work crew moving backyard to backyard hanging new wire?

i wouldve happily engaged the work crew unarmed if i wasnt busy wfh zooming away!

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solehappy | 4 years and 9 months ago

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anonymous work crew was spotted in my backyard yesterday cutting back brush and hanging a new wire. they were climbing over everyones fences to keep it going across the block. any idea what this might be? no apparent changes to existing electric(?) wire, but is this perhaps fios?

stevecym | 4 years and 9 months ago

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something does not sound right about an anonymous work crew and i would not blame some people for not wanting to approach them. when i was a child, Lilco sometimes had to get behind houses to maintain power lines and sometimes NY Bell; these companies provided their employees with uniforms and ID’s (my grandfather worked for Lilco and i still have his ID Card). you have a right to question who is using an easement that crosses your property as that easement is only for certain individuals or businesses. i question anyone i do not know who is walking down our community drive not so much to run them off if they do not belong here but to let them know someone is watching. I would go out and talk to them just because you have a right to know who is crossing your property, even if there is an easement. you could always do it on the guise of offering them a drink which i often do when work people are near the bounds of my property just so we know who each other are, even if they are not contractors i hired.

anotherposter | 4 years and 9 months ago

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It’s usually telecom in the backyards. If their wires are old and crummy or a new company is coming in (like when Fios comes in), they may need to wire the block.

stevecym | 4 years and 9 months ago

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And another poster is probably correct as in most places in brooklyn and queens, that I see, the power comes into the house from the front and underground.

sterlingbk | 4 years and 9 months ago

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Most likely FIOS. I had the same thing a few days ago and it was FIOS. We are in Bed Stuy and there are lots of FIOS infrastructure installations happening all over, every day,.

solehappy | 4 years and 9 months ago

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i saw these guys come again and one did wear a verizon fios vest

JohnHancock | 4 years and 9 months ago

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If they were in my backyard I would just ask them.

brokelin | 4 years and 9 months ago

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Brings to mind the time a telephone line installer came into my new apartment visibly shaking like a leaf, like I’d never seen a grown person shake before. My neighbor, who lived in in what was then the most unusually painted, and oft photographed, brownstone in the neighborhood, had come out and threatened him with a gun, for having the temerity to climb the phone tree between the 2 properties to check the phone line. The worker was the one in danger, not the homeowner.
Hint: If someone wearing a tool belt full of tools is climbing the phone tree, it’s likely a phone installer (at least, it was back in that day of solely land lines) or some other worker, so one can be nice when asking what they are doing.