A few days ago we were talking with a guy who’s lived for many years in the shadows of 53 Bridge Street, Joshua Guttman’s aborted attempt to build a residential building on a commercially-zoned lot, and were interested, but not surprised, to learn that he has had to make numerous calls to the developer in the last couple of years regarding imminent safety hazards like windows that have popped out or unstable scaffoldings. There’s currently a Stop Work Order in place (one of ten SWOs the development has received over the past couple of years) and Guttman, who’s rumored to have been suffering from poor health recently, still hasn’t paid the $3,000 in fines that he owes on the building. Should the DOB be stepping in to make the site safer?
Development Watch: WTF at 53 Bridge Street? [Brownstoner]
Progress at 53 Bridge Street? [Brownstoner] GMAP