Scaffolding can cause issues, who knew?..Deerwood Realty and Friends…Ep. 41

Intro:

Tenants in a Manhattan apartment building are upset.

The owner of the building has had scaffolding up since 2006!

In 2006, the tenants were happy the building Façade was getting repairs…

The Quote from NYC department of buildings…“Sidewalk sheds are a necessity in our city to protect pedestrians from buildings that have been allowed to fall into disrepair. The landlords at 51 West 86th Street have a legal responsibility to keep their buildings in a safe condition and make needed repairs to the façade. We will continue to take aggressive actions against these landlords, to compel them to make the needed repairs at the building.”

Does that quote have anything to do with the scaffolding that has been out for 15 years?

Tenant Quote “The politicians and the landlords need to step it up because the city is being buried in crumbling scaffolding with no laws that actually protect the rest of us,”

The scaffolding is an epidemic in NYC? What about this “protection” of the rest of us? Isn’t the scaffolding/sidewalk shed designed for the protection of the “rest of us”? Is there more here?

The last permits expired in 2019!

The city has fined the landlord $108,000 so far for non compliance with non compliance with façade regulations…..so the landlord is being fined to fix a building that they can’t or won’t fix….how is this going to work?

It sounds like this….The NYC department of buildings told the landlord they needed to fix the façade in 2006…the landlord put the scaffolding up to show intent to fix the façade so the city would leave them alone. There’s apparently no law or code about leaving scaffolding up…although, I think scaffolding gets rented, so there must be some sort of fee the landlord is paying.

The tenants are upset by the scaffolding, but no one mentioned that they are upset at the building façade that apparently needs repairs? What repairs are needed?

It would seem like the landlord is at fault here…but what about the maze of city ordinances that somehow allowed this to fall through the cracks? There’s no rule for how long scaffolding can be up? Should there be?

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Source: https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/its-completely-obscene-scaffolding-thats-been-at-upper-west-side-apartment-for-15-years-angers-tenants/

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