Brooklyn Sidewalk Shed and Scaffolding installed scaffolding at 2 Park Avenue, a 28-story Art Deco landmark in Murray Hill, in 2025.
Planning work on an older Manhattan building?
2 Park Avenue is a 28-story office tower. Ely Jacques Kahn of Buchman & Kahn designed it, and it went up between 1926 and 1928. The Landmarks Preservation Commission made it a New York City landmark on April 18, 2006.
Tan brick faces the walls above a stone base. Terra cotta panels in blue, red, green, yellow and black mark the upper floors of each section, and the tower steps back above the 17th floor and again above the 25th. The commission calls it “one of the most beautiful and distinctive office towers of the Art Deco period.” The LPC designation report covers the architecture in full.
In 2025 we installed pipe scaffolding along the Park Avenue and side-street elevations of 2 Park Avenue, rising to [height from the client]. We chose pipe scaffolding because tube-and-clamp can step in at the setbacks above the 17th and 25th floors. It stood 8 months for facade repairs and repointing. A sidewalk shed went up with it to keep the sidewalk open and safe for pedestrians during the work. We filed the DOB permits for the scaffold and the shed before installation started.
Have a building like this one? Send us the address and what the work is for. Call (929) 566-7313, or send the address, the type of work and your start month through the quote form.
2 Park Avenue sits inside DOT’s holiday construction embargo zone, which covers 30th to 66th Streets, river to river. This year the embargo runs from Sunday, November 15, 2026 to Saturday, January 2, 2027.
While it lasts, routine street work stops unless DOT approves it, and emergency work needs a DOT emergency number. Closing a sidewalk, storing material on the street or reaching into the roadway takes a DOT permit, and a supported scaffold over 40 feet needs a DOB permit. If your Midtown job starts in that window, call early. The Manhattan page has more on scaffolding and sidewalk sheds in the borough.
If you manage an older building in Manhattan, send us the address and what the work is for. Brooklyn Sidewalk Shed and Scaffolding handles scaffolding, sidewalk sheds, Jersey barriers and site fencing, so one company covers the whole site. We are a NYC scaffolding contractor based in Brooklyn, and we have worked in New York since 2004.
Not sure which system fits an older building? Read about pipe scaffolding, frame scaffolding and suspended scaffolding.
Call (929) 566-7313 or use the quote form.
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