It Came In the Night...
...the way all truly evil things do. The long-dreaded pile driver arrived at Williamsburg's 'The Edge' development at 4:52 am this morning, its giant boom missing our outside wall by just inches as it crawled around the corner from Kent Avenue onto the recently-departed dead end of North Sixth Street.
The scene evoked the mood of Spielberg's "War of the Worlds": the dark, menacing Tripod arriving without warning, promising to disrupt our lives for the foreseeable future with its ceaseless soul-jarring pounding. Truly the beginning of the end - for when the pile driving is complete, the walling off of Williamsburg will commence. And our gorgeous, sweeping view of Manhattan and the East River will be gone forever.
posted by i'mnotsayin @ 8:17 AM
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this is terrible. you know how much noise that makes... and they generally start pile driving at exactly 6:34am. believe me, I lived through the northside piers pile driving last summer.
Speaking as someone who is going to Brooklyn Supreme Court this morning because of Magic's pile driver, I feel for you. It sucks.
I love the line "And our gorgeous, sweeping view of Manhattan and the East River will be gone forever."
How lame. You don't own the view, so get over it and move on.
You and all the other upper-middle class white hipsters have created the Williamsburg scene, and sown the seeds for this uber-lux wave. And while you were doing it you set in motion the displacement of large numbers of the Latino lower-to-working class poor that have lived there for generations. The silver lining may be that hopefully some of those impacted minority folks get better paying construction or service jobs. So don't insult those people who have limited-or-no choices and have and are losing their homes by crying over your lost view.
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