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
The DOB allows you to work at any time required providing you have the correct after hours permits. Saturday work permits are easy to obtain. Sunday work permits are difficult and you have to usually write a letter as to why the work must be done on a sunday or late at night. The easiest way to get a contractor to stop after-hours work is to look on the after hours permit and read the description of work. It they are jackhammering and the permit says “unloading material” then you can call 311 and hopefully an inspector will come out to shut down the work temporarily. However you should not expect this, the inspectors are working with on a 2 month backplog to 311 complaints.
if i was the new neighbors. i would put up a bear trap for the moron neighbor who put up all the notes.
It’s kind of creepy, actually. even if the “bad neighbor” was at fault, this is a disturbing way to grind an axe.
next time just call 311, leave the complaint, and leave the packing tape and sharpies at home.
If the guy wasn’t jackhammering a concrete patio, well, what else could he have been jackhammering? Jackhammers aren’t useful for much else than breaking up concrete.
Also, I live in a single-family house, I do a lot of the work on it myself–within daytime hours only–and I sure as hell would not pull a permit to do a little patio project on my own. That’s silly. Maybe it’s required by DOB rules (is it?), and I do comply with those rules to a reasonable extent. But come on–DOB probably wants you to pull a permit to install a toilet. Not gonna do it. I also sometimes turn right on red–I’m just that lawless. 🙂
Just wait until the house of detention opens, a lot more neighbors will be complaining
you can jackhammer all you want on a weekend during the day. not my problem that you sleep during the day and work at night.
seriously people, when have you all started worshiping at the DOB alter? Why would you care if your neighbor has a permit or has no permit for his interior renovations (or even exterior ones for that matter). As long as the work is done in a safe manner, who cares? If he had gotten a permit to work on Saturday and was jackhammering, would that make the jackhammering any better? Get a life – DOB for the most part just makes renovating and maintaining your house more expensive than it should be.
Even if they were in the wrong, at this point if I were the jackers, I would hammer every freaking day just to piss off little miss whiny pants and her post-it-note douchebaggery.
Knock on the goddammed door, you idiot.
we don’t even know if there was a jackhammer.
And it is a 1 family house.