Slope Eyesore May Have Timely End
5th Avenue’s “This is Not a Toilet” building may finally be in its end days. The DOB’s given the structure’s owner the go ahead to put it out of its misery. (The city disapproved an initial filing to replace it.) Rat poison signs were recently posted on the building’s exterior, the typical prelude to the…
5th Avenue’s “This is Not a Toilet” building may finally be in its end days. The DOB’s given the structure’s owner the go ahead to put it out of its misery. (The city disapproved an initial filing to replace it.) Rat poison signs were recently posted on the building’s exterior, the typical prelude to the wrecking ball.
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Forget eyesore. Try hazard. That building is dangerous. There is a death trap in the guise of a cellar door out front with two molecules of rust and a rubber mat the only things between an unwary pedestrian and a quick demise.
I hope the whole row, from the junk store next to the Chip Shop, to the Legion hall/Mafia hangout, to this craptacular ruin, all get torn down and something with some nice retail and new walkup apartments go up. Four story max.
Expensive apartments. Not “affordable housing.” No section-8 vouchers, please.
I saw someone buying something from the chained in front of his building guy the other day.
rust is oxidation of iron. Metal combining with oxygen molecules.
slick=legion=bizarro what=moron
slick = bxgrl
has anyone else noticed that brooklyn old timers tend to think brooklyn has improved enough from when it was a real shithole so everyone should shut up and stop trying to make things better anymore.
Wow, a lot of anonymous hate from commenters tonight. Let me clarify it a bit:
I think that building SHOULD come down. It’s a mess.
But I’m as sick of the word “eyesore” as I am about the word “luxury”. Just another stupid shorthand phrase that’s used in pikcu-up debates. You know the Atlantic Center is an “eyesore”—and a “legsore” if you want to walk to Circuit City—but it’s not the same as this storefront.
Also, most of the apartments being sold—oversold?—in Brooklyn South are far from “luxury”. Especially if it’s new construction. They’re just apartments.
8:06 = Biff
aluminum oxidizes, which is the aluminum version of rust. It gets little dark bumpy spots. Gross. Aluminum is not a great outdoor material unless it is coated.
7:03
Aluminum does not rust.