We heard that a ruckus happened over at the Bay Ridge Spite Wall (123 87th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11209) this past Saturday when the homeowners decided to yet again disobey the stop work order that has been in effect for several years. We have been informed by various people living on that street who do not wish to be identified over safety concerns that Robert Cunningham, whose property is the illegal spite wall kind, spit on his neighbor and chased him with a piece of wood before throwing the wood at him. NYPD had to respond to the scene and multiple people were hauled off in cuffs. This is not to sort of thing that should be happening. Here’s what the spite wall site looked like on Sunday afternoon:
[Photo taken: 04/03/2011]
The complaint registered with the NYC Department of Buildings on Sunday had this to say of it “STOP WORK ORDER IS BEING VIOLATED, (NO ORDER TO RESCIND EITHER) NEED AN INSPECTOR ON PREMISE ASAP”
But when the inspector arrived on Tuesday, two days later, they found no violation, and stated: “NO VIOLATION WARRANTED FOR COMPLAINT AT TIME OF INSPECTION” and that “PERMITS GIVEN BY DC FARRIELLO TO MAKE REPAIRS TO FENCE ONLY”
[Photo taken: 04/03/2011]
Clearly the workmen were working on the fence, but so much more had been done that the DOB failed to see. A blue tarp has been strung up within the illegal structure/spite wall and evergreens have been set up to try and hide further construction. As seen in the Fox 5 report so many months ago, no blue tarp had been in place prior to the many stop work orders issued.
But the worst development over this whole mess is that the illegal spite wall is clearly taking a toll on the neighboring legal property.
[Photo taken:04/02/2011]
We already knew that the construction has begun to undermine the neighboring foundation by way of attaching the new structure illegally to the original neighboring structure, but now water damage is also doing so. Check out that hole!
All that we can say about this whole sordid mess is that enough is enough. The New York City Department of Buildings, the courts, and our local elected officials need to grow a set of balls and force the ILLEGAL and DANGEROUS construction to be torn down, removed once and for all and then give the bill to the Mr. Cunningham.
Does someone need to be killed by the goon who is so full of hate as to build such a monstrosity? And does a partial building collapse need to happen before something of actual significance gets done to remedy this HORRIFIC and UNSAFE situation?
(Click here to read through several years worth of archives that have documented this mess.)
