Mother Nature Wreaks Havoc on Wallabout Site
The wind in the early hours of Saturday morning was too much for the scaffolding atop this new development on Classon and Myrtle. (There was similar trouble in Soho.) A couple fire engines and several squad cars were on the scene when we got there around 10 am. By noon, the street was still closed…
The wind in the early hours of Saturday morning was too much for the scaffolding atop this new development on Classon and Myrtle. (There was similar trouble in Soho.) A couple fire engines and several squad cars were on the scene when we got there around 10 am. By noon, the street was still closed off but the firetrucks had retreated and there were a few guys climbing around on the roof trying to straighten things out. We didn’t get a chance to look too closely at the new building but it certainly looks a lot slicker than most of the stuff getting thrown up in that area. Check out the close-up of the damage on the jump. GMAP
at first glance i thought this could be a new building by a firm like coop himmelblau. http://www.coophimmelblau.at/index_frames.php
Good thing it didn’t kill any human beings.
I’d say it was the lack of engineering judgement or worksmanship in the scaffold construction that wreaked havoc. These things are supposed to be built for these conditions.
the banner on the scaffolding around OnProspectPark also blew down over the weekend, killing an 8″ dbh tree on Eastern Parkway