The Williamsburg Finger Building Gets Some Billburg Love

Given the controversy surrounding it, the plywood construction wall around the highrise Finger Building on North Seventh Street in Williamsburg has remained relatively graffiti-free. But, now, "Gentrify Brooklyn" posters containing the stenciled words and a silhouette of a Kalashnikov rifle have shown up at the site.

Meanwhile, the on-and-off construction at the building may be off again. You might recall that there was a stop work order on the building for a time because a structure was demolished without a permit. Then, work resumed, and the building was apparently scaled back a bit. Now, Billburgers report that there's been almost no activity on the site for a couple of weeks. (We had a feeling The Finger wasn't rising very quickly. Thirty stories worth of highrise in Long Island City went up twice as fast.)

We will not get into the entire philosophical discourse about exactly who is gentrifying what and should be pointing symbolic AK-47s at whom (gentrifying hipster versus original nabe resident, gentrifying yuppie versus hipster, etc.). Rather, we will appreciate the photo and leave it at that.

Bonus: We append the photo below from our collection to show how Billburgers are busy trying to make new construction in the neighborhood look like old construction by tagging it up as fast as they can. (You will note they even went up on the roof of the adjoining garage to do some of it.)