Good Morning!
Nothing like being torn out of a dead sleep by your building lurching back and forth!
My neighbors on the demo side of the building had it even worse. They had what they thought was black smoke pouring into their apartment and so called 911.
Turns out the scofflaws at MMG were once again using a backhoe—which they don't have a permit to use—to tear down what's left of 5 Roebling.
The firemen came, the cops showed up and the MMG troll/job manager from MMG told them that we were overreacting and presumably tried to cover her ass. (She's the midget talking to the firemen.) They determined that it was black dust, not smoke, going into my neighbor's apartment and now my neighbor has a wall that gives when you push it. A different tenant now has big cracks running down her wall.
Everyone in my building has called 311 more times than I can count. Sometimes they won't even take our complaints because they say they're duplicates, which keeps the true number of complaints about MMG's shoddy and unsafe work practices from showing up in DOB records.
Who do we have to blow at the DOB to get an inspector to come out immediately? Because, really, we'll draw straws and one of us will take one for the team.
I think I might be related to the firefighter in the foreground. He is, at a minimum, a landsman.
Posted by: Kevin Eleven | December 20, 2007 at 10:44 AM
This is insane. Has anyone followed the advice of another commenter, i.e., to call the building's insurance company? Goddamnit!
Posted by: kc | December 20, 2007 at 01:19 PM
eff 311 call 911 for fire every time..I can't believe it-that really sucks!...and I'm sure you still have to pay rent?!
Posted by: soooz | December 20, 2007 at 02:59 PM
STOP WHINING GIRL AND JUST MOVE!
Posted by: Tino | December 23, 2007 at 07:34 AM
Interesting that Tino's comment came from someone googling "Marie Grasso" MMG. Could it be Marie or one of her crew is actually computer literate?
Posted by: Judy McPissOff | December 23, 2007 at 02:34 PM
Fer sure, Tino is probably the tiny little spanish feller on a girl's bike with butterfly handle-bars; that I wasted my energy by tossing out of the unlocked lot that old Shlomo Karpen is gonna build his luxurious Gazawest Condos on.The lot is wide open.
I saw this guy in the lot picking up a big set of bolt cutters and a pipe cutter at 7 on a saturday. I asked him who he worked for and he said , " heez a beeg maaan." All I heard was man, & I know MMGs brains and braun are 2 dudettes , if you will; that are both 4x4, and 300 plus lbs.. But not men. Marie and Minnie. It's cute, right. They have this bad ass self delusion, but are actually real pussycats. Retarded, cross-eyed pussycats. Not really lap cats , if you know what I mean.
Any who, for the "just move" guy, peace and happiness.sholom.
Posted by: mert | January 17, 2008 at 12:26 AM
I have a friend at the DOB, Does that count for anything?
Posted by: Howard Darsi | January 22, 2008 at 01:17 PM