Not sure at the moment why the city needed to tear up this stretch once again. (OK — so why wouldn't they need to?)
As previously reported, there were back-to-back breaks here in late December. The multiple ruptures sent water rushing into businesses and residences along Seventh Street between First Avenue and Avenue A.
Neighbors talked about an all-consuming noise, both during the day when the work crew was on the scene and after-hours when cars and trucks would pass over the multiple metal plates on the roadway.
Welcome to 10th Street and Avenue C for the last several years. It's nuts over here. Best, JG
ReplyDeleteOh well, I am just grateful to the city workers that have to do this work on a weekend. A thankless job.
ReplyDeletethankless accompanied by triple overtime pay
DeleteSad what is happening on that section of 1st ave. This water main break situation. Stromboli and Dan&Johns not being able to operate because of the gas situation in their building.
ReplyDeleteGrieve you should have been here during the late '70's or perhaps it was the 80's when the City had 1st Avenue dug up from Houston up to 14th street for about TWO years before the Press started sniffing around and they finally finished up. EVERYONE thought and KNEW something funky was going on.
ReplyDeleteIt was early 70s steam line for world trade center
ReplyDelete@James: Also, no one mentioned that the MTA had 2nd Ave. dug up, from 14th St. & several blocks south, for YEARS in the mid-1970's to put in the concrete platforms & rail bed for the 14th Street stop on the 2nd Avenue Subway - which at that time the MTA said would be constructed "soon".
ReplyDeleteIt's half a century later, and unless I get reincarnated (and I really hope I don't!), I won't live long enough to see a functioning 14th Street subway stop on the Second Avenue subway.
Whenever the MTA does something, it will only happen at positively GLACIAL pace, so we'll have ongoing glacial activity in NYC for a long, long time to come!