[April 23]
Oh boy were we faked out back on April 23 … when, after six-plus years, workers began taking down the sidewalk bridge outside 32 and 34 St. Mark's Place.
But! A chunk of the bridge/scaffolding remained up outside No. 34.
Until Wednesday night, when crews returned …
And it was a job that stretched into yesterday morning…
And by late afternoon! Sidewalk! Oh sidewalk!
And Khyber Pass!
Oh sidewalk!
According to the DOB, the city issued the permit for the sidewalk bridge in February 2008. As far as anyone can recall, no work had ever been done on the buildings at 32 or 34 St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue during this time.
Previously on EV Grieve:
St. Mark's sidewalk shed celebrates fourth anniversary
Happy 5th Birthday to the sidewalk shed of St. Mark's Place!
Miracle on St. Mark's! Sidewalk bridge comes down 6-plus years later!
10 comments:
It's always disorientating when these things come down. You forget where you are for a moment.
I wonder what 6 years of sidewalk bridge cost someone?
It took so long because they needed to do the job right.
Presumably it cost less than fixing the problems it was there to mask.
Maybe someone could look up at the DoB site to figure out what they were supposed to have been doing there.
Wow! Khyber Pass! Hard to even recognize this spot without the shed.
Maybe when the Krusties head south this fall the shed will return.
Alas you are free Khyber Pass, free to enjoy the sun again.
i think they were using that as a storage for the shed material until they had a job to use it on.
I-)
And there goes the best-- I mean the only-- bike rack on that part of St. Marks Place. Unless you like wearing a huge bike chain like all the delivery guys do just to lock your bike onto the big fat lampposts, you're out of luck.
Is it too late to switch to CitiBike before they double the annual price?
Rumor has it that Google is sending it's emergency Street View photo team right away to snap new pics before all the Google Glass wearers get lost while walking down the block.
Living in one of the buildings encased by this POS, glad its gone
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