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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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Scaffolding collapses onto sidewalk shed outside Yeshiva University building in Manhattan
The collapse happened around 9:20am on Sunday at a five-story building part of Yeshiva University on West 185th Street and ...
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City Council passes long-awaited legislation to tackle sidewalk scaffolding issues
The City Council approved a legislative package aimed to reduce the number of scaffolding structures on New York City streets ...
NYC sidewalk scaffolding reforms put limits how long structures can be up
The New York City Council unanimously passed a new set of bills that would shorten the duration of sidewalk sheds permits and ...
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Ottawa posts $26.8 billion deficit for April-to-January period
The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $26.8 billion for the April-to-January period of its 2024-25 fiscal year ...
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Halifax wine bar wants HRM to enforce order to fix building facade
Obladee Wine Bar owners Christian Rankin and his sister, Heather, say scaffolding went up in the summer of 2023 after someone ...
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Council passes legislation to reduce NYC’s 400 miles of scaffolding
The City Council on Wednesday passed a series of bills to limit how long scaffolding can stay up and to introduce new, more ...
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NYC tackles scaffolding scourge with bills to speed up their removal — and offer colors besides ‘ugly hunter green’
The city’s current scaffolding laws have been in effect since the 1980s after 17-year-old Barnard College student Grace Gold was killed by a piece of debris falling from a building. Since then ...