Closing Bell: Safe for Sukkot?
A reader sent in this photo he took this weekend of a building at Broadway and Walton Street with a question about the safety and legality of these balconies built for Sukkot. Anyone know if they’re on the up-and-up?
A reader sent in this photo he took this weekend of a building at Broadway and Walton Street with a question about the safety and legality of these balconies built for Sukkot. Anyone know if they’re on the up-and-up?
W&A: do you know if these balconies violate the building code?
“It keeps the wee ones from toppling out the windows I guess.”
or escaping.
Can they do what the hipsters do and pitch tents?
Its not that the balconies themselves are sukkahs – its that they enable the owners to build sukkahs during Sukkot. These types of balconies are all over the orthodox area of Williamsburg. And I agree, they look very unsafe, and probably added on after the fact, since they aren’t designed to be used as fire escapes as well.
Still confused.
So during the holiday. They eat and sleep out on the Sukkah?
The entire family? That could be a lot of people, no?
New movie directed by Spike Lee and Woody Allan:
I’m Gonna Git You, Sukkah
Snark, but if these structures would be illegal under the building code, don’t you find it a bit distasteful to pass them off as sukkahs full-knowing that they are only used for religious purposes during a 7-day holiday?
> trying to pass these illegal balconies off as sukkahs
No, no, no. You build the Sukkah on the balcony. And generally seaking, yes, the Sukkah is only up temporarily, though I do see some in Kensington that never seem to come down.
LOL, Biff.