After-Hours Hijinx in South Williamsburg
[nggallery id=”48367″ template=galleryview] This just in from a reader: I’m all for the First Amendment and the freedom to practice one’s religion openly; however adding on to an existing illegal balcony while hoisting beams and welding over an open sidewalk with no protection for the public just isn’t cool. Oh yeah, it’s illegal too! Called…
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This just in from a reader:
I’m all for the First Amendment and the freedom to practice one’s religion openly; however adding on to an existing illegal balcony while hoisting beams and welding over an open sidewalk with no protection for the public just isn’t cool. Oh yeah, it’s illegal too! Called 311. They wanted to transfer me to a 911 operator, who after listening to me said this wasn’t an emergency & relayed me back to 311. The property is 123 South 8th Street and this is the second time I have seen this happen without recourse. You can walk along south 8th st, look up and see all the new extension because the bottoms aren’t painted or weathered. They look like new galvanized decking.
A check with DOB online shows no permits filed for this work. Update: This is classic. Of course by the time DOB made it out to the site, work had magically ceased.
“Even though the person miffed about them is absolutely right about them needing to be done within city guidelines, I think they need to back off. The proper authorities will step in and deal with this at an appropriate time, which will likely be when someone is seriously injured or killed.”
– Ishtar
This is just bizarre. You really, “absolutely” agree, but they should “back off”. Someone will be “seriously injured or killed”, but *yawn*
Sigh. This is like me doing nothing about my outrage at that shitty little evil church in Florida about to burn Korans. Which is what I’m doing. Nothing. And I guess this guy who was sufficiently pissed off about a potentially, ludicrously dangerous practice, going on with a free pass due to political machinations, should likewise do. Nothing.
are u freakin serious wine lover? hasidics have bars on their windows bc of hispanic gangs? haha
pfa – cause south/east WB is near a project and the southside has had hispanic gangs, and in general used to be way more scary than it is now with all the restaurants and nice buildings. that part of broadway is probably fine these days.
Why are there bars on the top floor windows?
Good luck, and keep trying. Rabbinical law is not the law of the land, despite what our hat wearing friends might tell us.
They ought to be strung up by their side-curls.
I need a curb cut so I can drag my cross over the curb for Good friday re-enactments.
New Year fireworks.
chrishavens – BRILLIANT! that will actually work. seriously – you need to call the fire dept. and the police. love this.
i’ve been standing on broadway mid-day and seen bunches of kids out on these balconies, some very little, and totally unsupervised, and the kids not only climb up, but over to other balconies. and, these balconies are not even that close to each other! balconies and kids are dicey.