Periodically, I make a hajj over to 539 Driggs Avenue, not far from the buzzing hive of downtown Williamsburg. I just want to see if what I have termed the ‘spook house of Williamsburg’ is still in this wondrously deteriorated condition, with the ruined barber pole proclaiming its past life, the stars and stripes displayed in the front door, the cracked facade, the venetian blinds askew, and the back house that you can’t see from the street.

2013: Yes, the building is owned and occupied, by a fellow named Tarpey. There was an item on Vimeo about him recently:

10/25/12