Say goodbye to the precious summer nights spent drunkenly stumbling around the McKibbin lofts. The loft residents at 248 McKibbin lost their access to the roof on August 20th.

The 248 building has had a history of people throwing things off the roof, but one tenant claimed that the access was revoked to a mysterious person throwing a bicycle off the roof and almost maiming a young passerby. Gideon Heine, resident of 244 McKibbin, stated that the roof closure is “terrible news.” A recent Aussie transplant, he lamented the loss of the roof as a community, saying, “New York can be a lonely place sometimes but on that rooftop, you don’t feel that way.”

Complaints about the building’s tendency to be a Russian roulette of flying debris have been piling up for a few months now.  A letter from Carnegie Management Inc. was sent out to tenants stating the NYPD’s 90th precinct had received a ledger of complaints against the building. “They presented to us several police reports as well as video clips of objects flying off the roof deck, which could have killed individuals passing by on the ground,” said Heine. The letter states “the roof deck was designated fro the tenant’s enjoyment and not to receive complaints of disturbances from the neighborhood buildings.” It also states that the closure comes not from the management company itself, but the police and, most disturbingly, the community at large.