Oh, Novo: Scaffolding Collapse on Fourth Avenue
A chunk of scaffolding attached to Shaya Boymelgreen’s Novo Park Slope at 343 Fourth Avenue collapsed this weekend. The collapse happened sometime on Saturday night, according to a source, and the rubble spilling out onto Fourth Avenue was left there all of yesterday. (Wouldn’t want to have to pay time-and-a-half for the clean-up, now would…
A chunk of scaffolding attached to Shaya Boymelgreen’s Novo Park Slope at 343 Fourth Avenue collapsed this weekend. The collapse happened sometime on Saturday night, according to a source, and the rubble spilling out onto Fourth Avenue was left there all of yesterday. (Wouldn’t want to have to pay time-and-a-half for the clean-up, now would you, Shaya?) The mess still wasn’t cleaned up as of early this morning. As far as we know, the collapse didn’t injure anyone. Interestingly, the accident happened at the entrance to Terrapin Playground, the section of J.J. Byrne Park that Boymelgreen is supposed to be renovating. The Parks Department has put up a sign that says the park area should be completed by this fall and will include basketball courts, street skate area, handball courts, dog run, fencing and landscaping. It’s hard to tell how much progress has been made on the park from outside the scaffolding, but it doesn’t appear to be anywhere near completion. Boymelgreen’s progress on the park is of interest given that some community members are lobbying for the city to withhold granting a certificate of occupancy for the Novo until the park is finished.
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Old Park Slope Says Novo Park Slope is a Deadbeat [Curbed]
More photos of the collapse on the jump.
I’ve worked with the Parks Department before. They are very slow. And if you need a questioned answered regarding any kind of specifications/engineering, it often takes weeks/months to get the response, delaying construction. I’ve watched Boymelgreen do the park construction. They make large progress for a week, and then construction of this park seems to go to a halt. More progress. Another dead stop. Seems to me like the Parks Department isn’t doing their job. Maybe Shaya is not to blame.
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they have been working extensively on the park area in the last few weeks. lots of heavy machinery digging giant holes and lining them with wood, presumably to delineate areas to be filled with cement or landscaping.
A lot of the comments here and in the story were about Shaya’s unkept promise to fix up the park. What is his/your defense of that?
I second the above, no fan of Shaya or the work either, but the skid marks and auto parts were all over the sidewalk. C’mon people, let’s look with eyes wide open before blogging.
Denton
actually no one should feel stupid. brownstoner simply wrote that the scaffolding fell sometime on saturday evening and that it was left there for at least an entire day unattended to.
he didn’t say how it happened.
tell me again what exactly we should be feeling stupid about, anonymous informer?
Would you rather start feeling stupid now or later? Feel how you might about Shaya B, but this one wasn’t his fault. According to police a driver fell asleep at the wheel and plowed into the support for the sidewalk shed, thus causing it to collapse. Pieces of the car were found as far away as Third Avenue meaning the driver didn’t just go through it, he went through it at an angle at didn’t stop. You might not like the way it looks or what’s going on with the park, but get your facts straight. And while I’m not clear on when this occurred I can tell you the project manager didn’t see it until this morning and it was cleaned up and repaired first thing.
i’m really quite shocked, even in new york city that people would go visit this place and say…yeah…i want to buy something here.
i walked along 4th yesterday from about 15th all the way north, and while i do think that 4th avenue has great potential, this building already looks as if it’s falling apart. the brickwork looks especially horrible.
didn’t too much mind the hotel le bleu. could be promising, despite it’s location.
That’s funny. You see, right on that spot someone had graffitied a message about how unsecure the scaffolding was and listed some date that it had previously collapsed.