Gowanus Building No Longer Dissing Wall St.
The old power station near the corner of 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue has lost its message. As per the bottom photo above, last year the top of the building had been tagged “No More Corporate Bullshit! Fuk Wall St.” The building was one of the parcels in the area bought by developers for a…
The old power station near the corner of 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue has lost its message. As per the bottom photo above, last year the top of the building had been tagged “No More Corporate Bullshit! Fuk Wall St.” The building was one of the parcels in the area bought by developers for a would-be project called “Gowanus Village.” GMAP
Bottom pic by letsgetridofny
Yeah, the sign as probably painted by some trustafarian on a dare was funny. Now it’s time to grow up.
tybur6, I work on wall street and while I certainly am familiar with the boneheaded frat boy type you’re talking about, most of the people I know in finance are very well informed….they may be jerks but they’re smart by pretty much every standard.
woodys… I have to disagree about the frat boys being the “smart kinds.” There are certainly a few of them, but sooooo much of the work in finance has such an extremely narrow focus. The whole mortgage crisis is based on doing some tiny operation to sell and bundle various components… very little thinking is involved. But they are overly competitive frat boys that have NO ability to see the bigger picture. Do X and get Y…. no ability or even the slight inkling to think they might also be causing Z.
So, yeah, they’re smart… but the same way an idiot savant is smart.
But the whole machine is this, so we’re trapped in a horrible structure.
I don’t think I’d want to live in a building where they write something like that on the outside. No class whatsoever.
> Ever nail a drunk frat boy, Ditmas????
Funny you should ask, since that is exactly what I am doing right now.
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the frat boys they got working on Wall Street are the smart kinds. they might be greedy and obnoxious but they aint dumb. Plus “Wall St” is mostly in Midtown nowadays.
Loved this sign, loads of character.
How can you not share the view…. oh wait, unless you are ONE OF THEM!!
I guess *someone* has to make enough money to pay the millions of dollars for Brooklyn real estate. 🙂
I don’t share the view, but I thought the sign was funny. I love the building. If the developers would only convert that great space into real lofts (unlike the rabbit warrens carved out of One Brooklyn Bridge Park and 166 Montague), I’d move to Gowanus.
Wow. And cynical?
At least I like your politics.