tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post4662958688403702709..comments2024-03-28T08:15:11.684-04:00Comments on EV Grieve: Plywood report and the future of 75 1st Ave. (Spoiler: condos)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-30514331992760275192016-03-30T23:10:50.836-04:002016-03-30T23:10:50.836-04:001) Gross. The rendering is just appalling. This is...1) Gross. The rendering is just appalling. This is exactly the kind of building that the EV doesn't need! Yet another towering, dated, ugly "modern" building. "Timeless" my ass! I love this neighborhood because of the smaller prewar buildings (amongst many other things) and these buildings are an atrocity.<br /><br />2) I walk by this lot every day and pretty much every time and think of the litigation opportunities - the sidewalk gate in particular is just asking for someone to fall through it and sue. If my rent gets any higher, I might consider the opportunity seriously.<br /><br />3) Are my taxes paying that DOB inspector? If so, I would like my money back, please and thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-20107074390692819292016-03-30T03:50:12.901-04:002016-03-30T03:50:12.901-04:00"Plus the sophisticates will be right on the ..."Plus the sophisticates will be right on the edge of the Flint MI of noise pollution - East 6th Street!" <br /><br />Mmmm....nope. The lot is between E5th and E4th, not on the 'edge' of E6th. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-49457576279963022062016-03-29T20:59:40.667-04:002016-03-29T20:59:40.667-04:00The DOB looked at it and declared it safe? Did the...The DOB looked at it and declared it safe? Did they send out a blind inspector?<br /><br />And not only the plywood wall, but that sidewalk gate will eat someone real soon!Philip Trevinonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-77120567439581351482016-03-29T16:36:05.314-04:002016-03-29T16:36:05.314-04:00*sighs* meantime, are there fewer people who read ...*sighs* meantime, are there fewer people who read Shelley each year, let alone understand the timelessness of his words? wondering.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-61404736155535968782016-03-29T11:59:14.551-04:002016-03-29T11:59:14.551-04:00I'm curious about the wall of north-facing win...I'm curious about the wall of north-facing windows. What happens when (inevitably) the Rite Aid site gets developed and that entire side gets blocked? Not that I really care...Laura Goggin Photographyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517481509431547970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-36494681988834410092016-03-29T11:55:16.760-04:002016-03-29T11:55:16.760-04:00Plus the sophisticates will be right on the edge o...Plus the sophisticates will be right on the edge of the Flint MI of noise pollution - East 6th Street! nygrumpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-64169958469018041922016-03-29T11:29:28.703-04:002016-03-29T11:29:28.703-04:00Oh no! worst of the worst for out-of-place locatio...Oh no! worst of the worst for out-of-place locations. Simply horrible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-23929132213466989972016-03-29T11:02:03.263-04:002016-03-29T11:02:03.263-04:00I totally noticed the Ozymandius irony too! "...I totally noticed the Ozymandius irony too! "Look on my works and despair" was how I remembered it in my mind...we DO despair, it's so true!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-8043055384726292932016-03-29T10:55:10.125-04:002016-03-29T10:55:10.125-04:00Spot on @ 8:23AM. For other reasons I read the poe...Spot on @ 8:23AM. For other reasons I read the poem last night was VERY surprised to see it pop up here as the name of a realty company!!!! They even quote the poem on their website.... It's owned by former options traders so I guess that explains their misunderstanding of the meaning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-12173326732307498742016-03-29T10:06:01.471-04:002016-03-29T10:06:01.471-04:00"...the (cantilevered) building will rise 8 s..."...the (cantilevered) building will rise 8 stories and will stand out with its contemporary and timeless glassy structure..." - reality check: the building will tower over its smaller, humbler neighbors; the fact that it is cantilevered simply means it will resemble a pile of blocks flung atop one another by a peevish baby; and rather than "standing out", it will simply resemble every other pile of barren glass and steel crap being foisted on the neighborhood. (Translation courtesy of Gojira.) The pyramids of ancient Egypt are timeless. The Coliseum in Rome is timeless. Notre Dame cathedral is timeless. This excrescence? Don't make me laugh. And who wants to take bets on how much time the inhabitants will be spending in that "library"? (Oh, and olympiasepiriot - excellent use of Shelley!)Gojiranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-28845299285411622452016-03-29T08:23:20.427-04:002016-03-29T08:23:20.427-04:00Does no one else think the name Ozymandius Realty ...Does no one else think the name Ozymandius Realty a little ironic? <br />---------------<br />I MET a traveller from an antique land <br />Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone <br />Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, <br />Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown <br />And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command <br />Tell that its sculptor well those passions read <br />Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, <br />The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. <br />And on the pedestal these words appear: <br />"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: <br />Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" <br />Nothing beside remains: round the decay <br />Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, <br />The lone and level sands stretch far away.<br />--------------<br /><br />And, yes, I realize it is a personal name that some people get named; it is just the context of real estate vs the image in that poem in a place with the Brit/Euro cultural inheritance hegemony thing going on. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com