Laura B writes on the Prospect Heights Message Board: “I’ve been depressed about this building for months now.”

Brownstoner sums it up nicely: “This bomb shelter of a building at 117 Underhill is an unfortunate step backward for a neighborhood with so much beautiful existing architecture and so much potential for its new buildings. What a bummer.”

“Aw, give ‘em a chance…” Drano says in response. “It’s obviously unfinished. Maybe they’ll slap on all kinds of pretty stuff - if nothing else you can look forward to reading ‘Fedders’ in those sweet AC wells…”

Read more about the Bomb Shelter on the Prospect Heights Message Board 

Duke of Flatbush asks on the Prospect Heights Message Board:

Has anyone seen (or heard) this guy who rings a bell, presumably, on his way to church on Sunday morning?

He woke me up like clockwork for about three weeks in a row and I’d always go to see who the hell was ringing a bell at 9 o’clock in the GD morning. Finally I got a couple of snapshots of him and he quit waking me up.

More “Bell Man” sightings on the Prospect Heights Message Board

It’s not a race

Originally uploaded by visual.resistance.

roux42 asks on the Prospect Heights Message Board:

“How long does it take for the city to clean off the graffiti, usually?”

“I was so unhappy to see it this morning. Since moving here, I have been so proud to have one of the grungiest BUT graffiti-free subway stations in NYC.”

Meanwhile, the Brooklyn Museum is promoting an exhibition of “graffiti as a phenomenon of modern urban life.” nychas grouses: “Our tax dollars at work… It is one thing to exhibit art that people might find offensive; they are not forced to look at it. It is quite another thing to encourage people to deface public and private property.”

So begins an inevitable pro-graf vs anti-graf discussion… vanilla says: “NYC has some of the most amazing graffiti in the world … I would rather see graffiti than live in a police state. aren’t there better things the cops could be cracking down on? …like my neighbors beating the shit out of each other, or the kids selling drugs down the street, guns and other assorted violence?”

Pro and con, and pro and con, and on and on, on the Prospect Heights Message Board