StreetLevel: New Bail Bonds Office Closed Til Next Year
Bad luck for anyone who hoped to visit the new bail bonds office across the street from the House of Detention sometime in the next few weeks: According to a sign on the door, the business is closed until next year. No explanation was given for the closure, but we suspect there’s a group of…
Bad luck for anyone who hoped to visit the new bail bonds office across the street from the House of Detention sometime in the next few weeks: According to a sign on the door, the business is closed until next year. No explanation was given for the closure, but we suspect there’s a group of homeowners in the area that won’t be mourning the loss.
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@THAL: why is it a bad idea that a bail bonds be on the ground floor of a condo building one block away from Central Booking? you and others who invested should be happy that the lone commercial tenant will be able to pay his lease. people are always going to need a bail bondsman, people are always in jail. that service isnt going away so to me it sounds like a stable tenant. and if nobody has a problem with it being there, then whats the big deal about not being told about it? “its ok but u still could have said something.” :::shakes head:::: i dont get it….
THAL- it is in your phrase “in the right way” that your true colors show. My point is that in the city, you take neighborhoods as you find them. See, some of us actually enjoy the differences among areas of the city. We see those differences as part of the mosaic of the city, not as something to be changed “in the right way.” Perhaps this make me a complete ass to you, but I find people like you to be soulless, overprivileged, overinsulating prigs with little appreciation for all of the elements that make this city great. Your desire to sanitize the city with the “right” development (gee, if it were just a little more like Shaker Heights, it would be so great) disgusts some of us. We like NY with its warts and all. As I said at the outset, if you are going to live near a jail, deal with the consequences. And to your comment about it being dumb to put a bail bond business in the ground floor of a condo, have you considered it might be dumb to put a condo in such a neighborhood and then complain about the neighborhood.
Also, do you write much? Your attempted insults make you sound like a 12 year old, complete ass.
ORESTES – Do you get out much? Your comment makes you sound like a complete ass.
I love people like you who do not want neighborhoods to ever change. I think we all understand we live near courts and the HOD but that doesnt mean the area still can not develop in the right way. ANd to put a bail bonds in the bottom floor of a condo building is a dumb idea. Especially for all of those people that invested in that building.
“suburban aesthetics” please again you are lost.
Who are you people to dictate how a business should look? Oh, if they had nice furniture, if it looked like another tedious pseudo-French bistro it would be fine. Please stop trying to impose your suburban aesthetics on the city. You live near a prison, deal with it. Or better yet, go back to the suburbs, where you really belong.
As owner said, it is not the business type objected to but what a ugly mess the storefront is and signage that make it offensive. I walk by often and surprised how awful it looks.
Make it nice looking and wouldn’t bother me a bit.
My husband finds this amusing: When I walk down Atlantic over there at night, I cross the street and walk in front of the jail, because it’s much safer than walking past two very dark empty lots on the opposite side. Jails: They keep the bad guys *in*.
Yes, big diff between jail and prison. Menawhile, whatever pawn shops and check cashers signal, bail bondsmen signal proximity to criminal court and jail, which resident would be near whether thaere was a bail bondsman or not.
Honsetly, I don’t see why this site keeps indulging every hiccup on the bail bond front.
BTW – People who are in Prison have no use for bail bonds.
Bail bonds are for people in JAIL (not prison) and Rikers, Brooklyn House of Detention, et al are all JAILS – there is a difference
From a distance, you could mistake it for a Starbucks awning. I’m sure the occupants of the building wish it was just that.