Monday, November 11, 2013

What's wrong in this picture?


Not sure why DOB chose this photo for its home page, but there's a violation in plain sight. Can you spot it?

26 comments:

J said...

its either the car parked on the sidewalk,the piece of wood placed on the window of the attic on the yellow house,or the statue of the black man talking on his cellphone obstructing the sidewalk

Anonymous said...

Which one of these "fine" Queens' residences does Archie Bunker live in?

Anonymous said...

window bars?

KG2V said...

Window bars, unless of course they have an unlatching mechanism we can't see (like the window grates on public schools have)

Anonymous said...

Cemented over front yard!

Queens Crapper said...

Looks like you have discovered a few more, but so far, not the one I was thinking about. Keep trying.

Dave C. said...

satellite dish on the roof is considered a fire hazard.

Anonymous said...

Well, that garish orange color should be a violation if it is not already. :~)

Anonymous said...

socks with sandals.

Anonymous said...

I vote for satelite dish or wearing white socks with sandals.

Anonymous said...

air conditioner?

Anonymous said...

Attic vent on the front of the yellow house looks out of place.

Joe Moretti said...

It looks to me like that car does not have a license plate and if that is the case, it must be in Jamaica.

John said...

Joe said:
It looks to me like that car does not have a license plate and if that is the case, it must be in Jamaica.

Nah, Joe - if it was in Jamaica it would be parked on the street, not in someone's driveway...

Anonymous said...

Archie Bunker left the house over 30 years ago!

Anonymous said...

multiple satellites on one property

Anonymous said...

The house with the white and red siding has its whole front yard paved over. This is in violation of the Yards Text that was adopted five years ago.

Paul Graziano

Queens Crapper said...

Yes, the paving is a violation. The one that jumped out at me though was what Joe pointed to - the dead storage in the form of a car without plates.

Anonymous said...

Perhaps DOT needs to be informed that front yard paving is a violation. We have reported several properties that paved over their front yard and each time DOT says they checked it out and noticed no violation.

Queens Crapper said...

It's not a DOT violation, it's a DOB violation.

Anonymous said...

These codes will never be enforced since the DOB is not regulated. They are corrupt and take bribes from all of these landlords that have destroyed the fabric of our once great city. Now it's nothing but a third world country with walled enclaves for the ultra rich.

Just like Bloomberg wanted.

Anonymous said...

Just a thought -- the plates might have been Photoshopped to look blurry or nonexistent.

Anonymous said...

Or it could be a car sitting on residential property without a plate as is easily found throughout the City. Much more likely.

Anonymous said...

Speaking of plates on cars, why does it seem every third car parked in queens now has Penn plates on it? On one block in glendale, there is no less than seven cars with such plates every night.

Is there even a way to file a complaint about that? I'm sure its insurance fraud.

Anonymous said...

The illegal basement apartments?

Anonymous said...

What block in Glendale? I'd like to see that.