There are 386 miles of scaffolding in New York City. Stefan Jeremiah. The soggy plywood was meant to protect pedestrians from unsafe building facade conditions contractors have now resolved ...

The city's Department of Buildings said the sidewalk shed has been standing for so long because the landlord has failed to make necessary repairs to the facade. The Department of Building is taking ...

The inspections that found those issues were required by the city’s Local Law 11, which also mandates that sidewalk sheds be erected around buildings with unsafe facade conditions to protect passersby ...

The inspections that found those issues were required by the city’s Local Law 11, which also mandates that sidewalk sheds be erected around buildings with unsafe facade conditions to protect passersby ...

The Big Apple claims it’s cracking down on the scourge of sidewalk sheds but there’s scaffolding at roughly 500 city-owned ...

Some other cities also require façade inspections only for older buildings: for instance, Cincinnati mandates façade inspections only for buildings over 15 years old. There’s ample reason, in short, ...

The Department of Buildings is taking the property owners of a Crown Heights apartment complex to court after they allegedly failed to fix a 10-year-old dilapidated sidewalk shed. After years of ...

Several of the bills chip away at Local Law 11, the decades-old policy that requires landlords to inspect their building façades every five years and put up green plywood sheds each time they do.

A large number of these sheds, perhaps a majority, are erected in connection with the Department of Buildings’ Façade Inspection and Safety Program, also known as Local Law 11.

More than 8,300 sidewalk sheds currently enshroud some 360 miles of the city’s sidewalks, according to permit data from the New York City Department of Buildings.