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.
These don’t jut out as far onto the sidewalk as others I’ve seen in that nabe.
How do folks get away with doing things like this? I can’t even replace a tub without my neighbors calling me in.
Yeah… someone has to die. LIKE for instance when a huge old tinderbox building has a fire and ALL of the fire escapes are wrapped in wood and canvas. Of course, it won’t be someONE dead, it will be dozens.
The balconies don’t bother me. It’s their own damn fault to think they can put a whole family on something that barely looks safe enough to call a kid’s treehouse. But fire escapes…. that’s a different story. Non-Sukkot celebrating folks without a death wish live in Brooklyn buildings too!
Prison housing has terraces?
if anyone wants to be shady, this construction site would be the PERFECT places to “get hurt”
lawsuit! lawsuit! lawsuit! cha-ching!
*rob*
bike lanes = unsafe
rickety DIY balconies = a ok
Fortunately these aren’t used for grilling and drunken parties.
*yawn*
The only way the city will crack down on these is if there is an accident invovling one of these illegal balconies. 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 (unfortunately).
snappy, no rhetorical questions allowed
So did anyone show up to put a stop to this? Any violations issued?