NYC contractors braced for post-Sandy clean up work.
The city plans to start demolishing homes on Staten Island that sustained the worst damage from Hurricane Sandy.
Where a building’s structure is dangerously unsafe, the city may demolish it even if it has been unable to reach the owners, a city spokesman told the Advance.
“We are making every effort to reach out to homeowners who have red tags,” said Peter Spencer, the Bloomberg administration’s special storm liaison for Staten Island. “We will not demolish a home without notifying the homeowner unless that home is in imminent danger of collapse, which obviously makes it a threat to homes around it as well.”
About 200 homes will be leveled by bulldozers in the days ahead — primarily detached homes on Staten Island and in Queens and Brooklyn, according to a New York Times report. About 500 more homes face inspection and possibly the same fate.
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