Happy New Year-Out with the old and In with the new?

The office building that my dental practice resides  in (circa 1927) is undergoing a full on "modernization". We want to apologize  to our patients for any inconvenience they may experience. and to advise our patients  to allow  a little more time to get to our office.  Our  landlord is redoing our lobby, replacing our elevators, fire alarms and more. Right now our lobby looks like a war zone and fortunately one out of three of the elevators was  replaced and put back into service. Just in time, since I have been walking up and down six flights of stairs several times a day during the last month or two and my patients have been showing up late for their appointments complaining of long waits for the elevator. 

Workman have been working on the buildings pointing ( the mortar between the bricks) and Often I can hear the sounds of construction in the air shaft near my business office. In New York, commercial tenants don't have much control of work schedules  and the work seems to be going on during our normal business hours.  Often our third elevator has been out of service since it is either being utilized by workmen or just unpleasant and scary to ride in (it lurches up and down while in use!)

Suffice to say, I am hopeful that 2017 will ultimately bring us a new an improved building and an end to our ongoing construction.  Hopefully by this summer things in our building will get back to normal and we will have survived our much overdue modernization and will be enjoying the fruits of our landlord's efforts!




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