Today the Daily News ran a great story on Marie Grasso, the bitch who nearly knocked over my building while demoing the cabbage factory next door. Apparently she is not only a total hottie (nice bathrobe!), but a huge scofflaw, owing the city over a million bucks in fines! Yet she still gets city contracts! Great job, Mikey B. Something tells me Marie Grasso isn't tearing down buildings in your neck of the woods.
The reason she gets these fines is because she is such a scumbag that even the incompetent building inspectors can't ignore her. And believe me, they try. We must've called 311 a hundred times and got very little action. She hires people who don't know what they're doing, doesn't provide hard hats or any other protective gear, and just generally doesn't give a shit. Her company ripped out all the phone and cable lines from our building because they were "in the way" and then just shrugged it off. If you want to read about our hell, you can here, here, here or here. I feel sorry for the people she screwed over badly enough to actually have a building inspector take their complaints seriously. They must be missing walls!
This is the kind of story that makes me really miss Bob Guskind and Gowanus Lounge.
The one funny part of the whole equation, is that looking at the photo, I'm pretty sure she's the woman I met at the site who claimed she just "worked" for Marie Grasso. She's like bulky, unattractive version of Vicki/Nicki on One Life to Live.
Looks like a CUNT is a CUNT!
I'm so sorry to sister and her lovely neighbors..I'm glad I'm outta Brooklyn:)
Posted by: sue | May 17, 2009 at 03:17 PM
*smiles*
Posted by: Miss Heather | May 17, 2009 at 07:24 PM
Vicki/Nicki!!! that's too kind a comparison!
Posted by: rp | May 18, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Get over the emotional responses and get to the real issue. Any moron can get a contractors' license. And unlike other licenses--driver, physician, lawyer, broker, etc.--it cannot be suspended or revoked for bad behavior. A contractor is a loose canon. The law regulating them must be changed.
Posted by: vintagejames | May 18, 2009 at 04:30 PM
We had a guy get 3 drunk driving convictions in the past 15 years...CONVICTIONS...here in Nebraska and last week he was running from the cops in a high-speed chase, hit a minivan, killed a 3 year old girl, and seriously injured the rest of them.
Well, um, uh, we didn't know he was an illegal, says the Omaha Police Department? WTF? What are you people doing?
I needs to get me a city job where I can just F. Off all day long and be accountable to nobody. Man. Where do I apply?
Posted by: paul | May 19, 2009 at 01:57 PM
I'm with ya Paul.
Posted by: The Rev. Spyro | May 25, 2009 at 10:58 AM