My interview with dance/pop star Erika Jayne is up on Starpulse.com.  Jayne’s ‘Give You Everything’ is currently #2 on the Billboard Dance charts.

Her debut album, ‘Pretty Mess’ drops August 11th. 

While Billboard says it drops on the 25th, she informed me it is the 11th.  I’ll go with her on this. 

Click her to read the interview.

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!

Finding a free parking spot on the street is a difficult thing to do in NYC, especially in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. 

So, I cannot help but feel annoyed at the fact that at least one used car dealer in Pennsylvannia is using the streets of Bay Ridge as a place to store and advertise their vehicles. 

Two weeks ago a guy parked a Mercury Villager on my block, removed the license plates and left the car on the street with white letters on the windows indicating that it was for sale – with a 718 contact number. 

After four days of looking at the car that had no legal right being on the street due to it not having license plates or an inspection sticker I called 311 to have it removed.

311 informed me that if the car had no license plates it had no business being parked on the street and that the sanitation department would tow it away.

The next morning I woke up to find a gray haired sanitation worker double parked beside the Villager.  The sanitation dude made some phone calls and worked on his laptop as he inspected the vehicle.  After about 30 minutes of work he drove off never to be seen again.

Seven hours later a man drove up to the car, wiped the “for sale” info off of it and placed PA dealer license plates on it. 

Since it wasn’t test driven or even looked at under the hood, the obvious conclusion is that the car was in fact belonging to the PA dealer the entire time.  I saw several others since then and only yesterday finally got to snap some photos of yet another car that appears to be the work of the PA dealership. 

It too was parked on the street without any license plates or inspection stickers – 91st at 4th Ave to be exact.

It too was for sale and marked with a 718 area code as the contact number.

This one has some damage to it though.  Tape is holding the rear bumper together.

The entire driver’s side has scrapes on it, the front left tire is flattened and there is some damage to the front bumper as well.

And here’s the kicker: IT HAS PBA & MARCHALLS CARDS IN IT!!!

Now while I cannot say for certain that this vehicle belongs to a PA dealership using shady practices of ditching a car in Brooklyn in hope of selling it (although it suspiciously looks as though it is), I can say for certain that this is a clear abuse of law enforcement and one of the reasons why PBA cards are complete BS items that should be outlawed to stop such abuses against the general public. 

It is clear that this is not a law enforcement vehicle, and yet because the owner of this vehicle either knows a cop or is a cop, they get that special privilege of not having to obey the law like everyone else is supposed to. 

And for the record, when reporting this vehicle to 311 they informed us that the Department of Sanitation will only remove the vehicle if the DOS feels it is appropriate, with a PBA card in the window, my guess is that they will let it slide – but we will never know for certain, because 311 does not give out any type of reference numbers for cases of abandoned vehicles, we can never look this up for a follow up.

This past weekend a real jerk of a human being from 63 91st Street in Brooklyn had yet another yard sale and aside from calling the yard sale a “Flea Market” – they tacked numerous neon announcements to trees covering a two block radius to their home.

This is the house and it happens to be for sale – here’s the listing which has zero photos up, no photos usually means real $hitter!

And with those trees being overgrown for the front yard and being so close to the foundation, I doubt the $849K asking price is worth the trouble of having to fix any possible foundation damage.

Anyone care to take a guess as to how many signs were tacked to trees in that two block radius? 

Hint: the two block radius only goes for three sides, one side faces the water.  Find out the answer after the jump!

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