Posted on 12/13/2014 12:00:08 PM PST by dennisw
De Blasio never got permits for new Gracie Mansion fence A new fence around the mayoral residence adds about 4 feet to the barrier already there. Cops tell de Blasio: Stay away from our funerals
Mayor de Blasio failed to secure the proper permits to build his privacy fence around Gracie Mansion and the Parks Department is now scrambling to file the paperwork after the fact, City Hall officials admitted Friday.
On Thursday, The Post exclusively reported that the mayor ordered the construction of a roughly 10-foot-tall fence inside an existing 6-foot brick wall to keep the publics prying eyes out of his yard.
Officials couldnt say whether any employees of the Parks Department, which handled the construction for the mayor, would be disciplined for building the barrier without first obtaining the alteration permits they needed.
City property owners are routinely levied hefty fines for such infractions.
Plans for the eyesore fence should have gone before the citys Design Commission for review but never did, a City Hall source also admitted. The job was finished in November.
Through a spokeswoman, de Blasio said White House fence jumpers sparked his desire to erect the barrier, for which the Parks Department paid $4,250.
The head of the mayors security detail made the decision to increase the fences height after examining the perimeter with other NYPD officials, and in the wake of the White House fence jumping incidents, said City Hall spokeswoman Rebecca Katz.
But security experts called that excuse bunk.
This is a fence for somebodys back yard in Long Island when you dont want somebody to see you barbecuing, an NYPD.....
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That fence goes with that property like a bra on a black labrador. What goes in without a permit must come out, like it’s done to the little people. He should also be fined for uglying up Gracie Mansion.
Those counter revolutionaries can sure pry with their eyes.
He’s a Commie..he can hold hands with Kim Jung Un, both from the same cloth..what’s good for him isn’t good for us peasants
Wilhelm de Blasio is a Socialist hypocrite. Just another lowlife elitist.
Rules for thee, not for me.
Anybody else in NYC does that, a heavy fine would ensue, and an order to “tear down this wall”.
He don’t need no stinkin permits.
Pretty neat when the perps build their own prison.
rules for thee not for me
So what? He has a pen and a phone just like his Marxist, Muslim leader.
Officials couldn't say whether any employees of the Parks Department, which handled the construction for the mayor, would be disciplined for building the barrier without first obtaining the alteration permits they needed. City property owners are routinely levied hefty fines for such infractions. Plans for the eyesore fence should have gone before the city's Design Commission for review -- but never did, a City Hall source also admitted.
Permits? Elites don’t need no steenkin’ permits.
“”Hes a liberal. Hell get away with it.””
Remember the story about Dianne Feinstein taking park property that belonged to the city of San Francisco and extending it into her yard or vice versa??
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