for a would-be project called "Gowanus Village." GMAP
Bottom pic by letsgetridofny




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There's been a big change in people's attitudes. Consumer Confidence number was higher than expected. That sign was soooo 2008. Most of us have moved on.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 25, 2009 11:08 AM

Oh no! I'd grown to like that, against my better instincts, of course.

Posted by: Nomi at August 25, 2009 11:08 AM


Does this mean the World Economy will continue being run by dimwitted frat boys in lower Manhattan?

Posted by: tybur6 at August 25, 2009 11:12 AM

Nomi, I haven't run into you on other threads since the Bjork discussion but wanted to thank you for the last post to me in that debate, which I saw the next day. I enjoy your posts a lot and am glad there are no hard feelings, even if you did grow to like the sign above.

;-)

Posted by: Biff Champion at August 25, 2009 11:12 AM

LOL tyburg read my mind!

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 25, 2009 11:18 AM

Yes, tybur6, sadly yes.

Posted by: DitmasSnark at August 25, 2009 11:18 AM

oh darn. I hate grafitti and tags and all. But I did think this was great. Wake up America. Country has become so overpowered by corporate interests.

Posted by: Petebklyn at August 25, 2009 11:18 AM

"There's been a big change in people's attitudes.......Most of us have moved on.

Not me. I lamented the irresponsible greed before the crash, hate those responsible now, and regard the perjorative connotation that the US as a whole applies to the words "liberal" and "socialism" as curse that will lead to ever increasing isolation from the rest of the civilized world. I'll miss the graffiti.

Posted by: johnife at August 25, 2009 11:19 AM

Ever nail a drunk frat boy, Ditmas????

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 25, 2009 11:20 AM

johnife- nice to see you back! (I so agree with you by the way)

Posted by: bxgrl at August 25, 2009 11:21 AM

DIBS -- I won't deny that frat boys are probably pretty proficient at the ol' beast-with-two-backs... but they shouldn't be in charge of the world's money.

That said... I'd still like to hear Ditmas' response.

Posted by: tybur6 at August 25, 2009 11:28 AM

I dont agree with the sentiment (since it is simple minded and frankly a bit naive) BUT I kinda liked it - and I object to them ONLY cleaning that message. If your going to clean the building - clean it all - no selective message erasing.

Posted by: fsrg at August 25, 2009 11:28 AM

Not sure the relevance of your sex antics but to even the score- let me say there is nothing like nailing a longtime married 30-something - god are they wild!!!

Posted by: fsrg at August 25, 2009 11:35 AM

"Nomi, I haven't run into you on other threads since the Bjork discussion but wanted to thank you for the last post to me in that debate, which I saw the next day. I enjoy your posts a lot and am glad there are no hard feelings"

I think that was my longest internet "discussion" ever. Silly.

Posted by: Nomi at August 25, 2009 11:36 AM

"a longtime married 30-something"

You must be young.

Posted by: Nomi at August 25, 2009 11:39 AM

Longtime married IMHO means anything 5+

Posted by: fsrg at August 25, 2009 11:55 AM

Wow. And cynical?

At least I like your politics.

Posted by: Nomi at August 25, 2009 12:03 PM

I don't share the view, but I thought the sign was funny. I love the building. If the developers would only convert that great space into real lofts (unlike the rabbit warrens carved out of One Brooklyn Bridge Park and 166 Montague), I'd move to Gowanus.

Posted by: CarrollGardened at August 25, 2009 12:24 PM

How can you not share the view.... oh wait, unless you are ONE OF THEM!!

I guess *someone* has to make enough money to pay the millions of dollars for Brooklyn real estate. :-)

Posted by: tybur6 at August 25, 2009 12:29 PM

the frat boys they got working on Wall Street are the smart kinds. they might be greedy and obnoxious but they aint dumb. Plus "Wall St" is mostly in Midtown nowadays.

Loved this sign, loads of character.

Posted by: woodys at August 25, 2009 1:07 PM

> Ever nail a drunk frat boy, Ditmas????

Funny you should ask, since that is exactly what I am doing right now.

d.snark
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Posted by: DitmasSnark at August 25, 2009 1:26 PM

I don't think I'd want to live in a building where they write something like that on the outside. No class whatsoever.

Posted by: infinitejester at August 25, 2009 1:36 PM

woodys... I have to disagree about the frat boys being the "smart kinds." There are certainly a few of them, but sooooo much of the work in finance has such an extremely narrow focus. The whole mortgage crisis is based on doing some tiny operation to sell and bundle various components... very little thinking is involved. But they are overly competitive frat boys that have NO ability to see the bigger picture. Do X and get Y.... no ability or even the slight inkling to think they might also be causing Z.

So, yeah, they're smart... but the same way an idiot savant is smart.

But the whole machine is this, so we're trapped in a horrible structure.

Posted by: tybur6 at August 25, 2009 1:37 PM

tybur6, I work on wall street and while I certainly am familiar with the boneheaded frat boy type you're talking about, most of the people I know in finance are very well informed....they may be jerks but they're smart by pretty much every standard.

Posted by: woodys at August 25, 2009 2:44 PM

Yeah, the sign as probably painted by some trustafarian on a dare was funny. Now it's time to grow up.

Posted by: 5w30 at August 25, 2009 3:14 PM

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