There would have to be some kind of permit for this. You're changing access routing and pedestrian traffic. The question is who would the permit be listed under?
Alefantis does things to comet without permits a lot. They aren't even allowed to have live music but they do it anyway. But they did start work on the pegasus project around the same time the dig photos and have permits for that. If there are permits they'd probably be under McCullough since it supposed to be their storefront or whatever you call it. I don't think they needed to redirect pedestrian traffic because they entered through the back via the parking lot.
True, re: Alefantis doing what he wants, but you don't understand what I'm saying about pedestrian traffic. If it was a known passage, you can't block it off. People in the area might be accustomed to using it to get from one street Connecticut to whatever street runs parallel. If it was known, blocking it up could cause problems. For instance, someone being sick and thinking they could cut through the passageway and finding it blocked.
Oh I see what you're saying. Well here take a look. The doorway on the right has a gap in the threshold to Comet. Seems to me that it would be too small and unsafe for pedestrian traffic but not for a passageway in the speakeasy era, which I'm seeing as the era the building went up.
Oh, yeah, it did go up in the speakeasy era. That's why they might be hidden tunnels because obviously they wouldn't want city officials to know where they were hiding the liquor. I posted the construction details showed the year it was built and it was around that time.
You probably can. One of the offices sells original blueprints. But the thing is, if it were a speakeasy, the tunnels wouldn't be on the plans, but a basement would be.
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quantokitty ago
Very interesting.
There would have to be some kind of permit for this. You're changing access routing and pedestrian traffic. The question is who would the permit be listed under?
ArthurEdens ago
Alefantis does things to comet without permits a lot. They aren't even allowed to have live music but they do it anyway. But they did start work on the pegasus project around the same time the dig photos and have permits for that. If there are permits they'd probably be under McCullough since it supposed to be their storefront or whatever you call it. I don't think they needed to redirect pedestrian traffic because they entered through the back via the parking lot.
quantokitty ago
True, re: Alefantis doing what he wants, but you don't understand what I'm saying about pedestrian traffic. If it was a known passage, you can't block it off. People in the area might be accustomed to using it to get from one street Connecticut to whatever street runs parallel. If it was known, blocking it up could cause problems. For instance, someone being sick and thinking they could cut through the passageway and finding it blocked.
It's just one example
ArthurEdens ago
Oh I see what you're saying. Well here take a look. The doorway on the right has a gap in the threshold to Comet. Seems to me that it would be too small and unsafe for pedestrian traffic but not for a passageway in the speakeasy era, which I'm seeing as the era the building went up.
Have a look:
https://archive.is/0mPDo/94e5d2535f6fd8227fa004fd671b19a5e738eb40.2
quantokitty ago
Oh, yeah, it did go up in the speakeasy era. That's why they might be hidden tunnels because obviously they wouldn't want city officials to know where they were hiding the liquor. I posted the construction details showed the year it was built and it was around that time.
ALDO_NOVA ago
would love to get the original blueprints
quantokitty ago
You probably can. One of the offices sells original blueprints. But the thing is, if it were a speakeasy, the tunnels wouldn't be on the plans, but a basement would be.