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Photo by Caroline Stanley/Flavorwire.
Looks like the evicted squatters of 59 Orient Avenue are trying to reclaim their abandoned home. Caroline Stanley of Flavorwire, a neighbor of the Williamsburg house, tells us: "We heard people trying to get in last night around 12 and called the cops. The fence has been like that for two days now and when I called 311 to report it to the DOB they claimed that two other complaints had already been lodged." The house, of course, is famous for being Clementine's home in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and the street made more famous by its real-life resident Michel Gondry.
Don't worry kids, the new owners are soon turning this Victorian-era should-have-been-landmarked dump into a 20-unit luxury condo, which will surely appease the stabby drug addicts who currently call it home. More photos of its present state after the jump.
Photos by Caroline Stanley/Flavorwire.
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Hey! Pay your rents like any normal fuckin' american would!
I loved that movie.
Squatters make me think of fight club. Also, i've thought about squatting before, too many heroin addicts though.
it's too difficult to squat in nyc,
now in some cities in michigan that's different.
pay rent? someone would have to pay me to live in that hellhole. I could just imagine living in rolled up newspapers covered in garbage bags, while flies and vermin crawl around you with no plumbing in 30 degree temperatures and you wake up and there is water dripping out of every corner.
Theres tons of abandoned buildings in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens have a fair amount of old warehouses and stuff like that that nobody uses anymore. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find a place to squat, at least not in the outer boroughs.
But if you ask anyone on Brownstoner, its gotta be worth 3 million at least. Plus, when the owner builds those 20 new luxury condos, they are going to sell like hotcakes in this fast paced market - probably a million each for those studios in Williamsburg. Everyone wants to live here now, it's so hip and crime free. NYC is the destination location for everyone wanting to move especially all those midwesterners since gas is over $4 a gallon what with how cheap our taxes are and how efficient, pleasant, and cheap our public transportation is.
Wait a minute, it's not 2006 anymore is it? Nevermind.
I believe those places in the bronx are either crack houses or shotting galleries. not something bubbles had in the Wire. there were abandoned buildings in the LES as recent as 1989 and I rarely saw squaters there. I remember shooting out windows with an air rifle and dropping M80's down air shafts.
yeah that's a damn shame. I've watched that beautiful home turn to shit over the past 2 years. someone said peter cooper built that home. doesn't that deserve landmark status or something. the whole block behind that home is cookie-cutter concrete condos.... still empty, still ugly
Now they are going to build upscale condos? It's a little late to try luring the twentynothing offspring of a Detroit auto executive whose stock just split on news of record profits.
Welcome to Barrack HUSSEIN Obama's Amerikka where you take what you need and use what you want.
IF WHITEY DON'T GIVE IT WE DONE GONNA HAVE TO TAKE IT!
HUGO, you troll. Don't you have anything better to do?
Are you trying to deliberately ruin the 'reputation' of those who rationally and consciously have real issues with Obama by being such a jackass?
why hasn't this piece of shit been torn down yet?