Everyone Hates Sidewalk Sheds. Now There May Be Fewer of Them.
Several bills to be passed in the City Council today are expected to change the height, the color and the ubiquity of the ...
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The End of the Never-ending Sidewalk Shed
If there’s any platform that unites New York City officials (and community groups and business owners), it’s a stand against ...
NYC tackles scaffolding scourge with bills to speed up their removal — and offer colors besides ‘ugly hunter green’
The New York City Council introduced a spate of new laws Wednesday aimed at finally cracking down on the thousands of ...
A First-of-Its-Kind Case Is Brewing Over NYC Scaffolding
Represented by Boies Schiller Flexner and Messing & Spector, a group of property owners who called themselves “blameless ...
NYC Council passes tougher limits on sidewalk sheds in public blight crackdown
Sidewalk sheds, the widely reviled construction safety structures blighting public space in NYC, can only stay up for three ...
The Daily Dirt: City Council signs off on shed crackdown
The Real Deal’s Daily Dirt discusses the passage of a package of bills that aims to clear city sidewalks of sidewalk sheds.
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New York City passes "Get Sheds Down" legislation to reduce city's scaffolding
New York City has passed several bills aimed at reducing the nearly 400 miles of scaffolding sheds covering buildings in the ...
New York City scaffolding, sidewalk sheds may come down sooner after City Council vote
The package of scaffolding bills, introduced by council members Keith Powers and Erik Bottcher, calls for a study on new ...
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Where the sidewalk shed ends: NYC to pass ‘major’ scaffolding reforms
A tragedy spawned the strict regulations in place today. City lawmakers enacted measures to expand inspection requirements ...