Downtown Tower Has Been Hit With 12 SWO's
The Daily News looked over DOB records for the under-construction, 51-story tower at 111 Lawrence Street and found that the city has issued a dozen stop work orders on the site since January of last year. Last week, a construction worker fell three stories at the building and sustained minor injuries. There are currently 11…
The Daily News looked over DOB records for the under-construction, 51-story tower at 111 Lawrence Street and found that the city has issued a dozen stop work orders on the site since January of last year. Last week, a construction worker fell three stories at the building and sustained minor injuries. There are currently 11 open violations on the job and contractors owe $78,200 in fines, according to the story. At this point, the tower must be getting pretty close to being topped out.
” Demand has been so far ahead of supply in this town that the addition of a couple thousand new rental units in a location that is rich with transit and is 10 minutes to lower manhattan is not a bad thing. Long term, these guys will do fine financially.”
Why do I have to commute to Manhattan when I can live there for the same price and be to work in 5 minutes?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Long term, these guys will do fine financially.” Like this guy??????????
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Developer of Greenwood Project Files Chapter 11
developer of a Brooklyn residential project in Greenwood Heights has filed for Chapter 11, it was reported in The Real Deal last week.
“Fred Deutsch, the developer of a four-story building at 338-342 22nd St., filed for bankruptcy protection on May 11 in federal court in Manhattan,†The Real Deal said, noting that the project had a stop work order served on April 30, according to the Department of Buildings Web site.
Deutsch is the owner of LD Development, whose liabilities are between $10-$50 million; assets were between $1-$10 million.
I just love this shit! These are historical times and I want to remind you every minute of it, Jackasses!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
What – you’ve got to do some more research. This is now the third time that you’ve posted a comment about condos when we’re talking about a building that has ALWAYs been planned as a rental (Avalon, 80 Dekalb, and now this). Yes – we know that all of the unsold downtown condos at ORO and Forte will likely go rental at some point which will add to the glut on new rental units in downtown Brooklyn. So what? Demand has been so far ahead of supply in this town that the addition of a couple thousand new rental units in a location that is rich with transit and is 10 minutes to lower manhattan is not a bad thing. Long term, these guys will do fine financially.
The scenario you describe is also ugly, iz.
What is going to happen to all the new Condo construction???!!!
Answer the question!!!!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
At the end of last week I asked and they said two more floors.
I think the building looks ok from the front, the colors are very nice at sunset, but the exposed concrete sides are horrific.
iz, amen
I don’t know the specifics of this job, but keep in mind that with construction all but halted in the city (as elsewhere in the country), the DOB is having to find things to do and ways to generate money. It’s not uncommon these days to have several inspectors go to the SAME construction site in the SAME day and give sometimes contradictory violations. It would be nice if their motivations were the safety of workers and public, but unfortunately in this difficult time, the motivation is often short term survival — keeping their jobs and keeping the DOB with cash flow. Also, there’s no oversight or accountability over the DOB. You can file a complaint and MAYBE get a hearing if the judgements are unfair, but in general, if an inspector says he’d like a door in the ceiling, you better put one in there.
I’ve also heard that a lot of folks can’t get their C of O’s on their renovations these days. Same problem — inspectors inventing pretexts to give themselves a “rescheduling”.
The REAL “ugly” part is how these builders routinely flout the law and get away with it.
Ceilings aren’t low – about 9′ I believe.
And there was a topping out scheduled for last week that got delayed because of the accident.