Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know…there are tons of trees in Pelham Bay Park and the Botanical Gardens. But all my years in the building supply industry and I’ve never seen anything like this .
A property-line dispute between a builder and a lifelong Bronx resident is in an architectural stalemate - with a live tree right in the middle of a cinder-block wall of a new house…The saga started last month when a Queens developer who had torn down the old house next door on St.Raymond Ave. in Westchester Square began putting up a three-story apartment building, filling the entire lot - and reaching the tree, which sits on the property line…“The plans do not call for a tree in the wall…We’re going to send somebody out to look at this.”
Hope ELF doesn’t get wind of this. Is there even such a thing as an anti-urban sprawl movement?
In other news, apparently there’s a rose in Spanish Harlem.
Yes. Fighting urban sprawl is a well-recognized sub-discipline of the sustainable development/civil society movement.
JohnBckWLD:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know…there are tons of trees in Pelham Bay Park and the Botanical Gardens. But all my years in the building supply industry and I’ve never seen anything like this .
Can these guys build all the way to the lot line?
And the swallows have come back to Capistrano. Film at 11.