A few readers have brought this up about the empty lot adjacent to No. 35 at Sixth Street:
How do you build on a sinkhole?
The lot certainly does appear to, uh, sag a bit...
Perhaps this could be used as a new skateboard park for Cooper Union?
P.S.
And how long will the couch/mattress stay in the lot? Swear that combo has been there for more than a year...
The "sink hole " is what happens often when the basement of a demolished building is filled in with rubble . sometimes there is some undermining due to a loss of fine materials through an openining in a near-by broken sewer .Usually the problem is just natural compaction and settling of the loose and inconsistant fill material .
ReplyDeleteNo serious problem, just dig out the rubble , put in place proper footings and foundation walls and then backfill .