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Like many townhouses in Park Slope, the back of my building has thick black phone and TV cables running across the back façade a few feet under the 2nd floor windows. The cables run across the back of every house on our block.

My question is: can a homeowner request or demand that these cables be rerouted? There are other cables that run along poles in the the lot lines between the backyards of the homes on our block.

Do the cable and phone companies enjoy some special easement or “right of way” that allows them to run these ugly wires across the backs of our homes?

Thanks for any insight. I searched the forum, but to no avail.