Fixing brick and repointing - Issues with neighbor

[Kenny M.]

We have a 3 family brick property which needs to be re-pointed on one side. However, my neighbor has not been allowing me access on his property in order to do so. There's no way to re-point the bricks without being on his property for a few days. Has anyone on had issues like this before? If so, how did you resolve it without having lawyers involved in getting the appropriate permission so we can fix the bricks? The owner is a big shot in the city, and he's not a very nice guy. So, it's something we need to do, but he's not going to make this easy.