A chunk of scaffolding attached to Shaya Boymelgreen’s Novo Park Slope at 343 Fourth Avenue collapsed this weekend. The collapse happened sometime on Saturday night, according to a source, and the rubble spilling out onto Fourth Avenue was left there all of yesterday. (Wouldn’t want to have to pay time-and-a-half for the clean-up, now would you, Shaya?) The mess still wasn’t cleaned up as of early this morning. As far as we know, the collapse didn’t injure anyone. Interestingly, the accident happened at the entrance to Terrapin Playground, the section of J.J. Byrne Park that Boymelgreen is supposed to be renovating. The Parks Department has put up a sign that says the park area should be completed by this fall and will include basketball courts, street skate area, handball courts, dog run, fencing and landscaping. It’s hard to tell how much progress has been made on the park from outside the scaffolding, but it doesn’t appear to be anywhere near completion. Boymelgreen’s progress on the park is of interest given that some community members are lobbying for the city to withhold granting a certificate of occupancy for the Novo until the park is finished.
Fantastic 4th? Eh, We’ll See [Brownstoner] GMAP
Slope to Shaya: Fix J.J. Byrne Park Now [Brooklyn Paper]
Old Park Slope Says Novo Park Slope is a Deadbeat [Curbed]

More photos of the collapse on the jump.