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, I was wrong. Imagine having an angry giant monster, jumping up and down, right next to your house. Everything is bouncing, books are falling off shelves. As I work at home, I’m sure today is going to be a really productive day. And you know, if any of you new Williamsburg condo owners are reading—which I doubt—you guys must be out of your minds. The “luxury” condos next door are being built on a hazmat site. The ones across the street are built on a bubbling field of oil and those down the street are being constructed on top of a brown field that’s laid dormant for the last decade because it was so toxic!

She concludes by asking: “Why on earth would you move here when there are really nice neighborhoods with things like trees?…Wait until you start having kids with six arms and giant goiters.