Friday, May 30, 2014

Now, for real, final pieces of 6-year-old sidewalk bridge come down on St. Mark's Place


[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!
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 30, 2014 at 7:42 AM

    It's always disorientating when these things come down. You forget where you are for a moment.

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  2. AnonymousMay 30, 2014 at 8:10 AM

    I wonder what 6 years of sidewalk bridge cost someone?

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  3. nygrumpMay 30, 2014 at 8:45 AM

    It took so long because they needed to do the job right.

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  4. AnonymousMay 30, 2014 at 8:52 AM

    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.

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  5. AnonymousMay 30, 2014 at 9:40 AM

    Wow! Khyber Pass! Hard to even recognize this spot without the shed.

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  6. AnonymousMay 30, 2014 at 9:45 AM

    Maybe when the Krusties head south this fall the shed will return.

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  7. AnonymousMay 30, 2014 at 11:52 AM

    Alas you are free Khyber Pass, free to enjoy the sun again.

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  8. AnonymousMay 30, 2014 at 1:00 PM

    i think they were using that as a storage for the shed material until they had a job to use it on.

    I-)

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  9. GiovanniMay 30, 2014 at 3:54 PM

    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.

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  10. Mark Hand The CatchmanMay 31, 2014 at 1:57 AM

    Living in one of the buildings encased by this POS, glad its gone

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