South Slope Developer Busted With a Ho(e)
The rogues gallery continues to grow over in the South Slope. The Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights caught another developer breaking the rules yesterday, this time at 570 4th Avenue. The violation? Use of a backhoe without a permit for mechanical demolition. The sleuths at CCGH are having a hard time figuring out who exactly…
The rogues gallery continues to grow over in the South Slope. The Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights caught another developer breaking the rules yesterday, this time at 570 4th Avenue. The violation? Use of a backhoe without a permit for mechanical demolition. The sleuths at CCGH are having a hard time figuring out who exactly the developer is but they were on the phones to 311 en masse reporting the activity. Lots of photos of the demo on the link below.
Photo Gallery: 570 4th Avenue [CCGH] GMAP P*Shark
UPDATE AGAIN:
DOB allowed the developer to remedy the issues, stop work lifted today, 1/10/07
Hopefully they’ll work legally from now on…
UPDATE: stop work order on the property!
Not quite the complaint we were looking for, but a Stop Work Order and ECB violations all the same, this one for expired permits and inadequate construction fence leaving the site open to the public.
http://tinyurl.com/yy5apa
Perhaps they’ll go legal from now on…perhaps not. We’ll be watching 🙂
Well, I guess I’m a little late on the rebuttal, but I couldn’t let that one slide, even though I know it’s just bait and here I am taking it…oh well.
dd: My background and class stauts is irrelevant. I don’t call ‘working men’ animals, I call men who sexually harrass and demean and belittle women animals.
Hope that clears things up.
Oh, I forgot to add, since I and “one other unknown anon” are the only ones throwing around “Gorilla Coffee” on this thread, has “crawford” suddenly gone anon?”
Gee-wizz. Nite, shills!
Anon 11:32
Glad I’m an A-hole, but at least I can contribute to the thread a bit more “on topic.”
Have fun with your vid fest at “Gorilla Coffee” (talk about having time on yer hands…or paws) sure you’ll find far more fun stuff than we did…is that DOH or DOB? Gee, am I off topic as well?
But, wait, what do I know, I’m the a-hole! 😉
Wow, you guys are my heroes, NOT
Next time I’m at Gorilla Coffee, I’m bringing the camera ready to load up on those liberals behind the counter, esp when they are not wearing latex gloves handling food and beverages.
The DOH will hear about this. Sorry to rain on your cafe lostinbrooklyn, and yes you are an asshole
Seems you might have a major criminal/asswipe on your hands in the south slope:
From the permit on acris for the site –
Rigas Gregory Man.Memger
Gap Realty Group, LLC 26 Delevan Street
Brooklyn NY 11231
12/12/2006
From another DOB permit collection: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dob/downloads/excel/per010606.xls
ANGELO RIGAS ARC ELECTRICAL & MECH.CONTRS PARTNERSHIP Zorizno Associates
Gregory Rigas 26 Delevan Street Brooklyn NY 11231 (718) 222-8162
From a village voice article: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/9818,barrett,169,1.html
The most recent job on Marrone’s resume was with Hercules Construction, a company that was barred from doing business with the agency and was under federal investigation for bribing and defrauding Board of Ed and SCA officials at the time of Marrone’s hiring. Hercules president Gregory Rigas–another associate of Mike Long’s, who contributed the legal maximum years earlier to Atanasio’s congressional campaign–pled guilty to two federal felonies four months after Marrone left the company to join the SCA. Rigas agreed to pay $189,000 in restitution to the agencies he’d defrauded, most of it to the SCA.
Marrone’s resume describes him as project manager for Hercules’s New York City Housing Authority work from 1992 through 1995, and Rigas was charged with filing false certified payrolls with NYCHA for precisely that period. The SCA IG’s office played a pivotal role in developing the criminal case against Rigas.
Rigas was also accused of setting up Aim Construction–a phony WBE (Women’s Business Enterprise)–to win affirmative action contracts. NYCHA records indicate that after Hercules was forced to drop the allegedly fake WBE in 1994, Rigas briefly replaced it with Builder Nine, a company that listed Fran Marrone as president and Gary Marrone as vice president.
Opps, that was me at 6:12pm
Geeze, I’m such an a-hole 😉
Anon 4:43 PM:
Nice. I guess your blue collar roots gave you quite a mouth. I always appreciate civil discourse…oh, well.
For the record, last time I checked, breaking the law IS breaking the law. Illegal acts like disreguard of building codes, by laws, zoning indexes, robbing banks, assault, murder, you name it (obviously not all of those need to be in the same level of severity, but you get my point) are still illegal.
Whether you are the boss-man (blue or white) or the worker (blue or white) if you get busted for something YOU know is illegal or wrong, you pay the price.
It’s all about culpability, plain and simple. Not rich or poor or blue color vs. a desk job.
On that note, this here a-hole (as you called me) is barely pulling down enough to pay my bills, so don’t pull class B.S. with me. It don’t fly.
The time I, my wife and other working class stiffs devote to catching folks doing BLATANT (no snooping needed) illegal and unsafe activity in OUR ‘NABE (not yours) is on our dime and our pockets. We put our $$ and efforts where it counts.
Now, who’s the a-hole?