tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post1476065409361675611..comments2024-03-28T03:47:41.338-04:00Comments on EV Grieve: Pile driving resumes at the site of the East Village's last gas station, where a 10-floor building will riseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-12259391160776615872018-02-19T23:49:10.309-05:002018-02-19T23:49:10.309-05:00Dear neighbor at 249 e 2nd, swing on by 283 east h...Dear neighbor at 249 e 2nd, swing on by 283 east houston and check out our crack meter on the front stoop. Off the charts, yet the construction continues. It’s been ongoing for over a year. I feel your pain. It’s difficult to get one’s bearings without a safe place to stop and think your own thoughts. Sure, I’m fortunate to have a home but these are still difficult conditions. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-41309097453963089092018-02-13T22:46:50.692-05:002018-02-13T22:46:50.692-05:00I have lived in 249 E. 2nd Street for more than 22...I have lived in 249 E. 2nd Street for more than 22 years. There are 20 small studio ‘efficiency’ units out of which only three are rent stabilized. The developers of the building next door originally considered buying 249 E. 2nd Street in order to empty it of tenants but in the end decided it would take too long. They may regret that decision now. The current situation began almost a year ago when the city ruled on 3/21/2017, the construction in the adjacent lot damaged 249 E. 2nd Street. The city’s ECB Violation report ( DOB Violation Number 032117EX103JT04 and readily viewable online at the DOB site ) cited Noble Construction GR LLC of 1 Harmon Plaza, Secaucus, NY, for “FAILURE TO SAFEGUARD ALL PERSONS AND PROPERTY AFFECTED BY CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS NOTED: THAT DURING DRILLING OPERATIONS AT CONSTRUCTION SITE CONTRACTOR CREATED DAMAGES TO THE ADJOINING FOUNDATION OF BUILDING 249.” A violation categorized as “Aggravated Offense Level 2.” There was a partial stop work order. The construction company could not do any more work accept to perform abatements of the damage it had done to 249 E. 2nd Street. Evidence of the damage was plentiful in the numerous prominent cracks in interior hallway walls and around door jambs, the sure sign of the building having shifted. The construction company was required to do assessments and abatements of the damage. The landlord of 249 E. 2nd Street, Mag Realy/249 E. 2nd Street Realty, of Brooklyn, is now obviously in bed with the construction company and has been collecting a lot of insurance money. The landlord of 249 has kept up to as many as 6 units out of 20 vacant while upgrading them. Most likely to rent out at higher than market rate once the pile driving is complete next door. Other extensive repairs have been done to the interior basement wall on the east side of the building entailing work on the heating system boiler also.<br />When last week’s pile driving began it was so severe tenants in four surrounding buildings spontaneously gathered in the street to discuss a collective action to thwart the construction activity and set off a flood of complaints to the DOB through the city’s 311 complaint phone line. Which is what originally brought the inspection that resulted in the previous violation citation. 249 E. 2nd Street now has surveyor’s gauges permanently affixed to key parts of the exterior, and ‘crack monitors’ on the interior hallway damage, to facility monitoring of the ongoing situation. Almost every day surveyors are taking readings to catch any further building damage. Where this will end is anyone’s guess. But there is absolutely no mistaking the danger to the tenancies of the current occupants of 249 E. 2nd Street.RRReality1https://www.blogger.com/profile/14103566496573269110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-23863360620775091822018-02-13T17:41:53.898-05:002018-02-13T17:41:53.898-05:00Welcome to the Horridor.Welcome to the Horridor.Giovannihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11061991537085810824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-9553778414879749162018-02-13T16:34:29.384-05:002018-02-13T16:34:29.384-05:00I live across the street from this BULLSHIT. It f...I live across the street from this BULLSHIT. It feels like a giant is kicking my bed.IzFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-53409323905946464772018-02-13T13:55:17.252-05:002018-02-13T13:55:17.252-05:00I live a block away and the pile driving has been ...I live a block away and the pile driving has been shaking my entire building. I talked to a construction worker yesterday and he said we'll have to endure it for 2 more weeks. Ugh...JustinKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09510521888903956426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-72585767795471706702018-02-13T03:53:21.151-05:002018-02-13T03:53:21.151-05:00FRACK ITFRACK ITAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-4109955342170244132018-02-12T20:10:33.578-05:002018-02-12T20:10:33.578-05:00These will be the next squatter buildings when the...These will be the next squatter buildings when the bubble bursts. <br /><br />These descriptions put forth by the developers come off like buzzword vomit. They have become parodies of themselves.<br /><br />If anything, the way all this hyper-development and the resulting tower pestilence reveals is that Trump was truly a pioneer for he was the first to take advantage by buying influence on the people elected to serve the public to get his behemoths and his celebrity built.<br /><br />Excellent observations by Gojira and 2:33JQ LLChttps://impunitycity.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-37292560444253256892018-02-12T17:57:38.918-05:002018-02-12T17:57:38.918-05:00Fuck this basic ass corny boring glass building an...Fuck this basic ass corny boring glass building and all the douches that will go to it. And soon, so many will be empty and cheap, because there is so much of this ugly garbage being built. I hope it get stalled for a very long time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-83923886686356602362018-02-12T17:20:22.924-05:002018-02-12T17:20:22.924-05:00omg. shaking my core.omg. shaking my core.vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15576816752006819641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-48578338357807093362018-02-12T14:33:10.584-05:002018-02-12T14:33:10.584-05:00Construction really needs to slow down. It's i...Construction really needs to slow down. It's ironic all the advertising verbiage is about the greatness of said neighborhood and tree-lined blocks, yet a big construction project like this is a sensory inconvenience for years. Making things at times unbearable for us surrounding residents, then nice again for the new well-heeled residents when its done. One slap in the face after another. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-74166031944859419782018-02-12T10:59:31.178-05:002018-02-12T10:59:31.178-05:00Years ago, I saw a tongue-in-cheek book that featu...Years ago, I saw a tongue-in-cheek book that featured all of Trump's ugly black box buildings and challenged you to tell them apart and match the building with the address as they all looked the same. I guess the joke's on us as the whole city is looking the same. Soon, you will get lost on your own block because it looks exactly like all the others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-83905644308818043552018-02-12T10:56:49.866-05:002018-02-12T10:56:49.866-05:00"...a well thought-out solution to maximize p..."...a well thought-out solution to maximize potential development opportunity for the client" - note there is no thought taken for the neighbors or surrounding area, just a focus on how much money the "client" will make. And if this featureless cheese box is their idea of well thought-out, I'd hate to see what they think of as butt plug-ugly.Gojiranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-17300649666078848382018-02-12T10:36:52.572-05:002018-02-12T10:36:52.572-05:00yep - this building is ugly and basic.yep - this building is ugly and basic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-67281537471941045382018-02-12T07:16:36.725-05:002018-02-12T07:16:36.725-05:00Who approves these architecture 101 buildings? The...Who approves these architecture 101 buildings? They all look the same.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com