“It looks like a bomb hit over here. It’s just blocks and blocks of everything torn down, and most of the permits are expired,” Williamsburg housing activist Philip DePaolo told the Daily News. “What’s going to happen to all these sites? It’s blight.” Aborted development projects and their related quality of life problems are increasingly becoming a quality of life issue now that construction has ground to a halt on all but a few of the borough’s residential projects. “Speculators came in hoping to make money and ruined a nice residential neighborhood,” said Robert Bennett of the six-story condo development at 2485 Ocean Avenue in Sheepshead Bay which went quiet about a year ago. And developers don’t have any incentive to clean up or sell off their half-finished projects, as DOB doesn’t levy fines unless specific safety hazards can be cited. What are some problem sites near where you live?
Building Skeletons Haunting Brooklyn Nabes [NY Daily News]
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