All stories about "Burned Cars"

This is a van that was torched in Sunset Park a couple of nights ago, courtesy of the nouveau neighborhood blog Best View in Brooklyn. The blogger writes, "Kind of gutsy, I think. The torcher chose to do the deed right on the corner of 4th Avenue and 44th Street...This poor van still has its garden tools and the remains of potting soil in the back."
· Burned Out Van in Sunset Park [Best View in Brooklyn]

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MIDTOWN—This car went up in smoke at 49th and Fifth over the weekend. The tipster who sends the pic writes: "Weird. One week after a cab blew up outside St Pats, a Town Car goes up on the same block." [CurbedWire Inbox]

CHELSEA—Well, one hotel mystery has been solved. "The hotel that has been under construction for a looooong time on the north side of 26th street between 6th and 7th got its sign this week... we're proud to welcome a new Holiday Inn to our neighborhood. The lot under construction on the south side of the same block is going to be hotel also, which a broker for the adjacent building told us will likely be a Four Seasons. We didn't really believe him then (The Four Seasons Chelsea?), but what are the chances of that now??!!" [CurbedWire Inbox]

WEST VILLAGE—Uh, stay away from the Sex and the City townhouse on Perry Street. Or not. Per a reader: "I was walking my dog yesterday down Perry Street, past the "Sex and the City" townhouse and lo and behold, there was an obnoxious chain across the steps to the townhouse with a sign that said if you sat on the steps you were TRESPASSING. I guess in order to get your photo there, you have to pay to get on the SATC tour and pay your 30 bucks. It is the first time I have seen a chain like that up in the W. Village, having lived here for many years." [CurbedWire Inbox]

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This boat is parked on N. 9 Street near Kent Avenue. We found it with a parking ticket (well, a ticked for being a "detached trailer") and some car parts inside. The boat is around the corner from the newly-occupied North8 Condos and almost in the same spot where a car was toasted in October. The name of our nautical friend appears to have been "Mike's Toy," although it's been reduced to "Ike's Toy."

At least North Brooklyn doesn't always have all the fried car fun. This one about "Nissans roasting on an open fire" comes from Bay Ridge and the blogger that posts it asks: "Nat King Cole would have undoubtedly preferred chestnuts, nevertheless someone got the open fire part right with this Pathfinder...Is Bay Ridge catching a case of car burning fever?"
· Nissans Roasting on an Open Fire? [Bay Ridge Rover]
· Williamsburg Car Toast-a-Thon Continues [Curbed]

[Photo via Will Femia]

The cars are ">still going up in flames in Williamsburg. This one was photographed by our man on the street, Will Femia, who found it at N. 9th and Kent, right around the corner from the North8 Condo and East River State Park. Nice.

Lest anyone think that we have only focused this week on burned cars in Williamsburg, Bushwick and Gowanus, we turn to Second Avenue and E. 62nd Street for this seriously roasted vehicle that came to us courtesy of a reader who wondered if the bonfire was the work of "the same people or what."
· Car Toast-a-Thon Continues: Bushwick Edition [Curbed]
· Car Toast-a-Thon Marathon: Gowanus Edition [Curbed]

[Photo courtesy of JGNY/flickr]

Images of toasted vehicles keep rolling into our inbox. Even though this Audi isn't a newly-toasted car it is a very well done one, and it comes from 3rd Street and Nevins Bond in Gowanus, making it a worthy Toast-a-Thon entry. Plus, the discarded pizza box by the front tire is a very artistic touch.
· Remains of an Audi on Nevins St and 3rd St. [flickr]
· Car Toast-a-Thon Continues: Bushwick Edition [Curbed]

Why should Williamsburg have all the burned car fun? This burned vehicle was sent by a tipster who notes that its location Harman Street and Myrtle Avenue in Bushwick is in front of a school. Useful, perhaps, in those science classes for explaining the combustion process.
· Williamsburg Mystery: Art, Arson or Insanity? [Curbed]

MIDTOWN—The art installation in the lobby of the new New York Times building is composed of about 300 LED's (2 walls of about 150 each facing each other) ) which seem to displaying rotating information gleaned over the years and published in the Times. When our contributing photographer visited he was confronted by what seems like THE WALL OF DEATH – 300 leds displaying obits. (The obits were up for about a minute, then they all turned into outlines of countries.) Since I arrived in the middle of the obit display, I thought that's all it was, which kind of seemed strange for a lobby." [CurbedWire Inbox]

CHELSEA—A reader emails to ask if there's any truth to an interesting rumor about a new hotel for the neighborhood. He writes, "Is there any truth to the rumor that a new Four Seasons hotel will be built on the site of a parking garage on West 24th Street (between 6 & 7th) close to the Chelsea Stratus, and where the current flea market is? I've heard this from a couple of people." [CurbedWire Inbox]

WILLIAMSBURG—Following up on this afternoon's post about the barbecued Honda Civic on Wythe Avenue, an email came into our inbox saying that another car was torched in the Burg last night. Per the email: "There was a second one this morning next to Diner, on Berry. These seem suspiciously like the earlier arson you reported - either same perp or a copycat??" [CurbedWire Inbox]