New Construction on Franklin Avenue Holding Up Well
From a reader… I lived in a neighborhood with a bunch of terrible landlords, on Franklin Avenue at Willoughby, that never did any work on our building and built crappy buildings all around us these past few years. That’s why we wound up moving. The rest of the tenants in the building have remained, however,…
From a reader…
I lived in a neighborhood with a bunch of terrible landlords, on Franklin Avenue at Willoughby, that never did any work on our building and built crappy buildings all around us these past few years. That’s why we wound up moving. The rest of the tenants in the building have remained, however, and I still hang out there a lot. Last Sunday we were sitting on the stoop when we saw this, located next door to our old building. I’ve been thinking about it every day since, so I had my friend send me some pics. This can’t be safe can it? It’s gonna fall over onto my friend’s building. And this building is maybe five years old. Maybe.
Surprise, surprise. GMAP
Here’s a photo of the building next door that shows the setback.
benson…I bet a pub crawl of Fedders buildings would show evidence of shoddy construction in a majority of them.
FSRQ;
Spot-on. More navel-gazing.
Yup, this photo of one building with one section of mortar cracking in a brick VENEER, to the tune of about $2000 worth of work after a harsh winter, is definitive proof that the 10’s of 1000’s of these homes are set to imminently fail.
Tell me when the grown-ups want to have a discussion. In the meantime, enjoy the view of the navel.
It may be noting serious but it should certainly be checked out.
Last year we saw stepped mortar cracking and spalling on a large 1970’s three-story, masonry structure that we lease. We found after further investigation that over 1/2 of the masonry anchors had never been installed and those that had been put in place were badly corroding due to water infiltration. We ended up rebuilding the entire wall. We are very lucky that the entire wall didn’t come crashing down on some pedestrians.
When I first moved to New York an entire single-story, unsecured manry wall did fall and kill someone across from the Ingersol Houses.
Or, put another way BRG, while the weather is nice outside, I think more people would rather look at a photo of a coin slot and talk about it.
While the weather is nice outside, I think more people would rather look at a photo of a crack and talk about it.
who’d have predicted 40 posts about a crack, with 75% confused by the pics.
owners who dont clean up their ice/snow/leaves endanger more people than this issue. let’s discuss that for 200 posts.
Kinda hints at the possibility of more serious shoddiness, does it not?
Oh my god!!!!! There is a new building where the mortar on the corner bricks was shoddy and now its going to take $2,0000 and 1/2 a day to fix – the end is near………
Call 311? Looks like a little mortar missing from decorative brick veneer. You think that poses a danger somehow? Sounds a bit overblown by folks who know next to nothing about building construction and are looking at any reason to find fault with ugly new construction.