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Lets talk about this scam. My building has it up for 2 years already and NOT ONE DAY of brickwork renewal has been done. The supernintendo (yea hes a joke i know its spelled wrong) is getting a monthly payment from the scaffold company to allow them to keep it up longER.*Factont ask how i found out* My 2nd floor view is blocked by this ugly ***** and my canopy adress cant be seen because of it. 3 times delivery guys aka call girls -joke- got lost because they could'nt see the building number and drove right by it. 311 dont care. Super WANTS it to stay longer because he's getting more money. Has anybody heard of this scheme ??
How long has your scaffolding been up?
Is there really anything i can do about this?
Tell your scaffold story here.
For those who are wondering what im talking about here...a picture is worth a thousand words.
Building up the block at like 94th and Third Avenue has had a scaffolding going 3/4 block down Third and a quarter block up 94th towards Lex.
It has been up for nearly 3 years and I can discern no meaningful work ever being done on the façade.
The Times ran an article LONG ago demonstrating that it is sometimes cheaper to leave scaffolding up almost permanently than to pay to put it up and take it down. There must be some truth in that because so many buildings seem to keep them up seemingly forever.
Where do you think they're supposed to store all of this scaffolding if not in front of your building? The scaffolding will be gone as soon as the scaffolding owner finds a better customer to store his material.
Now that you mention it, I don't think I've ever seen as much scaffolding as New York in any other city I've visited. I found something about this on Google.
This is a fallout of something called Local Law 11. A bunch of year ago, there were a couple of incidents of building facades coming loose and dropping material on to the street below. I think there were a few casualties.
So the City Council passed a law that every building has to have it's facade inspected every 5 years by an engineer. If the engineer finds anything (and they almost invariable do), the building must fix it by a certain timeframe. Putting up a sidewalk shed stops the initial clock (they also have to have the work done by a certain timeframe, it think three years, but this could be wrong.) So that's why you see so many sheds and scaffolds up.
This is essentially a city sponsored full employment program for contractors, and one of the biggest scams going.
This is a fallout of something called Local Law 11. A bunch of year ago, there were a couple of incidents of building facades coming loose and dropping material on to the street below. I think there were a few casualties.
So the City Council passed a law that every building has to have it's facade inspected every 5 years by an engineer. If the engineer finds anything (and they almost invariable do), the building must fix it by a certain timeframe. Putting up a sidewalk shed stops the initial clock (they also have to have the work done by a certain timeframe, it think three years, but this could be wrong.) So that's why you see so many sheds and scaffolds up.
This is essentially a city sponsored full employment program for contractors, and one of the biggest scams going.
The City Council ought to pass a law banning the dangerous chemicals used in maintenance/construction.
GREEDY BTARDS ON THE TAKE DON'T GIVE A FLUCK ABOUT MY BREATHING HEALTH OR YOURS
SEND THOSE HARDHAT SLOBS BACK TO GO DO MAINTENANCE WHEREVER THEY LIVE AND WHEREVER THE PIGS ON THE COUNCIL LIVE......................WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE GET LOST.
This is a fallout of something called Local Law 11. A bunch of year ago, there were a couple of incidents of building facades coming loose and dropping material on to the street below. I think there were a few casualties.
So the City Council passed a law that every building has to have it's facade inspected every 5 years by an engineer. If the engineer finds anything (and they almost invariable do), the building must fix it by a certain timeframe. Putting up a sidewalk shed stops the initial clock (they also have to have the work done by a certain timeframe, it think three years, but this could be wrong.) So that's why you see so many sheds and scaffolds up.
This is essentially a city sponsored full employment program for contractors, and one of the biggest scams going.
When did the City CON sill pass this HORRIBLE law?
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ont ask how i found out* My 2nd floor view is blocked by this ugly ***** and my canopy adress cant be seen because of it. 3 times delivery guys aka call girls -joke- got lost because they could'nt see the building number and drove right by it. 311 dont care. Super WANTS it to stay longer because he's getting more money. Has anybody heard of this scheme ??
