Gothamist: Squatters Reclaiming Orient Ave. House

cncrocket

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:25:26 -0500

why hasn't this piece of shit been torn down yet?

Shinobi Shaw

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:44:10 -0500

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?

HUGO_MEGO

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:42:40 -0500

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!

NannyState

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:04:48 -0500

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.

camera_club

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:46:49 -0500

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

JacqueMehoff

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:46:28 -0500

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.

rcltrh

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:41:57 -0500

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.

QM

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:41:33 -0500

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.

babyhitler

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:36:26 -0500

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.

JacqueMehoff

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:32:59 -0500

it's too difficult to squat in nyc, now in some cities in michigan that's different.

QM

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:25:09 -0500

Squatters make me think of fight club. Also, i've thought about squatting before, too many heroin addicts though.

Rocknrope

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:14:30 -0500

I loved that movie.

RatherBe

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:13:45 -0500

Hey! Pay your rents like any normal fuckin' american would!