So when he and a partner, Joel LoSecco (the L in B&L) found the garage on Heathcote, hard by Co-op City, they jumped at it.
Last weekend, a residential garage near Avenue L and outdoor staircases to a nearby religious school were painted with swastikas.
Fatty's is pretty much any uncle's dream: a two-door garage with an L-shaped bar, a drum kit and a bunch of tanks, next door to a tattoo parlor (Blu Gorilla).
The main structure, with its adjacent garage, forms an L-shape at the bend of a steep, narrow road.
The headliners include the London Souls, This Good Robot, the Dirty Pearls, King L and the Black Box Revelation, a Belgian garage-rock group.
Discouraged, I turned around again and drove back down Ledgewood, noticing on my right a closed garage door painted with a trompe-l'oeil bookshelf, including a well-rendered potted plant.
It sold a parking garage next door to its 15th and L streets NW headquarters, and also said goodbye to the printing plant in Prince George's.
Ten years ago, Wanfeng was hammering out motorcycle wheels by hand in a Chinese garage; a few years later it was the No. l seller of aluminum-alloy motorcycle wheels, first in China and now in Asia.
Because the town code required a detached garage, which ate into the available lot space, Mr. Jordan used an L-shaped floor plan.
Ling, who had earned a graduate degree in fine arts from California State University, Long Beach, turned the garage into a painting studio.
It will have 438 apartments in a 29-story L-shaped building, 80 apartments in a separate 12-story building that also houses a garage, with 20 town houses on its roof.
