The New Ugliest Building

Since the tidying up of what was once the ugliest building in the East Village, there are new contenders for that spot.

I think it's safe to say that this building, on First Avenue, is in the running!

In the running.

You may remember that back in February, I wrote about this building being ticketed!

Here we are in April, and it happened again:

Ticketed again.

This time, they taped the ticket up — probably the last one… just blew away!

In case you can't read this, it says: "At T/P/O I did observe a large accumulation of matted napkins, newspaper(s), paper bag(s), piece(s) of paper…"

"… and all around ugliness!" I'm sure!

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That's The Ticket

I was walking down First Avenue — lo, these eleven days ago — when something jumped out at me.

No, it wasn't a crusty; it was this:

Something new in the mix.

Do you see it? If it were a snake it would bite you!

It was this ticket, taped onto the left side of the door frame:

Ticket.

Parents just don't understand large accumulations of matted pieces of paper!

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The Ugliest Building

I think it is safe to say that this building on East 4th Street is probably the ugliest building in the East Village today:

The ugliest building.

Yesterday, I did observe a woman kick the front door open instead of using a key, which means either the lock is broken, so anyone can enter, or the door doesn't close properly, so anyone can enter!

Shortly after that, I did observe a child of about 14, carrying two grocery bags, ring a buzzer to gain entrance, which means at least one kid lives in this building with no properly-locking front door!

It was then that I did observe this:

Citation.

If you observe closely, you will see that the building owner was cited for having cardboard boxes not flattened, and recyclables mixed with non-recyclables. Not for being an eyesore! Not for having so many trash cans on the sidewalk!

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There, that's better!