Since this is on a County road, the contractor would need to pull a permit for taking up any part of the sidewalk and road from the County. Let me find a contact number for you since I do not know their process.

Their permit expired on 2/29/24, but it was only for no parking signs. They are not allowed to occupy any of the sidewalk. What is blocking the sidewalk on Bleecker?

Their fence and orange colored large cones. On the sidewalk.

so can you do something about it?

The Bleecker side, yes. They will be getting a permit for the sidewalk through our office. I wrote to their emergency contact and our office is working with them now.

They said they would immediately vacate the sidewalk yesterday morning and apply for a permit. Are the cones and fencing still there? They will not be allowed to place anything on the sidewalk until they obtain an approved permit.

For anything on the Kennedy side, you will need to contact the County at SCF Response:
https://fs4.formsite.com/cGgrlU/wmusi6ebjk/index.html or call them at 201-915-1373 ext. 697

Thanks for taking care of this promptly. I will check the next time I go by the place.
Do you guys issue violations?

We do not issue tickets. We will revoke a permit if the permit holder fails to meet the tenants of the permit when told they are not in compliance and fail to correct it in a timely manner.

Once there is no permit or the permit expired, we work with the Office of Code Compliance, who can issue warnings and summonses. That office is the one you want to follow up, because they have plenty of inspectors (we have 2) and they are wicked fast on following up.

In this case, since there had been a permit, I decided to alert the emergency contact first and since they immediately replied on Saturday, I did not send to Code Compliance.

No, the bleecker st sidewalk is still blocked. Even the large orange cones are still there.

Thank you for the update. I will follow up.

Let me know if there have been any updates. Thank you.

We are sending a Code Compliance inspector out to issue a notice of violation.

Hi, are there any updates? Almost the whole sidewalk was black today.

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My apologies, I have been waiting for a follow up from the inspector and also the person in charge of the permit. The site said they are taking out a permit, but that was weeks ago.

Maybe you can transfer/assign this ticket over to the Code Compliance division.

Will do.

Thank you.

Issue 16431072 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue.

I am adding the picture that Inspector Hlaldush took yesterday.

So…?

Unfortunately, a duplicate request was created and Code Compliance went out and took pictures, then assigned to Engineering before seeing all my notes. Hopefully they go back out on Monday after reading all the internal notes on what we did and that the site failed to create a traffic permit application. They do have the road opening one, but not the traffic one that says when and how they can occupy the sidewalk.

Ok thank you. Let me know if there are any updates.

An Inspector/Investigator from the office of Code Compliance has investigated your complaint and found Condition(s) Abated.

Why was not citation issued anyway

I request citation be issued.

I request crooked contractor be blacklisted.

An Inspector/Investigator from the office of Code Compliance has investigated your complaint and found Condition(s) Abated.

Mr Barrow, this does not solves the issue. In fact, cat and mouse game encourages repetition of offense. "Abated" is an observation, not a disposition. I still demand violation issued, even after abatement of violation.

To be honest, in some parts of this sidewalk, more than half of it is still blocked by cones and fence.

They have legal permits to occupy the sidewalk, so there is no issue here.

Once you allow sidewalk closure then you have to enforce barricade requirement to protect people from being struck by cars on pavement and also ADA. Where is the ramp over the curb? Why you refuse to perform you duty?

We will go back out to make sure 3' is maintained or we may have them close off the entire sidewalk if that is not possible.

1. 3 feet violates ADA and is a gross negligence as well. It is foreseeable that wheelchair cannot pass. City employees such as you Althea owe duty to public to ensure enough width is provided, given that this is extremely busy passage and street. Foreseeable and preventable injury.

2. There is no birth right of anyone to have sidewalk closed for them. It is solely discretionary act on part of the City. It is tangible because it allows increase of financial profits of crooked contractor. As such, it is a public subsidy, and City freely admits that in exchange City can demand developer give priority in hiring to local citizens. Therefore, I request that audit be made of the developer and contractors, to ensure no illegal aliens are employed there. Unemployment rate among City Black youth is sky high, and this can be address by exchanging public subsidies for local employment.

Sidewalk closure is a bublic subisdy

This is a case where the city is overlooking violations of the contractors/developers. I thought you guys were tough with the developers?

3' is ADA compliant.