My Life In Brooklyn

This one is on Lincoln Road, south side, near Nostrand Avenue.  Two images here: one of the greater building, the second is a close up of the yellow X in the square, the condemed building mark (above), hidden behind the bush to the left of the front door and not easily seen.  Just as an FYI, a good part of the street is filled with buildings similar to this one – take a walk or drive by and you will see.  It just seems a shame it can’t be saved — even if a gut renovation.  It would still provide what appears to be 8 apartments and would maintain the look of the street.

I can’t resist mention of this.  It isn’t that I am negatively obsessed with Associated Market on Flatbush, after all there have been plenty of intermittent incidents of a bad product here and there in my many years of grocery shopping.  However, never so many within a relatively short span of time and at the same location.

Yesterday, I went to buy a salad mix for a last minute dinner, and there were lots of them available — a couple dozen at least.  However most of them had expired two days prior and everything else (maybe 25% of the total number available) had an expiration day of yesterday.

I found the manager and alerted him to the fact his entire stock of packaged salads were in fact outdated, or would be upon the closing of the store for the day.

“Ok, I told them,” was the response I received as he got away from me as quickly as possible. 

I bet if I walked over there this morning, these products would still be on the shelf.

Despite a Google search and a call to Buildings, I was unable to learn the meaning of the symbols I have seen drawn on buildings recently. (See my post of yesterday.) Luckily my neighbor Tom found the information (from squat.net):

“These squares are painted by the city government to indicate the status of the building. An empty square indicates that the building is abandoned. A square with a slash in it indicates that fire fighters should be cautious entering the building. A square with an X in it indicates that the building is condemned”

One point the writer at squat.net makes is the buildings are often far from the point of needing to be demolished, and judging from the exteriors of those I have seen, I have to agree there likely is a chance for them, given some money and TLC.