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For years we’ve seen this former nursing home located at 2300 Cropsey Avenue in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, crumble and slowly become etched with graffiti.  Since it has the appearance of being a building that was to be demolished we checked out the NYC Department of Buildings record on it and found that it currently has 38 active violations and two active complaints against it.

Our favorite violation was this one that reveals that both the top floor and the fire service piping had been removed without a permit.  It read:

“WORK W/O PERMIT: WORK NOTED,EXISTING STAND PIPE REMOVED SECTION OF PIPING FROM MAIN VALUE FROM FIRE SERVICE PIPING TO STAND PIPE RISER. ALSO FOUND TOP FLR WAS REMOVED & CUT AWAY. ALSO ALL OF THE HOSE VALVES WER”

This building is a perfect example of how the Department of Buildings is an absolute joke in the City of New York. 

Some of the violations have been overdue and have not been in compliance for over 17 years; while there are numerous other active and open violations that date back nearly a decade!

Further evidence of just how big of a joke the NYC Department of Building: the fact that there are currently $69,600 worth of outstanding penalties that date back years without payment.

The DOB appears to be powerless with regard to having the ability to enforce anything and the owners appear to think that DOB summons as well as other official notes need to fade out in the sun — either that or they just can’t be bothered anymore with the mere thought of this place.

They’re stuffed all over!  We counted over half a dozen Department of Buildings summonses fading away into obscurity. 

If you’d like to see photos of the inside of this abandoned building and what the roof looks like, check out LTVsquad’s shots.

If you woke up this morning with your loved one thinking it best that you not go into work today and instead just stay home, it was probably best to have listened to them.

[Image via Wiki]

You don’t want to end up like Julius Caesar, going to work only to be stabbed to death.

Yesterday we had but a preview of the storm damage from the massive storm this weekend after quarter inch hail to our face put an early stop to the morning walk.  When the rain clouds cleared in the later afternoon we ventured out again and found a lot more damage that was done to Bay Ridge, like this tree that toppled over from the Gingerbread House and knocked out the lines to Fort Hamilton High School and in the process crushed an SUV — go Mother Nature!!! 

Lots more pics of toppled trees, ripped up sidewalks, crushed cars and dinged up houses after the jump!

This big old evergreen inside the grounds of Visitation Monstary is holding on as best it can, but it’ll have to come down.

The tree outside Bay Ridge Prep’s gymnasium didn’t make it and took out a car in the process of claiming Ridge Boulevard for itself.

There is a white SUV under there.

Last night we were one of the many fools stuck at Newark Penn Station due to the entire Northeast Corridor of Amtrak being knocked offline.  After four hours of “delays” on the line the police department finally took over public address system and announced that there was no train service anywhere from the station and that buses were the only option to get anywhere. 

What they didn’t say was that only one bus per hour to NYC was the real option and that thousands of people were waiting for said once an hour bus with threats of arrest by the police for not being on the overflowing sidewalk.  After a ride from Fiancee’s folks to TImes Square (thank you again so much!) and riding the subway sloooowly back to Brooklyn, our journey was about four or five hours long.   

Upon getting to Brooklyn we found that people are still under the belief that it is good to open an umbrella in a wind storm.   

This morning we strolled over to the cupcake shop and found this poor tree was ripped in half.

Despite it being obvious that the winds were no match for TREES, people still had their umbrellas open in this wind.

It’s good to know that the damage a nor’easter can do cannot harm the wit of a fool.

Long time readers might remember the fast food burger tour that we went on back in 2008 that had us eating 3,080 calories worth of burgers from McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King.  Or, perhaps our trip to Five Guys Burgers and Fries that occured last spring. 

Well, we made our third trip to fast food restaurants in three years this past week when we stepped into a Wendy’s and ate ourselves a Bacon Blue burger. 

One word: DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELICIOUS!!!!

While we couldn’t find the calorie count of the Bacon Blue listed anywhere at the Wendy’s that we visited as required by law in NYC, a google search reveals that the Bacon Blue is likely 680 calories, 360 of which is from fat — heart attack.  YUM!!!

One big slab of fast food beef, lettuce, tomatoes, blue cheese and BACON, we were left amazed by the delicious joy that was the Bacon Blue.  That said, the thing felt as though it was loaded with salt and we had to drink lots more water than our usual intake.

So, should you find yourself in the mood to try something new that we assume is probably bad for you to eat on a daily basis…we recommend you eat a Bacon Blue from Wendy’s.

Most transplants to New York, or people who live too far from Coney Island to feesably walk or bike to it have probably only seen the parachute drop in Coney Island from up close and underneath it.

While it’s cool up close, it’s a completely different beast when seeing it in a frame of reference with tall buildings (and a crain) in the much nearer foreground across Gravesend Bay — or Caesars Bay, if you’re an idiot from Brooklyn who doesn’t understand that Caesars Bay was only a marketplace named after a man named Caesar, and not the actual name of the bay.

With the recent warming trend, several of croci bloomed in our garden.

They’re just full of pollen and are waiting for the bees to come on out and get them…TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

Yesterday we spotted Brooklyn’s favorite Turkey, Lois, hanging out with the geese, ducks, chickens and roosters at Poly Prep Country Day School. 

Based off of how turkey heavy the Poly Prep’s school lunch menu is, this turkey has LOTS to worry about. 

Thankfully, Lois, managed to live through this past Tuesday’s turkey and vegetable barley soup.

We recently spotted this early 1960s Ford Galaxie 500 hanging out near Brooklyn’s Cropsey Avenue.

Just check out the wheels!

Lower, Longer, Wider — Galaxie 500!

OG pal of the Beehive, M. David Hornbuckle, was travelling from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Birmingham, AL yesterday and in the process he checked a suitcase that contained his laptop. 

When Hornbuckle arrived in Birmingham he opened his laptop and found that a rather creepy, odd and unnecessary note had been left neatly inside of it.

[Image via Hornbuckle]

Seeing as how Hornbuckle didn’t lend his laptop out to someone and had checked it in while securely inside of a suitcase and handed it off to TSA ensured hands in the form of Delta employees, we presume that someone from the TSA or perhaps a Delta bag handler employee placed this note inside — or perhaps, God magically created and placed this note inside of the laptop. 

[Image via Hornbuckle]

While the cell phone photo is a little blurry, it reads:

Youtube

“Fall of the Republic”

“End Game”

“Obama Occupation”

Google

“Money Matters”

We searched all of these terms and it appears as though the author is a right wing nut who is trying to help spread the word that President Obama is involved with some sort of offshore, secret conspiracy that is currently going on that involves international bankers trying to create a New World Order that uses an International Currency. 

While we are amused at the thought of someone scribbling odd notes and leaving them in laptops, we can only hope that whomever placed this note is at the very least fired from their job.  Left wing, right wing, whatever the case may be, there just isn’t a reason to be intruding in someone’s belongings for such a manner.  If they’re looney enough to place objects inside of bags that they don’t own, they simply don’t belong working in an airport envirnment.

More of Hornbuckle’s note can be found on his blog.

We found this rusting sign adorning P.S. 104 in Brooklyn, NY. 

We have no idea how old this rusty sign is, but it is making reference to Penal Law 722-b. 

When we looked up 722-b within the New York Penal Code, we found that this sign is truly antiquated. 

722-b in the New York Penal Code references “Compensation and reimbursement for representation.” It has nothing to do with loitering or trespassing or disorderly conduct or schools.

Either way, it’s one heck of a cool sign.

We noticed a decomposing wasp nest perched high up in a stinky ginkgo tree on a busy Brooklyn corner. 

They’ve moved on to nest elsewhere this year and we can only hope that this nest safely falls in front of someone so that they are scared clueless.