We have called 208 N. 10 Street in Williamsburg (aka 199-211 N. 9 Street) a great many things. From the day the fence went up and demolition started it has been such a nasty threat to public safety that it’s an absolute miracle that no one has been killed or injured in the rubble, test pits or twisted metal and other debris. The fence around this hazard has been open more than it’s been closed. The Department of Buildings has written a few violations on the property, but could have been issuing one a week if an inspector drove by and looked. The reason we keep harping on it is not that it’s the kind of clear and present danger that falling construction cranes represent, but because it’s one of those low-great safety threats and violations of neighborhood quality of life that are the real indictments of the system’s impotence. Someday, a child or challenged adult will be gravely injured or die at one of these poorly maintained, non-policed construction sites, which are all over this part of Williamsburg. We digress, however. We’ll simply conclude by saying that there were sharp, rusty nails sticking up from the wood on the sidewalk and that the site itself is full of dangerous debris. We did notice that the test well–which would have been checking for underground oil and other goodies–have been removed, so perhaps there will be more work on the site soon.