Liu and Mark Levine, the Manhattan borough president, both said that sidewalk sheds set New York apart from cities in this country and in Europe. Levine said it was “hard to overstate” how sheds define the look of the city and the way the world sees New York.
“When Trump was brought into the court building on Centre Street for his trial,” he said, referring to the criminal trial involving hush-money payments to a porn actress, “every camera from every media outlet was there, and of course the building was covered by scaffolding.”
