Tag: scaffolding

A new monthly Rag column will focus on the sidewalk sheds that many consider the city's worst urban blight.

The long neighborhood nightmare is over.

Seeing the scaffolding come down “feels like a miracle of improbable proportions,” said one nearby resident.

A sidewalk shed that was voted the “Worst on the West Side” is being removed after nearly 20 years. 

A sidewalk shed on a busy Upper West Side block was taken down at the end of May.

Winners were chosen from more than 100 nominations submitted by the public.

"People feel that when scaffolding is up for years and years, it’s a sign of dysfunction.”

A four-year-old sidewalk shed at West 110th Street and Broadway is expected to come down within the next year.

The School Construction Authority provided an expected end date for the ongoing project at P.S. 87.

City data shows there are currently 9,000 permitted construction sheds, spanning nearly 400 miles of city’s streets, up for an average of 500 days.

Looking the way it was meant to!

After a decade, the sidewalk shed is coming down!

The DOB has issued a Full Stop Work Order pending further investigation.

A 36-year-old construction worker fell to his death from a fourth-floor scaffolding on Monday morning.

The owners plan to relocate the popular restaurant elsewhere on the Upper West Side and hope to be open by late spring or early summer. 

The imposing entrance of the landmarked Joan of Arc Junior High School building on W. 93rd Street first towered over Upper West Side students

The photographs above show how Hi Life Bar & Grill, on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 83rd Street, looks with and without scaffolding.

The alleged “lookout” in the assault and attempted robbery of a 57-year-old woman, in a scaffolding tunnel on Amsterdam Avenue between 68th and 69th Streets

In a move expected to ignite neighborhood controversy, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission has announced hearings on

A minivan crashed into scaffolding on the corner of 89th Street and Amsterdam on Tuesday afternoon, causing the structure to topple onto the vehicle and a traffic light.