Scaffolding, sidewalk sheds \u2014 or whatever you call them \u2014 are eyesores staining neighborhoods across the city.<\/p>\n
Yards of metal poles and green sheds have plagued the Highbridge Garden Houses in the Bronx for five years.<\/p>\n
On Friday, tenants received news that the sheds will be completely down by April as construction crews worked to remove sections of the scaffolding.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about time,\u201d said Joanne Daughtry, resident association president of Highbridge Garden. \u201cWe have to fight for what we want and what we need.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mayor Mamdani, joined by Deputy Mayor for Housing Leila Bozorg and Department of Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Tigani, visited the neighborhood Friday morning to announce new regulations and inspection timelines to reduce the need for sidewalk sheds altogether.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo far, 1,400 feet have been removed, and as you can hear, another 1,400 are in the process,\u201d Mayor Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
Under new regulations, building inspection timelines will be reduced from 12 years to 5 years for buildings less than 40 years old.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere at Highbridge Gardens, NYCHA is investing $14.4 million in state funds to facilitate facade repairs across all six buildings,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n
The mayor says the investment allows crews to remove the structures without imposing a safety risk to residents.<\/p>\n
\u201cA new agency rule will allow us to penalize building owners for keeping sheds up too long and ensure that the public gets updates on sheds every 90 days,\u201d said Leila Bozorg, deputy mayor for housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scaffolding, sidewalk sheds \u2014 or whatever you call them \u2014 are eyesores staining neighborhoods across the city. Yards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-155562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}