Mar. 26, 2025 By Shane O’Brien The City Council approved a legislative package Wednesday afternoon to reduce the number of scaffolding structures on New York City streets. The package of five bills takes aim at the temporary steel and wooden scaffolding structures – known as scaffolding sheds – that line and darken thousands of…
Feb. 19, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen If the sidewalk shed around the Brooklyn Supreme Courthouse in Downtown Brooklyn were human, it might not be in Brooklyn anymore, but off at college, studying prelaw or engineering. That’s because it’s now 18 years old, having been erected around the 360 Adams St. courthouse in 2007. It’s…
Mar. 19, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell
Firefighters rescued two civilians after a scaffolding collapsed in Bedford-Stuyvesant early Tuesday afternoon.
Apr. 27, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen
If the scaffolding surrounding the Brooklyn Supreme Court building on Adams Street was a person, it would be preparing to finish its sophomore year of high school — and the city spends more money each year keeping the structure propped up than it does on the average public school student.