It’s about safety, but everyone agrees some of the structures stay up for way too long.
City workers have finally dismantled a 329-foot-long plywood passageway that had encased a Kips Bay sidewalk through three mayoral administrations — putting the tiniest dent in New York City's vast and much-maligned network of “sidewalk sheds.”
The city’s Local Law 11 spells out the current rules. The first set of inspection requirements came after a Barnard College student was “The scaffolding is innocent of all charges,” he said. “The buildings are not being taken seriously by the management companies.”Not much, as long as they are maintaining the structure and renewing permits with the buildings department.
At other times, the landlord is slow to act, or the contractors dilly-dally. Fontan said one landlord on the Upper East Side hired him earlier this year after a previous contractor failed to finish façade repairs for nearly seven years. He said the project is now about halfway done and locals are happy.
“They are keeping New Yorkers safe, for the amount of time necessary to complete the underlying work,” Degan said. “However, these same pieces of pedestrian protection equipment can become a major quality-of-life issue in our city when they are allowed to stand year after year, when no underlying construction work is ongoing.
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