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February 17, 2009
Help with developer's scaffold
Hello,
We have a developer whose property abuts our back yard here in Brooklyn. There have been all the usual tensions between them and us. Their next step is to hang scaffolding over their rooftop and descend into our backyard. The scaffolding will not actually touch our backyard, but will extend 6 or seven feet into our 'airspace.' The intrusion will essentially be the same as if he started from the bottom as opposed to the top.
My question is this - can he do this without my permission? Don't I own the 'air-rights' above my property? Any help or info would be greatly appreciated.
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Hey,
I wanted to thank everyone for the responses! A bit confusing, but I appreciate all the help. Just to clarify, this is not a neighbor to neighbor issue. Rather, a neighbor to developer issue. It started as amiable, but after coming home number of times to discover them in my back yard without permission, loads of garbage dumped on my lawn for months at time, plus the added bonus of the workers daily lunch garbage being left on the roof so the wind blows it off and it collects in the yard and decorates the tree like it's Bizarro Xmas - enough with the nice nice.
PS - ground up would not work, it would ruin our landscaping.
Thanks -
Posted by: db123 at February 21, 2009 1:24 PM in response to Help with developer's scaffold
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Hey,
I wanted to thank everyone for the responses! A bit confusing, but I appreciate all the help. Just to clarify, this is not a neighbor to neighbor issue. Rather, a neighbor to developer issue. It started as amiable, but after coming home number of times to discover them in my back yard without permission, loads of garbage dumped on my lawn for months at time, plus the added bonus of the workers daily lunch garbage being left on the roof so the wind blows it off and it collects in the yard and decorates the tree like it's Bizarro Xmas - enough with the nice nice.
PS - ground up would not work, it would ruin our landscaping.
Thanks -
Posted by: db123 at February 21, 2009 1:24 PM in response to Help with developer's scaffold
Hey,
I wanted to thank everyone for the responses! A bit confusing, but I appreciate all the help. Just to clarify, this is not a neighbor to neighbor issue. Rather, a neighbor to developer issue. It started as amiable, but after coming home number of times to discover them in my back yard without permission, loads of garbage dumped on my lawn for months at time, plus the added bonus of the workers daily lunch garbage being left on the roof so the wind blows it off and it collects in the yard and decorates the tree like it's Bizarro Xmas - enough with the nice nice.
PS - ground up would not work, it would ruin our landscaping.
Thanks -
Posted by: db123 at February 21, 2009 1:24 PM in response to Help with developer's scaffold