Head-Pounding Nightmare on 15th Street
It’s one thing to read stories and see pictures of some of the nightmare development sites around our borough. It’s quite another to hear the deafening noise that unlucky neighbors have to live with. So without further ado, we direct your attention to three minutes in the life of a South Slope resident with the…
It’s one thing to read stories and see pictures of some of the nightmare development sites around our borough. It’s quite another to hear the deafening noise that unlucky neighbors have to live with. So without further ado, we direct your attention to three minutes in the life of a South Slope resident with the misfortune to live next to the LoCicero project at 406-408 15th Street. Anyone got an Advil?
Welcome To My Nightmare [YouTube]
More Wreckage on 15th Street [Brownstoner]
Reckless 15th Street Excavation Forces Evac [Brownstoner]
To add to LostInBklyn-
If I am not mistaken – The original plans were submitted with expired extra height allowances and then the next set of plans for the adjoining property were the exact same-illegal plans.
Basically what it come down to is the fact that if the neighbors don’t waste half there lives being harassed while trying to keep track of all the illegal activity then these, so called Developers, are allowed to do whatever they please. Including-building illegal buildings, destroying adjoining properties, destroying peoples lives and even killing people.
And to top it all off the people who’s lives are being destroyed are expected to pay higher taxes to facilitate all of these Illegal Developments while the Developer’s are given a Tax break. I don’t see any of this happening next door to Mr. Bloombags house. Or any of the Developers houses either for that matter.
To lostinbrooklyn:
Now that we know all the information does the complaints make sense. Thanks for the info.
Oh, I forgot…
22. video gets linked from youtube to brownstoner
I should point out that photos and videos have been taking during this entire process, documenting all of the terrible BS these folks are living through.
Walking by the site last Monday and saw an exact replication of this video. @ mins of drilling, 5 mins of banging…I especially like the operator standing under the drill, looking up. Real safe!
OK, here’s the RANT:
For all of yose who thin folks bitch, bitch, bitch…lemmie paint a picture for you.
1. illegal plans filed with DOB
2. site gets shut down
3. rezoning
4. developer buys site next door to original site
5. files new plans, gets approved
6. begins illegal demo, not only on the new site, but the original one as well
7. living hell for the neighbors who catch this “nice guy” on their land tearing down their fences, trees, etc.
8. DOB shuts the site down
9. Demo and digging continues, regardless of the SWO
10. DOB shuts the site down again.
11. months pass, water fills up in holes
12. Work begins again, pile driving begins to damage adjacent properties
13. DOB shuts the site down again.
14. Digging continues, regardless of the SWO
13. DOB shuts the site down again (trend here)
14. Legal digging and pile driving begins again
15. Vibrations crack foundation at 1508 8th Ave, DOB shuts down the site
16. residents have to vacate property, many with no alternate housing
17. land lord allows them to come back “at your own risk”
18. DOB installs crack monitors to make sure the house is livable
19. someone tapers with the monitors
20. work continues, developer tears down 2 street trees, illegally.
21. video taping begins
This has been over a YEAR AND A HALF period of time and they have not even laid one brick.
Come camp out over on 15th/16th St. for a few days with the locals and tell me honestly that they have no reason to bitch or complaint.
As far as “getting outta bed, going for a walk or getting a job” comment, many of these folks work from home and even if they don’t why the hell should they have to deal with this BS day in day out.
If this was a responsible development project, then hey deal with it (I have 5 buildings going up around me). But is not. The developer is a BAD MAN as reported on this blog, others and in the news media.
So, there’s my bitch…bitch…bitch.
Anon at 2:05, I always call 311 when I have a problem with too much noise late at night. They forward the complaint to the local precinct. Maybe you could do the same thing, deal with it as a noise/quality of life problem and not just a stop-work problem?
ANON 1:38 when the noise and vibration got too loud we did leave our apartments….wait for it …….. …….It was called a VACATE ORDER
To the above anon person posting at 1:05 how about 10pm at night? I know it’s not midnight. Please start your ranting my dear friend. Here is video proof. You can check with the 72d precinct for sure, they were the one’s who forced them to stop against their will…otherwise maybe midnight?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R25nkpNOFSA
This past Sunday construction was going on on my block. Steel I-beams banging around. Since city offices closed on sunday – how does one get no sunday work enforced? Anyone dealt with this before?
Bearing witness to the birth to death cycle on an individual lot basis in an urban environment such as Brooklyn comes with the territory. The constant destruction and rebuilding of a densely populated local is what makes that place habitable in the first place. Density is a good thing. It is where diversity and resultant creativity thrive. To link the noise associated with this particular development with past misdeeds of the developer is illogical. So is the observation “neighbor” makes – contractor is not using equipment in correct manner. What building code, city ordinance, municipal or qaulity of life law applies to that statement?