This bus has been parked all over Gowanus in recent weeks. Yesterday, a special correspondent spied it on Bond Street parked in front of the Robert Scarano-designed Satori Condos. As we know, Satori m means instant enlightment and while we’re leaning toward believing that the enlightenment that is coming here is that people are unwilling to pay $400,000 for studio condo on Bond Street near the Gowanus Canal, perhaps the bus is seeking a special kind of enlightenment. Never know.
7 responses so far ↓
1 bri // Nov 25, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Ack. Those apartments were so upsetting. I am a fan of Scarano and lived in one of his buildings but now that he’s been busted for the mezzanine thing, the apartments are screwed. They put a giant platform in the mezzanine so that it is only 5 feet high and you can’t walk, making it truly storage space. Some you could make into a platform bed type thing but the largest apartments have masses of unusable square footage. And to add to the “storage” thing, they made these crazy stairs that are so narrow you can hardly walk down them without killing yourself. And the laundry is upstairs. So even if you did only use it for storage, you’d still have to try to heft laundry up an down and someone would certainly get hurt. Very upsetting. I would totally have been OK with the location and maybe even price. But no.
2 bus fairy // Nov 25, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Word on the street is that this bus was the veggie-waste-oil-conversion project of a local activist marching band… and that, in the aftermath of taking three dozen brassy, glittery people touring across the country this summer, it’s currently communing with the canal as to what its next purpose will be.
3 Dolores // Nov 25, 2008 at 3:03 pm
This ‘mystery bus’ is the motorhome I bought for my retirement. I asked my grandchildren to surprise me with the paint job but the lil brats apparently think I’m one of those hyapdelic hippy times. I am but an old woman, in search of a spacious place to spend my days. And I was a school bus driver for the bulk of my working years so it will feel like home, when I am financially able to shove off in my unassisted living facility.
4 zen mistress // Nov 25, 2008 at 4:02 pm
i hear if you pass a night on the bus, you will become enlightened…
laying your hands on it is also therapeutic.
5 Anonymous // Nov 25, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Bri, are you speaking of the Satori?
6 septic tank // Nov 25, 2008 at 5:03 pm
A night? Shit, if you pass gas on that bus, you’ll be enlightened. It’s like some kinda crazy commune on wheels, only the hippies are fierce and they all have horns! All I can tell you is, whatever you do, do not take the green acid.
7 sludge monster // Dec 3, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I could live with the stairwell and the unusable storage space upstairs but I don’t know what to think about “lavender lake” a half block away. Does anybody know the state of the canal who isn’t trying to interest me in a condo right next to it? It’s got some major issues: i.e. Toxic doom, flood hazards…toxic sludge flooding into the apartment from global warming raising sea levels. Time to buy though!
warming raising sea levels