They have been doing construction on a building next to my office for about 3 years and what gets me is the God-Complex these construction workers have about the sidewalks. Now I’m sure they have a difficult gig and it’s probably back-breaking and thankless but what they don’t seem to acknowledge is the inconvenience that this construction has on the neighbors. See not only do the builders like Bruce Ratner, Donald Trump and the rest of them get huge tax-breaks from the city; their construction projects all seem to have some kind of card-blanche for being total a-holes to the rest of the city.
The politicians get kick-backs, the developers get sweet-heart deals, the city gets tax moneys and fees but the hard leg-work actually goes to the people of the city who have to handle the noise pollution, the traffic jams, the lines at the grease-trucks and the inconvenience. For three years they have been doing this work, which means that day in and day out we have to wait to get into our building in the morning because they are sending a crane to the top floor or installing a window. Now I appreciate the concern for my safety but it’s ridiculous to know that we’ve had to put up with all of the heart-ache and will get none of the benefits.
I’m not sure what would make it better but I would like to see how these developers would feel if all of a sudden they were getting interrupted night-and-day in their high-rise penthouse filled with champagne and prostitutes. I would love to see Guns N’ Roses reunite and start rehearsing in the apartment right next to Bruce Ratner and see how this ahole feels about being inconvenienced night and day. Or worse yet have Coldplay move in next to them and then tape their eyes open and make them listen to X&Y over and over again..
They could win some good will if they offered to buy pizza for everybody on my block every single day of the year.
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