Well, at 5 Roebling, it's coming crashing down all over the place. My building was jolted by a loud crash as a few stories of scaffold went careening down to the ground. All I have is my crappy iPhone camera, but I think even with the low quality you can see the scaffolding leaning precariously to the left. There was a lot of yelling after the crash, but I don't think anyone got hurt. Naturally, as they're working dangerously and after hours, I called 311. I'm certain the city is going to get right on it. As they did every other time the tenants of my building called to complain about the myriad violations that have been a regular occurence for over a year next door. Remember when they yanked out our cable and telephone lines? I do!
Five Roebling originally started off as condos, but after the crash the owners ammended their plans and are following the trend by making them rentals. The lack of precision, craftsmanship, and any semblence of competence that has gone into making these two fugged out buildings is astonishing. From the demo to near-completion it's been 100% incompetence, 100% of the time.
UPDATE: My friend Meredith has a much better (scarier!) photo here—complete with Fire Department presence!
What, like your family doesn't have any stupid scaffolding tricks to its credit?
No, srsly. Am I the only one?
Posted by: Brian | July 28, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Love the typo in your friend's photo: New Yoak City...pfft.
Posted by: rowan | July 29, 2009 at 05:22 PM
I am terrified of walking under all scaffolding. Particularly here in Brooklyn where the inspectors never come.
My block has a huge new unfinished development also. And at one point the scaffolding almost blew down in the wind last winter. Because they had tarps all over it they acted like sails, after that they changed to netting.
They are still trying to sell "luxury condos" in this mostly finished building. My question, who wants a luxury condo overlooking McGuinness Blvd? Also I want to tell the smattering of folks that attend their weekend open houses, that the two plywood covered windows in apt 3L ( I know it's 3L because that's spray painted on the wood), have been there for 5 months. This developer who hasn't bothered to put in or replace those two windows for that long, he's not going to finish your apt as promised.
Also, outside the building is the same metal fencing that was there when the site was an operating junkyard. What is going to happen when it comes down? Will they replace the asphalt patches with a nice sidewalk? I doubt it.
Posted by: Amber | August 03, 2009 at 11:59 AM