“I’ve thought a lot about scaffolding,” New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani says in a new video posted on social media, announcing regulatory changes aimed at reducing the length of time that scaffolding overstays its welcome over city sidewalks. So-called “sidewalk sheds” are everywhere in New York, many hanging around for years, long after the construction work is done. Mamdani’s video explains how these sheds unnecessarily blight the city and inconvenience people, and lays out his proposed fixes (reducing size requirements for the structures, imposing new fines for sheds left up for too long, changing the building inspection schedule).

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