That kind of cheap looking thing rising at the corner of N. 11 St. & Roebling in Williamsburg that has now reached the imposing height of two stories? It’s the Giant Fart Cloud Building, so-called because it is a condo (actually, we hear it’s going to be a rental building) replacing an old cabbage processing […]

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[Photo courtesy of Bad Advice] The building site at 5 Roebling Street in the Burg, which we like to call the Giant Fart Cloud Building site, as it is the former site of a fragrant former cabbage processing plant, has acquired a pile driver. The site itself has been eventful thus far, producing both a […]

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We know the work at 5 Roebling in Williamsburg, aka the site of the Giant Fart Cloud Building will be the source of many words and photos in coming weeks. We say this because (a). There is the chance of damage to adjacent buildings if it is not monitored closely and (b). There is the […]

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We’re very unclear what workers were doing using blow torches at 5 Roebling Street last night from 7:00PM-10:00PM, except that blogger Bad Advice describes it this way: I can only imagine the thinking that was behind this latest 7pm – 10pm late-night weld-fest . . . “hmmm, if we wait until after dark, nobody can […]

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Williamsburg’s Giant Fart Cloud Building has broken its last wind and is, in fact, being broken up as we speak. The Old Fart, which was a cabbage processing plant in its most recent iteration, is at 15 Roebling, and was so named by blogger Bad Advice because of its unique fragrance. Bad Advice is currently […]

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It’s official. The scaffolding is going up on Williamsburg’s old cabbage processing plant, aka The Giant Fart Cloud Building, and the demolition crews are on their way. The real fun, however, will begin when excavation starts. The Fart Cloud site–formally known as 5 Roebling–is across Roebling Street from the Roebling Oil Field and potentially within […]

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The Department of Buildings stepped in yesterday to halt the demolition of 5 Roebling Street, also known as the Giant Fart Cloud Building because of its fragrant recent past as a cabbage processing plant. Neighbors had complained that the demolition was so violent that they were in fear that it would damage their building and […]

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We’ve followed the Giant Fart Cloud Building in Williamsburg every step of the way. It earned that name because it occupies the site of a former cabbage processing factory. Well, the Fart Cloud Buiding has been topped off and Phase II is underway and we’ll be damned if it really doesn’t look like it’s going […]

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We have got to say that in watching hundreds of poorly built condos go up over the last five or six years in Brooklyn, we’ve rarely seen a piece of crap as flimsy looking as the gem we call the Giant Fart Cloud Building, because it replaces a cabagge processing factory that used to give […]

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The new building going up at 5 Roebling, which is the site of the former Giant Fart Cloud building, is now in the pile driving phase. Yesterday, blogger Bad Advice first said it wasn’t so bad, but she is having second thoughts: Remember how yesterday I said that the piledriver wasn’t so bad? Yeah, well, […]

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Work has gotten underway at the site of the former Giant Fart Cloud Building at N. 11 Street and Roebling in Williamsburg whose demolition provided much drama. (The official address is 5 Roebling.) A GL reader writes: “I saw them digging with diggers today at the Giant Fart Cloud Building. It will be interesting to […]

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We swung by the atrocious demolition site at 5 Roebling Street in Williamsburg formerly known as the Giant Fart Cloud Building and found a busy situation. Workers were patching a wall of a neighboring building that had been damaged during demolition. We watched a huge trailer pull in and hoist a dumpster until it stood […]

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For a symbol of everything that is wrong with the system regulating demolition, construction and development in New York City and Brooklyn, look no further than 5 Roebling Street, aka the Giant Fart Cloud Building. Demolition work was stopped temporarily last month after a neighboring building was threatened. The demolition is back in full swing […]

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The crew taking down 5 Roebling Street in Williamsburg, aka the Giant Fart Cloud Building, is back on the job and neighbors are again suffering through severed cable TV lines and a general fear of being made homeless. Blogger Bad Advice is those telling us what it’s like to live in an old building next […]

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We didn’t expect to have this particular item about the former Giant Fart Cloud Building, aka 5 Roebling, this morning. We figured there would be another report of debris removal that might exceed the accepted parameters of debris removal. Instead, we got the following email at 10:19 PM: One of my neighbors saw people dumping […]

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The site of the former Giant Fart Cloud Building (aka 5 Roebling Street, which has partially been reduced to a flatulent pile of rubble) in Williamsburg become a very active place this week (complete with blowtorches cutting up steel in the night). So much so that blogger Bad Advice, whose building was threatened with damage […]

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We don’t know if there were any more late night blow torches lighting up the night sky in Williamsburg last night at the site of the mostly demolished Giant Fart Cloud Building (aka our old friend, 5 Roebling). We do know that the site was wide open around 12:30ish and that most of the workers […]

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Assemblyman Joe Lentol has jumped into the Giant Fart Cloud Building fray. You might recall that the Department of Buildings halted the demolition of 5 Roebling (aka the Giant Fart Cloud Building) last week for being unsafe. The demolition had threatened to destabilize at least one neighboring building. Today, New York Shitty posts a copy […]

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Neighbors of the notorious Giant Fart Cloud Building, which is being demolished at 5 Roebling Street in the Burg, now have gas. Seriously. KeySpan is digging. The good news is that the phones and internet are back, so they can phone, email and text before the block goes boom.–Bad Advice

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Williamsburg’s Giant Fart Cloud Building is gone, collapsed into a heap of bricks and splintered wood on Roebling Street, across from the Roebling Oil Building (aka Warehouse 11). The Department of Buildings halted the demolition because it was going forward in an unsafe way. Blogger Bad Advice had emailed us last Thursday, saying that residents […]

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We received a call from one of our many Williamsburg sources this morning at an hour on a Saturday morning when no one should be getting calls about this kind of thing: The work crew at 5 Roebling (aka The Giant Fart Cloud Building) was at the site around 8:30AM, working. The regular reader might […]

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Remember the Giant Fart Cloud Building, aka Five Roebling? It’s the one that the blogger Bad Advice lives next to. She has been afraid demolition work would destroy her home and, at least, seriously effect her life. Well, it’s happening and it’s scary. Her story gets the at the heart of the powerlessness that everyone […]

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Demolition crews have shown up at the 5 Roebling Street in Williamsburg, the building that used to be a cabbage processing plant and gained the name the “Giant Fart Cloud Building” from advice blogger and writer Bad Advice. The story of what is to come there will be of interest for a number of reasons, […]

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Generally, when the “rat poison” signs go up on a building in Williamsburg, you don’t even need to check city records to verify that demolition is coming. So it is with 5 Roebling Street, the building that was dubbed the Giant Fart Cloud Building by dating advice/real estate development blogger Bad Advice. The building was […]

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Remember the ongoing fight over the non-union employees hired by the Dermott Group at One Hanson and the fact that many of them can’t afford health insurance for their families. The most prominent investor in One Hanson, of course, is former basketball start Magic Johnson. This is the same Mr. Johnson who face beams from […]

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