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The Darwin Terrace

August 24, 2010 Trickle Down Ethics / Uncategorized
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There are quite a few houses like the one below in the greater Bay Ridge / Dyker Heights / Bath Beach / Bensonhurst area of Brooklyn that have what we have coined to be a Darwin Terrace.

The Darwin Terrace is typically on the 2nd or 3rd floor of a private home.  It is entered onto by way of a sliding glass door.  It does not have a railing on it, and it gives off the appearance of the Darwin Terrace homeowner having run out of funds on an ill-conceived home renovation.

The Darwin Terrace gets its name by way of a homeowner who will one day be dumb enough to wake up in the morning, walk out onto a terrace that does not have a railing on it, go for a stretch and subsequently fall off the side of his or her terrace to their death being someone whose death will be dumb enough to receive a Darwin Award.

Quite honestly, we’re simply shocked (and thankful) that in light of the many Darwin Terraces throughout Brooklyn, we haven’t heard of one little toddler unknowingly walking his or her way out of the house by way of the Darwin Terrace to a sad death.

Snap out of it and get a fence people!!!

Streets Of Brooklyn

April 27, 2010 Uncategorized
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Annika Vitolo wrote a musical homage to her/our hometown of Brooklyn aptly called, Streets of Brooklyn. 

The video for it has an awesome collection of photos from many a Brooklynite, including us — we’re in it with the third photo. 

What we love most about this collection of photos is that they aren’t Williamsburg/Hipster heavy and actually highlight much of what the actual Borough of Brooklyn looks and feels like.

Brooklyn’s Best Seashell Collector

March 18, 2010 Uncategorized
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At low tide we spotted a rather larger looking man over the seawall, past the protective boulders and down in the sand of Bath Beach right about where the British forces and Hessian troops walked onto Long Island for the Battle of Long Island in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. 

Our first thought, metal detector looking for a find; but without a metal detector in sight we cannot help but think, seashell collector?

We then spotted another large man nearby who was digging around in the boulders looking for something.

Ummm, yeah.  Dead bodies, drugs, bars of gold, sand, seashells, workout equipment, tanning salon, whatever it was that they were up to just didn’t look right. 

They were just a couple of nice professional seashell collectors.  Nothing more than kind hearted business men, family men, right?

Public Bathroom Mysteries

March 17, 2010 Trickle Down Ethics
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Walking into a public bathroom at a park in New York City is always a new and different experience.  In fact, it’s probably best to always walk into one with the assumption that something weird or dangerous is going on inside so that you don’t end up falling victim to something.

That said, we were totally thrown off guard when we walked into the men’s room at the Bay 8th Street park in Bath Beach.

Yes, yes it is a SPOTLESS stainless steel set up that appears to be scrubbed down on a daily basis with Brillo. 

It has no privacy once inside due to no doors or walls around the toilet which makes the fact that the outside door remains propped open all the more chilly and raises the question:  Is it indecent exposure to be bottomless while on the toilet when the only door around is wedged wide open?

Also, this mystery soap had us scratching our head.

What happened to the soap dispenser that is clearly on top of the sink?  Why isn’t that good enough to be used?  Did they lose they key?  Also, who in their right mind would use a pink liquid that is inside of an old Poland Spring water bottle that is labeled ‘soap’ in a public bathroom that is in the middle of a park?

What Does A Building With 38 Active Violations Look Like?

March 16, 2010 Economy Fail Watch / Fisheye Photos / Trickle Down Ethics
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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.

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