scaffolding

A package of bills in the City Council could mean big changes for miles of hunter-green sidewalk sheds.

Investigators are still reviewing the Chelsea incident, but video obtained by Gothamist shows the scaffolding collapsed as a box truck parked on the street started to move forward.

It’s about safety, but everyone agrees some of the structures stay up for way too long.

Manhattan’s oldest scaffolding has been in place more than 14 years.

The administration vowed to slash the length of permits allowing scaffolding, increase fines and incentivize landlords to take them down.

For some New Yorkers, the 22-year-old sidewalk shed had come to represent an intractable city failure. Its removal this week sparked a mix of triumph and anger that it took so long.

A former warehouse and construction site collapsed in Williamsburg on Wednesday morning, raining bricks and scaffolding onto the street and wrecking a few cars parked below.

Responders found the 51-year-old man lying unconscious on a scaffold and rushed him to the hospital, but couldn't save him.

A new bill would shift sidewalk inspections to city control, and could push building owners to get their construction done quickly.

Getting hit by falling scaffolding (and air conditioners) is a classic NYC nightmare, one which went from fantasy to reality for two women in Brooklyn earlier this week.