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?
Those bars are like baby sitters for the outdoors.
Stick the child outside in the sun, but in the confines between the building window and the bars and you have a healthy supervised kid enjoying the outdoors at no added cost to the parent who still has to look after the other 5 kids.
Good thing they have 5 other windows.
These things are popping up all the time.
In other words, there’s a Sukkah born every minute.
But ET, to answer your question and to belabor my point, the sukkah was to be a temporary shelter set up like a tent when wandering the desert.
During Sukhot, you build a Sukkah:
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkah
All or part of the top must be open to the sky, hence the staggering of balconies on buildings intended for orthodox occupants.
Dave and ET, I think you’re onto something here — Sukkot isn’t until the fall — if my peeps are trying to pass these illegal balconies off as sukkahs, that’s totally not cool. You only have a sukkah up for the 7 days of the holiday.
A little ignorant here. I wasn’t sure what Sukkot was so I looked it up.
It’s a holiday where Jews make a pilgrimage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot
okay, still ignorant. What do the balconies have to do with Sukkot?
I know ugly but I fail to see what is problem. They look better supported than most balconies.
As far as bars on windows….as long as not on fire escape that is fine.
You also see really tall railings on the balconies in Boro Park too. On Sunday I saw one tot riding his big wheel unattended on a large terrace, which led me to my child-guard hypothesis.
“…and why do they have bars on windows several stories up.”
I wondered that too. You don’t see that in Crown Heights.