Comments on: 99 Gold Withdrawing Offering Plan, Turning to Rentals

By: TWC

TWC — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:53:36 +0000

It would be one thing if the Vista had trouble selling too but considering they are almost officialy sold out this just makes the Developers Group look terrible. Had the layouts been nicer and the prices more reasonable it would have done as well as the Vista. The inside of the building seemed pretty cool with a lot of potential but the execution was awful. What a shame, a great building in a up and coming neighborhood gets ruined by greed over price per square feet. Had they created nice 2 bedrooms ala The Vista at their price points this would have never happened.

By: fafafooey

fafafooey — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:43:16 +0000

those grocery stores make money from food stamp fraud schemes

By: BrooklynLove

BrooklynLove — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:32:30 +0000

the prices in the grocery store on york near gold are surprisingly expensive. target is about the only place left in this boro where a box of corn flakes costs less than 4 bones.

By: loose stool

loose stool — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:18:38 +0000

Strange bedfellows huh VH?

By: VH

VH — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:11:27 +0000

I can’t believe I am going to write this…but…I have to agree with “LS”. Yikes. Its safer to walk along York Street then Front. York is under 24/7 watch by the NYPD. Front, at night, is dark and empty.

By: loose stool

loose stool — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:49:30 +0000

It would be safer to walk on York. Contrary to the belief that most project people are criminals, most of them are law abiding citizens who as part of their societal upbringing simply enjoy “hanging out”. I am white and have often double parked to pick up something in those bodegas. There is no sense of territorial invasion by any of these people unlike the Cassandras who live in Dumbo.

By: fafafooey

fafafooey — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:29:45 +0000

The difference is mostly psychological my friend.
Farragut don’t discriminate.

By: kayserispor

kayserispor — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:04:27 +0000

I totally agree with Dan’s post. There is a huge difference between Front and York streets and if you stay on Front Street you will be fine. It seems strange to say that the neigborhood is really safe when York Street does feel sketchy, but there is a huge difference between Front and York streets and not much reason at all to have to walk along York.

By: Dumbo NYC, Brooklyn » Archive » TONY: Condos Turned to Rentals (DumboNYC.com)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:07:55 +0000

[...] Out NY takes a look at buildings in NYC built as condos converted to rental buildings. We saw both 99 Gold Street and 133 Water Street go rental last spring. In the midst of a subprime-mortgage meltdown, [...]

By: Dumbo NYC, Brooklyn » Archive » Nate’s Pharmacy Opening Soon in Vinegar Hill (DumboNYC.com)

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:39:11 +0000

[...] Nate’s Pharmacy is set to open in Vinegar Hill on Gold Street (a few doors down from 99 Gold Street). Signs were in place this [...]

By: longtermresident

longtermresident — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:42:39 +0000

johnny vinegar

I am glad that you enjoy your apartment. I have been here for a while and honestly believe that despite what others think is horrible (the pjs), this end of the nabe is cooler. Don’t let the knuckleheads on this website make you think otherwise. It’s easy to be tough on a computer, I imagine they bitch on here because they don’t have the balls to bitch in public and probably would get their asses kicked if they lived here. Rock on.

By: Tbone

Tbone — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:06:26 +0000

Wow, some people have some real anger issues! Yikes. I don’t understand the need for rude, disgusting, insulting language on a community blog such as this one and I applaud the moderator for trying to discourage these types of postings. Don’t take your anger out on the innocent people who want to have a lively discussion with their neighbors on a blog, try anger management classes!

Anyway… there is a good discussion of the panhandling situation on the “talking about safetly in Dumbo” section of this blog. For those of you who are concerned about this issue, you should check it out. Bottom line is, even if you have been lucky enough not to be harassed or threatened or hurt by these panhandlers, there is a real risk to having this continue in Dumbo. These panhandlers have been a problem (even to those who are perfectly polite to them) and I encourage everyone to do their part to try and stop this. At the very least, DON’T GIVE THEM MONEY. We should all help the less fortunate, but there are better ways of doing that!

By: Johnny Vinegar Hill

Johnny Vinegar Hill — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:49:42 +0000

You pay for the heat – and the Doormen – who on two occassions this week I have caught completely asleep. I actually walked all the way into the apartment and left again and he did not wake from his slumber…Wish I got paid for that.

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:31:04 +0000

we have visited an appartment in Gold street on the 1st floor. i think the appartment # was 1k. It has a cellar in it. The appartment looks very nice but I was wondering whether the cellar would not be too difficult to heat in the winter. By the way, does the tenant pay for Internet and Cable, what about the heat?
thanks

By: Johnny Vinegar Hill

Johnny Vinegar Hill — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:46:02 +0000

FYI – this buildings management are a bunch of buffoons. I came home from work the other day to find an incredibly vague note stuffed in my door informing me that there had been an incident and that my peronal data may have been compromised! It simply said – you might want to call the credit agencys and let them know that your info may have been taken!

As you can imagine I was incredibly concerned about this issue and went to one of the incredibly helpful door people. She informed me that a temp in the managments office has swiped ALL of the files in the building – but could give me no other color. Then she gave me the number for the building manager. Of what I could understand of his broken english – he had no idea what was going on. I asked what of mine had been taken – still no answer. Do they have any of the checks that I gave them??? Again – No answer.

I then got a call back from the Detective handling the case and he told me that there was only some info stolen – and they had caught the woman who did this. Info was gone though.

Are any of the other residents in the building disgusted with the way this was handled??? What if I was away and did not return in time to safeguard my personal accounts? What if etc…

Very upsetting…

Anybody else have any color on this???