Trying to Save The Unsafe: The Brooklyn Angel Building

Sad news in the “strange buildings of Brooklyn” department today. The very odd Broken Angel building, which has been pieced together over the past 27 years by “self-taught architect and artist” Arthur Wood, caught fire last week and has now been condemned by the city to be unsafe and needs to be torn down. Wood, and his son, Christopher, are trying desperately to keep the place away from the wrecking ball, but it’s not looking too good because, in the end, the place is, and has always been, something of a mess.