Who's fault is that?
The developer's or DOT?

Posted by: ou812 at March 11, 2010 11:21 AM in response to Developer Decapitates Streetlamp Outside Minerva

What I was stating? I thought it fairly obvious.

"Somebody got paid off"
"wouldnt it just be outright illegal to cut down street lamps?"
"I'm guessing this is illegal and once the City knows about it, they will love fining the developer since we need the money."
"the developer is also a liar"

While the article clearly states:

"got DOT to remove a streetlight at the corner of 23rd Street and 7th".

Whether or not proper procedure and protocol was followed by DOT is a seperate issue hence "the right to vote comment". If it was improper to proceed, then DOT should have addressed that and said no.

Posted by: ou812 at March 11, 2010 11:05 AM in response to Developer Decapitates Streetlamp Outside Minerva

I guess you all are having trouble reading:

"got DOT to remove a streetlight at the corner of 23rd Street and 7th".

Everyone is upset because they didn't get to vote here.

Posted by: ou812 at March 11, 2010 10:11 AM in response to Developer Decapitates Streetlamp Outside Minerva

Go by the book. Be prepared, the calls will come no matter what you do. It's not about you, it's about some of your neighbor's miserable little lives that seems to want company in thier misery. Be prepared, the calls will come no matter what you do. DOB needs to eliminate anonymous complaints. Complaints deemed outright false, continous, and nuisance should then go back to the person filing and minimally fine them for wasting everyone's time and money.

Posted by: ou812 at March 5, 2010 10:10 AM in response to Renovation Dilemma

Nice. I will need to ask permission to alter my own house. Not from the DOB to make sure it meets proper code, but from some group concerned with astetics who will make sure I don't replace my arched windows with square ones, dam the cost. And for sure, the rat patrol will make sure you abide by and live in a manner of which they approve. "Private Property" is dead here comrades. What's next? Don't stop there.

Posted by: ou812 at February 11, 2010 1:22 PM in response to Slope HD Extension: In 3 Parts, Over 10+ Years?

A circular brownstone firing squad. Proves that nothing will please most of you.

Posted by: ou812 at February 9, 2010 12:47 PM in response to Vermeil Inching Towards The Finish Line

Garages and Curb cuts are a beutiful thing. I get to park my gas guzzlers when I want and I don't have to circle for a spot. I don't worry about taking my car out for short trips, because I'll have a spot when I return. Alternate side parking, what's that? The best part, since mine is legal, anyone who blocks me gets a ticket and a tow courtesy of NYPD. Let's face it, if your brownstones were built today, they would all have parking. Put another log on the fire and deal with it.

Posted by: ou812 at January 15, 2010 4:03 PM in response to Anti-Curb Cutting Rule Inches Forward

Imagine this was a commercial condo development on 4th ave. This is no better nor worse than the rest.

Posted by: ou812 at November 23, 2009 10:04 AM in response to Development Watch: 575 5th Avenue Coming Along

Nice house, unfortunately done in Crayola. Everyone complains about the two-tone brick color of the buildings on 4th ave. What a joke.

Posted by: ou812 at November 17, 2009 8:31 AM in response to Ditmas Park Gets the 'Living In' Treatment

Only blond haired blued eyed people are allowed to live there, so that leaves all of you out.

Posted by: ou812 at November 13, 2009 12:48 PM in response to 574 4th Avenue: The Full Monty

I don't understand the distinction between FAR and non-FAR area. My understanding is the formula determines the maximum allowable floor SQF of buidable home based on the SQF of the entire lot. What's left is still part of the equation and does not become non-far. You are trying to assign equal value to the remaining SQF but If the deepest lot has unused FAR (Buildings all being equal), that would make that land more valuable per SQF. This does not just apply to the Scaranos of the world doing teardowns. People do put additions onto their homes for many reasons and sometimes they even do it legally. If you want a expert opinion, ask an architect and give them the lot numbers.

Posted by: ou812 at November 3, 2009 2:22 PM in response to Value of a Backyard?

Assuming you have not maxed out the FAR and regardless of whether or not you ever plan to build/extend, a bigger lot means a larger allowbale SQF home and it should be valued based upon the remaining potential to add SQF to the home.

Posted by: ou812 at November 3, 2009 10:22 AM in response to Value of a Backyard?

Renters/Buyers on 4th ave have a choice. These developments are consumer driven and if end consumers say no to either purchasing or renting at a price that makes it economically viable for the developer, they wouldn't proceed to continuouslly building them (In at least that fashion). Who's to blame here, the developer who keeps putting it up or the consumer who keeps buying it?

Posted by: ou812 at October 22, 2009 11:49 AM in response to Development Watch: 574 4th Avenue

Yup, the one story mechanic garages and dilapidated wood frames that previously occupied this space were much nicer. Nope, the recovering drug addicts will be residing up the block on 5th ave and 16th, which eveyone seems to be okay with. Must be the choice of brick color and lack of balconies, that's it!

Posted by: ou812 at October 21, 2009 3:44 PM in response to Development Watch: 574 4th Avenue

When you have to go!

Posted by: ou812 at October 13, 2009 4:41 PM in response to Closing Bell: Two beds, 11 Baths?

The building in the first picture clearly has fire escapes attached to it and would appear to be an older apartment building and not a condo development. That would make the shack above the entrance a bit of a problem assuming that is also a fire escape with a scuttle ladder.

Posted by: ou812 at October 12, 2009 1:12 PM in response to Last Day of the Sukkahs

I don't see any permits for those structures!
Certainly the ones on the fire escape pose an encumberance and should be violations!

Posted by: ou812 at October 9, 2009 4:00 PM in response to Last Day of the Sukkahs

As of Oct. 1 you the LL one months' rent. Move by tomorrow and that's another story as you don't have a lease. Anything else is negotiated between you and the landlord. "Potential" is your opinion and by the time you actaully get an inspector in, you still owe Oct. Sounds like poor planning on your part. You should have planned to move at the end of whatever month you were ready and not look for a 7 day rent deal after the fact.

Posted by: ou812 at September 29, 2009 12:50 PM in response to 30-Day Notice Req'd?

Why don't we just agree. They are blow hards!

Posted by: ou812 at September 14, 2009 4:52 PM in response to Closing Bell: DDDB's Letter to SHoP

NJ currently doesn't support their team, you think they will travel to Brooklyn? Wake up, that's why they are leaving in the first place. They couldn't sell out the Meadowlands when the NETS made into the playoffs. There will NOT be 1000's of Honking NJ drivers. There will be 1000's of people walking to the stadium. There will be 1000's of people taking "how many local trains and busses actually pass through there already?" mass transit, and conveneiently the LIRR. For that matter, make it practically impossible to park there for the Arena and force the mass transit option if that makes you happy. It will still sell out. The arguments against the Arena itself are BS.

Posted by: ou812 at September 9, 2009 1:26 PM in response to New Barclay's Center Design Revealed

DDDB should re-arrange the words in their acromym to "Don't Develop and Destroy Brooklyn".

Posted by: ou812 at September 9, 2009 11:47 AM in response to New Barclay's Center Design Revealed

If you want authentic polish, just go two blocks over to the tiny little Jubilat Provisions in between Prospect Ave and 17th on 5th. They focus purely on polish provisions and lots of smoked pork. White Eagle is terrible in either case, polish or standard proivisions. How they are still in business is mind boggling.

Posted by: ou812 at August 31, 2009 4:49 PM in response to StreetLevel: New Bakery in the South Slope

I'm sure the Dolan family doesn't support AY for the same reasons. It will compete against them, even in Brooklyn.

Posted by: ou812 at August 26, 2009 12:12 PM in response to Bloomberg Opines on Atantic Yards, Coney Island

Have it designated as a wetland and make it un-buidable.

Posted by: ou812 at August 26, 2009 11:29 AM in response to The Hole: Cowboys and Bodies in Brooklyn/Queens

Instead of referencing some other building when being crticial, I believe you should post pictures of your own buildings so we may critique them.

Posted by: ou812 at August 7, 2009 10:03 AM in response to Aesthetically-Challenged on Columbia Street

Looks like a strip mall office building that belongs in Long Island somewhere righ off an LIE exit ramp.

Posted by: ou812 at July 27, 2009 11:25 AM in response to Battle Over Carroll St. Norten Build Heats Up This Week

Euro Trash. Prefer the Fedders.

Posted by: ou812 at July 27, 2009 11:22 AM in response to Checking In On 268 Wythe Avenue

And why are you changing yoru C of O?

Posted by: ou812 at July 16, 2009 10:12 AM in response to Unpermitted Extension

Nice Dodge!

Posted by: ou812 at July 15, 2009 10:53 AM in response to Wednesday Links

They need to increase the doseage of their meds. They obviously aren't working. Oh wait, that is what got them there in the first place. It is the parents fault! They should be ganging up on bodega owners and stealing juices like normal kids.

Posted by: ou812 at June 23, 2009 4:51 PM in response to Closing Bell: Quidditch in McCarren Park

I see a-holes!

Posted by: ou812 at June 15, 2009 6:23 PM in response to Development Watch: 330 Clifton Place

Is it really worth the headache over one month? You'll lose more that just fighting it unless you have nothing but time on your hands. See if they are willing to forgoe return of thier deposit and pay July. Assuming you have no damage, you are even. Call it day and start looking for new tenants. If your lucky, you'll get some before the original lease would have expried and consider yourself ahead of the game at that point. Keep in mind, if they stayed throughout the lease and then moved, you would probably had it vaacnat for at least a month. By having them pay July and forgoe the deposit, that bascially pays for August and during that time you can paint and show it. Don't ask them to find you a tenant as mentioned earlier. That's just looking for trouble. One final thing, holding out for higher rent vs. renting right away negates any increase if you find yourself with a vacant apartment past August. One month of not getting rent negates any potential increase. Take what the market gives you.

Posted by: ou812 at June 15, 2009 12:03 PM in response to Tenant Breaking Lease?

I think the point is that Brooklyn has over well 2 million people as a Borough (larger than most cities) and not only deserves but can support a venue llike this on it's own. It doesn't need outside people to come to see it.

Posted by: ou812 at June 10, 2009 11:34 AM in response to More Renderings of New Arena Design

Please explain what would represent your diversity?
It's a glorified basketball court with lots of seats. Granola, Beef Patty, Organic Falafel, along with beer, Hot dog, and burger concessions are not relevant to the building. "Represent your Diversity"? How exactly does a brick and mortar (or in this case steel and glass) shell of a building do that?

Posted by: ou812 at June 10, 2009 11:31 AM in response to More Renderings of New Arena Design

A pedestrian Mall maybe?
Bunch o' A-holes!

Posted by: ou812 at June 9, 2009 10:33 AM in response to Ouroussoff, Tell Us How You Really Feel

Blah, blah, blah, blah!!! It is getting old already.

Posted by: ou812 at June 9, 2009 10:31 AM in response to Ouroussoff, Tell Us How You Really Feel

Buld your deck over it with a trap door. Drop a keg in there and fill it with ice and just have the tap sticking out for your summer parties.

Posted by: ou812 at May 15, 2009 10:46 AM in response to Backyard Reno Unveils Old Well in Fort Greene

It's not racist if the owner is African American, it's only racist for everyone else.

Posted by: ou812 at April 1, 2009 3:24 PM in response to Wednesday Food & Drink Round-Up

In this area, contextual is the only point you have besides the one on your head. I agree if it were vinyl sided and sagging, you wouldn't even have that. What is the point?

Posted by: ou812 at March 16, 2009 4:43 PM in response to Development Watch: 805 5th Avenue

"The New Brooklyn" reminds of Woodstock 99. People attempting to re-live what can only have been experienced at a spontaneous point in time. These things are not invented; they just happen, thus cannot be recreated. Anything else is just a poor facsimile. Call it the "New Philly" or anything else for that matter, but get your own identity.

Posted by: ou812 at March 16, 2009 2:17 PM in response to Where Is The New Brooklyn?

Greenwood Heights was 7th!

Posted by: ou812 at March 10, 2009 3:16 PM in response to Explore Old Brooklyn with Brooklyn Revealed

Dave,

I'm not off track and nor did I make any mistakes "Originally" that required any realization. But I can see how you can might think that by missing my first post and not understanding the nature of the second. Whilst your studious endeavors in reading contigous streams of verbiage are commendable, putting together disparate strings within appropriate context does not appear to be your forte. :)

Posted by: ou812 at March 6, 2009 4:22 PM in response to Department of Sanitation 1, Tree 0

I didn't misread the story. Our illustrious NYC Parks Department should take care of the trees they plant and make sure limbs don't grow into oncoming traffic. Plant all you want, just make sure they grow up and not out. The truck didn't jump the curb and hit the tree, now did it?

Posted by: ou812 at March 6, 2009 1:10 PM in response to Department of Sanitation 1, Tree 0

News Flash! A Tree Falls in Brooklyn! No one was hurt except the tree! I was expecting to NOT hear about it.

Posted by: ou812 at March 6, 2009 11:55 AM in response to Department of Sanitation 1, Tree 0

OMG, STOP THE PRESSES!

Posted by: ou812 at March 6, 2009 11:00 AM in response to Department of Sanitation 1, Tree 0

I'll take the 17th St. one in "GWH" instead.

Posted by: ou812 at March 5, 2009 4:30 PM in response to House of the Day: 17 1st Street