The city has issued over 3,000 tickets to private property owners since Saturday. But it does not issue violations when the ...
The Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) is literally angling for a new scaffolding design that lets in more light on the street below. The firms were chosen as part of the “Get Sheds Down” ...
Sleek new designs for future city sidewalk sheds were unveiled by Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday — and the improved versions are so drastic, you may not be able to tell they’re temporary structures. The ...
Sidewalk sheds are ubiquitous facets of New York City life. After Local Law 11 was enacted in 1998, as an update to a 1980 law passed after a Barnard College student was tragically killed by a loose ...
New York City scaffolding is so commonplace it has become a kind of extra architectural skin covering the city. It’s estimated that there are more than 9,000 of these “construction sheds” (another ...
New York is the world’s financial capital, cultural capital and, alas, sidewalk shed capital. More than 8,000 of these ugly green eyesores clutter the city’s sidewalks. They’re whacked together ...
NEW YORK CITY —Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Department of Buildings have unveiled six revamped designs for sidewalk scaffolding. These new designs are meant to improve the aesthetic on city ...