NY1 For You: Manhattan Couple Loses Sleep High Above 42nd Street
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A Manhattan couple says they're fed up after learning about a 24-hour construction permit outside their building. NY1's Susan Jhun filed the following "NY1 For You" report.Renters Anjanette Clisura and Dominic Sinesio moved from California in the beginning of May into the new MiMA building on 42nd Street, but not before asking about the huge construction site right outside their window.
"They said that the MTA was doing the 7 line extension but don't worry everything stops at 6 o'clock," Clisura said.
It didn't take long for these renters to realize that wasn't the case.
"I've hardly slept for 16 nights," Clisura said.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's construction company has a 24-hour work permit which was issued in November.
NY1 contacted the MTA and a spokesman told us the need for overnight work should gradually subside and end at some point in the fall.
It's not soon enough for the couple who is temporarily living in an apartment until theirs, which is 13 floors up on the same side, is finished.
Clisura says she asked her rental company, Related Rentals, what it could do to help and it offered to move them to apartments that are not comparable to their own.
A spokeswoman claims the apartments they showed the couple are comparable. She also told us that their realtors only represent to residents the hours of construction they control. She says they can't speak to adjacent projects.
After NY1 called Related Rentals they contacted the couple and told them their apartment on the 33rd floor was ready, two months early.
The couple moved in last weekend but unfortunately, Clisura says, the noise is still the same leaving them no peace of mind in their own home.
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