Things are getting pretty bad when your city council members and mayor are voting to allow for public urination, and setting up a committee to end the cabaret laws. Then there are the District Attorney's who want not to prosecute turnstyle jumpers. What is this city coming to?
After two construction workers dying on two different construction sites here is another careless example of what a developer on Johnson Avenue two houses away from Congressman Engel's office is doing.
Above - You can see the flimsy work done on this wood fence to hide what went on in tearing down the house that use to be on this property. There still remains a huge old tree on the property which must be taken down before any new construction can take place.
Below - From this angle you can see just how stable the last two panels of this fence is. with every gust the wall is in danger of falling down.
So where is the Councilman Cohen? Protesting a homeless shelter he says is going into Sams Carpet on Webster Avenue across from PS 20. While there is no construction going on at the carpet store, there is however at the empty former Feggs location at 3600 Jerome Avenue which Councilman Cohen suggested to Community Board 7 in August as an alternate site to the Webster Avenue site across from PS 20. What construction is going on at the former Feggs site you may ask, alterations for a homeless shelter according to the site supervisor.
Construction workers at the former Feggs site on Jerome Avenue doing alterations for a homeless shelter.
