GL Construction Site Du Jour: 242 Bedford Avenue

What is pictured here is both Sunday work and, to our little minds, profoundly unsafe. This is 242 Bedford Avenue, a building that is being "altered," but for which ultimate plans are unclear. (It is part of the big block for which Quadriad Development has bizarre development plans that include trying to get a zoning change for a very tall building. This is not a Quadriad property, however. Records show that it's owned by an array of LLCs, including one named Sky Lofts LLC.) The architect of record is Henry Radusky, aka "Too Tall," for some of the out-of-context work he has done. Permits were issued on Friday. Yesterday morning, concrete was being poured and the big garage door on busy Bedford Avenue, between N. 3rd and N. 4th Streets through which we took these photos (and could have strolled, had we wished to roll into a two-story deep pit and roll around in wet concrete) was wide open. The permits are for a new basement and mezzanine. There is no sign that the site has permits for Sunday work. To our knowledge, it's not okay to leave access open to a two-story deep pit on a busy street while the workers are on lunch break.

As for the Quadriad project, by the way, there's supposed to be another presentation about it to Community Board 1 at its monthly meeting on Wednesday, including information about the "incipient commencement of construction" on the "as-of-right" component of the project, which includes some five-story structures.