Detour alert: The FDR will be closed overnight

In case a drive along the FDR was in your plans overnight and into tomorrow morning... both the northbound and southbound lanes of the FDR will be closed from midnight to 10 a.m. between Houston and Fulton so workers can remove the Corlears Hook Bridge as part of the ongoing East Side Coastal Resiliency Project.

ICYMI: Why this section of the FDR will be closed overnight

In case you missed our post from Thursday... the FDR is shutting down overnight between the Brooklyn Bridge (Exit 2) and East Houston (Exit 5) so workers can remove that last section of the Delancy Street footbridge... this route is scheduled to be out of commission from midnight to 10 a.m. ...

A collision on the FDR at 10th Street

EVG reader Michael Kramer shared these photos from this afternoon... where he came across the aftermath of a collision on the southbound FDR at 10th Street that caused this vehicle to overturn ...

The Citizen app reported that two people in the vehicle were transorted to the hospital... no word on their condition...

Another driver wedges car on the bike lane adjacent to the FDR

[Screengrab via PIX11]

Police are searching for the BMW driver who cruised along the bike-jogging path adjacent to the FDR, abandoning the vehicle after it became wedged between the highway's retaining wall and Con Ed at 15th Street early this morning.

Per PIX11:

Police said the driver of the car fled the scene and was nowhere to be found.

Authorities do not know where the car entered the sectioned-off path or how it got stuck there.

WATCH: Tow truck lifts car out of bike path where it had been previously wedged on the N/B side of the FDR Drive near 14th street. No reports on injuries. HEAVY delays beyond Brooklyn Bridge @PIX11News pic.twitter.com/qs2QuWZUfn

— MARISSA TORRES PIX11 (@MarissaTorresTV) August 29, 2019

In July 2018, a woman driving a Porsche Cayenne managed the same feat...

@NY1 @patkiernan How did the driver even manage this? Blocked the fdr path this morning. #Bailedthrough thesunroof @Porsche pic.twitter.com/wBLY4yLhsx

— michael feldstein (@majy10016) July 27, 2018

Thankfully no one was injured in either reckless driving incident.

Noted

#Treason message spotted on the FDR overpass at Sixth Street... photo by Dave on Seventh...

Traffic lights for the East Houston-FDR-East River overpass

Work began at the FDR overpass at East Houston Street back in January 2016 ... and one of the most critical elements of this overhaul has finally been addressed with the recent arrival of traffic lights. (The previous Yield signs at the busy intersection seemed to be widely ignored.)

EVG contributor Edmund John Dunn shared these photos from Friday. Now, he notes that you can enter-exit East River Park with some certainty, although the walk time is very short ...



As BoweryBoogie reported in January 2016, the $10 million project called for rehabilitating both the entrance and exit ramps to the FDR Drive and introducing traffic lights in the “half-rotary” traffic pattern.

At the time this was considered a rather temporary fix, with the post-Sandy "Big U" project on the horizon. However, that is all on hold at the moment.

As for the rest of constantly delayed East Houston Reconstruction project that started during the Coolidge administration, the estimated completion is now Jan. 15, 2018, per the DDC's weekly bulletin.

The DDC started this project in June 2010, reconstructing/replacing combined sewers, trunk main, water mains, catch basins, fire hydrants, sidewalks, etc., etc., along East Houston Street, from the Bowery to the FDR Drive.

Urban gardener

Perhaps you've seen this man from the East Sixth Street overpass ... tending a plot of lettuce, herbs and other things alongside East River Park and the FDR...

A lot of motorcycles on the FDR

The reader e-mail continues to get more interesting... Here are shots someone took yesterday afternoon showing hundreds of motorcycles traveling south on the FDR... Anyone know what this was about...?