Welcome to the Wild, Wild West

The Daily News had an article yesterday about how many Brooklynites are terrified of safety conditions (or lack thereof) at construction sites. Some choice takeaways:

-Last month the DOB inspected conditions at 305 construction sites in Brooklyn, finding violations at 87 of them and putting stop work orders on 43 of them.

-Last year Buildings Commissioner Patricia Lancaster told the Daily News that she crosses the street to avoid walking under scaffolding.

-Many of the sites shut down in last month's sweep were in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

The quote of the article belongs to Assemblyman Jim Brennan, who's been pushing for DOB reform for a long time now: "It's a reactive response. Of course it's good for them to do a sweep like this, but the current process of supervision and enforcement is broken."

Yup.
Residents Nervous Over Building Sites [NY Daily News]
Brennan on the Frontlines of DOB Reform Fight [Brownstoner]
Photo by Daniel A. Norman.

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Tell ya one thing--I do not like walking under those construction sheds. I try to avoid.

Posted by: Rehab at April 14, 2008 11:18 AM

How safe is it for workers to straddle those scaffolds like Spider-Man, without use of harnesses. See it all of the time.

-sg.

Posted by: guest at April 14, 2008 4:22 PM

All I can say is that I know someone who does this for a living - and even HE CROSSES TO THE OTHER SIDE of the street. That Patricia Lancaster ain't as stupid as she appears!

Posted by: guest at April 14, 2008 11:01 PM

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