One of New York\u2019s longest-standing city-owned scaffolding sheds has finally come down after more than 10 years \u2014 sort of.<\/p>\n
The shed at 2720 Broadway on the Upper West Side \u2014 first erected in 2012 \u2014 was removed on June 18, months after The Post revealed it to be one of about 500 sheds<\/a> on city-owned buildings across the Big Apple.<\/p>\n But the shed was only partially removed \u2014 around the building\u2019s corner on W. 104th St. the scaffolding is still standing, complete with a fenced off area filled with porta-potties and construction equipment blocking half the street.<\/p>\n The shed at 2720 Broadway on the Upper West Side came down in June after more than 10 years \u2014 but only halfway. Robert Miller<\/p>\n To make matters worse, just days after the Broadway shed came down, a huge new shed went up on a neighboring building.<\/p>\n That means the den of seediness that\u2019s plagued the block for over a decade \u2014 including zonked-out people staggering and sleeping on storefronts, panhandling, and a make-shift street market of junk-sellers \u2014 has only moved a couple of dozen feet over.<\/p>\n It has left business owners and residents fuming.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen this disappears, I am so happy, I said, \u2018Finally, now it is more clean. It might come back, the neighborhood from how it was before,\u201d Fernando Andrade, a cobbler whose shop is mired in the new scaffolding, told The Post.<\/p>\n \u2018\u201dBut immediately they put it back up,\u201d he sighed.<\/p>\n \u201cI am scared for that because we don\u2019t know how long this might be. I hope very not too long, no. I hope.\u201d<\/p>\n Fernando Andrade\u2019s shop, Andrade Andrade\u00a0General Shoe Repair, is now covered with scaffolding. Robert Miller<\/p>\n Local bodega worker Ali Abdul is also concerned.<\/p>\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make any sense,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n \u201cNow they sleep under here. Nighttime, people sleep, two or three homeless.\u201d<\/p>\n The sheds are just a block away from West End Ave., which The Post previously exposed<\/a> as one of the worst stretches in the entire city for scaffolding after a thirty-five block stretch was found last year to have just two buildings without the ugly maintenance structures.<\/p>\n