Open Thread Wednesday

By on March 4, 2020 12:09 am in open thread

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  • Steve

    God forbid, I hope it never happens. He must be crazy even to think about buying anything in 111 Hicks, let alone building anything there – the place is falling apart .

  • Steve

    I too would like to know what is happening.. What is happening??

  • BrooklynHeightzer

    Good guess – if built, it will be 28 feet.

  • Brixtony

    Thanks for reminding me why I haven’t been checking this page for a while. I see mostly the same ol’ cranks whinging away again in their little echo chambers. As to this issue, I shop at “Fresh Start” about once a week. Although it’s disorganized, they carry several products that are not obtainable elsewhere on foot , have good produce and prepared foods and are convenient. I have been using my own bags since it was still Garden of Eden with no problems at all ever. At least they don’t clog the aisles with boxes completely blocking access to products like Key Food regularly does.

  • Cranberry Beret

    They stuck the bathroom mirrors onto the second story front windows. That for $14 million?? Good grief

  • Cranberry Beret

    I don’t think they’ve set the price yet. The website doesn’t suggest “affordable.”

    Living nearby to the falafel shop, I can attest to its convenience! Maybe not priceless though :)

  • Reggie

    I’ve been to several stores this week and I have used canvas bags for over three decades.

  • Teresa

    I can’t tell if that’s meant to be sanctimonious, but just in case: I generally bring canvas bags and have for decades. But sometimes I forget. It happens.

  • Rich

    Another conspiracy theory coming from Porter.

  • Knight

    He’s not “building a tower.” He’s putting a fake water tower on the existing roof to disguise a new elevator bulkhead.

  • Andrew Porter

    Corona Virus, you morons!

  • Bornhere

    I noticed today that The Heights Salon is no longer in business. Does anyone know what happened?

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    LOL, I thought you might have been talking BQE related, which is ridiculous.
    There is no certainty that Coronavirus is going to become a pandemic so until then, it’s business as usual.
    But hey, enjoy your paranoias they must comfort you.

  • BrooklynHeightzer

    Just curious – why eating in a restaurant or having a takeout would expose one to more germs than say shopping for food in a crowded supermarket? Maybe it IS the best of times to open.

  • Andrew Porter

    New York State is under a State of Emergency. But of course you know we have nothing to worry about, because, uh…

  • Rich

    Good point… Now that we settled down this issue and know who the true moron is we can start talking about the BQE.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    Sure, wash your hands, don’t touch your face, etc. But most of us still have to work and all of us have to eat so until I’m hacking up blood, I’ll forge ahead as usual.
    We all can’t just say home, watch the Andromeda Strain and read The Decameron like you.

  • Montaguy

    Say what you want, but a “fake water tower” is still a tower.

  • Nomcebo Manzini

    What’s ACRIS? And what’s ad hominem? … And fwiw, you haven’t acknowledged that the “unlisted market” is substantial and reported sale prices may be systemically “haircut!” (I first learned about this re the European country most affected by COVID, but it applies to US/NY sales as well.)

    I’m going to look at less rarefied sources (not probably having access to ACRIS at my workplace computer), so you can “explain” how you missed it…. Work of 30 seconds – true 15 Willow preceded it & supports your argument, but …

    30 Garden Pl
    $7,220,000
    3% over list $7M

  • Steve

    Whatever that damn thing is called, we should not allow this
    to happen. Do you want more traffic jams on Hicks & Clark on top of the BQE spill over cars flooding the streets? Do you want more debris falling down on the people and children on their way to PS 8? Do you want more garbage piled up 5 feet high on Hicks between Clark & Pineapple? All this for the next three years at the very least! Brooklyn Heights folks should boycott the damn project! Call Bjarke Ingels and tell him to move on!

  • KXrVrii1

    The food you buy at a store, you can clean and cook and be pretty comfortable it has not come into contact with the virus.

    Even if restaurants follow proper procedures, there is always the possibility that the food was contaminated after washing / cooking.

    But yeah, on the flip side, you are probably coming close to more people at a grocery store, touching more potential formites, etc. So who knows.

  • urallidiots

    Lots of animosity here toward 111, huh? The fake water tower won’t be visible from the street – not sure why anyone cares about it or the semantics of calling it a “tower.” As for the other objections, you really need to get back on your meds. Ingels’s renovation work will be invisible to passersby. It won’t cause additional traffic (no road closures for construction). It won’t be raining bricks from the sky above (notwithstanding the fact that this is largely an interior renovation, there are still rigorous safety requirements for construction here in NYC). It won’t increase the trash production from the building (construction debris must be disposed of offsite). And, if his contractor is competent, it will not take anywhere near three years to complete (not that the timing really matters because all your prior objections are ridiculous).

  • Cranberry Beret

    You’re dead wrong about the visibility. Did you see the mocked-up version a few months ago? It’ll be visible from all the surrounding blocks plus further in the distance from the Promenande, BBP, the Brooklyn Bridge etc.

    The whole reason he designed an elevator bulkhead as a fake water tower was to make the enormous visibility palatable to the Landmarks commission. Otherwise there wouldn’t have been any reason.

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