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We have further evidence of the Martin Lawrenceification of New York City and gentrifiers should be scared. First Downtown Brooklyn, then Chelsea, and now the East Village and Long Island City.
[East Village]
[Long Island City]
People of Bushwick, St. George, Sunnyside, and Morningside Heights, prepare yourselves for the upcoming onslaught of Martin Lawrenceification. You’ve been warned!
You don’t need to visit the deserted towns out west when Long Island City has its own ghost town.
The area between Court Square and Queensboro Plaza is one that is pockmarked with razed land, abandoned buildings awaiting demolition, new “luxury” housing, a homeless problem, old people clinging to the last gasp of their once vibrant neighborhood that has seen lots of transition by way of good old days/crack/hookers/yuppies, obnoxious glass high rises, and a gigantic trench cutting through it for the MTA’s East Side Access project.
It’s a fascinating land where old homes like this still stand as a testament to time.
Due to budget constraints last summer, the MTA had to move forward with a doomsday budget that left numerous bus and subway lines being discontinued or rerouted. While much of the expansive subway system’s signage was changed, some things managed to slip through the cracks and reflect the previous subway lines that no longer exist at locations.
For instance, according to the drain pipes at Queensboro Plaza, the W train still makes stops there when the train line no longer exists (please don’t think that we’re suggesting that money be wastefully spent to change this).
Also, nearly all of the Braille signage has incorrect information at the affected subway stations. We’re surprised that we’ve never come across aggravated blind person waiting for the M train at Court Street.
Lastly, as of late September, which was months after the W train was discontinued, N trains were making announcements for a connection to the W train at Whitehall Street at 5AM.
All of this merely adds to the real life bizarro world that sometimes exists on the subway, and we’re fine with it.
We came across this set of windows on a deserted street in Long Island City. Reflected is the image of One Court Square, a building that we spent far more time and years working in than we ever could have imagined on our first day of work there in 2003.
We appreciate the reflection, for it’s a friendly reminder of miserable careers, greed, an evil industry that we happy as heck to no longer be part of, and the fact that we are fortunate enough to get up each day and love the work that we do.
Call us eccentric if you must, but that building looks as though it’s doing all sorts of nasty awful things to that truck.
Just saying.