{"id":181597,"date":"2026-04-01T00:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181597\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:29:08","slug":"new-york-city-will-always-be-the-greatest-but-scaffolding-is-a-misery-that-nails-me-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181597\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City will always be the greatest \u2014 but scaffolding is a misery that nails me down"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s all getting nailed down<\/p>\n

Excuse me. I\u2019m about to cry.<\/p>\n

I love New York, live in New York, born in New York, educated in New York, married in New York, work in this greatest metropolis on the continent.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re zooming to the moon. Great, but why? How about first fixing New York? Zooming bicycles that hit pedestrians? Taxes only\u00a0Elon\u00a0can pay? Prices so high that coffee and bread equate with gold? Rents only Zero Crapdammy who doesn\u2019t pay can afford?<\/p>\n

Latest misery? Scaffolding.<\/a>\u00a0Mandated is roofs to be repaired, examined, fixed. Result? Inability to drive, move or inch crosstown. A narrow street \u2014 now just an alley of building materials, cranes. Alternate side? Racks of Citi Bikes. Nobody moves. If Methuselah was on Lex he\u2019d still be waiting to go West.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve heard this before: People are in poverty, homeless, jobless, ill, aged, no doctors, less nurses, higher prices, fewer stores. I know that. Excuse me sounding selfish, but IT has invaded my life. My home. My job. My ability to survive. My nerves.<\/p>\n

Machinery, scaffolding, hard hat strangers hanging outside my windows. Peering at me. My dog barking madly. ALL my windows boarded up. Summer\u2019s coming. So, no light, no air. Limited privacy. Also ceaseless banging and hammering.<\/p>\n

I understand this is needed. I also understand I\u2019m slowly losing my mind because this won\u2019t be over in two weeks. Two years\u00a0plus\u00a0is what I\u2019m hearing. Ugh. And you can quote me.<\/p>\n

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Strangers in jeans, tees, helmets, masks, shoe coverings \u2014 marching through a private home. Wielding jackhammers and heavy-duty equipment they predict walls might crumble, mirrors crack, wooden floors separate.<\/p>\n

Possessions stowed away carefully. So carefully that in this torment I can no longer locate what I need. I can barely set these words down because wires to computers, printers, phones and the etcetera of life have been affected.<\/p>\n

One worker said to me: \u201cVIPs like you are very finicky. You\u2019ll never find anything if you don\u2019t get up and look for it.\u201d Summoning my abundance of warmth I snapped: \u201cLook, pal, I stopped making rounds when I was 25.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking for a few good reps<\/p>\n

LOCAL political clubs still draw leaders. Legal news from the Lexington Democratic Club:\u00a0Judge\u00a0Kate Waterman-Marshall\u00a0is running for a seat in November<\/a>. Candidates for\u00a0Nadler\u2019s seat seen out and about were\u00a0George Conway,\u00a0Laura Dunn, Assemblyman\u00a0Alex Bores. Also on hand NYS Comptroller\u00a0Tom DiNapoli.<\/p>\n

At one West Side meeting NYS Attorney General\u00a0Tish James\u00a0got a rousing reception. She and congressional candidate Conway talked animatedly (maybe about their upcoming primaries).<\/p>\n

Nowruz, a Persian holiday, was celebrated this year in NY Supreme Court. Justice\u00a0Sabrina Kraus, of Iranian descent, said: \u201cPersian New Year celebrates spring renewal and the triumph of light over darkness. We are grateful for an opportunity to highlight our culture and share our journeys as Iranian Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s holidays \u2014 Christian, Jewish, Muslim. I\u2019ll be off tomorrow and Monday. So if I can find my computer, my notes, my telephones, my housekeeper and my sanity, I\u2019ll happily be back with you this coming Tuesday. Oh and by the way .\u2009.\u2009. these very able workers are to quit working 4 o\u2019clock. So, don\u2019t anyone ever dare ask me what happens around 3:10.<\/p>\n

Oy. Only in New York, kids, only in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s all getting nailed down Excuse me. I\u2019m about to cry. I love New York, live in New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[651,2575,9,24,56,63,65,64,299,8539,8302,7316,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-181597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-democratic-party","9":"tag-easter","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-opinion","17":"tag-passover","18":"tag-scaffolding","19":"tag-us-house-of-representatives","20":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181597","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=181597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}