It only gets more embarrassing for Mayor Eric Adams’ comically toothless “crackdown” on the city’s out-of-control sidewalk scaffolding scourge.
But immortal-seeming, city-owned scaffold abominations aren’t only at quasi-autonomous, cash-strapped NYCHA locations.Realty Check found Public Disgrace No. 1 at 2 Lafayette St., a century-old, 21-story, 350,000 square-foot property across the street from the Municipal Building.
You’d think that with the real estate-driven priority, it would know how to properly maintain its own structures and fix any potentially dangerous flaws in a timely fashion. The gloomy tunnels cover storefronts and subway entrances and provide refuge for dope-smoking vagrants who harass people coming to work.They’ve been up since 2017, according to Department of Buildings records. Sources in neighboring buildings — and inside 2 Lafayette St. itself — said they rarely if ever see any facade work being done.For good measure, the sheds that are supposed to protect passers-by from falling debris might be dangerous themselves.
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