All Is Not Well at 420 State Street
The construction at 420 State Street recently began and was already slapped with a stop work order due to construction contrary to the approved permits. We wrote back in March about the lot being approved for a four-story, single family home, but apparently construction is surpassing the expectation of the neighbors. Residents claim the building…
The construction at 420 State Street recently began and was already slapped with a stop work order due to construction contrary to the approved permits. We wrote back in March about the lot being approved for a four-story, single family home, but apparently construction is surpassing the expectation of the neighbors. Residents claim the building will exceed the footprint of the previous building (which was destroyed in an explosion in 2000) with a two-story extension going almost to the back of the lot with a 30-foot high fence. A zoning code violation complaint was filed by a neighbor, sharing the concern over the “severe loss of light, air, and view” if construction was to proceed. Last Friday, with the Stop Work Order, the borough commissioner issued a 15-day letter of intent to revoke the new building application, according to the DOB website. The developers and also owners, “Represent the worst of the me-generation,” gripes a neighbor. “How do they plan to live among the very people they have infuriated with their selfish scheme?”
New House for 420 State Street? [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
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Rob, you’re not even trying to make sense. Would it be OK if your neighbors built up against your windows, blocking your light, air and views, because you live in a dense urban environment? Come on, now.
sure, as long as i dont own the actual property they are building on. newsflash, you dont OWN that big lightbulb in the sky.
*rob*
True Benson. So true….
Though, when those social security payments can no longer buy bread because of inflation, I’ll be the young whipper snapper cutting you in line to get the last loaf.
True, Wasder, sometimes people can take it a bit too far. On the other hand, the DOB doesn’t really enforce violations unless there are complaints, so if they were planning something against the rules, they should have started with lots of honey.
From a superficial read, it seems the builder laid out a great big foundation over the lot, and then erected a tall fence when the complaints started to pour in. Not exactly a top strategy.
Clearly you can’t build an extension that fills the lot but I wonder how the neighbors (who, if you read the complaint history have been narking since back in March) could tell that is what was going to happen. I am all for rules and regulations but having had a paranoid neighbor rat me out I am sensitive about such things.
Make that “Social Security”.
Joe;
Ah yes, but we baby boomers will have the last laugh. You will pay for our Social Secutiry! 😉
Rob, you’re not even trying to make sense. Would it be OK if your neighbors built up against your windows, blocking your light, air and views, because you live in a dense urban environment? Come on, now.
The developers and also owners, “Represent the worst of the me-generation,” gripes a neighbor.
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haha. i like anyone who mocks babyboomers. worst generation ever. sure started out fine, but once they got a wiff of asset inflation they rearranged their priorities.
“a severe loss of light, air, and view” bitches PLEASE you live in ROW HOUSES in a dense urban environment. if you want lots of light, air, and view you can move to wyoming. i hate people today.
*rob*