DOB Posts Letter of Intent to Revoke on St. Marks Ave
Here’s an update on the situation at 97 St. Marks Avenue that we wrote about two days ago: In response to complaints that were lodged, the Department of Buildings made two visits to the worksite, one on Wednesday and on one Thursday. Yesterday’s visit resulted in the Borough Commissioner issuing a Stop Work Order as…
Here’s an update on the situation at 97 St. Marks Avenue that we wrote about two days ago: In response to complaints that were lodged, the Department of Buildings made two visits to the worksite, one on Wednesday and on one Thursday. Yesterday’s visit resulted in the Borough Commissioner issuing a Stop Work Order as well as a 15-day Letter of Intent to Revoke. While the owner technically has 15 days to address the specific issues, a code consultant we just got off the phone with suggested that the fact that the letter was combined with a Stop Work Order means that the odds are now strongly against the owner. If anyone can clarify/expand on that reading of the situation, please do.
A Curb Cut on Landmarked St. Marks Avenue? [Brownstoner] GMAP
Easy, East New York. You’re sort of sounding like an ass with a propensity to dramatization in order to justify or buttress your relatively weak points. (My, but what a great idea you have! I must start a GROUP to curb the SCOURGE of curb cutting, because clearly, since I made a comment protesting its practice in this case, it is for me, Nokilissa, the MOST important problem in all of NYC…)
And likess2lurk, you get a big fat smiley face. I liked that.
Curb cuts in brownstone neighborhoods are an abomination, pure evil, an irredeemable crime against civility, truth, honor, and anything remotely decent or human. They symbolize the prevailing Republican ethos of “I’ve got mine, eff all of you. I can take something beautiful, rare, and historic, and twist it into some horrifying mess to suit my own selfish whims, just because I bought it and it belongs to me,” while ignoring the fact that if it weren’t for the community around it your pile of bricks wouldn’t be worth squat.
But for the original post, this thing would have gone through, and there would be one more blow against civilization. Bravo, Brownstoner.
Thank god this woman can’t ruin a perfectly good block that I walk down all the time. Curb cuts in this neighborhood are illegal for a reason. They make the sidewalk, the one refuge from automobile chaos, dangerous. When there’s a curb cut, I have to tell my 3 yr old to stop, and look both ways on the sidewalk. Ridiculous!
Bxgrl – while I disagree with the owner trying to install a garage in place of the garden apartment, I love your tenacity. If you are not a lawyer, you should be studying for the LSATs 🙂
ok since Idisagree is a girl, I’ll swap Tool for a filthy wrench. Minus the “r” of course.
Snappy, it’s all good.. you have beef within your own camp. Idisagree is salty because I called her out a few post ago. She moved into my neck of the woods and stated that she had an issue with a 70 year old hole. The dumbass didn’t check before moving in.
one last thing- when I believe in something i defend my point of view. When someone makes a point that I can agree with, I will change my point of view and I have done so many times on brownstoner. Your comment, while taking me to task over idisagree, was to condemn my character, doing to me exactly what you claim I was doing to her.
tiptoe- number 1- if I agreed with her points, I would say so. Obviously I don’t. She has her opinion and I have mine. You side with her- that’s your perogative. I didn’t belittle idisagree. Idisagree chose to use another disagreement we’ve had in the past to, in fact, belittle me. And idisagree has done so in the past as well. Since this has been a contentious thread for everyone- and yesterday’s was no different, I can only assume you didn’t read all of the posts here, nor yesterday’s, nor the forum post that started the whole thing.
In fact yesterday someone found out the homeowner’s name and posted the link to her facebook page, which we asked Mr. B to remove. The point is with her address part of the post, it was easy for that poster to find the information. Yes indeed, a blog can be more than a blog- in this case it was used as a means of embarrassing someone based on information from a questionable source- questionable in that it was a biased viewpoint. And as I said to idisagree, I don’t think it was a good way to handle it. It obviously was not necessary as the DOB had been contacted and the proper agencies were already looking into it.
A blog is for discussion. I don’t have to agree with idisagree (and the log in name should tell you something). But like I always say- I give as good as I get. Next time, take the time to read the whole thread.
Seems to me, bxgrl, that idisagree made some valid points and rather than admitting it with good grace (and then perhaps raising valid points of your own) you took the road of belittling him/her and finding fault with his/her opinion. I see from the past that this the road you always take when someone takes a position that conflicts with yours.
Blogs can sometimes be more than blogs, by the way. The written word has an effect, whether it comes in the form of a newspaper or someone’s personal musings. And, I’m not sure how we can embarrass someone when we don’t know his or her name or what she looks like. At least I don’t.
I could go on, but there is already an outcome.
Jack, my apologies…I see now that I attributed a statement from idisagree to you. And no, the PLUSAs aren’t gunnin’ for you 🙂 (we are far too lazy a bunch to gun for anything other than cold beer)