👩アダムズ市長は、ニューヨーク警察出身です。"crack down"（取り締まる）という表現を使った見出しが笑えます。( ´艸｀)しかも、"ugly green boxes"と言うとはね。。。
今日のリーディングのポイントは・・・
★ 今後、サイドウォーク・シェッドはどうなる？
です。
What an eyesore（目ざわり）! Mayor Eric Adams announced that he’s cracking down on the city’s all-too-familiar（おなじみ）, unsightly （見苦しい）400 miles of scaffolding and shabby （ボロボロの）sheds throughout New York City.
Promising steeper（より厳しい） fines （罰金）and stricter enforcement, Hizzoner （市長）slammed （一蹴した）the “ugly green boxes” loathed（嫌われている） by New Yorkers as prime offenders for blocking sunlight, deterring customers from businesses, and even serving as a “magnet” for illegal activity.
“While sidewalk sheds were created to protect New Yorkers, they now have become unsafe constructions. It is … a safe haven（安全な場所） for criminal behavior,” Adams said in Chelsea on Monday.
The Department of Buildings requires the structures to cover city sidewalks to protect pedestrians from falling debris（がれき） or other safety hazards during construction work.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams seeks to curb scaffolding with strict enforcement and steeper fines.
But some have been standing for decades（何十年物間）, even if no work is being done on the buildings, thanks to lax （緩い）enforcement （執行）and little to no penalties leveled (課される) against building owners.
“Most sheds stay up for longer than a year, and some have darkened our streets for more than a decade. We have normalized the sheds all over our city and that is unacceptable,” groused （不平を述べた）the mayor.
City records show around 9,000 active construction sheds permitted by the Department of Buildings that have been standing for over a year, with an average of 500 days, and more than 1,000 have been up for more than three years.
NYC has over 400 miles of scaffolding, a familiar sight that has become an eyesore. Getty Images ニューヨーク市には400マイル以上の足場があり、見慣れたものではあるが、目障りになっている。
Pedestrians walk under the colossal scaffolding spanning two city blocks and four buildings at Park Avenue and East 62nd Street. Helayne Seidman パーク・アヴェニュー と イースト62番通りの交差点で交差して2ブロック、4つのビルにまたがる足場
👩この当たりをGoogle Earthで外から見るとこんな感じです。
City Hall needs the City Council to pass legislation（立法行為） that would greenlight the improvements proposed:
●Increased DOB inspections on buildings for safety repairs
●A new requirement for property owners to apply for a work permit every 90 days instead of every 12 months
●Issue fines up to $10,000 monthly to landlords with unsafe sheds in central business districts such as Midtown Manhattan, Long Island City in Queens, downtown Brooklyn, and the Bronx’s Grand Concourse
市長側は、提案した次の改善案を承認する法案を市議会が可決することを求めしています。
●建物の安全修繕のためのDOB（Department of Buildings---建築局）検査を強化する。 ●不動産所有者は12カ月ごとではなく、90日ごとに労働許可証を申請しなければならない。 ●マンハッタンのミッドタウン、クイーンズのロングアイランドシティ、ブルックリンのダウンタウン、ブロンクスのグランドコンコースなどの中心業務地区で、安全でないシェッドを所有する家主に毎月最高1万ドルの罰金を科す。
Adams said small businesses will beeligible（有効である）to apply for funding from a $75 million fund if they can’t afford to make necessary upgrades and repair work.
“We must show the visual beauty of this city, and it should not be in the skeleton body of these sheds,” the mayor said.
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