Making Friends on State Street
The folks now living in the recently-constructed townhouse on State between Nevins and Bond aren’t exactly making friends on the block, it appears. Over the weekend, they decided to do a little jackhammering, much to the chagrin of the some neighbors. “What the hell were they jackhammering in a basically 6 month old house?” asks…
The folks now living in the recently-constructed townhouse on State between Nevins and Bond aren’t exactly making friends on the block, it appears. Over the weekend, they decided to do a little jackhammering, much to the chagrin of the some neighbors. “What the hell were they jackhammering in a basically 6 month old house?” asks the tipster who sent this in. Has to be either for the cellar or the backyard, we’d guess. Did anyone have the pleasure of hearing these shenanigans? Any other tales of particularly inconsiderate neighbors this weekend? GMAP
I saw the pamphleteer working yesterday afternoon. I think it’s very much in the spirit of new york.
scuttlebutt is, the owner of 418 called 3-1-1 to complain about the weekday jackhammering in front of the Coy L. Cox school across the street from the house. somehow they had the pull to get the construction to move all their work to the weekend, in particular, a weekend when they were away.
Dirtbag,
I sympathize. Is beyond me sometimes, especially with the new condos, how little they pay attention to outside of building.Litter, leaves, whatever – just walk right on by. Luckily the coop building on the block seems very concerned about their property.
The all rental 4 family next door— tenants can’t even be bothered to pick up the stupid flyers and free papers left on their stoop. Just walk right over them.
“some of us work at night”
so, i guess construction should be done at night then?
From what 1:17 and 1:23 said, this sounds like one particular house getting harrassed by a crazy neighbor and it’s been going on for a while according to 1:23. The owner of this house should go to their local police precinct and file a report, and ask the cops to talk to this neighbor. This is harrassment, to find angry notes on one’s door all the time like this. If it ever escalated, there would be record of the notes with the local precinct.
Hippie Dirtbag–
I know (almost) exactly how you feel. I have a neighbor who has let her yard become so overgrown that the only place she has left to sit is a small ‘platform’ on the side of her house. All day long, and many nights besides, she sits there listening to an all-talk radio station. I’ve tried talking to her–I even suggested that I’d help her clean up her yard so she could sit somewhere else; I offered to buy her headphones. This past Saturday, she left the radio on out there and left the house!
Personally, I don’t think the fake block association and the present of a dustpan and broom is such a bad idea. However, now that you know the law, I’d just mail your neighbors that. Or, I’d just start sweeping in front of my house and sic the sanitation police on ’em. A few fines and they’ll get the message.
I feel your frustration dirtbag,..I cant really offer any further advice. I have a business on atlantic ave, and the landlord pays one of his tennants(or gives them a break on rent) to sweep in front of all his buildings on that bock regularly, not that the condo dwellers would do that. Who shovels in the winter?, i guess that should be the same people who sweeps in the fall/ spring…i guess you could try calling 311, or a polite note to the landlord, If it gone undone for awhile, it might be hard to get ol landlordy on track.
Is this this house on state that always has nasty notes taped up to it? There’s on new construction house that I walk by all the time, and it always has some note taped up about how the new house is a bad neighbor for some reason or other…
um, i live next door to them and that drilling is supposedly for the school across the street. something about getting their boiler in shape before the next school year. last conversation i had with them, the drilling was making the people at 418 as crazy as the rest of us.
that note writer is a nutbag. ooooh i want to find out who it is!
“Landlords are responsible for the cleanliness in front of their properties. Common charges for condos should be going to things like that. The dustpan/broom idea is comparable to taping signs up to their door telling them they are bad neighbors.”
That’s what I was afraid of, 12:44. I do know common charges SHOULD be going to general housekeeping, but no one but me has swept out front in the past two years, so obviously they aren’t. (Their garden needs weeding and watering too). Maybe they should pay me the common charges : P
Seriously though, I need a good and tactful way – I’d like to just invite them over for a drink or coffee or something but then to introduce an agenda seems a little asshole-y.