Quarreling over construction on historic building

With landmarked buildings a boon in the borough, the co-op board of the former Forest Hills Inn and the Forest Hills Garden Corp. are currently quarreling over how to proceed with renovations and repairs to the historic building.
The structure, located in Station Square near the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), now serves as an apartment building.
An interior pipe is badly corroded and water has backed up in clogged gutters, forcing some residents o move out.
To repair the damage, building management had a scaffold erected around the exterior.
But co-op board president Leonard Lombard is claiming that the Forest Hills Gardens Corp., a group of property-owning shareholders led by President Bruce Eaton, has compromised the building’s residents by demanding that the scaffolding be removed.
“The only way to do this, unless you do it by helicopter, is with scaffolding,” Lombard was quoted as saying in the Daily News. “[The corporation shows] not only ignorance of the law but complete arrogance.”
Many area residents have voiced complaints over the appearance of the building.
According to Barbara Stuchinski, president of the Forest Hills Community and Civic Association, many people are especially upset over the green netting draped over the outside of the tower.
The dispute has gone to the Queens Supreme Court in Jamaica, which had previously upheld deed restrictions on other properties located in Forest Hills Gardens, thereby giving corporations control over renovations.