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As if real estate developers didn't have a bad enough rap! David Walentas, the mastermind who turned the clocktower in DUMBO into a Clocktower of luxury apartment, is accused of stealing $130,000 of electricity by rigging wires from the Clocktower to his commercial building. The Daily News' exclusive story says that the Clocktower's condo owners are suing Walentas, after finding out that the "commingling" of heat and electrical from 30 Washington Street and Clocktower actually meant more expensive electrical bills for the Clocktower residents. And this is just the latest in problems for the Clocktower: There have been leaking roofs, non-working windows, boiler issues, and more. Most impressive of Walentas's chutzpah is this:
Brockstedt also found that Walentas had an air conditioner installed on the Clocktower building's roof that served only his unit but was powered by the common area meter - and thus paid for by the condo association.Good lord. And everyone who lives in a Trump Building - see if all the wires are leading to Mar-a-Lago!
NY magazine called Walentas's Clocktower development the "tipping point" in DUMBO development. And here's Bluejake's DUMBO series from last fall.
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If you head East of the Manhattan Bridge (which feels like North until you look at a map) in DUMBO, maybe down Water St, but I can't remember exactly which street, you end up at a weird dead-end circle. At the circle, there is a huge set of gates and behind the gates a long driveway that leads to a white mansion. Last time I looked, there was a corvette and a couple of other fancy, but old, cars in the driveway. Does anybody know what this place is?
brian, kevin says on forgotten ny, "The Naval Commandant's House, the crown jewel of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is visible behind a locked gate from Little Street in Vinegar Hill. It was built between 1805 and 1806 and is purportedly the design of Boston's Charles Bulfinch. Bulfinch designed the U.S. Capitol Building as well as Faneuil Hall and the State House in Boston."
That's not chutzpah. I'd be impressed if he stole electricity from the Watchtower, not the Clocktower. To paraphrase the usual misquote: "Hell hath no fury like a Jehovah's Witness scorned."