[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 scary demolition and Myrtle the Turtle. We got an email from a reader yesterday, saying: “The Giant Fart Cloud is Pile driving today! Shaking the buildings. On top of the loud screaming from the top floor and Sunday working from the workers at Roebling Oil Mews(AKA WarehouseEleven).” In the meantime, blogger Bad Advice, who has a front row seat reports:

The piledriver arrived this morning. We were woken up at 7:41 by this horrible, metallic screeching and I knew. Sure enough, Inky and I looked out the window and there it was. The dreaded piledriver. If you live pretty much anywhere in New York City, you’re familiar with these giant crane-like machines…UPDATE: Much like math tests I’ve taken, it’s not as bad as I thought it would be. Yes, everything I own is shaking, but the building—so far—isn’t lurching. It’s deafeningly loud and definitely not pleasant, but not as terrifying as I’d predicted. Phew!

More to come as time goes on and a six-story building with ten apartments goes up.