420 42nd Street and the Rule of Law
The fight over the 12-story tower that developer Kenneth Wong is trying to build at 420 42nd Street in Sunset Park just escalated. Big time. At the urging of local residents, the Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights and Community Board 7, the DOB took a closer look at the self-certified plans stamped by architect James…
The fight over the 12-story tower that developer Kenneth Wong is trying to build at 420 42nd Street in Sunset Park just escalated. Big time. At the urging of local residents, the Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights and Community Board 7, the DOB took a closer look at the self-certified plans stamped by architect James L. Robinson and issued a Stop Work Order (a 10-day letter of intent to revoke) after finding a reported 37 violations, including (a) failure to submit a full and accurate set of architectural plans, (b) failure to properly calculate the floor area ratio and building height for a 12-story building, and (c) failure to include a rear yard on site.
There’s been a lot of talk in the past few months by politicians about stepping up the enforcement and penalties on developers and architects who pull this kind of crap; this would be an excellent time for the DOB to show that it’s serious. If the Stop Work Order results only in a few minor fines and a few days’ delay, it will fail to provide any disincentive to other developers who thumb their noses at building regulations. When someone is caught doing this kind of thing on this scale, the penalty should be financially crippling and career-ending, as it should be for those who commit equally serious safety infractions.
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I don’t get it lostinbrooklyn. Just beacuse someone likes this development in Sunset Park (which I am ok with) then they are trolls?
lostinbrooklyn is totally a NIMBY Troll. 🙂
Sorry 9:26 & 9:50…certianly not trollage. See what these trolls make me do 😉
If they all could only be like crawford…
Say fellas, the trolls are out this morning, eh?
Back to the bridges with ye, you fiends!
9:26 & 9:50, Jojo & 10:31:
Please post something with a glimmer of intelligence, geeze!
Wow a 12-story building in Sunset Park! Awesome news! 🙂
Anonymous 9:26 & 9:50 is the same person. He owns a house next to this development. So no wonder he so pissed. 😀 LOL!
crawford, how kind of you to post. We all just love hearing from you. You care so much!
“criminal code is not the same as general statutory code” CORRECT, except DOB is now turning statutory DOB codes into criminal ones once ECB violations are skirted or major offenses occur. But, that’s off topic.
Missing paper work aside, here’s another architect and developer who attempt to skirt the DOB zoning and filing regulations via the professional certification policy (which now has some teeth, albeit baby teeth, with City Council’s vote last week) and tried to pass off bogus plans for a bogus 12 story building. Caught red handed not telling the full truth to the DOB via his self cert right (hopefully to be revoked). Sound like someone else we knew?
Stop throwing around your typical NIMBY B.S. and deal with the fact that you are defending a cheat and a crook.
Don’t have to be “lawyer” to see where that will lead you…
And P.S. the COMMUNITY BOARD does represent all of Sunset Park, long time resident or newcomer immigrant, especially those “hard working ones.” So drop that line of that BS as well, please.
I would submit that more residents of Sunset Park have committed murder than NY real estate developers as a whole….probably more rapes and robberies as well.
Wow, it just gets crazier and crazier around here. Now the NIMBYs are calling all developers criminals because of missing or rejected paperwork. Poster #1 ups the ante and claims developers are all murderers! Maybe I should just claim that Brooklyn NIMBYs are responsible for Darfur.
There isn’t a major project in the city that didn’t have missing or rejected paperwork at some point in the approvals process. It would be almost impossible to follow every letter of the law. It’s the same as asking if every single restaurant is always 100% compliant with every law, or if every single resident is separating plastic from paper at all times, even when walking down the street.
I’m no lawyer, but criminal code is not the same as general statutory code. A person isn’t a criminal if he/she forgets to recycle or drives 30 in a 25.
By the looks of the missing paperwork, there is NOTHING that should prevent the building from being built. It’s just more delays by the self-appointed “Concerned Citizens”. I bet you these alleged activists consist of a couple bitter grannies. Not one of these “Concerned Citizens” is an immigrant, even though the nabe they claim to represent is majority immigrant. I wish the hard-working Mexicans and Chinese would buy these interlopers a one-way ticket back to Des Moines.