East Coast Aliens in Greenpoint Closes Loading Bay Doors

As a counterpoint to a scintilla of retail resiliency on Greenpoint's funky Franklin Street (hello Alligator Greenpoint and River Barrel), one interesting venue went the way of the dodo this weekend: East Coast Aliens, a 7,000 square foot production studio and performance space, which you may remember from the Mizz Greenpoint Pageant and, um, a Cassidy video. Anyway, it's a big waste of potential for the neighborhood; owner Eric Majorelle says that after three years the film studio could never get off the ground because of all the cacophonous construction above his head, which his landlord never mentioned when he signed the $5,000 a month lease. After two years, the noise finally subsided when two residential floors were finished, but by then the economic death spiral had begun. It's unclear what's to become of the space, but Majorelle plans to get some payback by creating a website for tenants to report on bad landlords. Since badlandlords.com seems to be taken by, naturally, a group of landlords, check back on badlandlords.org in a couple months.