@11:35 CB6 is the center of the Universe and the point where the axis of the earth revolves around.

As far as the standardized complaint form goes sounds like a good idea, at least for the complaint prone residents. Typical not in my backyard thought process.

I hope all the activists choke the life out of the area and the new "now its safe to live here" go back to the midwest.

@11:41 Angry white man strikes again? Get up from the computer, get yourself dressed and make sure your burn out kids comb their hair before they go to school.

Posted by: Gross at January 11, 2008 12:00 PM in response to CB6 Looks to Ensure Responsible Development

@9:44

It would seem your malaise is contaigous. Please consider the following suggestion for your 4 remaining rounds.

Please kill only two feral dogs. (which will no doubt upset someone)

Please kill me so I will no longer have to swim in your sobbing self loathing.

and the last round...

@9:44

"Not so sure it makes sense to have incompetent government hacks make decisions that have enormous impact on our lives with no oversight whatsoever."

Well,
Its your opinion that incompetent goverment hacks make decisions.

Its typical that you would say that as you sit back drinking your coffee in your (home?) office.

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Not sure if any of you look past your noses when you are out and about, but I hate to break it to you; NYC has always been about change, and the condos, and the arena, and your million (+) dollar brownstones are all agents of the current change.

So when you were happy to get rid of your tenants paying 1980's rent and even happier when the nice yuppy couple showed up and is paying 3 times what you had ever wished for, run to the palor floor bathroom and take a look in the mirror, and say thank you.

Posted by: Gross at January 14, 2008 10:00 AM in response to Anti-AY Lawsuits: And Then There Was One

Please I have said it before, NYC is and always will be about change. And in most cases change weather you like it or not.

13 renters in the way of billions of tax revenue for the city, come on its basic.

All the doom and gloom about traffic, the traffic is bad now, and by the way has always been that way.

@9:43 "Massive increases in traffic and pollution forever. Cost unknown but quality of life reduction for many will be huge and permanent. Deduct that."

Of course in your world nothing changes, your view remains the same only with more traffic and pollition? In 5/10 years the cars driven and the gas we put in them will have nothing in common with the ones sold or driven today.

Yes AY will turn Flatbush in to 34th street, but it is time for Brooklyn to wake up.

If you don't like it move.

Posted by: Gross at January 17, 2008 10:00 AM in response to AY Appeal Denied, Construction Headaches Begin

@9:52

Just to add to your list and show an example of what happens when there are no taxes AND union coruption.... (drum roll, big lights)

LAS VEGAS Baby!!

Take a step off the strip and its heroin addicts and meth labs. (kinda like 4th ave and 9th street)

Posted by: Gross at January 18, 2008 10:15 AM in response to State of the City: $3.1 Billion Deficit

Please God, let the city turn this into a bigger, "(it's supposed to go from 749 to 1,469 inmates)" smelly-er, rat infested, rash of humanity parade to remind all the $700 stroller pushing Mom's and Dad's what downtown Brooklyn is all about!

I am sure it will come as a surprize to all, but I had the pleasure of spending the night here (some time ago), all the stories are true. Bad things happen in this place.

Posted by: Gross at January 18, 2008 11:32 AM in response to Brooklyn House of Detention Plans Falter

I don't know when you dopes are going to get it, Landlords and developers (or the FDNY, and if you don't think they are on the payroll you really are blind) DO NOT CARE about you or "creative types" or illegal squaters. They always have and always will care about money and the amount they are pissing away by letting a bunch of stinky hipsters and burnouts live in a fire bomb waiting to happen.

The story would be much different if the building went up in flames along with a bunch of "creative types".

Just because you have declared yourself a "creative type" doesn't really account for much, in fact most times just means your a lazy scumbag.

Posted by: Gross at January 22, 2008 9:51 AM in response to ‘Commune of Creative Types’ in the Burg is Emptied Out

10:22

what an A-hole 9:51 is. "lazy" creative types are the catalyst for billions$$$ of economic development and are the people who made it possible for development to happen in places like Williamsburg. Funny how the FDNY and the landlords never cared before these neighborhoods got expensive.

You in that building would you like me to thank? Maybe there is one Artist in that building that has made or will made a contribution to ANYTHING.

Artists (true artists) are craftsmen, not idiots in skinny jeans with paint on them convincing themselves that living in a dump means something.

Its all about money. The artists are there because its cheap, the landlords let them live there because they have to operate a building and real estate is a good investment, deveoplers come in and make condos. All Money deals.

By the way Blind person 10:22, same thing happened in Soho, Carroll Garden, Cobble Hill, Park Slope, DUMBO, Green Point, and Bushwick and Coney Island are next. You can say the same for every neighborhood in NYC. Harlem?

Stay home and push your stroller waiting for your tenants to pay the rent (which you jacked up last year).

Posted by: Gross at January 22, 2008 11:58 AM in response to ‘Commune of Creative Types’ in the Burg is Emptied Out

@9:23 1/22

Re-read my post.

Clearly I was not referring to war photogs or NatGeo, or the contributions of either.

My point is that the "Artists" residing in this building are doing so under the same motivation that the landlord is kicking them out. MONEY.

They didn't move into that dump to be "the catalyst for billions$$$ of economic development". They moved in because it was cheap and your pilars of photojournalism can (or could) swim in all the toxic chemicals they wanted without any regard (I'm assuming, maybe the neighbors knew and didn't mind) to the people living/working next door.

As WBer said, "Unfortunately, too right. Of course the people living there knew they were in an "illegal" (i.e., non-residential) building. But beyond that, no one on this board seems to know the least thing about the building or its residents.

I know a number of people who live there, and all of them are indeed artists - actual working artists and professionals making money from their craft. Most of the folks I know there are long-established artists, not the young hipsters everyone wants to pile on. Most of them rely on their art or craft as their primary sources of income, and most of them were in true live-work situations."

So it was good while it lasted and they (both landlord and illegal residents) are lucky they didn't blow anyone up.

And by the way I also make my living with my BFA & MFA, because I choose not to be a slob doesn't mean I am not making, "a positive difference in the world through..." my ART. Nor does it mean I don't know what I am talking about.

So after you finish biting your pillow, go comb your hair and put some clean closes on.

Posted by: Gross at January 23, 2008 9:20 AM in response to ‘Commune of Creative Types’ in the Burg is Emptied Out

Thanks for the life lessons and resumes...

All of you are correct I am a bitter failure and the only pleasure in my life comes from this blog...

Everywhere you go there you are...

So I guess I will put on my asshat and go.

Posted by: Gross at January 23, 2008 4:39 PM in response to ‘Commune of Creative Types’ in the Burg is Emptied Out

Hey if anyone has a couch for sale lemme know!!

Let us know if you have any trouble finding an apartment.

Posted by: Gross at January 25, 2008 9:44 PM in response to Closing Bell: Moving Out at 475 Kent Avenue