How I am charmed

...each time I enter my apartment and smack into a wall of machinery whine.

Janoff & Olshan's Flouting of the Law is a Many-Headed Hydra

After-hours and weekend construction work is ILLEGAL

Again to veer off the topic of this blog's raison d'etre, the electric motor whine, a ghastly shriek which causes those in its vicinity to yearn for death: AFTER-HOURS AND SATURDAY/SUNDAY RENOVATING, WHICH IS TO SAY, THE HAMMERING, BANGING, AND DRILLING GOING ON in this building UNTIL 8 EVERY WEEKNIGHT AND FROM 9 a.m. ON SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS - YES, TODAY, F*CKING SUNDAY, THEY STARTED HAMMERING AT 9 - IS AGAINST THE LAW, RATHER LIKE EVERY ACTION TAKEN, it seems, AND I WOULD BET, EVER CONTEMPLATED BY THE SORRY LITTLE CABAL OF SCOFFLAWS KNOWN AS JANOFF & OLSHAN.

The noise code reads:

§24-222 After hours and weekend limits on construction work. Except as otherwise
provided in this subchapter, it shall be unlawful to engage in or to cause or permit any
person to engage in construction work other than on weekdays between the hours of 7
a.m. and 6 p.m. A person may however perform construction work in connection with
the alteration or repair of an existing one or two family owner-occupied dwelling
classified in occupancy group J-3 or a convent or rectory on Saturdays and Sundays
between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. provided that such dwelling is located more than
300 feet from a house of worship.
§24-223 After hours work authorization. (a) Notwithstanding section 24-222 of this
subchapter, an agency authorized to issue permits for construction work may, along with
such permit, issue an after hours work authorization for the work site. Such after hours
authorization may permit construction work to be performed at the site before 7 a.m. or
after 6 p.m. on weekdays and/or on Saturdays and/or Sundays subject to the conditions
and restrictions set forth in this section.

Do you think J&O bothered to get an after-hours work authorization? Very likely. Very F*CKING likely.

F*CK THEM.

UPDATE:
Janoff and Olshan last held after-hours work authorization in NOVEMBER. After-hours permits last no more than a day. Saturday, weeknight, and all-day-fucking-Sunday work is AGAINST THE G*DD*MN LAW.

Also: do you suppose the contractor pays OVERTIME to the workers for their 11-hour days and weekends? FAT CHANCE. I'm calling the state labor department next.

CURSES ON THESE HUMAN SCOURGES.

U can haz noise pollushun

in ur apartmentz. LULZ!!1!

Haitus: over

Okay, so it's been on haitus (vacation?) for three weeks. But hark! What's that I hear?

I knew the relief wouldn't last. It never does.

Nonetheless it was nice to live - for a short, short while - as other people do.

Screeching elevator

I predict a series of events resembling this one:

I report the condition to Buildings...AGAIN.

Buildings issues a violation...AGAIN.

A hearing is scheduled. Janoff & Olshan defaults on its hearing...AGAIN.

Buildings imposes a $2,500 fine...AGAIN.

This would be tough for J & O, since they're already in default on $5,000 in fines for elevator violations. So they'd owe Buildings $7,500! And none of the conditions for which the violations were issued have been corrected!

Good thing they can steal security deposits to pay those city fines!

UPDATE: what a ghastly screech it is.

Um?

NYC BUILDING CODE 27-770: Noise control of mechanical equipment.

(a) Minimum airborne noise insulation requirements.

(2) MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT SPACES.

a. Ventilating openings into mechanical equipment
spaces. -Ventilating openings into boiler rooms and
other mechanical equipment spaces shall not be located
in yards or courts where there are windows opening
from living quarters, unless such ventilating openings
are provided with sound attenuating devices if needed
to limit noise transmission to NC-40 (noise criterion)
levels in the exposed dwelling units. For permits issued
after January first, nineteen hundred seventy-two, the
permissible noise levels shall not exceed NC-35.