Budding 9th Street sinkhole is now Citizen app famous

Photo by Steven 

The in-progress sinkhole outside 315-317 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second is gaining some notoriety, garnering a coveted mention on the Citizen app today ... joining the ranks of the true bold-face names...

[Updated] This evening in sinkholes on 3rd Street

EVG reader Mark White shared these photos early this evening from Third Street between Avenue A and First Avenue... where it "looked like the sinkhole happened just as the car was driving."

During this time, traffic on Third Street was backed up to Avenue B...

And it could have been worse.

Updated 8 a.m. 

How it looks this morning ... after being the life of the party last night...

Meanwhile on 1st Avenue and 5th Street...

No. 

That's the answer to the (rhetorical) question posed in a headline on Saturday: Have we seen the last of the sinkhole on 1st Avenue at 5th Street? 

Despite the arrival of a freshly painted crosswalk and bike lanes on Fifth Street at First Avenue, a crew is back on the scene today doing more work at the intersection... 

Thanks CHurt for the tip!

Have we seen the last of the sinkhole on 1st Avenue at 5th Street?

Updated 3/14: We're back!

After multiple attempts at digging and patching, patching and digging, it appears the intersection of First Avenue at Fifth Street is officially sinkhole free.

Workers recently painted the crosswalk and bike lanes here again — a good sign that they likely won't have to do this again until the summer. 

You can find previous sinkhole coverage from this location here and here ... and here.

Thank you to everyone who wrote in about this!

Sinkhole nearly swallows SUV on 2nd Street

Shortly after 1 a.m., a sinkhole opened on Second Street between Avenue A and First Avenue... nearly swallowing an SUV that had been parked on the south side of the roadway...



According to a report on the Citizen app, firefighters at the scene stated that the SUV was resting on a gas line.

As of this morning, the van had been removed... Con Ed and DEP workers have the street blocked off as repairs are underway...



Updated 12:30 p.m.

Per the Daily News:

Neighbors nearby complained that sinkhole was caused by an ongoing sewage problem. A few basements nearby the incident were flooded and still had standing water in them on Sunday morning.

“I’m telling everyone in our building not to flush their toilets because it backs up into our basement,” said John von Hartz, 87, who lives nearby and woke up to city workers trying to access the sewage line in his basement.

There wasn't any immediate cause for the sinkhole, per the DEP.

Thank you to our friends at Il Posto Accanto for the top photo!

Saturday's parting sinkhole

Second Avenue between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place...

Budding sinkhole of the day

EVG regular MP points out this sinkhole in progress on Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue outside Mudspot...



A traffic cone marks the spot... or else it was provided as a sacrifice. We hear that the sinkhole's inner core has a temperature of 5505 °C, though that hasn't been confirmed.

St. Mark's Place Sinkhole Alert

Helping prevent potential pothole/sinkhole disaster with cones and cubed shelving here on St. Mark's Place between First Avenue and Second Avenue...



At a previously documented sinkhole spot.

Updated: Now that is a sinkhole on 1st Avenue and 7th Street

Crews are on the scene this afternoon to tend to the sinkhole that formed nearly in the middle of the intersection here on First Avenue and Seventh Street thanks to a broken pipe... looks like traffic is down to one lane for now... and perhaps the near future.

Thanks to @Cool666_ for the photo!

Updated 6:11 p.m.

Raquel Shapira shares these photos...



And Mr. John is on the scene — this is a big job, this sinkhole.



Also: Seventh Street is closed to vehicles for now between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Updated 9 p.m.

And an in-progress shot of the fill-in a little earlier via Derek Berg...



Updated 3/14



Just one lane (and the bus lane) are open... the bike lane if closed off too...



Updated 3/15

Still working!




[1st Avenue north of 7th Street]

Cab needs a Lyft on 6th Street

Well, that sucks... Goggla shares these photos from this afternoon's downpour... when a cab got stuck in a deceiving, rain-filled hole in a construction zone on Sixth Street between First Avenue and Avenue A...