Heres a voice never seen or heard on here....im a small time developer putting up a five floor condo in williamsburg, eight units. im a normal post hipster from twenty five years of living in tribeca and the lower east side when i used to step over bodies on the street to go home at night. you guys can speculate all you want about how the process with the dob works, but ill tell you this from first hand experience....my site has been closed down TEN TIMES in two years...thats right, its taken me two years to get the building two thirds done. They harrasss me endlessly about the most minor stuff, the inspectors never cease coming at all hours of the day and night, i get fined up the yazzoo for things i have no control over, and i cant put ina screw without hundreds of forms filed and triple filed and notorized and hand delivered by a lawyer at three hundred dollars an hour. So i just dont know what the hell you think your talking about. Nothing can be done in Williamsburg, anyway, without every i dotted and every t crossed a hundred times for the DOB to give permission for ANYTHING to procede. thanks.

Posted by: lechail at January 1, 2008 7:50 PM in response to 420 42nd Street: This One Could Get Ugly

Its a British rumor tabloid. Whats the difference if the building is or isnt the right one, price or picture....If I wrote a gossip piece in the post about Gynyth Paltrow shopping for a house in Paris and showed a picture and gave a price, who the hell would care if the facts were right? People read it...it did its job.

Posted by: lechail at April 13, 2008 11:53 AM in response to Closing Bell: Liv Tyler Moving to Brooklyn—Or Not