The Park Slope Courier has a story this week about another developer gone wild (anyone smell a tv show?) in the South Slope–and we’ve got the first-hand photos to back it up. In a nutshell, the demolition company working on 226-230 16th Street had already received multiple violations prior to February 15th, when a brick wall collpased, injuring two workers. DOB then issued a stop work order. The next afternoon, the demo was back in full-swing, causing more complaints to the DOB. By the time the stop work order was lifted on February 21, a significant amount of demo and clearing had already been done. When asked, the DOB first pointed to how overworked their inspectors are and then passed the buck to the NYPD, which it says is responsible for enforcing stop work orders. The longer we live in Brooklyn, however, the more and more we realize how much corruption there must be in the police department.
16th Street Demo Continued [PS Courier] GMAP P*Shark