Drug Dealers Taking Over New S. Slope Condo?
A reader writes in…I live across the street from 373 15th Street. It’s a newer construction building that has been finished for what seems like 2 years or longer. For some reason, the developer never got the certificate of occupancy and nobody has ever moved in. I’m wondering if you, or anyone in our community,…
A reader writes in…I live across the street from 373 15th Street. It’s a newer construction building that has been finished for what seems like 2 years or longer. For some reason, the developer never got the certificate of occupancy and nobody has ever moved in. I’m wondering if you, or anyone in our community, has any information about the violations against the building – and whether those violations will be removed and units will sell. There is a lot of discussion in the neighborhood about this building as it now houses a number of loiterers and drug dealers. There was an impressive undercover drug bust there yesterday.
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the condo building according to property sharks is
392 14th street. the alternate address is 359 15th street. all the units have been sold, the latest in august 2006.
this building actually looks okay. hmm i wonder after these drug problems. they gonna lower the prices or sell to another developer for cheap!!!!
I live down the block. I don’t think the problem is that drug dealers are in the building, but the way it is designed, there are spaces behind the handicap entrances where people could hide. Someone was complaining on another forum that people were living in those spaces. I hadn’t heard about the drug dealing before but I don’t doubt it.
This is just plain weird and sounds awfully suspicious to me. Drug dealers living in a new, unfinished condo/apt. next to the armory on a really nice block?
How could they get away with living there long enough to even establish their trade?
I doubt any contractor/developer of units this valuable would not be aware of drug dealers camped inside like squatters, so I’m not believing this. me thinks it’s BS…
I’m sorry to hear about the bust. It would be good for Park Slope to have at least one accessible source of drugs. I’m sick of having to go to other neighborhoods every time I want a gram of coke or whatever. You’d think that, with the Park and everything, Park Slope would have more to offer in this regard.
RobertDT — Your powers of insight are astounding and your feedback very helpful. “NIMBYs”, as you call them, are for the most part, not anti-development, but rather tend to support safe work practices and building projects that at least show an ounce of respect for the context of the neighborhood (which from the photo, this building seems to do somewhat.)
That is what NIMBYs like. Stop development.
Now this poor developer has to leave an empty building for drugdealers.
I am too sure NIMBYs are behind this some how.
??? If nobody has ever moved in, how does it house drug dealers? Is the place just sitting with the door open, windows busted, etc?
I’m glad to know I have another place I can score smack in the South Slope. I’ve always been able to get it on Third Avenue from the prostitutes there, but it’s nice to see it moving up the slope.