So how did the Leaning Landmark of Broadway get that way? Depends who you ask...“The general contractor is going to blame the underpinning subcontractor, who’s going to blame the plant overseer, who’s going to blame the guy operating the backhoe, who’s going to blame the guy operating the crane,” he said. “And all the lawyers are going to have a feeding frenzy for the next couple of years.”
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LET IT TOPPLE !
Manhattan can afford to lose a tiny bit
of history from its great wealth of landmarks
and nobody will notice
but Manhattan-ites in the surrounding nabe !
Meanwhile across the river n Queens,
we lose a mountain of worthy
potential landmark sites
(before they're ever designated)
by the dozen each year !
SO WE COULDN'T CARE LESS
ABOUT ABOUT THE LOSS OF
YOUR TINY LITTLE MOLE HILL !
Unless it was determined by the Department of Buildings that there was an immediate danger to public safety and the building had to be taken down right away,” Mr. Weiss continued, “a permit would have to be obtained from Landmarks for demolition.
What madness! In the artical - there is a proposal to provide insurance to cover tenenat or others displaced when work goes astray like this - to avoid years of litigation for compensation of the displaced. This should be required of all building permits - after all there is a reason for 44 deaths on building sites in the last year.
after all there is a reason for 44 deaths on building sites in the last year.
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We are in a war zone. I do not have the number, but believe we lost fewer New Yorkers in Iraq than in development projects.
Nice if someone could look that up.
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