Lefferts Hotel Lockdown
It never ceases to amaze how a business can be busted for drugs and/or other criminality and yet still be allowed to stay open. Such was the case with the Lefferts Hotel, which has plagued the southeast corner of Clinton Hill for years. Back in 2006, after an undercover operation exposed extensive drug and prostitution…
It never ceases to amaze how a business can be busted for drugs and/or other criminality and yet still be allowed to stay open. Such was the case with the Lefferts Hotel, which has plagued the southeast corner of Clinton Hill for years. Back in 2006, after an undercover operation exposed extensive drug and prostitution activities going on behind those shaded windows, the hotel somehow managed to maintain enough leverage to negotiate a deal that enabled them to stay open as long as they switched from being a short-stay hotel to a long-term residential one and installed some surveillance cameras. Seems that it’s hard to teach old dogs new tricks. The shadesters who run this place clearly aren’t the type of folks to follow rules, so it should come as no surprise that the DOB issued a Full Vacate Order a couple of weeks ago for numerous violations including fire code, egress and C of O issues; they had more than double the allowed number of units and were renting out rooms in the cellar. Time to put these folks out of business for good. The community should not have to put up with this crap in our backyard! Update: According to a post on The Forum, the Lefferts’ sister hotel at 211 Schermerhorn Street has also been hit with a Full Vacate Order.
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“did you really just say that? lol. it’s not hard to make good coffee. the yuppification of coffee brewery is however a bitter pill to swallow.”
Has nothing to do with yuppification. Good coffee is genuinely difficult to make. This is why there are so few places in NYC serving good tasting coffee. Of course there is the massively subjective factor, but coffee as it is served in say italy, is not easy to make.
On the barista thing…it’s totally ridiculous. EVERY good Italian restaurant has a big coffee / espresso machine as complicated as at a coffee house and they don’t neeed special baristas to operate it. At the ones I see in Philly at Osteria and Amis, arguable two of the best Italian restaurants in the US (along with their sister Vetri), they have highly complex espresso machines and you know who works them???? The busboys, not even the waiters.
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it is pretty hard to make good coffee.
did you really just say that? lol. it’s not hard to make good coffee. the yuppification of coffee brewery is however a bitter pill to swallow.
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“It never ceases to amaze how a business can be busted for drugs and/or other criminality and yet still be allowed to stay open.”
Think Wall Street.
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Not so sure about that, Heather. Have you seen some of the prices at Starbucks lately?
it’s always awkward when I’m walking around the ‘hood with my wife and the hookers say “hi” to me.
All this barista hate today. As a former barista, and current home barista/enthusiast, it is pretty hard to make good coffee. You do have to learn a lot about the many variables in the process. But I guess hooking isn’t that easy either.
More expensive, though.
Hookers are much more useful than baristas.