Open (Crack) House! No fee! No credit check!

Looking for some prime squatting/f*cking/drugging grounds? Well come on down to the pride of Elmhurst, the neighborhood crackhouse! As you can see from the photo below, the door is usually open! 

Now this fine abode was erected in 2011, but was never quite finished. So that means no plumbing-- sorry. Most folks excrete waste in the alley on the side, tho I suspect plently also drop a load right on the floor indoors (so be careful if you are entering via one of the broken windows: you may well land ankle-deep in feces.. also, hypodermic needles, and who knows what else?).

I took the photo below from outside, because I refuse to commit a b&e (though would it even be considered a b&e if the door is open?). As you can see, our local talent has decorated the walls inside too! Aren't they so generous with their gifts?

And here's a photo of the outdoor toilet. Yes, you too can crap outdoors, the way nature intended!

The Roosevelt/74th Street Eyesore: Some Hope

Clearly the MTA and city do not care how crappy the neighborhood looks. The photo below captures the scene that greets people as they exit the Roosevelt Avenue train station: a construction fence that serves as a canvas for every troglodyte loser graffiti scribbler in the area. It seems like a new tag appears every day. This train station is a major transportation hub. I always see people exiting the station with suitcases (after catching the E from the JFK air train?). Imagine if you were a tourist and this sh*tstye was your first encounter with the great city of New Yawk. Well, let's not forget that first these poor souls had to navigate the disgusting airports, and then the even more disgusting Roosevelt Ave station, where people live in the Bank of America kiosk, groups of severely drunk dudes sit/sleep on the benches all day and night....  And good luck to you if you need to use the bathroom in this station: you think Starbucks provides people with public bathing facilities (via the sinks), well, at least Starbux bathrooms have doors with locks. In the Roosevelt Ave train station the bathroom doors are propped open at all times (for safety reasons), but this lack of privacy does not deter people bathing, forking, shaving their legs, crapping in the sink, et cetera. 

Anyway, here's a photo of the "temporary" fence that has been up for 3 years now.

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UPDATE: Wed., Feb. 17, 2016

Today the Woodside Neighborhood Association painted over the graffiti-covered "temporary" fence across the street from the Roosevelt Avenue train station. These kids did the work that the property owner and local elected officials and MTA ignored for several years. Yeah the fence is private property, but since it is adjacent to a huge train station,  and across the street from the much-touted Diversity Plaza, the city and MTA really should have kept it clean. Clearly they do not give a crap about this neighborhood, though. Thankfully the awesome people- many of them teenagers- of the Woodside Neighborhood Association volunteered their time to do this job. Thank you!!!

 

Local loser outlosers himself!

The area between 44th and Woodside Avenues, in the 70s, has been hit with silly looking crying-eye tags. They filthify overpass walls, mailboxes, and poles. Now this idiot has found a new canvas: the actual street! I have never seen a tag on a street before.

This is 44th Avenue between 74th and 76th.

 

~~Thank you to the Woodside Neighborhood Association and Fire Alarm Guy for painting over so many of these stupid-eyeball tags this weekend!~~  I guess it's up to the city to do something about the pavement tag!

How does the 43rd Ave "Artist" spend his time?

 

Sadly, the "Artist" won this battle. My paint is a giant blue ice cube at the moment :(