What do you actually need permit

I have see this thing going up from my living room window for the past few months - that is still a wierd areas over there - not a whole lot going on - unless you walk further into Fort Green or down to Smith St or even Brooklyn Heights.

Posted by: james_bong at June 9, 2009 10:20 AM in response to 111 Lawrence Tops Out, Gets Name

Hmm...well, I would say that the neighbors would most likely be happy that an eyesore of a property is being fixed up - so I don't think they would rat me out. However, all of the interior demo and exterior work would clearly be visable from the street, so I can forsee and uninvited visit from a roving DOB inspector to see what is happening - so I would just want to get my story straight.

Posted by: james_bong at April 22, 2009 3:49 PM in response to What do you actually need permit

I live near Packer and I see what I think are Grandparents dropping off small children and then I hear the say "Dad" or "Mom" - I must say it freaks me out. Full disclousure I am a parent in my 30's.

Posted by: james_bong at April 9, 2009 11:41 AM in response to Rebel Alliance Starts Free 'Other Park Slope Parents' List

I walk over this place rather frequently. It smells bad, lokks bad and its basically like an open sewer - except for poop, its full of chemicals (and probably poop). If they can clean it up - that would be a minor miracle.

Posted by: james_bong at April 9, 2009 10:29 AM in response to EPA Proposes Adding Gowanus Canal to Superfund List

Vaccinations are infammitory because there is a small, but militant movement of parents who believe vaccinations are the casue of Autism in children. There has NEVER been any scientific proof to this, but they believe it. As such, they refuse to get their children vaccinanted and hence open them up to be infected with such oldies but goodies like Polio. These parents are totaly ignorant and are causing their children a great inservice, not to mention the possibilty of a horrible disease. Park Slope is just the type of place that would breed these types of idiots.

Posted by: james_bong at April 9, 2009 10:11 AM in response to Rebel Alliance Starts Free 'Other Park Slope Parents' List

Hey - as long as its not for private use and kicking out old factories and poor poor small business owners....oh; wait....I mean this is a travisty....oh wait, I'm late to the co-op for my shift.....

Posted by: james_bong at April 6, 2009 9:48 AM in response to City Used Eminent Domain for BAM Cultural District

Wow - what exactly would be a "worthy" contribution? Anyway, I think the painter cap crowd needs to chill. At least back in the day real hipsters smoked weed and could care less about this crap.

Posted by: james_bong at April 3, 2009 10:34 AM in response to Development Watch: Stuck in the Mud at 365 Union Avenue

Dirty hipster - your name says it all.

Posted by: james_bong at April 2, 2009 4:54 PM in response to Development Watch: Stuck in the Mud at 365 Union Avenue

That part of billyburg is pretty crappy - unless your on daddies dime, not sure why anybody with an actual job or family would want to live there. good luck.

Posted by: james_bong at April 2, 2009 2:44 PM in response to Development Watch: Stuck in the Mud at 365 Union Avenue

It'll be very convienient for the tourists - get shot, walk across the street to the hospital. Or maybe even better hand out with the loonies at the abondoned building next door (or the loonie bin, also across the street). Welcome to NY!

Posted by: james_bong at April 1, 2009 2:04 PM in response to Hotel Le Bushwick On Tap

Damn - lets just go back to the 1970's, lets break out the good 'ol squeegie guys and their dirty rags, bring back graffiti tagged subway cars - hell lets bring back the gaurdian angeles and their red berets. Man how I miss those times, wondering which drug dealer, homeless vagrant or hell's angel was going to stick me or rob me on my way home. Now those were the days.....I can dream.

Posted by: james_bong at March 31, 2009 8:01 PM in response to Atlantic Yards: The Play-by-Play

Wow - when did we start living in communist brooklyn. Please all powerful government, take away this private companies land becasue they are bad bad bad. Uncle Joe and Comrad Lenin are proud as hell. George Washington is probably spinning in his grave.

Posted by: james_bong at March 31, 2009 5:05 PM in response to Atlantic Yards: The Play-by-Play

Lets just put some projects up in this area. Will that make everyone happy and provide enough "affordable housing" - hey, maybe even Frank Gehry can design them. Then all the Park Slope organics can be happy for helping out those less fortunate and maybe buy some good weed from them while their at it.

Posted by: james_bong at March 31, 2009 1:32 PM in response to Atlantic Yards: The Play-by-Play

I do live in Brownstone Brooklym though not in a Brownstone. I bought before all the craziness, so I don't obbsess about what my apartment may or may not be worth. I don't really care if its Frank Gehry or Frank Ass Hat who is the architect of AY. I do care that people love to stop progress and turning around a blighted part of town in the name of saving "something" - in this case that something is that old world charm of a big empty hole in the middle of Brooklyn. An empty hole that I will now get to enjoy for the next 5-10 years.

Posted by: james_bong at March 31, 2009 11:39 AM in response to Atlantic Yards: The Play-by-Play

I love how Ratner is evil incarnate. I live near DT and see Metrotech all the time. News flash - the area around it is purse s*%t, so his development actually is an improvement. And I do shop at Target and Pathmark and I like it. Forgive me that I enjoy living near clean, modern building and not dilapidated crapola that is the rest of DT Brooklyn. And spare me the weeping for all those poor property owners that got very hefty payouts for their property and to the renters - hey your renters, go get another apartment away from a construction zone so you'll have some peac and quite. If it was up to you people, we'd all be still living in the stone age because we need to save our beautiful caves and their drawing of mamoths inside. Get real people, this are is going to stit empty and ugly for a long long time. Whoo hoo!

Posted by: james_bong at March 31, 2009 11:10 AM in response to Atlantic Yards: The Play-by-Play

Yes, I am so happy this beautiful part of Brooklyn got saved. Who needs world class architecture when you can have empty lots, views of glorious railyards and unobstructed sight lines to mini storage buildings and all those beutiful warehouses. Finally a victory for common sense and saving all that is great in Brooklyn. I will sleep so much better knowing this travisity has been stopped and true beauty can survive! There is a God!

Posted by: james_bong at March 31, 2009 10:42 AM in response to Atlantic Yards: The Play-by-Play

I live in the Heights and walk past this building quite often. With the Marble walls on the ground level, it is probably one of the "nicest" looking jails in town. The fact they want to dump more money into it is curious. I really don't have a problem with it being where it is - after all all the Brooklyn courts are near by. However, they should not keep pumping this building with more money and it should not be used as a long term holding center ala Rikers, but to hold suspects until while they are at trial.

Posted by: james_bong at March 31, 2009 10:00 AM in response to Thompson Tosses HOD Architects for Second Time

This building is out of context for the nabe, but it is a great location and the price is not crazy (relatively speaking)

Posted by: james_bong at March 30, 2009 2:01 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 200 Congress Street

I'd want a garage for that kind of dough! Parking the heights is horrible and the nearset lot is over on state and court.

Posted by: james_bong at March 30, 2009 1:58 PM in response to House of the Day: 135 Clinton Street

The rat poison is used to cut H since it contain Warfarin, which is an anti-coagulant. This way, you won't get blodd clots when your shooting up.

Posted by: james_bong at March 30, 2009 11:49 AM in response to Death at Eastern Parkway Drug Den

Straight story=permits as necessary, not some cobbled-together CYA. We've had a fair amount of work done requiring applications for permits on more than occasion in a historic district, sometimes for unknown conditions discovered mid-job and bringing work to a halt where, without permits, we could forge ahead. Yes, it adds time and money, but nowhere near the cost and misery that so many people repeatedly depict. (Or maybe permits are that costly and time-consuming if you're relying on architects, contractors, etc. who are unqualified, unreliable, uninsured, etc. Those factors are often missing from discussions of this equation...who's doing your work and filing your applications.)

Posted by: vinca at April 22, 2009 4:26 PM in response to What do you actually need permit