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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.

After being known for the spot that Kate Winslet's character in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind called home, Williamsburg’s Orient Avenue became the real-life home of director Michel Gondry. It then became the real-life squatting spot for many local crackheads, and following a brief stint of stabbiness, it's now going Hollywood again! Sort of. Flavorwire reports that Gondry's latest project appears to be filming not only on the street, but right at his very own house.

Last night I passed by two guarded, trash bag-covered cameras in front of his house that had been set up earlier that day. When I asked the guys watching the equipment if Gondry was involved, they smiled but would not confirm it. When I then asked if Michel Gondry was paying them well to stay up all night, they said yes.

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Are the evicted squatters of Orient Avenue lashing out? One local wrote in to FreeWilliamsburg to describe their terrifying experience on the street (where parts of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind were filmed, and where Michel Gondry himself just moved). She reports back: "On Thursday evening at 7:30 pm I was walking home along Orient Ave., listening to my iPod, when I was approached by a guy with a steak knife in his hand. He demanded my bag, yanked it from me, and started to leave. When he was a few steps away I panicked and began screaming...He turned back around and proceeded to stab me once in the chest - perforating a lung - and once in the arm. Luckily for me the blade broke and was left hanging out of my arm. I think that he would have continued attacking me if this had not happened." Luckily, her neighbors came out and helped her stay awake until the ambulance arrived, but her attacker is still out there. She described the man as "age 20-22, biracial, approx 6ft and 170lbs, wearing a Mets hat."