Trouble Afoot at 65 South Elliott Place?
Here’s an email we received on Friday afternoon along with the photo above: We have lived across the street from 65 South Elliott place for the last two years. when we moved in we noticed that the building was abandoned. our neighbors told us that the owner had passed away about a year before we…
Here’s an email we received on Friday afternoon along with the photo above:
We have lived across the street from 65 South Elliott place for the last two years. when we moved in we noticed that the building was abandoned. our neighbors told us that the owner had passed away about a year before we arrived and his family has not decided what to do with the building. about a year ago a homeless man started to take residency on its porch. he is a fixture in the neighborhood and seemed
harmless so people on the block seemed to turn a blind eye. This morning a bunch of contractors arrived and have been busy boarding the house with plywood. Can they do this without permission from the LPC?
We’ve got a query into LPC but on its surface this certainly looks like a no-no. GMAP P*Shark DOB
“Residentially challenged”?
How about “hobo?”
I sort of like the term vagabond. Seems much more romantic and carefree than ‘homeless dude’.
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The “homeless dude” is a beloved member of the neighborhood, does odd jobs for various neighbors and is great with my kids.
ew. you let your kids play with homeless dudes? hahah sorry i couldnt resist that 🙂
*rob*
I use to live in the brownstone next door on the garden level when I first came to NYC. Sorry to hear about the passing of the owners. A very nice Chinese family lived there for years.
The “homeless dude” is a beloved member of the neighborhood, does odd jobs for various neighbors and is great with my kids. The place is probably safer with him in it. And he’s certainly safer there than back on the street.
“vagabond??” I suspect this is not a politically correct term.
Hopefully they are not boarding the vagabond inside the porch.
Yeah as in protecting the property from homeless dude sleeping on the porch.