In my lifetime, I often wonder...

Subject: what i know...

I have heard that it is still owned by Mrs. Nash and that she has two daughters(one supposedly is a fashion designer and I forget what I was told the other does). I've wondered often about the stores there on the side because they look like they still have postcards from businesses displayed outside. The windows of the building - some apartments still have curtains on them. It looks everyone just had to leave ONE day.

I have heard that the Landmark pub (and was it something before that? iron horse?) was a cool place.

I would love to know what happened to the businesses, why the building ultimately just went to ruin, etc.

A few years ago, one of the daughters was in there in the bar with the mom and they were selling things!!! it was really mostly junk. but they were open for a few saturdays and you could go in there. the daughter was almost defensive saying the place was going to open in a month. but that's now about three years ago.

I've heard the mother is very eccentric. someone else said she is very wealthy. but she must be a bit off. while i admire someone who does not 'succumb' to the real estate frenzy in a lot of ways, the building could be what she wants it to be ... something cool again.

someone posted recently that it's being sold for over $5 million but also that the woman will commit to a deal and then back out.

for awhile there, also a few years ago, workmen were in there and my boyfriend and i were looking inside and a man in a car pulled up, stopped, and asked if we were interested in renting. that there were going to be offices (or apartments? can't recall.) in there for $2000 a month or so. he seemed very proud about it. shortly thereafter the door was locked again, all work stopped.

that is funny about the pub having seancces to contact the spirt of lee atwater!!

Considering that these buildings are clearly a hazzard in terms of facade disrepair etc...the city should come in and start writing summons etc...

friendlypitbull wrote: Considering that these buildings are clearly a hazzard in terms of facade disrepair etc...the city should come in and start writing summons etc...

someone call the dob!!!

hi. geez, I know more about this than i feel i should! but i used to live down the block from these spots and of course walked by them many times. I didn't know she used to live in that house. She does not live there and I don't think anyone else does. One night, something happened, water leaked from the house next door and the fire dept had to come and someone said the house is used "for storage." I knew at one time what she looked like and I once saw her in a chair outside a house on union street. she must own another property. unless she moved but somehow I would doubt that. (how does she own all these properties? someone on the street who also grew up with the daughters told me when the glass fell out of the building window recently that she is very wealthy.) reporters? this would be a really good story!

remybklyn wrote: Ms. Nash herself lived in a house down 2nd street between 6th and 7th. It looked like an annex of the Landmark Pub...doll heads strewn out on tables in front of the house, and such. Now, it looks all cleaned up...wonder if she even lives in the slope anymore.

Right, I knew someone who rented an apartment in that building from her about 24 years ago and said she was whacky even then.

and, I wouldn't exactly call that building all cleaned up, it's disgusting!

On a related note, I sometimes wonder if in my lifetime anything will be done with the boarded-up eyesore on 3rd Street next to Tempo Presto. It seems to me that once or twice there was some activity like it was going to be cleaned up, but then nothing.

RemyBKLYN probably knows more about the place as someone who grew up in the neighborhood, but back in 1992 I went in the Landmark a few times after getting my first apartment on Union Street.

We all had the same wishful ideas like everyone else, "Hey that looks like a cool dive bar!" So we picked out a night and headed over there, and wow. What a psycho dump. Within 15 minutes I had fleas on my legs and had Dorothy forcing me to buy a $6 Grolsch they bought from the MET Food two doors down for maybe $2.

Actually went there one more time for shits and giggles. And honestly, Esther and Rachel are quite hot so why not give the place another try, right? Wrong! We left quickly when we realized that they are truly nuts, and all the fleas and $6 could not bring any of us to think that hitting on either of them would end up with anything short of craziness of the highest degree.

But the most memorable--and final--time I was there was when a friends brother somehow convinced them to let him do a short acoustic set. He starts to play, and then they cut him off to compliment him (???) and then make a pitch to the 5 poeple who were there to buy overpriced beers.

We bought the beers and things were going smoothly, when Rachel suddenly cuts off the sound, grabs a videotape and runs over to the front to show us something important.

The tape plays and it's basically the whole looney trio waiting outside whatever studio Jon Stewart was filming whatever incarnation of his TV show was on at the time. Basically, it's a videotape that's akin to the "King of Comedy" stuff. Where they're basically stalking Jon Stewart. And inbetween Rachel's rambings she says something very clear and coherent.

"I'm going to marry Jon Stewart!"

I'm sure Jon Stewart's people have a file somewhere about "Nash" encounters.

In general, I do think the Landmark was probably a decent place when Dorothy's husband was still alive. I would really like to hear stories about those days. But the craziness of that place made it far from "cool". And I'm really pissed that such decent property has gone to waste. I'm sure that even a gut rehab would not be of any help.

And for the curious, Esther Nash is the younger one and the "fashion" designer. Her website is here.

http://www.esthernash.com/

Her "fashion" seems to consist of designs that seem to be quirky and custom versions of the "best" Strawberry & Rainbow can provide.

Hope that fills in some blanks.

that web site is pretty funny.

Subject: Rod Serling where are you

I actually attended two of Dorothys seances where she tried to contact Lee Atwater, something went wrong and on the first one we got Bruce Lee and the next LeeHo.
That was enough for me, i never went back

*Dingdingdingdingding!" Restless Native goes off on "yups"! That means it's time to chug in the Brooklynian drinking game!
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apollonia666 wrote: *Dingdingdingdingding!" Restless Native goes off on "yups"! That means it's time to chug in the Brooklynian drinking game!
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Sorry, I'll try once again to keep things interesting. Here's some new thread ideas for ya, what do you think:

"I'm 30-something and am contemplating a move to NYC... am I crazy?"

or

"Hey, single mom w/ 8 kids looking to keep the dream alive"

or

"[Pick your fav midwestern town] guy/gal moving up to the Big Apple, any advice on [housing, fun, neighborhoods, etc.]?"

Hope that helps to steer things back on topic!

The building should be gut renovated, but probably due to water damage [the roof had or still has holes in it, and some of the windows haven't had glass in years] and the rodents, pigeons and other flora and fauna [no those aren't the Nash sisters] that reside inside ... it may have to be demolished. Hey -- it took over 40 years for decent buildings to emerge on the site of the 1960 plane crash down 7th Avenue... maybe it'll take a generation or two to see anything in the Landmark spot.
What will become of the site is something that will be much speculated and debated. The building and its land is OUTSIDE the PS historic district, as are all buildings on 7th Avenue south of Union Street.
And yes, I used to go to the Landmark and bang on the toys there.

willregistersoon wrote: [quote=Restless Native]Just leave it alone, who cares? Would it satisfy you to see the building bought by some scumbag developer, packed full of another 42 yups, with a cell phone store and some overpriced tacky boutiques or a jogging clothes shop put in the bottom? Would that let you sleep better at night? Or how about another crap foo foo restaurant, would that make you all happy?

Who cares if it's a 'waste' or a 'shame,' what's the realistic alternative? And don't give me some nonsense about a possible 'affordable yadda yadda yadda anything opening there' because we all know that's not gonna happen. :roll:

Dont' be absurd! Everyone knows that the best thing for that spot is a new bank. Come on.
I would have thought a new flagship Corcoran office.

Hamilton wrote: [quote=Restless Native]Just leave it alone, who cares? Would it satisfy you to see the building bought by some scumbag developer, packed full of another 42 yups, with a cell phone store and some overpriced tacky boutiques or a jogging clothes shop put in the bottom? Would that let you sleep better at night? Or how about another crap foo foo restaurant, would that make you all happy?

Who cares if it's a 'waste' or a 'shame,' what's the realistic alternative? And don't give me some nonsense about a possible 'affordable yadda yadda yadda anything opening there' because we all know that's not gonna happen. :roll:

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what do you feel should be done with the building.

Sell it to me, and let me make some more money off of these johnny come lately Park Slope Dopes while the gravy train is still in the station. From there I'll continue to contemplate my next business move. 8)