A map visualizes New York City’s immense language diversity.Jalopnik’s Aaron Gordon wrote about it on behalf of New Yorkers and transit Twitter. The Empire State Building is the number one destination in the world that tourists take Uber to, even though it’s one of the most easy-to-get-to via public transportation.Kallos also introduced legislation this year that would require scaffolding that’s been up for more than a year to be inspected at least once every six months by the DOB, at the building owner’s expense. So why does this happen? As part of Local Law 11, the city inspects building facades every five years, leading some property owners to keep scaffolding up to avoid the cost of taking it down and rebuilding it every few years.Ĭity Council member Ben Kallos has been trying to fight back since 2016, when he introduced legislation that would cap facade repair work at 90 days with the possibility to extend it for another 90, and require scaffolding to be removed if no work has taken place for seven days. Even the Department of Buildings’ Broadway office has its own lingering scaffolding issue, with part of the building covered since 2008. New Yorkers are used to seeing construction scaffolding all over the city, but what happens when a building has it up for more than just a couple of months?Ĭity records analyzed by the New York Post found that some structures have had scaffolding in place for more than a decade: In Harlem, scaffolding has covered part of 409 Edgecombe Avenue since 2006 at 360 Central Park West on the Upper West Side, it’s been there since 2008 (the building owners claim it’s only been there for six years). NYC has a long-standing scaffolding problem Send stories you think should be included to. Good morning, and welcome to New York Minute, a new roundup of the New York City news you need to know about today.