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We live in a brownstone that pretty much like all brownstones in Brooklyn is right next to the neighbor’s. Our next door neighbor has always been doing slight remos here and there but his latest one seems like trouble. He has been hammering as if with a sledge hammer a hole out of his basement to create and egress and regress door. I know he has no permits for this job and he’s doing it himself. Our common wall seems to be under stress since we can hear crumbling sounds inside the dry wall. These neighbors have been really difficult and unfriendly, but at the same time we’re afraid the retaliation with the BD on our end if we say anything. We need advice…