Here’s the thing about living things. They all die. But a life or a gesture such as this have a meaning and an impact greater than their final outcomes. I hope there won't be anyone at your funeral yelling: “Hey asshole, you thought that you were gonna live in that stupid box forever? You’re a jerkoff, you know that? Get a job or move somewhere where someone appreciates your corny attention-getting antics, maybe an organic farm or something.”

Hey asshole, you think that tree's gonna live in that stupid box forever? Youre a jerkoff, you know that? Get a job or move somewhere where someone appreciates your corny attention-getting antics, maybe an organic farm or something. Thanks for the ashtray, thats all the scumbags on Bedford are gonna use that for anyway.

That tiny tree is going to be dead very soon.

plant 999,999 more a billion dollars pocket change and poster boy can be our next mayor.

Poster Child != Poster Boy

oh good, now it's an ashtray

and a urinal

Actually, The National newspaper box wasn't sitting on the street for the past sixteen-plus years. There's a guy who lives on the south side of N. 7th St. between Bedford Ave and Berry St. (closer to the latter) who had that newspaper box behind the fence in his yard for at least the last ten years. I lived one block up from him (N. 7th between Berry and Wythe) and passed is everyday when I lived there from 1999 to 2004. So, he either donated it to the cause, or he's the man behind it.

This should fill today's quota of nonsensical stories concerning Williamsburg...

Scrap metal just sitting on the sidewalk for 16 years?

Williamsburg has very lazy criminals or the local drug addicts must have hernias. How pathetic.

but those are where i put all the books i dont want anymore.

Has anyone noticed the Holiday lighting decorations that are ALREADY up over Grand street??

Yea the Salvation Army had those ding-a-ling bells out in June and July.

let me be the first of many to say, it's an avenue, not a street