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- A couple of questions to ask at the meeting
- SJU student has swine flu
- Building Collapses at Lower Manhattan Construction...
- Bring us your viruses!
- Postal union decries waste of time
- Brooklyn park is a real dump
- City can't clean up Gowanus by itself
- Sears: Term limits "a very small issue"
- Hitting the delete key on illegal billboards
- Things got a little nuts in Fresh Meadows recently
- New direction for Atlas Park
- Two-tone crap
- Swine flu pandemic imminent
- Queens GOP continues to lack balls
- Queens hospitals' strange swine flu policy
- Happy birthday, Whitestone Bridge!
- Violent offenders get around Mike's gun laws
- Financial focus on Flushing
- Contamination coverup, part 2
- Bklyn builder dumps cash on Quinn & Katz
- Grace Meng expecting a baby
- Triboro Bridge hawk nest is back
- Finance commissioner quits
- Queens Crap built in Williamsburg
- St. Saviour's site excavated without permit
- Everyone knew except Bloomberg (yeah, ok!)
- Swine flu eyed in 2 U.S. deaths
- Our official apple?
- Contamination coverup
- High rises in Hallett's Cove?
- Hypocrisy at its best
- Project elevators to finally be repaired
- Pratt guy wants Gowanus development really badly
- Times visits lovely Laurelton
- Corona triangle crap
- Astoria has another blackout!
- Bloomberg clueless about plane photo op?
- Attention SFP Terriers!
- Can't wait for summer!
- Queens paper vs. illegal immigration
- Related may develop on top of park
- Poor planning leads to school seat shortage
- Flushing Airport a de facto nature preserve
- Scarano sues DOB
- We're just gluttons for punishment
- Part of Queens Blvd named after Manton
- Fire and ambulance cuts keep on coming
- Union Crap (w/o Gary Puckett)
- It's official. Prep has the swine flu.
- Woman's death is Con Ed's fault
- Daily News on Aqueduct: Build more housing!
- Water boarders continue the torture
- Rockrose split
- Too long of a wait for help
- JFK has most bird strikes
- Probing wide and deep
- 2nd Avenue subway delayed
- Contractors & unions reach agreement
- Preventing illegal halfway houses
- Missing an opportunity for nature preserve
- DOH Commissioner says swine flu outbreak "probable"
- Vandalism spree in LIC
- Great Hall getting a facelift
- Dramatic drop in building permits
- Much to say about Sean Bell Way
- Trimming the fat at the MTA
- IDT still at it
- Jamaica Bay marsh rebuilt successfully
- Maspeth & Woodside burglar family
- Bellerose craphouse getting a neighbor
- Swine flu at St. Francis Prep?
- Floral Park house explodes
- Bloomie scared of disabled Queens granny
- LaGuardia just plain sucks
- College Point a victim of "As of Mike" rule
- Lawsuit filed over toxic school
- LI Building Commissioner going to the pokey
- Bloomie's pet peeves
- Queens foreclosures & their ups & downs
- DeBlasio's saying strange things to help developer
- Council doing towing industry a favor
- Teams find out that karma's a real bitch
- VA nursing home to go condo
- Aqueduct racino bidder sued
- Newtown Creek may get Superfund status
- A BJ's for Muss
- Hiram hires Pinky's attorney
- Buying the party out from under Thompson
- Concern expressed at gas terminal hearing
- Doorman vs. fast food
- The long and the short of it
- Construction Worker Dies On Queensboro Bridge
- Report of Hootie's firing was premature
- Con Ed kicks Hootie to the curb
- NY1 gets Ozone Park construction site padlocked
- You're getting screwed either way...
- Religious opposition to Marty's $64M potato chip
- Burden to certify Maspeth-Midville-Glendale rezoning
- Boardwalk without the boards?
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33 comments:
It looks like the property owner ...commercial slumlord Jerry Walkoff is in deep shit!
I'll bet Walkoff the news media and DOB try to use the aerosol (legal graffiti) artists as the scapegoats!
Not with his history of code violations!
Aren't there serious fire code violations as well as issues to discuss with DOB?
In the event of a fire, these stairs would have been the main means of egress. Perhaps this woman's tragedy prevented triangle shirtwaist part II.
God speed to her, and when she is up and about I want to find out where she is selling and buy some of her jewelry. She sounds like a charitable soul.
Kiss that buidling goodby.
Thanks Bloomturd, nice inspection by the city.
Again.
Four more years!
Graffit1 bad.......libs,stupid
The 5 Pointz graffiti building?
Now that's real lipstick on a pig.
The epic center of NYC's graffiti problem is about to crumble.
We artist who are so in love for cheap studio space by slum landlords
are partially responsible for these
terrible events,we become ass kissin
Ostrich's when safety is an issue.
Yeah I know Ostriches don't really keep their head in the ground so as
not to see unpleasant events.
Good Luck to this craft person her work is on the web also check the word "leoware" on google.
By the way, is it me or did they take this story off the television pretty quickly? I am following this through the internet only.
I would also like to know how the victim is doing.
By the way the names of the 2 landlords are WOLKOFF, David and
Jerry ones grandfather owned the
Sands hotel and one is married to an offspring of Harry Winston the Jeweler.
And here come the lawyers!
This place is a nightmare. Sweatshop on the first floor, place is dilapidated, padlocked fire exits and clothing stacked to the ceiling. Knock it down, this lady's injury probably saved 40 lives.
Where is Pat DiLillo?
Good profile on these landlords
on The Real Deal.com also good reporting on this building it
was meant to be for artists till the LIC hood "turned around again"then
what kill the artists??
I see more condos going up!
Any update on how Nicole is coming
along post surgery at Bellvue ?
Yes, please let us know how the victim is doing. This has been a hard week what with the Queens Center Catastrophe as well.
The aerosol artists deal only with the outside of the building.
THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE for a greedy slumlord's neglect.
Some of the "artists" who rent interior studio spaces are less responsible...a few being outright nitwits.
One recently tried to barbecue in his loft.
The FDNY was swarming all over the place as a result.
And like it or not "5 Pointz"
is already a recognized brand.
It is not the epicenter of graffiti you jealous hater.
More people visit this museum then they do P.S. #1 right across the street.
Could it be that no talent tagger "BLONE" is posting here?
From what we hear he mostly blows!
"5 Pointz" is a world renown LEGAL paint by permission
exterior art museum.
You've just had your head in your rear pocket for too long if you cant recognize what art really is.
"Meres" , who runs the place, is an accomplished artist
in the aerosol medium
who has shown at Deutsche Bank;
designed feature film titles; given endless time to teaching kids art; done murals in Europe and around the country.
We even hear he's a "Eagle Scout"!
Now doesn't that beat all.
So shove all your negative BS about "5 Pointz' where the sun don't shine!
Only a blog about an injured tenant designer could produce hateful comments about graffiti pro
or con from idiots, this is about a young ladies life post disaster and a slumlord.
Yes. Wouldn't it be nice to know how she is coming along? No news. Amazing that a victim of a building collapse gets so little attention.
When I was young this would have been the first page of every newspaper, but apparently we accept this as the new norm.
News reports are saying she is still in critical condition today.
Thanks for the update Q.C.
sorry to hear that amazing how this
is not much news in conventional media ,should have happened in midtown Manhattan,I guess.
No. I swear that it is an intentional blackout caused by powerful people.
Bloomberg wants to be reelected. I would not even be surprised if the alleged violations that DOB was trying to shut them down for were added to the record after the fact.
I know from firsthand experience. When my living room ceiling was collapsed onto my floor, DOB, which never visited the site even though I spent hours waiting for them over several days, amended the records to state that the problem was my bathroom ceiling.
I did indeed have a problem with that ceiling as well, but a missing foam tile is not the same as 100 lbs plus of furniture-smashing action.
Housing Preservation Department records created at the same time properly document the damage and the actions that were taken to mitigate same.
Signed,
Still waiting for my royalty check since collapsing buildings are now the rage-- lady whose living room ceiling was forcibly introduced to her living room floor. Why didn't I patent or at least copyright this fad?
Building owner
Jerry "jerk-off" (Wolkoff) is said to be hooked up good with NYC's political gentry...hence the news black out.
Look up what else he slumloard's over in the NYC Building Department's property profile...available on line.
Meanwhile he enjoys the good life (from his wife's money) at his posh Park Avenue apartment.
The LL's are more powerful then
their tenants,I'm shocked!
I too feel the D.O.B. works only for LL's how do i know that? someone at
Community Board 5 in NYC told me that,so it must be true.
Sometimes I feel that the courts, DOB, HPD etc. only work for thieves. I have often railed about my problems with a very vicious landlord; however,
I've had friends who had vicious tenants who did not get much help either.
I guess the old Irish saying is true, "The devil knows his own."
This is still a real buried story.
I was wondering how Nicole is coming
along?
The Brooklyn artistsloft closure last year because of C of O Bullshit was such big news on all Tv stations.
Not this disaster in LIC though.
Wonder why?
Why no follow ups on the artist recently buried under twisted metal from the stairway collapse in Long Island City?
Is she dead or alive? What has the city decided to do to pressure other landlords with similar violations to clean up their acts? Has this famous artists building reopened? What efforts are being made to assist displaced artists to locate new space?
Once upon a time this story would have been first page news and follow ups would have lasted for days. Alas, building collapses have become so pedestrian, so jejune.
Perhaps we can arrange to have a building collapse across the street from City Hall, preferably while the major is taking his morning constitutional.
Course this blog has taken this story off of it's front page too.
Bloomberg and his LL pals win.
I have heard she is alive but still in critical condition. Some of her friends are going to be selling her jewelry as a fundraiser.
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