DOB's Stalled Site List Passes 500 Mark; BK Still on Top
The Department of Buildings’ latest tally of stalled construction sites counts 531 pits of inactivity citywide, up from 453 in its last report. As it has since the DOB started making a list of no-go construction, Brooklyn leads the way in the five boroughs, with 246 stalled sites. (Back in the summer, when the DOB…

The Department of Buildings’ latest tally of stalled construction sites counts 531 pits of inactivity citywide, up from 453 in its last report. As it has since the DOB started making a list of no-go construction, Brooklyn leads the way in the five boroughs, with 246 stalled sites. (Back in the summer, when the DOB first started releasing these reports, 63 were counted in all of Brooklyn and only 143 in the whole city.) Dubious honors for second and third place go to Queens, with 147 sites, and Manhattan, with 80 sites. In Brooklyn, the area covered by CB1, Williamsburg and Greenpoint, continues to have the most stalled sites, with 80 properties making the list this time around. No other area in Brooklyn comes close to CB1, though there are significant numbers in CB2’s zone (21), CB6’s (14), and CB7’s (16). Meanwhile, there are still obvious omissions from the tally. For example, long-dormant 333 Carroll is nowhere to be found, and neither are a couple of 4th Avenue sites where nothing’s been doing for a long time. Click though to see the full list.
Stalled Construction Sites [DOB]
Williamsburg Ranks #1 in City’s Stalled-Site Sweepstakes [Brownstoner]
In order to make the DOB’s radar, the site has to have recent 311 complaints about hazardous conditions/unsafe fence/excessive debris/bad housekeeping AND have expired permits. 333 Carroll St. has neither complaints nor expired permits. The fence and shed are good until February 2010.
The Scribd feature is cool.
In order to make the DOB’s radar, the site has to have recent 311 complaints about hazardous conditions/unsafe fence/excessive debris/bad housekeeping AND have expired permits. 333 Carroll St. has neither complaints nor expired permits. The fence and shed are good until February 2010.
There’s one big omission I noticed in PLG: The site of the Lincoln Road “glass tower,” not listed, that I can see, under either its Lincoln Road or Flatbush Avenue addresses. There are two benefits to this stalled project though. The murals that PLG Arts painted on its construction fence are likely to stay up for a while AND, from what I saw from the Prospect Park Q train station yesterday, the site is well on its way towards becoming re-forested.