Police Up The Ante At The Lefferts Hotel
Why was there a police car stationed in front of the Lefferts Hotel all weekend? Click here to find out.
Why was there a police car stationed in front of the Lefferts Hotel all weekend? Click here to find out.
Did anyone call Tish James? When’s the “bus trip”? The hearing is as early as tomorrow morning and no one seems to know how she is organizing this demonstration. Councilwoman James, please don’t drop the ball on this one. The community needs you more now than ever before.
Stuy Blkbuttrflie, though this is indeed a beautiful building and will perhaps make a grand condo building someday, let’s not diminish the significance of this closure by reducing the post analysis to a matter of real estate arbitrage.
I don’t think anyone on Lefferts is viewing the matter anywhere beyond the fact that a community blight has been removed, albeit temporarily, and they are extremely happy. I’m happy for them too. Bravo LPCA, NYPD, Tish James and all who truly care about the future of Brownstone Brooklyn – both old and new residents!
And did you use that business??
The post is not about what I WANT to be… the point is that it’s just not what’s happening and it’s an absurd, paranoid and ridiculous leap from closing the crack hotel on Lefferts… to full blown Starbucks and Applebee’s all over Fulton/ cloying Slope-y suburbanization.
If you hear that ALL the time.. then you have bad ears.
“Then.. you will have to shut down 2 more crack hotels, a meth clinic, an enormous homeless shelter on Bedford and Atlantic and about 5 seedy bodegas along Fulton.
Then you would have to wait out most of the 12-15-20 year leases on all the dollar stores and bodegas along Fulton. ”
even though methinks the ladies do protest too much about the criticism raised here, the above quote does illustarte how a lot of people think when they come into a neighborhood like this…that is the mindset that some people find a little distasteful..plotting how shut down businesses they dont use or like…although people dont like to admit it, I hear and see those kind of sentiments all the time.
Stuy Blkbuttrflie, I think it’s more likely to turn into a less sleazy hotel for some period of time before it turns into condos. The current owners could probably still turn a profit as a reputable hotel, it’s just far more profitable to have the high turnover of short term rooms.
The unfortunate truth is that they will probably be open again fairly quickly, and it will take a few more raids like this before a judge throws the book at them. Then maybe they’ll sell and we’ll see condos there. I think that’s a couple of years off.
whoever is basing their ridiculous opinions on the fact that they have lived here ‘longer’ and therefore have more of a ‘right’ to demand that anybody ‘new’ has no right to live in safety…SHOULD PACK THEIR BAGS AND GET OUT!! times have changed and you do not fit in here anymore. Cash in on your investments, now is the time, invest in real estate in some ghetto.
PLG is the answer – the park, grit, culture, community, and, most importantly, white residents not hell bent on effacing all aspects of its current incarnation.
okay lets get to the real important matter at hand, when will and who will turn these into overpriced condos?