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Roof Raff Cause Rift In Williamsburg Building
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Jen Carlson
Published Jun 15, 2010
Modified Jun 15, 2010
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This is why you can't have anything nice, Williamsburg. Seems the residents at 132 North 5th Street (at the corner of Bedford) are all doing their part in keeping the common roof space a catastrophic mess. An inside source tells us emails are frequently sent from building management, which it seems someone is posting on this blog. And now residents have turned on each other! Offline accusations (read: the flyer after the jump) were posted on every floor of the building after a party this weekend.
Things have been pretty quiet since last summer, when someone described the roof to Curbed as "one of the most notorious shitshows in Williamsburg." Trouble started again this Memorial Day weekend, when management said, "Due to the lack of responsibility of some people in the building... we’re left with no choice other then to banned [sic] all parties inside the building & on the roof top. If the message won’t be clear enough, we will have to lock the roof top all times!"
So basically there are three outcomes here: the roof gets locked, the roof eventually caves in from the weight of the trash, or a civil war breaks out amongst residents and winner takes all.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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