Open Thread Wednesday

Excellent choice of photos for the header! Those people are stopped there is to look at the goldfish in the fountain at the corner. I’m always amazed by the people who think fountain=wishing well, and throw coins into it—potentially poisoning the fish.

Meanwhile…here are the rest of my photos of the People’s Trust building, exterior and interior, here and in my replies:
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Adding to the disturbing trend of electric vehicles riding on sidewalks is the new disturbing trend of women hawking lunch on the Montague block between Clinton and Court just beyond Fresh Market. It is not getting to the point that the only place to walk on Montague Street is in the street.

Yes, blocking the sidewalk. Selling out of a cooler. Not licensed. Not insured. Just another example of the city falling apart.

Has anyone here been inside the house/apartment building shown in the header? Does anyone know the history of that house? I was just commenting to my spouse as we walked by yesterday how I’ve always wondered what it’s like inside. At least one room still has a beautiful ceiling fresco intact — you can see it from the street.

I believe it is an extension of Catholic Charities. Catholic Charities is moving its food pantry from St Charles Borromeo church to 55 Pierrepont effective September 1 and will offer the pantry and also counseling and other services for people in need or in distress.

Banet,
the best way to look inside a building without actually entering is looking at StreetEasy “236 Henry Street”.

Go to past rentals and click on the apartment and look at the pictures.

This building is limited to studio and one bedroom apartments.

https://streeteasy.com/building/236-henry-street-brooklyn#tab_building_detail=3

Great idea. And wow, what a sad collection of generic studio apartments. Though I found the unit with the ceiling frescos — “unit PF” – which rented at a major premium to all the others.

Let’s go easy here. These are Hispanic women selling lunch to Hispanic workers in the Heights. There are a few of them in various locations near construction projects. Why the hostility?

No hostility. Just fact. Not selling to construction workers, hawking to anyone who walked by. They could have done the same thing at the park where the greenmarket is, plenty of workers there going in and out of the courts. My point is that they were blocking the sidewalk already overrun by bikes of every flavor with no license, insurance, or permit, selling out of Coleman coolers. My opinion, not ok.

There’s a relevant article about this in Gothamist, here:

https://gothamist.com/news/inside-nycs-vendor-boom-whats-driving-it-and-how-is-the-city-responding

Two Dumbo- related questions:

1) I saw that Sam’s Autobody on Old Fulton Street moved — the one next to the ever, almost opening L&B Spumoni. Anyone know what is moving in?

2) In Brooklyn Bridge Park, next to the One Hotel, there is now a fence up, and the parking lot towards the ferry, the bike path entrance, and all of the trees in the vicinity have all been cut down and cleared. What’s happening there?

Internet powered citizens, do you thing and bring me some enlightenment.

589 Smith Street

The industrious Mary Frost has a good piece on a proposed bill to make ice cream trucks go electric within 3 years. A very much welcome plan, as anyone who’s been subjected to the truck fumes at Clinton & Livingston or Pierrepont & the Promenade know.

https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2023/08/03/bill-would-require-toxic-ice-cream-trucks-to-convert-to-green-power/

Do you know it’s DUMBO and NOT Dumbo?

Dumbo is a Walt Disney character an elephant.

DUMBO is an acronym, Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass.