Bloomberg doesn't live near 2nd Avenue.Why should he care?
a lot of 'late night' permits are like the one in the building I'm in. We were doing some interior work (minor stuff - pulling electrical, adding a doorway) Big midtown commercial building. They got an after hours permit. They would do the work after 5:00, and be cleaned up before we get in at 9:00. Not like they are bothering anyone in a 40+ story commercial building doing basically quiet work at night
The public school on my block has been doing after hours construction for almost a year now. It's awful because they drill and hammer and all kinds of nonsense till 11pm. It's a quiet residential street in a working class neighborhood, lots of people have to get up at 5 in the morning. I called 311 and got the run around; turns out since they're a public school they get special considerations. I get that they can't work while the kids are in school but this has been going on for so long, and so late, I really wish there was an alternative.
They claim that "noise complaints to the 311 hotline are down 20 percent since 2008". If the number of complaints are down, it's because people have given up calling the 311 because the city did nothing to address their prior complaints.
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Bloomberg doesn't live near 2nd Avenue.
Why should he care?
a lot of 'late night' permits are like the one in the building I'm in. We were doing some interior work (minor stuff - pulling electrical, adding a doorway) Big midtown commercial building. They got an after hours permit. They would do the work after 5:00, and be cleaned up before we get in at 9:00. Not like they are bothering anyone in a 40+ story commercial building doing basically quiet work at night
The public school on my block has been doing after hours construction for almost a year now. It's awful because they drill and hammer and all kinds of nonsense till 11pm. It's a quiet residential street in a working class neighborhood, lots of people have to get up at 5 in the morning.
I called 311 and got the run around; turns out since they're a public school they get special considerations. I get that they can't work while the kids are in school but this has been going on for so long, and so late, I really wish there was an alternative.
They claim that "noise complaints to the 311 hotline are down 20 percent since 2008". If the number of complaints are down, it's because people have given up calling the 311 because the city did nothing to address their prior complaints.
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