Haven’t we seen this movie before? The contractor responsible for bringing you countless worker injuries and collateral structural damage–Staten Island-based contractors MMG–is at it again, this time on the Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy border. While they haven’t even started construction on the 12-story tower that will be nestled in among the 3-, 4- and 5-story buildings that line the block of Clifton Place between Classon and Franklin, this crew of so-called professionals has already racked up 31 complaints according to the DOB website. Here’s some first-hand color from a resident who has the unfortunate luck of owning a house adjacent to the project:

The demo has been extremely unsafe and unprofessional. MMG’s workers don’t wear hardhats and we’ve watched the backhoe operator drink beer at lunch and then get back behind the wheel. I called and spoke with MMG’s owner Marie Grasso one day when I looked out our back window and they had workmen 20 feet up on the wall above our yard, prying off cinder blocks off directly above the head of my 2-year-old son who was playing in the yard and my wife who was hanging the laundry. This is without any kind of protective fence or netting. When I called MMG, I was told that what I just saw did not happen and that if any damage happens to my house during their demo, it is my fault not theirs. This week they dropped a steel I-beam that made our entire block shake like an earth quake, at which point MMG told us, “that’s how it’s done.”

Evidently, that is how it’s done in Brooklyn these days. There’s a meeting tonight at 7:30 at Bistro Lafayette (338 Franklin Ave. btwn Greene & Lexington) for all area residents who are disturbed by the conduct to the developer and his henchmen. GMAP

Addendum: We originally reported–erroneously–that Bricolage was associated with this project. This is not the case, it turns out. Apologies for the mistake.