Quick, somebody call Spielberg — the next thriller coming to a theater near you is “The Sinkhole That Swallowed Manhattan”! It will take place on Riverside Drive and 90th street.
Our tipster, who lives nearby, chronicles this sinkhole every day. “It has become our ritual while waiting for camp bus to see what has happened to the pot hole. Last week someone ran into the saw horse – you can see the remains inside the hole.”
The city had been patching potholes on this block a few weeks ago, but left the cones and sawhorses at this particular hole — and then never came back. The Department of Transportation says that they only deal with potholes; the Department of Environmental Protection is supposed to take care of sinkholes.
We’ve also heard other complaints about streets lately, including that the repaving of Amsterdam Avenue has created some new problems. This one’s also apparently a DEP issue:
Good job @nyc_dot repaving Am'dam 2 days ago and NOT fixing grading so that the curbs immediately flood in the rain pic.twitter.com/V0NmGrTAeC
— sam dow (@verysimple) July 19, 2015
This one appeared quickly but the monster on 88th right before west end has been getting worse since they repaved it last year.
Also no left turn lane from Broadway southbound onto 98th street. Does anyone check these things?
Wow, quite a flood indeed! Move to higher ground!
Why should the city care about draining? It hasn’t for years which is why our streets flood in almost every rain storm. Check out the grass growing in your local storm drain which has probably been filled with dirt and cement slurry from the nearest luxury condo project. The CITY doesn’t care. After all its only average humans not billionaires or developers who walk in these streets!
There’s a persistent sink hole on 84/Riverside as well. The same street that was deemed “Ground Zero” for mosquitoes…ironically, there is lousy drainage on that street, so the city could probably more effectively combat the pest’s dangerous impact by improving drainage rather than spraying pesticides.