A little more than a year after the bust which netted six from the location and spawned a much bigger citywide drug bust weeks later, the lot that holds the Bay Ridge crack houses has finally sold at auction!*
Oddly enough, the drug dealers who were life long residents of the block didn’t bother to pay taxes for three years and left behind a $24,000 tax tab when they were arrested. This goes to show that you can get away with not paying property taxes in NYC for an extended period of time before anyone notices – as long as you don’t sell drugs out of your home! I image they would have lasted decades had it not been for the drugs.
No word yet if the buyers were people in the Meth industry with plans on building a mega meth lab on the property.
Just last week while walking up to the subway I spotted a sweaty middle aged junkie ringing the doorbells of both houses, pounding on the doors and calling out for people to open the doors - he must have fallen off the wagon, or else he would have known the drugs left a year ago.
George L. Clark, seller of real estate, not a man who dares do a touch of yard work.
Lastly, it appears as though the abandoned car on the side of the property next to the driveway comes as part of the deal. SCORE!!!
*I find it funny that the papers and most people in the neighborhood say that this location was a bane to their existence for the three years leading up to the bust; drugs were being sold out of this location for at least the past decade. Are we all saying that the first seven years were bliss here? Or, are people just not willing to admit that they lived with the blinders on for so long?
07/29/2009 09:35PM UPDATE!!! According to the Village Voice, the alleged drug kingpin who supplied a kilo of coke a month to this property was arrested today! He’s a Cuban national named Yotuhel Montane. It just goes to show that one loose kink in the chain can take everyone out!