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Weird woodworking shop on 7th Ave/16th St — Brooklynian

Weird woodworking shop on 7th Ave/16th St

8thandprez
8thandprez
edited November -1 in Park Slope
Has anyone else noticed the storefront on 7th Ave btw 15th and 16th that has been in a perpetual state of woodworking madness? It looks like it might one day be a shop or some retail place, but all I've ever seen is people sawing and cutting wood. If you glance inside, it looks like some amateur carpenter had a seizure all over the place... there's a stairway trimmed in wood with mirror infill, for godssakes! The security bars on the doors are shaped like little musical notes too.

My favorite part is that the front doors are propped open with boards that have Sharpie scrawl on them in Spanish that reads "I made 20 others like this for Jesus" or some such craziness.

WTF?!

Comments

  • efbsh
    efbsh
    I can't picture this place in my mind....can you post a photo?
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    Gladly! I'll snap one tomorrow.
  • srod6786
    srod6786
    8thandPrez wrote: Gladly! I'll snap one tomorrow.
    cool...I'm sure I've passed it a million times.
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    Here it is, from a distance:
    http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.663055,-73.985853&spn=0,359.972212&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=40.662922,-73.984886&panoid=leWB_Cc_FaFU5gl-u5WDBg&cbp=12,293.78,,0,1.98
  • ljnd
    ljnd
    I saw this last night at around 9 - really wild! Is it a shop? Is it a home? No way to tell.
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    That actually looks like the apartment my child's piano teacher lived in a few years ago, it's hard to tell from that pic, but, I think it is. Take a better pic today prez!
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    as someone who owns a table saw, router, biscuit joiner, jig saw, circ saw, 3 drills, miter saw, scroll saw, etc

    ...I can assure you that woodworkers are uniformly odd.

    but we are harmless.
  • scarlett
    scarlett
    It's supposed to eventually be a Brazilian/South American art cafe with music.
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    scarlett wrote: It's supposed to eventually be a Brazilian/South American art cafe with music.
    Riiiiiight. In 2014, maybe.
  • stacey
    stacey
    whynot_31 wrote: as someone who owns a table saw, router, biscuit joiner, jig saw, circ saw, 3 drills, miter saw, scroll saw, etc
    Ooooh keep talking sexy like that! Now that I know that, we may become be spending a lot more time together :)
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    stacey wrote: [quote=whynot_31]as someone who owns a table saw, router, biscuit joiner, jig saw, circ saw, 3 drills, miter saw, scroll saw, etc
    Ooooh keep talking sexy like that! Now that I know that, we may become be spending a lot more time together :)

    I'll likely be unemployed in the fall, and might end up pursuing my carpenter fantasies while "racking in" unemployment. So, yea, make that list
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    image



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  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    got a picture of the actual house? That definitely looks to be the apartment I am talking about, if it is, then it has been empty for 2 years now at least.
  • willy23
    willy23
    hmmmmm.......no idea....next time I am able to go by, I will check it out
  • scarlett
    scarlett
    I cannot remember if it was Brownstoner or where that posted that it was going to be a Brazilian art/music/food place, but that is definitely the place.
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    Here's the place in Google Street View
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    Yep, that is it, very odd that it is going from an apartment to a whatever. Also very odd that it is taking so long!
  • pastoralia
    pastoralia
    A restaurant? Seriously?...haven't they been working on that space for like 2 years?
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    this does not bode well for how long it will take to serve a meal.
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    pastoralia wrote: A restaurant? Seriously?...haven't they been working on that space for like 2 years?
    Yes they have, LOL! Because, it has been empty since my friend moved out and bought an apartment somewhere else and that that must have been 2, 2 1/2 years ago.
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    They're also doing some *seriously* freaky construction on the back of the building too... a cinderblock and steel addition that would not look out of place in rural El Salvador.
  • pastoralia
    pastoralia
    Dear lord...why not just get a barrel and some matches and just toss the money in?
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