| Sidewalk
Shed Speedup
Called For by
Levine as
Inner City
Press Asks of
Local Law 11
Reform
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
Downtown NYC,
March 6 -- In Foley
Square in lower Manhattan on
March 6, Manhattan Borough
President Mark Levine held a
press conference about
sidewalk sheds, of which he
has said there are "over 4,000
sheds in Manhattan alone. If
you lined them up, it would go
from here to
Montreal."
Inner City
Press, covering the courts, was
there and asked if there
are in the works any reforms
to Local Law 11, which
blanket-mandates facade work
whether needed or
not.
Levine
acknowledged that some un- or
under-necessary work is being
required. Video here.
Earlier he said, "On average,
they're out there for eight
months each. But there's
hundreds, over 200 that have
been there for five years, and
this is a blight on
neighborhoods. The bottom line
is the work to fix the facades
has to be done more
quickly."
Inner City Press, local as
well as global (including at
the UN,
which does not comply with New
York or US law, claiming to be
exempt
from it), will stay on the
stories including through its
new Downtown News Service
project. Watch this
site.
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