From the Times Ledger:
The South Jamaica home where a famed chair designer died during a fire last week had been illegally subdivided into four apartments, a spokeswoman for the city Buildings Department said.
The house, which had been OK’d as a two-family residence, was also issued violations for work without permits to create illegal apartments, plumbing and electrical work performed without a permit, defective or exposed electrical wiring and an illegal gas stove in the cellar, the spokeswoman said.
Three families had been living in separate apartments alongside that of 83-year-old Charles Pollock, residents said, and the tenants can no longer stay at the house on 157th Street near 115th Avenue until a vacate order issued by the DOB is lifted, the agency said. In addition, the property was also cited for failure to maintain a detached garage, the spokeswoman said.
7 comments:
No surprise there.
I don't understand why these types of things get this far in New York to begin with. There is a major problem with not only Department of Buildings, but Department of Sanitation and a total lack of any kind of enforcement. I placed two complaints two years ago to DOB about a broken sidewalk in Jamaica and to this day it never got fixed. NYC it totally broken, Queens is fucked and Jamaica, well pretty hopeless.
The guy was 83 used a motorized wheel chair, and had a cooking fire. Illegal conversion or not he could have died anyway.
The future of Queens, the future of NYC, the future of our country. Subdivided for the masses.
The future of Queens, the future of NYC, the future of our country. Subdivided for the masses.
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The future of Queens, the future of NYC, the future of our country.
Getting rid of party hacks and their developer cronies and force our public servants to build communities instead of destroying them.
The city needs to start cracking down on these illegal houses. These illegal houses are dangerous, not to mention we have more garbage on the streets and we have less parking and a more crowded school district. People seem to care that when they do these types of things, it effects everyone who pays taxes. The garbage men say that there is more trash to pick up which leads to more overtime for them or the sanitation department having to hire more people, then the school teachers get overworked and they ask for more pay, the buses get more crowded therefore that means more bus routes. Everyone that pays taxes is affected by these illegal houses!
the solution is not allow non citizens to buy property in NYC and to stop encouraging illegal aliens to squat here.deport them and dont' give out the government benefits
deport them and dont' give out the government benefits
Amen
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