From Angry NYer:I love when neighbors take matters into their own hands. This shitty, seemingly abandoned construction site at 20th ave and Steinway in Queens has become a blight to the neighborhood. The developers here should be sued, or perhaps even shot on sight. What excuse can these motherfuckers possibly have for destroying our neighborhoods and leaving foul sites such as this one to linger and disrupt lives?
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Is that sign in the upper right who I think it is? oh yes it is?
Gary Calliando, architect, member of community board one.
Mentioned on Queens Crap -- someone better watch it or they will be thrown out of the Magic Kingdom.
Now lets see how they handle something with a little meat to it.
Stay tuned...
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The city is throwing around so many stop work orders that it cannot process them all. It takes over a year to remove a stop work order. In the meantime, the site remains a blight on the neighborhood because the Buildings Department drags its feet.
The developer doesn't want an empty site. He wants a building he can rent out. The city won't let him have it, though.
Oh, well.
I live right up the block from this site. Interesting to see it up here, even mopre interesting is that this summer I probably had the most mosquitos entering the aprtment that any other year I lived here. I would joke about getting west nile because I would regularly wake up with about 5 huge bits on my body every morning.
Is that sign in the upper right who I think it is? oh yes it is?
Gary Calliando, architect, member of community board one.
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Huh? how is the architect at issue?
He is neither the owner, nor the contractor, who are the ones responsible for the site.
The architect has no control over when/if something gets built or if a piece of private property is not well maintained.
The developer doesn't want an empty site. He wants a building he can rent out. The city won't let him have it, though.
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yeah,right......why didn't the wonderful architect,builder and contractors obey the law ?
that's too much to ask isn't it ?
we have 2 unfinished ,vacant and regutted as in "cannabilized" buildings:wide open,unsecured,garbage strewn,weeds and drainage problms and absolutely NOTHING gets done by the owners.
These PsOS should get padlocked and opened when the fines are paid.
Owner and contractors removed plumbing,electrical wiring,plaster board,sinks,toilets etc.
One's wide open to the elements in the front,other's wide open in the back--no windows ,nothing-only cinderblocks where they e xtended the homes and we are in row attatched houses---abutting homes have problems now--rodents as well--
Inspectors come and go stating no problems or activity apparent on site---HOW MUCH CASH is changing hands here ?
and exctly whO changed the zoning and when ?
Best is on line,going through nycbis ,where both these wrecks are listed as owner occupied--
We have two of these on my block care of the same person. An empty gaping hole and an unfinished shell of a building.
Allegedly the unfinished shell of a building used 1/3 the required amount of mortar to hold the bricks and now they are shifting.
I guess I'll have company.
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