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Increase fines on seemingly "permanent" sidewalk sheds with no active work being done
Everywhere, especially commercial and high-density residential areas, there is a blight of sidewalk sheds: restricting space, contributing to trash and vermin, and causing dread of crime in these dark tunnels, if not actual crime compared to regular daylight sidewalks.
Obviously, active construction necessitates these sheds, but many are up because keeping them is cheaper than the structural deficit the DOB told them to repair. And the fines for exceeding 90 days aren't persuasive.
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Although sidewalk shelters are designed to shield onlookers from falling trash, they frequently turn into an eyesore, prompting a flurry of complaints from locals and businesses who claim that they obstruct views and light, draw crime and litter, and make it difficult for people to move along crowded sidewalks1. A bill by Brooklyn State Senator Zellnor Myrie would enable the state to declare old NYCHA sidewalk sheds "blight" and then intervene and have them removed using eminent domain2. To combat the eyesore caused by sidewalk sheds, councilman Ben Kallos has proposed legislation3.
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